Every year for the last 4 years I have looked forward to obtaining the annual calendar from the design team of Cummings & Good in Chester, Connecticut.  Artful and unique, these beautiful creations serve first as an embellishment to any office or kitchen, but then packaged in a canister the happy calendar owner can roll it up at the end of the year and keep a year of events as a time capsule.  These calendars are not just a palette for date keeping, they celebrate a yearly theme… Love, Work, Play, and this year Books. Each month of 2010, a literary theme is illustrated and illuminated… A Book of Photographs, Alphabet Book, Sketch Book, Book Case, Cook Book, and Scrap Book are some of the subjects explored.

The variety of  letterforms, imagery, and illustration on these calendars are examples that have made Cummings & Good the amazing design team that they are. It is a labor of love. For more than three decades the award-winning Cummings & Good have created compelling design solutions for Fortune 500 companies, arts organizations, educational institutions, and special events.  For the past 16 years, the team has created these gorgeous keepsake calendars.

Design of Time: Ten Years of Cummings & Good Calendars, an exhibition, is presently on display at Thomas J. Dodd Research Center Gallery and Corridor, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut through March 5, 2010.  The exhibit highlights the calendars and covers from 2001 – 2010. The creative process is demonstrated from concept sketches to the final printed pages as well as original art, photographs, constructions, news articles, correspondence, and promotional items. Slow Latin Groove Project will play at the opening reception on Sunday January 24 from 2-4pm.

January 19th – March 5th, 2010
General exhibition Mon – Fri, 8:30 – 4:30 PM

Sunday, January 24th
Opening Reception 2 – 4 PM

Peter and Jan would love to see you at the opening.

Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
University of Connecticut Libraries
Storrs, Connecticut
(860) 486-4500

The Dodd Research Center is adjacent to
the Homer Babbidge Library.

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Get your own calendar from the Cummings & Good Website
Also available at Mohawk Paper’s Felt & Wire.

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Join me this Thursday January 21, 2010 at 7pm for:

OBJECTIFIED (2009), 75 min.
Gary Hustwit, director

From the director of “helvetica” comes the 2nd documentary in a film trilogy on design. Objectified offers a fascinating look at industrial products and design, the designers and their responsibility in creating them, and our relationship with those objects.

“The term objectified has two meanings. One is ‘to be treated with the status of a mere object.’ But the other is ‘something abstract expressed in a concrete form,’ as in the way a sculpture objectifies an artist’s thoughts. It’s the act of transforming creative thought into a tangible object, which is what designers in this film do every day. But maybe there’s a third meaning to this title, regarding the ways these objects are affecting us and our environment. Have we all become objectified?”
-Gary Hustwit (from his “objectified’ blog)

Steven Holden, NY Times : “Objectified, Gary Hustwit’s documentary about industrial design, is as sleek and handsome as any of the new and improved household items it exhibits”.

Ronnie Scheib, Variety: “Witty, engaging and exquisitely crafted.”

“Entertainment weekly gives objectified an A! You’ll never look at your toothbrush (or your next any product) in quite the same way after watching this astute, elegant inquiry into the purpose and process of industrial design.”

Join me this Thursday, January 21, 7pm at:
EO Art Lab
69 Main Street
Chester, CT
06412

phone:
860.526.4833

$7.50 donation
free popcorn
byob

Sweet Dreams, 40x40, Oil on Canvas

CONNECTICUT EMERGING ARTIST WITH A DECIDEDLY FEMININE TOUCH PREMIERES AT MICHELE & DONALD D’AMOUR MUSEUM OF FINE ART

Emerging artist Daryl Zang will be exhibiting at the Michele & Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA in her premiere show January 19 – April 25, 2010.  Zang, whose works portray the beauty and frustrations of motherhood, now reaches out to embrace attitudes and moments unique to all women. Much in the manner of Degas’ bathers, these canvases are stunningly beautiful and reflect the private moments, personal space and the contemplative rejuvenation of the feminine.

Carving out a definite niche, the artist has been focusing on her own body of work since 2001 and approximately 16 of her canvases will be on display at the Springfield MA Museum. Included are the paintings Tossed and Turned, Second Reading, and Intention along with new works Indulgence and Sweet Dreams.

Zang’s application and technique is exquisite and well played.  Drapery and palette also speak to the soft side of femininity. Harkening to the innermost emotions of every woman, Zang reaches out to embrace the notion of emotional surrender, or recapture… a portrait of self at times of peace, exhaustion or angst.

Please call the museum or visit their website for admission pricing and further details. There will be an artist reception on April 1, 2010.

Daryl Zang Paintings
January 19 – April 25, 2010
Michele & Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Art
Community Gallery, 21 Edwards Street
Springfield, MA 01103

PHONE: 800.625.7738
HOURS: Tues – Sun, 11am – 4pm
www.springfieldmuseums.org
www.zangstudios.com