Hey, the 2010 season for Shakespeare & Company is live on their site and tickets are for sale! You can follow this link and see a cool preview of the brochure which will be in mailboxes in a week or two. We’re happy with how this came out this year – some great strong images and a nice overall design that is hitting on all cylinders. Check it out, buy some tix!

The first 5 copies of “Imagining Shakespeare” just arrived via UPS from Hong Kong! The rest are on a slow boat somewhere – I don’t have a delivery date yet but I will let everyone know as soon as I have a solid date for the distribution and signing party.

These are the first copies we have gotten and they are gorgeous – beautifully printed and they smell good (designers know what i mean – that lovely smell of fresh ink hot off the press). What a treat.

Excellent NING portal to designingamuseum.org – an interesting project that has multiple facets – bringing to life a design-centric museum (virtual at this point, in terms of permanent location) but also the idea of a crowd-sourced “create a new museum from scratch” project. I’m still working through the deep website (for those who don’t know, .ning is a social-networking platform that can be used by individuals and organizations to create stand-alone social networks around particular topics or interests. Check it out at ning.com )

Hey Berkshire Creatives – take a look – we can work with these folks AND we can look at this idea as well in terms of some of the stalled ideas and projects that we have had. Also, wicked cool embedded document solution using issuu.com that I just discovered and am totally stoked on! Stay tuned!

Check out the top-ten list from Lesley Ann Beck for why YOU should be at RADIOACTIVE!. #11 – Getting your photo taken with your kick-ass friends by Borg-Paparazzo, GPS enabled, FULLY wired Kevin Sprague! http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5260273&l=e902a1708b&id=607168355

When is the thunderbolt going to happne?

Photographer Kevin Sprague To Speak at Norman Rockwell Museum During Artist & The Photograph Lecture on February 27

Published on 24 February 2010 by DHeck in Blog, Press Release – Current

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Photo by Kevin Sprague. �Kevin Sprague. All rights reserved.

Berkshire photographer Kevin Sprague will present a lecture about his work at Norman Rockwell Museum on Saturday, February 27, starting at 5:30 p.m. The event is part of the new lecture series The Artist & The Photograph: Contemporary Perspectives, presented in conjunction with the Museum%u2019s current exhibition %u201CNorman Rockwell: Behind the Camera.%u201D Mr. Sprague will explore contemporary uses of photography, including digital composition and photographic narrative; a reception with the artist will follow. Admission to the event is $10, $7 for Museum members.

Kevin Sprague is a photographer, graphic designer, and visual artist living and working in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. He is the author or %u201CImagining Shakespeare,%u201D about his imaging work for the theatre; the graphic novel %u201CMuse;%u201D and the novel %u201CViewfinder.%u201D The owner of the design and marketing agency Studio Two, Mr. Sprague%u2019s images can be seen across media in collateral materials, posters, web sites, fine art collections, magazines and book covers. Past exhibitions include %u201CPostmarks,%u201D an evolving series of digital compositions featuring floral elements with antique correspondence; and %u201CTidal Forces,%u201D a 2004 collection of black and white prints exploring an imaginary intersection of water and architecture. Visit the artist%u2019s Web site: http://kevinsprague.com

The Artist & The Photograph: Contemporary Perspectives Saturday Series
February 27, March 27, and April 24, 5:30 p.m.

Explore contemporary pathways in photography, from assembled narration to the moving image. Upcoming lectures include: Kevin Sprague (February 27), Gregory Crewdson (March 27), and Jonathan Doster (April 24). All events include a reception with the artists following the lecture. For more information, contact the Museum at 1.877.861.2299.

Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera
On view through May 31, 2010

Find a fascinating parallel universe to Norman Rockwell%u2019s paintings in the meticulously composed photographs that informed his work. Based on the recently released book Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera and advances in the Museum%u2019s ProjectNORMAN digitization project, the exhibition pairs Rockwell%u2019s photographic references with original artwork to reveal, frame-by-frame, the creation of the artist%u2019s iconic paintings.

