A Random Post for guardian talk found on pc today

"Routines can cause me massive sadness... I often try to take a different routs coming home...."

Wow! This is just like the way I lived my life since 9 years now just after I finished the high school! Every day I'm trying to do something new some thing that I've never done before! Or other wise I feel I'm trapped inside a useless circle … by living this way it was always hard for me to remain in a position/job for any period of time longer that 3 months! I only can accept short term projects & that's why I can't make sure to earn a fixed income in a month. It's like an adventure to be able to stay unstable but reliable!

Oh, My bad English again , of course the show did happened in Feb. 2004 in 2 galleries in 2 different locations one for the typography & photos (Atbin gallery) The other one Azad gallery was for the video & audio installation plus 5 performances ...
I was not satisfied with the result totally because I didn't let myself to select the people's submission, they are were accepted but a few pieces that the gallery owners deicide not to show for their own reasons, It was my first big curatorial project & my idea was to present an slice of what we -a new generation of Iranian contemporary artist, (what an ambitious title & what an ambitious goal!!!) - have to show to our audience!

But about "How do we represent pain killers?"
I think it not nessesrily meant to be a kind of pain killer
But some time the creation just make us feel better (for a weak example! don't you think it's pretty hard to tell if your neighbor didn't give birth to his sons, the life was much harder for her?) I know that its not fair to cause problems for others for the sake of solving one self's problem (here problem of being or living in this miserable world) , but when we are trying to change/create something to get rid of our current situation, (here some may create artworks or at least some artwork like stuff) I think It's an act for survival & in this hard attempt, it makes sense to me to have some thing like pain killer "that calms you down and/or let you continue" I believe we are surrounded by many type of Pain killer ranging from your favorite TV channel to cherry Ice cream & a from your newspaper to drugs! You add any sport, holidays, hobbies & etc to the list! They all work well; you only need to find the ones that really fit! They meant to set our mind on something else instead what is really going on (at least for short period of time!)
I might have sound a bit crazy in the previous paragraph but I've been thinking of this for a long time what do you think?

By any chance are you online? Reza!
It's depressing Friday evening in Tehran! I don't remember that it was sunny or cloudy...
I remembered to refer a short story about that clown who went to a psychologist, because he couldn't laugh any more, The psychologist offer him a ticket & said: There is a big circus in town take this ticket & I'm sure that you be laughing on the floor only if you see their clown!
He answered: I can't accept this sir! I can't watch the show while I'm performing it!

I don't mean that we are in entertainment business! but sometimes the sweetness of creating something may last very shortly ...

About my new collection Coffee shop Ladies

Follow the link & you can see the whole collection here!
Here is my statment for the
Coffee shop Ladies

Documentary photos taken by the artist from Tehran’s most popular cafes (or coffee shops as we call them here in Iran). Coffee shops in Iran are the symbol of social freedom to some degrees due to the absence of a proper public space. It’s a place where both splendidly motivated youngsters & intellectual brains gather, it’s also a meeting place for the journalists as well. The faces of young ladies in these photos are hidden by blank spaces (stickers). By reducing the level of information that each photo can offer to the visitors, the artist has tried to prevent the Media from easily misusing, manipulating or interrupting the image in a mass global scale.
But the connection isn’t lost completely as visitors (users) are let to explore an interactive program based on the photos to know more about these ladies by clicking & listening …

BIDOUN -- Current Issue

BIDOUN -- Current Issue
Recieved today from Antonia Carver
In its sixth issue, BIDOUN – the arts and culture magazine from the
Middle
East – turns its attention to the thorny subject of envy. Taking on
everything from the evil eye in Cairo to class structures in the
international art world, via American universities in the Gulf and fast
food
in Tehran, the issue is in turns witty, light, serious and polemical,
and
always highly original.

Artists commissioned for this issue of the magazine include Shirana
Shahbazi, a winner of the Citibank Photography Prize, and Istanbul
hotshots
Ahmet ?güt and Sener ?zmen, who have designed an unusual colouring book
for
readers. Our regular travel column peruses the international hotel
scene in
Baghdad; the architecture section looks at the legacy of XL Modernism
in the
Middle East; while the art, film, design, products, fashion and books
sections take in the latest developments in the diverse cultural life
of the
Middle East.

