Kimmel Kids’ beautiful new line of stencils
Back in May, our good friend and uber-talented artist Karen Kimmel invited us to a Sunday stencil workshop for kids at the Brentwood Country Mart. She wanted to share and introduce her exquisitely designed stencils and see how kids could be inspired and make art using their own limitless […]

[ 19 Sep 2009; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ]

“Section” is comprised of works on paper and sculpture that St. John has been developing over the past 7 years. The Mollusk show pushes further some of St. John’s experiments with parallel representations of two and three-dimensional space, and the stark use of cropping, both photographic and mechanical.

Todd St. John is an artist, designer and […]

The evening before Terminator Salvation hit theaters, designer Karin Fong revealed the opening titles she designed for the film. As sometimes happens the titles were better than the film itself. The reveal was part of a celebration of five of the world’s top title designers for the May edition of the Flux Screening Series at […]

[ 6 Aug 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm. ]

The brilliant animator Simon Robson is the latest guest speaker at the See No Evil series. His powerful short “What Barry Says,” a reaction to the US invasion of Iraq, was a highlight of RESFEST 2004. Simon is now at work on ‘Coalition of The Willing’ with philosopher and writer Tim Rayner. The project will […]

UK Prime Minister speaks at TED oxford 2009
This week is starting off in the most unexpected yet memorable way. Flux has been fortunate enough to be part of the amazing TED conference. For those of you who don’t know it, TED means Technology, Entertainment, Design. And what the brand stands for is bringing together a […]

Number One: These “Clouds” by Kvadrat are intricately hung pieces of semi-rigid fabric that are arranged by the owner into an infinite number of ethereal patterns, creating both an artistic installation and a creative spacial partition.
I don’t have a house. My apartment is a sublease, fully furnished right down to the spoons, but like […]

The brand new Cooper Video Wall: Visual Treats comprised of short films, music videos, experimental works and photography
Barely seventy-two jet-lagged hours after planting my feet firmly in the rich California soil, I am off to my first official Flux event–the momentous unveiling of the Cooper Video Wall. Tired, but driven by the promise of exciting […]

Title Designers Garson Yu, Kyle Cooper, Jamie Caliri, Karin Fong and Danny Yount getting their favorite superhero poses on
Macro shots, concrete poetry, good music, an interesting life story and innovation. These are some of the essential ingredients to a good opening title sequence for a film. At last Wednesday’s Flux Screening at the Hammer Museum, […]

Hello from the Berlinale
The Berlinale is amazing–the whole city seems to breathe films. My part took place in the Talent Campus, which hosts 350 filmmakers from over 100 countries. And, what gathering of filmmakers would truly be complete without a panel about title design? I was honored to be speaking on that subject along with […]

Slide from Pattie Maes’ TED 2009 presentationThe TED conference experience incorporates all the senses including those yet to be introduced.
The 2009 TED Conference was literally jam packed with amazing presentations from speakers around the world. I’m excited that Flux was part of this year’s TED (now in its 25th year), it was also the first […]