"posters are dead"
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- Iggyboo0
Meaningful is a biased perspective but...
I heard about the waterfalls placed in Nyc the other day. That sounds really cool some dutch artist created them as a way of mixing nature into a surreal cityscape. Interesting... albeit maybe not your taste.
Half of the mainstream design you see in ad campaigns and brands are researched and experimented upon by many a designer, photographer, and visual artist alike. These experimentations are so far from their roots by the time they reach the mainstream for ad campaigns etc. that they're watered down. Look at the work that's being done on another forum that posts jobs that I can post it's name on here without getting my thread deleted.
Sites like posterwhore, imagekind, redbubble etc. have made poster designers worldwide able to create relatively affordable ways to sell their work.
and last but not least I'd suggest bookmarking the arts section of the new york times. You can read a lot of cool stuff happening globally. I'll leave you with one cool tidbit. check out what they did on the bienelle in australia. They took the opera house in sydney and turned its guts into a jungle. I love that, you take the expected and the functional and create the majestic... I dunno its all opinion but art is very much alive and breathing. Many a time I think its in response to the harder times many people are facing too. When you aren't busy designing artists are still creating work its in our blood.