See http://www.bidoun.com/current/ for a contents list and some
articles

Iranian Poster Exhibition in Ogaki, Japan

From Posterpage:
Iranian Poster Exhibition in Ogaki
October 29 – November 26, 2005; Kanazawa University
Ogaki Poster Museum, Japan
Noboru Matsuura, Professor of Kanazawa University and the director of Ogaki Poster Museum invited Iranian poster designers to Ogaki Poster Museum for the Iranian Poster Exhibition in Japan. The exhibition is scheduled to open on October 29, 2005 through November 26, 2005.

Five international invitational poster exhibitions were held in this museum since now, that the well-known poster designers will take part in it from all around the world. Prof. Matsuura organized three periodical exhibitions: Polish Posters, 1999; Chinese Contemporary Posters, 2001 and 65 years Cuban Posters in 2003. He is also organizing Iranian Poster Exhibition now. This exhibition was organized by cooperation of the 5th Color.

He says: "Iranian posters have been drawing international attention in these years. This is mainly because people are taking a great interest in the Persian and Islamic culture. In other words the posters symbolize the fantastic culture of a specific country. I always think "Posters are art and message" and have introduced the masterpieces of posters from such countries as Poland, the United States, ex Soviet Union, Germany, Finland, Czech & Slovakia, Switzerland, France, China and Cuba. For this time of particular occasion I am thinking to introduce the posters of your country, Iran."

The list of Iranian designers are (click on the names to see the posters):
Majid Abbasi, Reza Abedini, Farzad Adibi, Morteza Akoochekian, Tahamtan Aminian, Majid Azadmanesh, Edik Boghosian, Maryam Enayati, Vahid Erfanian, Siamak Felizadeh, Farhad Fozouni, Amirali Ghasemi, Ebrahim Haghighi,Pedram Harby, Abdullah Kaviani, Ali Khorshidpour, Behrad Javanbakht, Saed Meshki, Morteza Momeyez, Davood Morgan, Alireza Mostafazadeh Ebrahimi, Iman M. Raad, Mehdi Saeedi, Bijan Sayfouri, Firouz Shafei, Ghobad Shiva, Farid Yahaghi.

The catalogue of exhibition was published by organizer. Please see the web site of the Ogaki Poster Museum for more information, and The 5th Color for pictures from the opening.
See the link in Perisan weblog in kargah.com

Q&A with Typo magazine Issue 15 2005

Present Iranian typography is different from western design. What do you think is the main difference between western and Iranian typography?

I believe one of the main differences is that the smallest typographic unit in Iranian typography is “word” as opposed to the “letter” in the western typography. Therefore the Iranian designer not only considers the relationships between the words but the different possibilities and relationships among the letters within a word as well.

In some countries, graphic design has very positive feedback from the general public. In others, it doesn’t draw much attention, at all. How does the Iranian society value the work of graphic designers?
The Iranian society has historically been and still is very much a literature based society visual are in the second or ever the third position in term of communication. I would say although the designers in the past couple of decades have been making an effort in spreading the visual culture; however the lack of emphasis on this field in education has raised a generation neutral towards visuals.


The development of western graphic design is strongly influenced by technology. Today, this mainly means computers. What is your approach to the computer as a tool?
For me its like a big helping hand, as my I receive my inspirations from the contemporary life of our society & my sources are mainly my digital photos from urban surfaces & found type objects that they need to be touched & edited to be ready for work, my generation stood up & started its career in the age of computer but I used to mix the hand & the new tool together to create my design atmosphere more personal & unique.


What are the roots of your work? To what extend are you influenced by contemporary western design? Do you adjust your work to the taste of western audience?
Contemporary Iranian cultural & social life which includes all sorts of opposition, high and low, popular and elite and western and eastern ethics and global.

I am and am not. I use western design to learn from but the western design doesn’t set my aesthetic taste.

No! To be honest I don’t care if they like it or not. But I have to mention that after nine /eleven as the political aspects & the western medias grabbed world’s attention to middle east & I think it had positive & negative sides for our design in one hand every design/culture product from these part of the world praised & celebrated by western audience, in other hand as these are waves that are coming & going, the proficiency in choosing good design from poor design is getting harder & harder… this specially can be marked out while we are talking about typography (here Persian typography).

What is the role of women in contemporary Iranian design?

What is the like in the rest of professional fields; women are becoming more active in the field of design as well. However unfortunately their voices are not as much heard because of the male oriented society in which we live in. I have to mention as women have powerful participation in illustration field that most of the design studios are directed by men.


Thanks to Nazgol Ansarinia for Editing my answers!
Follow the link & you see (or download) the PDF vesrion of the 15th issue of typo magazine including Reza Abedini's lecture on persian type & typography...

