Adam Katz

Adam Katz is a fel­low Syracuse Grad and cur­rent MFA Candidate in SVA’s Designer as Author pro­gram. For Stefan Sagmeister’s “Things I Have Learned in My Life” project, he came up with some­thing I think all design­ers can relate to: “All of my good ideas are bat­tles.” For the instal­la­tion, Adam spray painted 1500 plas­tic army men and applied them to a glass win­dow — great con­cept and execution.

Here’s a video of the instal­la­tion process:

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This entry was written by Courtney, posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:30 am, filed under Design. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

7 Comments

  1. Jesse Arneson
    Posted January 25, 2011 at 9:44 am | Permalink

    Cool idea. Brett Yasko did some­thing very sim­i­lar for the Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery in Pittsburgh. http://​www​.brettyasko​.com/​c​a​t​e​g​o​r​y​/​e​x​p​e​r​i​m​e​n​t​s​/​0​5​-​e​x​p​e​r​i​m​e​n​t​05/

  2. Giampiero
    Posted January 25, 2011 at 9:49 am | Permalink

    actu­ally some­one did the same thing 2 years ago, with a very sim­i­lar con­cept (“Good ideas never die”).
    Army men, orange spray paint, come on

    http://​www​.oji​-design​.com/​h​o​m​e​.​h​tml

  3. Adam Katz
    Posted January 25, 2011 at 10:27 am | Permalink

    Jesse I was aware of Brett’s as a jump­ing off posi­tion for this piece I love his work.

    Giampiero I think you are being a bit harsh there with your crit­i­cism I was unaware of this project but I am sure I’m not the first per­son to spray paint things orange. Thanks for the link nonetheless.

  4. Giampiero
    Posted January 25, 2011 at 1:49 pm | Permalink

    just noticed that, i’m sure of your good faith :)
    nice job, though
    g–

  5. Roman Frolov
    Posted January 26, 2011 at 12:38 pm | Permalink

    what is the music for this video?

  6. Adam Katz
    Posted January 26, 2011 at 2:53 pm | Permalink

    Madvillian is the music Roman

  7. cj
    Posted January 28, 2011 at 4:18 pm | Permalink

    All of my gaad ideas are battles?

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