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Art & Limbic Brain

Exploring the Creative Overlap: Q&A with Janet Echelman TED blog

Most AOC readers are TED lovers, and we want to devote more time to highlighting the extraordinary amount of learning that happens on TED, home to the world’s greatest thinkers and doers.

While speaking at TED in March 2011, Janet Echelman was notified that she was being awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and the opportunity to take a year off to think and explore. Janet explains what she’s been doing in her TED Q&A. At a top level Echelman is focused on ways of making visual the natural forces and cycles functioning around us all the time, but we can’t see them. She writes:

One thing that has become more clear to me, actually from listening to TEDTalks about the limbic brain … I’ve always known that my work speaks to a non-verbal or pre-verbal part of ourselves, and that its communicative ability is not in the conscious part of our minds. I’ve learned that this correlates to the limbic brain, which has no language and is the part that governs how we make decisions, feel loyalty, or “gut feelings.” This helps explain why it’s always been hard for me or others to describe my work in words. It’s an experiential kind of art — about how you feel as you move through it. You take it in with your body.

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Design

Bombay Sapphire Imagination Installation Yatzer

Imagination Installation designed by Yehrin Tong for BOMBAY SAPPHIRE, tells the story of the brand which stands for tradition and exclusivity.

‘Botanical’ martini glass by Benjamin Hubert Studio Design Boom

‘Botanical’ martini glass by Benjamin Hubert studio has recieved the runner up prize in the UK Bombay Sapphire designer glass competition. The 10 UK finalists were on display at this year’s New Designers exhibition. Next New Designer’s is June 29-July 2, 2011(pt 1) and July 6-9, 2011(pt 2).

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