2 Posters by Rana & bahador shojapour;EEM exhibition

I took this picture at the opening of eem exhibition in arya gallery...2 Posters by Rana & Bahador Shojapour

Newsblog on parkingallery.com

I added a newsblog to parkingallery ...
I mean I replaced the old hand made plain html version with a blog!! You still can reach it via this linkThere some coming events That I will write about... just as a warm up, there will be a poster exhibition in parkigallery soon!!!...
Stay tuned!!
PS: I could never made the revolution in side parkingallery without my old friend Shervin Afshar !Thanks Shervin!

Parkingallery.com's 4th anniversary

Its Parkingallery.com's 4th anniversary... So silent, so alone, after a 1 month fight to renew the Domain name & find a porper web hosting, the site is still on the old server, I hate Iranian service providers, I spent 60$ to renew the domain this year but after passing 2 middle hand companies i just could register it for one year...
Any way parkingallery will be updated soon as soon as I can transfer it to the new server , we will have new artists plus new projects which I will let you know but I know that no one read my blog...
these are some letters that will be lost in huge dark networks ahead
be tuned!!!

Chargoosh group poster exhibition in Isfahan

click on the link to see the review....

Parkingallery: Exhibition & Event Reviews

Group Portrait exhibition by Shahab Fotouhi, Neda Razavipour, Jinoos Tagizadeh, Barbad Golshiri Behrang Samadzadegan June 24- July 6 Khak Art Gallery, TehranAssemblage; It wasn't an outstanding exhibition at all! I can easily call it an assemblage; by knowing this fact which some of the participating artists owe a big debt to circle of tehranavenue.com e-magazine for their support promotion & some other contribute frequently for the magazine.

While Jinoos tagizadeh & Behrang Samadzadegan are repeating their semi successful careers in previous exhibitions, Heavy influence of literature on Barbad Golshiri's artworks never left him alone; Fascinated by himself to death standing with his funny award to pose all that he has in his hands, plus quoting is an almost old-fashion trick these days (any one can read philosophy books!), that it seems that he can't can't avoid because of his celebrity-like success during past two years; Yes they are self portraits but although the message is lost & they can't go any further than large format printed show offs ... but to be honest we have to wait & see the artist's collection "odyssey - I ".

Census by Shahab Fotouhi & Neda Razavipour was made to be shown in Colombia University few years ago & it's a little bit carelessly edited: "We still have a bunch of unused materials ..." says Neda Razavipour. The whole story was filmed during their big big project with atisaz residential complex. Masoume Mozafari's old portraits can't connect visitor's mind with any other artworks in the exhibition.they are as good as always but what they are doing here among these so called post modern artworks?!

The curator(s) the exhibition can't be proud on this unless believing (or claiming) that these are an un-perceptible variety of pieces ranging from rubbish to fine artworks under title of a portrait exhibition!

"Word for word" video Installation by Amirali Ghasemi (installed in azad art gallery ,Tehran

Parkingallery.com; Transition :Installation in Azad Art Gallery TehranA light torch was given to every visitor who wanted to participate in the installation, then the attendees were asked to stand in front of the camera while a video collection of random short clips, taken of Tehran's flickering neon lights (taken in the streets from restaurants, shops, supermarkets & ...) was played in the background.The result was recorded & screened live on the other screen. The combination of random people who frequently participated & agreed to stand on the spot and comercial neon words created & introduced an enormous wide range of new expressions & meanings.
Amirali Ghasemi BA in Graphic Design Azad University , Faculty of Art Tehran

Work experience:

• Graphic design: since 1998

• Photography: digital & analouge since 1997

• Director of Parkingallery art space since 1998

• Web design & photography instruction in the Parkingallery Studio since 2000

• Co-production of 4 short documentary films 2000-2005

• Design of Meera band's back projection clips, Feb. 2003

• Design of Dna band's back projection clips, Oct 2003

• Design of 127 band's back projection clips, May 2004 (with Reza Haeri)

Exhibitions:

30 group & solo exhibitions in Tehran Art Galleries , including 5 drawing exhibitions & 12 graphic design exhibitions & 6 video installations

Awards:

- Fifth Prize of the 2001 Tokoha CG Art (Computer Generated Art) Exhibition for the “Portrait of Forough (an Iranian Poetess)”, Jan. 2002, Tokoha Art Museum , Tokoha , Japan

