The following is an unedited email I received from my brother, who studied design at the University of Nebraska:

“Have you ever just felt a need, nay, an urge- to purchase an item the very second you see it.
Well let me tell you about the last time I felt this strange power come over me.

I was at the gas station at 84th and O, I had walked over to get a snack during work. I have selected my diet mountain dew and was perusing the aisles for a tasty snack. Little did I know that my life was about to change, and that I would soon be face to face with the greatest food product that has, or will ever be, produced for the mass market.

I give to you‚Ķ RAP SNACKS”

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Contest2005: Postcards from the Good Life is this Thursday from 7-11p.m.

AIGA Nebraska is having a gallery exhibition of all 25 postcards that made it into the competition – similar to the 2004 exhibition for Design the Hand Your Dealt, where all 54 playing cards were enlarged, and on display for an evening.

There is a last minute surprise however, and that’s that the Fluxion Gallery (where the exhibition is held) will also have a handful of original Andy Warhol artwork on display at the same time.

NCC has been around for some time now. I have always liked their work. I admire them because
they create design that is art…art that is design. Experiments in color and typography and
get paid to do it somehow. They just opened a new online store but be sure to check out their
project section too.

NCC-Shop

EVERY DAY ART will feature 24 randomly selected pieces of work submitted to
the site that day. Each piece will be shown for one hour and feature the
artist’s name, location and web address.

Anyone can submit work in any media, such as painting, sculpture, drawing,
photography, digital media, or found objects.

Every Day Art

Kathleen Lolley grew up split between Louisville, KY and Pittsburgh, PA. She started painting during those formidable years of farm life and life as a surgeon’s daughter. Her work depicts characters and stories that are playfully unusual. Two-dimensional figures painted on old parchment paper appear to be a part of a complex story- as if the characters escaped the pages that bound them. She moved to Los Angeles five years ago to attend CalArts for animation, where she experimented with handcrafted stop motion characters. In addition to working on various commercial animations, including Nickelodeon’s Sponge Bob Squarepants and titles for the movie Willard, Kathleen has created a handful of short films. Her influences are Leanora Carrington, Remidios Varo, Max Ernst, folk tales, poetry, comics and old books.

Kathleen Lolley’s Lolleyland