College week 5/1 Art History

This week was called 'Telling Tales' and looked at works which relate to fairy tales, fear and fantasy, childish things which acquire an easy otherness for adults.   Not really my thing.

Jo Kear also gave us some hints on useful electronic sources of information on art, including You Tube and Twitter, and a brilliant website called Design Milk, where there are all kinds of amazing and interesting bits of art and design - such as this continuous-line drawing with a difference  The link is http://design-milk.com/faber-castell-pen-portraits/

or these amazing embroidered portraits by Cayce Zavaglia.  Check her website link here

http://design-milk.com/embroidered-portraits-by-cayce-zavaglia/#more-82970

Also I was intrigued by the foldable cover of the current issue of the German design magazine Novum - I am going to try to get hold of a copy.  Looks amazing...

There is a video about how the cover was made, follow the link here  to novum  is here
http://design-milk.com/novum-magazines-foldable-paper-cover/#more-85681