- Second Prize of the Web and Multimedia section for the design of the site: “www.iranianprofile.com,” at the 7th Biennial of Iranian Graphic Designers' Artworks, March 2002

Participation:

• Participation in Annex section of the 8th International Iranian Photo Exhibition 1998, Tehran Contemporary Art Museum , Tehran , IRAN

• Participation in ‘Under 21 Year-old' & ‘Experimental' sections of the First Tehran International Contemporary Drawing Exhibition, Dec.1999/Jan. 2000, Tehran Contemporary Art Museum, Tehran, IRAN

• Participation in the First Self Promotional Posters Exhibition by Iranian Graphic Designers, Spring 2001, Tehran Contemporary Art Museum , Tehran , IRAN

• Participation in the 2001 Tokoha CG Art Exhibition, Tokoha Museum of Art , Tokoha , JAPAN

• Participation in the 7th Biennial of Iranian Graphic Designers' artworks, February/March 2002 Niavaran Cultural Center Art Gallery , Tehran , IRAN

• Participation in the 9th Competition – Exhibition of Students' Posters in the frame of the 13th Festival of Posters at Chaumont: «Etudiants, Tous à Chaumont» with the title « L'Image du Monde/Le monde des Images» (World of Images/Image of the World), June 2002, Chaumont , France

• Dancing Fan in Iran 's Pavilion in Venice as Selected Collection by TMCA Sep 2002

• Participation in 2002 German poster museum exhibition: "Children Are The Rhythm of the World" in Essen , Germany [see poster here].

• Participation in 2002 1st Korean International Poster Biennial cultural poster, Nov. 2002 [see poster here]

• Participation in 10th Competition – Exhibition of Students' Posters in the frame of the 14th Festival of Posters at Chaumont: «Etudiants, Tous à Chaumont» under the title «Drugs: Pleasures, Hazards, Addictions», June 2003, Chaumont , France

• Participation in Un Cri Persan (graphistes d' iran ): Persian Shout (Iranian graphic design exhibition) as an IGDS member, Chaumont , France , Sep 2003 [see posters here]

• International Art Blog Online exhibition organized by the centre of attention gallery London , Sep 13th - Oct 13th,2003

• Participation in 8th Tehran International Poster Biennial February/March 2004, Khial Art Gallery , Tehran , IRAN [see poster here]

• Participation in the 9th Tehran International Photography Biennial June July 2004, Khial Art Gallery , Tehran , IRAN.

Featured in Art Magazines such as Bidoun (UAE), Freize (UK), Etapes (France) , (2+3)D (Polland), Typo (Czech Republic), Neshan (Iran) Andishe-e-Iranshar (Iran) & Tasvir :Image Of the year (Iran) .And Iranian Newspapers such as Akhbar, Entekhab & Iran newspaper.

website: amiralighasemi.com

Lomo LC-A // the show is over // the show must go on

Lomo LC-A // the show is over // the show must go onThe Bad News: Lomo LC-A Production has stopped

Listen closely and take a seat. Here is the bad news first. The original and one-and-only Lomo LC-A camera has been taken out of production. Some of the most beautiful items ever created (the original VW bug, Constellation, Tupolev, Concorde and Illushin airplanes, Polaroid SX-70's, Olivetti typewriters, Lambretta scooters, Commodore 64 computers, Wacker Innsbruck, etc.) have disappeared despite the enormous love and respect that they command. According to the LC-A's Russian factory (LOMO PLC), the LC-A has proven too expensive to continue given their existing structure. As they no longer produce any cameras outside of the LC-A, they lost key manufacturing synergies. Engineers and craftsmen experienced in 35mm cameras are a dying breed. Wages and energy costs have skyrocketed. Our beloved LC-A consists of 450 individual parts, and is extremely labor-intensive to construct. The days of its precise assembly by hand have come to an end and its production is no longer cost-effective within their new structure.

