Good design is more than the look—of course the aesthetic is important—but how does it work as an object or system, can it be made, how it will it be made, what is its intent. It is design with intent.

Great design is all of that and more — much more to be great

What are my top five Designs; the Boeing 747, the Mini, the Coca-Cola bottle, Agile Project Management, the Coca-Cola bottle, and the Sony Walkman.

The market for digital collectibles is in flux, leading investors to consider what the artwork is really worth….(in 2021) the market for NFTs was red-hot.and Hart was part of a throng paying thousands — and in some cases millions — to scoop up their own digital art…But with the crypto market cratering by $500 billion in recent weeks, the hype over NFTs has cooled…An NFT of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s first tweet, purchased last year by an Iranian crypto investor for $2.9 million, was put up for auction in April, with bids topping out at $280.

We are devastated to announce the passing of our beloved Virgil Abloh, a fiercely devoted father, husband, son, brother, and friend. He is survived by his loving wife Shannon Abloh, his children Lowe Abloh and Grey Abloh, his sister Edwina Abloh, his parents Nee and Eunice Abloh, and numerous dear friends and colleagues. Virgil Abloh Instagram Account

Dashun Wang and his team of researcher’s work which used AI to discover the key to artists “hot streaks,” or periods of intense and successful artistic productivity“ individuals tend to explore diverse styles or topics before their hot streak, but become notably more focused after the hot streak begins. Crucially, hot streaks appear to be associated with neither exploration nor exploitation behavior in isolation…BUT is this just obvious.

Do you remember the excitement and anticipation as you opened the yellow Kodak envelope? How the photos, the shots turned out? Or do you only remember today, opening your Instagram feed to scroll the images posted by friends, acquaintances, and the known but unknown contributors to your life. Our experience of images and society’s use of images tells us snapshots represent reality, even if the image is distorted, it still represents either a past or present reality. But what now with Instagram.

Sotheby’s “Ape In!” sale achieved $26.2 million, setting a record for an NFT auction at the house. The sale, which took place this morning, had been initially estimated to bring in between $12 million and $19 million. It surpassed the result from Sotheby’s “Natively Digital” sale in June, which realized $17 million. (NFT sales are denominated in dollars, but payments are usually made in Ethereum cryptocurrency.

Two decades after 9/11/2001 let us remember the 2977 innocent souls who lost their lives that day of infamy.

Photorealist painter “Chuck Close, a Photorealist painter who earned acclaim for his incisive portraits has died at 81. Pace Gallery, which represents him, said on Thursday, 19 August, that he had died after a congestive heart failure resulting from a long illness.

The UK Government has slashed funding for art education, without slashing funding, delivered its strategic priorities to support real jobs while increasing spending to some arts groups. Faced much negative press which of course highlights and generates free advertising their commitment and cuts to their constituency

Greece has closed many of its most important heritage sites, including the Acropolis to protect workers and tourists from nearby fires. While emergency services managed to save the ancient site of Olympia from forest fires the nation is grappling with a record-setting heat wave —temperatures on Tuesday soared to 45C in Athens and 46C in some parts of central Greece.

Maxine a fictional fraud investigator in Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge, inadvertently summarises a little bit of Marx; “Culture attracts the worst impulses of the moneyed.”

The London-based auction house Phillips has gained a reputation as the go-to venue to acquire works by emerging artists in high demand on the primary market. Each season, the New York day and evening sales at Phillips typically generate records for rising talent, and in June 2021, that was certainly the case. At those sales, new benchmarks were set for 26 artists, including Cinga Samson, Avery Singer, Titus Kaphar, Julie Curtiss, and Kehinde Wiley.

Christie’s released sales figures of $3.5 billion in total sales for the first half of 2021 on July 13. After improvising throughout 2020, Christie’s has prospered in a world awash in cash creating buyers eager to acquire significant pieces of cultural property. It is their best result since the banner art market year of 2015.

Magical SydneyIt’s another COVID lockdown in Sydney, “following the science” and health advice to limit the spread of COVID after its re-emergence after the best part of a year

The MLC Building, North Sydney, one of Australia’s best International style skyscrapers has been heritage listed.

On the 11th of March Christie’s sold Beeple’s “The First 5000 Days” NFT for USD69, 346,250. In this blog I visit the art world of NFT’s.

Yayoi Kusama is to quote Art Forum “the artworld’s hottest ticket is for shows by a pumpkin-obsessed ninety-year-old woman.”