TEDxConcordiaUPortland - Blaine Fontana - "Creative Sustainability"

Artist

Blaine Fontana currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Imbuing his vision with the divine symbolism of religious myths, worldly folklore and current social dynamics, his works contain a kind of shamanic exploration of meaning that recognizes the totemic quality and power of the image. With extensive experience within the design world, including working as a designer for Felt Bicycles and acting Art Director for Zero+ Publishing, Fontana's work displays a virtuosic understanding of sign & simulacra and their role within our contemporary visual culture. Straddling the physical and metaphysical, organic and architectural, painterly and graphic sensibilities, Fontana fuses multiple visual strategies to forge an aesthetic language entirely of his own making.

His works have been published in a variety of publications, including iDN/Society 6, My Name Is, Sycamore Review, Soul Pancake, Mod Art and Juxtapoz. He has exhibited nationally in Seattle, Portland, San Diego, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Denver, Austin, Miami, and New York, and internationally in Germany, Canada and Japan.

With his wife and creative partner, he currently runs Fontana Studios, a multi-media art and design studio in Portland, Oregon. He has designed and licensed work for a number of companies including SCION Installation Art Tour, Patagonia, Nike, Quicksilver, Toyota, Kid Robot, Upper Playground, Quiksilver, Ocean Pacific, KFC International, and Arbor Snowboards.

Blaine Fontana received his BFA in Communication Art/Design from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, CA in 2002. He was awarded "Best in Show" for his senior thesis project, and is one of only seven distinguished alumni from 2000-2010. He is currently an Advisory Board member for the Northwest College of Art.


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[ovliquevideo]

@crstella no doubt :) shaking voice. but hey, I'd shit my pants too if I were delivering a TED talk!

funny project however. I'd think creative sustainability could be much more directly useful to society than a mere installation... how about probing design solutions to sustainable-development problems? wouldn't you say?

[crstella]

 nervous

[LibertyJedi]

"what you have given" does that count what they stole from u? under a threat of a gun? to help support their rigged game? to steal & exploit from u with their propaganda? to brain wash their crap into your head, for their agenda because of the 'guilt' they have knowing they made it through use of the rigged game via force to get ahead, to screw u? at least when u fail in the market, u'r better because u took on reality that makes u alive, but rigged game dishes it out, u lose: not 1 of the club