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Several cool links to free and paid apps that are useful tools for costume designers or anyone working with textiles and designs. As a costume designer for my school's theater and musical productions, I have used several of the applications listed here.

"In advance of the responsive orchestra website review later this week, it makes sense to provide a working example of not only what responsive design is, but why it is a necessary component for contemporary performing arts org web design." Drew McManus provides a compelling example of how easy it is, and how crucial it is for arts organizations, to create better websites. He shows how one was designed in 13 days for only $500.

A selection of free and paid apps for use in stage and theatre designs. Especially useful for lighting designers and technicians is the portable gel book. Very cool!

In the last decade, technological breakthroughs have had a significant impact on the world of interior design, but how will the next generation of innovations change the relationship between consumers, brands, and designers? The new frontier of design at home One of the biggest advances in the past twenty years has been the introduction of BIM Technology and virtual reality.

This site has multiple articles and reviews about art, design and technology. I can spend hours here just browsing.

You're right! There is a lot here worth exploring.

Design will keep changing to suit the most current of trends, tastes and functionality needs of today's buyers. The same can be evidently seen in mobile phones, PC keyboards, gaming consoles and even in mugs. These creative means to re-invent product designs as we know it are not lost in another important aspect of our daily life: home furniture.

"Technology and the Arts" is a podcast hosted by Brian and John, Brian is a communications professional, comic book-style artist, songwriter, and blogger. John is a designer, artist, writer, poet, technologist, consultant, open web advocate, and open source evangelist. Episode 56 has some good apps for you iPad musicians Both Brain and John are from Jersey and haven't been active since Sandy went through…

This article is about Art.sy, which is an artwork bookmarking site similar to Pinterest. Here you can bookmark favorite art pieces from museums and galleries around the world. (You can actually bookmark favorite pieces in Pinterest). Artsy.net is an automated guidance system for art lovers that does for art what Netflix does for videos or Pandora does for music. It allows the user to sift through parameters using keywords to discover artworks from around the world. http://artsy.net/

Article about Google Art Project, a searchable database of museums and artworks from around the world. http://www.googleartproject.com/

This has been big in the new recently, but what better marriage of art, design and technology is there!? Very cool and very accessible to all.

Quite lovely...magical. It brings to mind the interplay of atoms, or even particles...the unceasing movement of the universe. And, yes, accessible to all!!

University of Wisconsin-Madison offers summer classes for students completing grades 5-8 that integrate technology with the arts. It's great that people are beginning to realize that technology and the arts can complement each other, and are offering these kinds of classes to such young students. I wish I was young enough to take some of them!

Through the Education Leaders Institute, the National Endowment for the Arts will convene decision makers from several states to develop coordinated state arts education strategies to design public education with arts at the core. Rocco Landesman, former head of NEA, delivers a wonderful speech explaining why the arts are so important and why they need to be included in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education.

This is an article on a new iphone and ipad app designed by ShinyArt and created by Mobovivo that allows you to view video art exhibitions on your phone or ipad.

I.D.E.A.( for Innovation, Design, Education and Art) is planned to be a community in San Diego that will cater to artists, engineers, scientists, etc. It will be focused on creating new art and technology and will be completely sustainable for living.

Mechanic arm allows drummers to augment their playing. The arm's technology allows the arm to tune into what the human drummer is doing and follow along. Interesting technology that perhaps could find its way into other areas of music (the three handed piano player, or allowing people with one arm/hand to play instruments formerly difficult to play).

A TED talk from the former president of RISD, John Maeda, on the relationship between art and technology and how it is changing leadership.

Google collaborated with the Barbican to create an art/design competition in which digital artists use code to produce digital art installations.

I have used GIMP for years. It is a really powerful image program. But it does have a learning curve, that is well worth climbing. From their website: " It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X."

Interesting, I actually have this on my computer and never paid any attention to it...I will now!

Van Gogh painted two version of this infamous "Bedroom in Arles". Thanks for a recent technology called "X-ray fluorescence", the original colors of the paintings can be seen for the first time.

This is amazing! "He described it in a letter to his brother Theo: "I have painted the walls pale violet. The ground with checked material. The wooden bed and the chairs, yellow like fresh butter; the sheet and the pillows, lemon light green. The bedspread, scarlet coloured. The window, green. The washbasin, orangey; the tank, blue. The doors, lilac. And, that is all." "Casadio said Van Gogh had a room ready for Gauguin and he had worked for weeks to decorate the walls with art. "In the myriad letters he wrote to his brother Theo and friends, he said the color has to do the job here," she said. "When he was finished he slept for two days." And now there is an Air BnB where you can stay in his room! ( I'll post about it!) I'm in, he's a favorite of mine! Great post, thanks!

This New York Times article talks about the emergence of 'E-Galleries' in places like Portland, OR (my former hometown!) and NYC and the future of digital pop-up galleries.