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Hey everyone! I hope that you’ll consider coming to my talk at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA Saturday, Feb. 27th at 5:30pm. I’m going to be talking about my working process as a photographer and image maker with some commentary about the parallels between contemporary photography techniques and Norman Rockwell’s use of photos as resources for his paintings as described in the excellent, currently-running exhibition at the Museum “Behind the Camera”. I hope to be giving a sneak peak at the upcoming 2010 season illustrations for Shakespeare & Company that we’ve been working on the last couple of months as well as some discussion about my soon-to-be shipping book “Imagining Shakespeare”. Please come!

It began two years ago when Bose Corp. product designer Sam Aquillano and Philips Color Kinetics designer Derek Cascio were discussing ways to boost the profile of the Massachusetts design community. The state is a hotbed of product design, architecture, urban planning, interior design, video game animation, graphic design, and apparel, but Aquillano and Cascio realized that most people outside the design community have no idea that everything from the Swiffer to the video game Rock Band originated here.

Interesting article about the development of a new museum of design in Boston, that will be “nomadic” and occupy empty retail storefronts for a period of time. Lets get this out to the Berkshires!

Photo by Kevin Sprague. �Kevin Sprague. All rights reserved.

Berkshire photographer Kevin Sprague will present a lecture about his work at Norman Rockwell Museum on Saturday, February 27, starting at 5:30 p.m. The event is part of the new lecture series The Artist & The Photograph: Contemporary Perspectives, presented in conjunction with the Museum%u2019s current exhibition %u201CNorman Rockwell: Behind the Camera.%u201D Mr. Sprague will explore contemporary uses of photography, including digital composition and photographic narrative; a reception with the artist will follow. Admission to the event is $10, $7 for Museum members.

Kevin Sprague is a photographer, graphic designer, and visual artist living and working in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. He is the author or %u201CImagining Shakespeare,%u201D about his imaging work for the theatre; the graphic novel %u201CMuse;%u201D and the novel %u201CViewfinder.%u201D The owner of the design and marketing agency Studio Two, Mr. Sprague%u2019s images can be seen across media in collateral materials, posters, web sites, fine art collections, magazines and book covers. Past exhibitions include %u201CPostmarks,%u201D an evolving series of digital compositions featuring floral elements with antique correspondence; and %u201CTidal Forces,%u201D a 2004 collection of black and white prints exploring an imaginary intersection of water and architecture. Visit the artist%u2019s Web site: http://kevinsprague.com

The Artist & The Photograph: Contemporary Perspectives Saturday Series
February 27, March 27, and April 24, 5:30 p.m.

Explore contemporary pathways in photography, from assembled narration to the moving image. Upcoming lectures include: Kevin Sprague (February 27), Gregory Crewdson (March 27), and Jonathan Doster (April 24). All events include a reception with the artists following the lecture. For more information, contact the Museum at 1.877.861.2299.

Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera
On view through May 31, 2010

Find a fascinating parallel universe to Norman Rockwell%u2019s paintings in the meticulously composed photographs that informed his work. Based on the recently released book Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera and advances in the Museum%u2019s ProjectNORMAN digitization project, the exhibition pairs Rockwell%u2019s photographic references with original artwork to reveal, frame-by-frame, the creation of the artist%u2019s iconic paintings.

Hey everyone! I hope that you’ll consider coming to my talk at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA Saturday, Feb. 27th at 5:30pm. I’m going to be talking about my working process as a photographer and image maker with some commentary about the parallels between contemporary photography techniques and Norman Rockwell’s use of photos as resources for his paintings as described in the excellent, currently-running exhibition at the Museum “Behind the Camera”. I hope to be giving a sneak peak at the upcoming 2010 season illustrations for Shakespeare & Company that we’ve been working on the last couple of months as well as some discussion about my soon-to-be shipping book “Imagining Shakespeare”. Please come!

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