Just After Boring Holidays

I'm back again I'm working on a new weblog in persian too, that's why I'm not writing here often. But forgive me I promise to update this on time & here is some NEWS
I have my Yellow poster for our video exhibition in Chamount's International competition ...
I'm working on my website to a total re-new I will be available soon I made a set of new poster with that illustrations which I MADE in Feb .We will have 3 exhibitions in spring
2 poster exhibitions in the holy city of Qom in a caltural center & another in Isfahan's contemporaray art museum ... the 1st one is realy excites me as Qom is like Vatican with a totaly religious atmosphere I'm looking forward to see how they think about our posters ....
we are adding some new poster to that CHARGOUSH exhibition which we had in Mashhad ...
& Reza abedini is on tour around the world .... here & there in workshops &
exhibitions ...
The other exhibition includes some video artworks & some installations ... We are 3 graphic designers, one video artist & one musician ... I'm working on a video artwork based on neon types in Tehran oposite to some of my photos the other designers are NAZGOL ANSARI NIA ( I will post A page for her soon on parkingallery she is very clever & talented she studied in UK & USA & now she teaches in a univercity in Tehran ) & Iman RAAD

Live from the IRIS

Live from the IRISNina & Amirali

My feelings

I heard many good news this week but I feel very bad, I normaly don't write about my feelings here just links & news some how but parkingallery need some new artists & new energy as fanoosphoto.com is uploading a page for every young talented photographer in parkingallery I dont know whats the use my visitors are more & i have better design acualy every artist has his/her page with specific design not just uniforms, any way I feel that I'm loosing them .... I'll keep working till I die....

Rene Wanner's Poster Page / News

Rene Wanner's Poster Page / News A poster by Amirali Ghasemi & Iman Raad on the 1st page of Rene wanner's Posterpage.ch ....
Thanks Rene!

Parkingallery: Exhibition & Event Reviews

Parkingallery: Exhibition & Event Reviews
Chargoush exhibition in Mashhad

[CHAR-GOOSH] Group Poster Exhibition by Reza Abedini, Morteza Akoochakian, Maryam Enayati, Farhad Fozouni, Amirali Ghasemi, Behrad Javanbakht, Iman Raad, Reyhaneh Sheikhbahaei, Soha Shirvani in Mashad 29 dec. 2004- 6 jan. 2005 (9- 17Dey1383 ) -9 am-8pm

Opening: 29 dec.-5 pm


Address:Shariati complex, Sera Adabiat,Mashad

SEE the parkingallery's review here!

iranian.com: Posters, photo essay, , Amirali Ghasemi

iranian.com: Posters, photo essay , Amirali Ghasemi I'm on Iranian.com's this month's feature, I will be glad to know your Idea too....

Rene Wanner's Poster Blog: our poster exhibition in mashhad!

Rene Wanner's Poster Blog: our poster exhibition in mashhad! Iman Raad made the poster....

GRAFFITI & other Street Art ...

Cutouts : Stickers : Posters : 1Grafiti in the streets check it out!The following pages showcase : good ones, cheap ones, Stencils, Walls, Scribbles, Scrawls, Cut-outs, Stickers, 3D Objects ...+ Graf Links.. (All Photos from the streets of Hamburg, Munich, Berlin, Barcelona / 1988 - 2004).
To be continued.... by thomas mueller-TXMX fotos-

O-hum concert review by BBC persian

O-hum concert review by Raha from BBC persian you can aslo see my photos from the concert.... post me some comments give me more power folks....

My video instalation in fatima gallery

I will have an instalation very soon I will let you know more about it...

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My Life; Self portraits by:Dadbeh Bassir | Bassir Dadbeh | Kargah.com | Iranian Artists' Website

My Life; Self portraits by:Dadbeh Bassir | Bassir Dadbeh | Kargah.com | Iranian Artists' WebsiteDadbeh is one of my friends his works has been shown in may international exhibition here & abroad take a look & his artworks in kargah.com

TA Galleria: A Bachelor House Art Gallery

TA Galleria: A Bachelor House Art GalleryJinous Taghizadeh wrote these words after visting our exhibition in Fatima gallery you can aslo read the Behrang samadzadegan's answers to her words...

bidoun magazine - arts and culture from the middle east

bidoun magazine - arts and culture from the middle east 2nd Issue is out I enjoyed reading it very much... Negar My good friend has an article explaining what she found in Iran's old photography studios & other archives: Iran Diaries...
Also Tirdad has a review on 9th Iranian photography biennial

100 things about Firefly: My photographer friend....

Firefly

group exhibition on Bijeh: the murderer of 17 children

Bijeh the murderer of 17 children & his profile is a theme of a group exhibition, Behrang Samadzadegan is curator of the exhibition I have some typography poster there & I joined the show recently. I don’t know mush about the other contributors but he says this show is trying to bring peace among the new generation of contemporary artists, I hope so. I would like to be independent rather than famous & rich!!!
I created a community in Orkut: Anti TMCA mafia TMCA is the Tehran museum of contemporary art!
More soon!

Digital Divide

I was sold in this center
Of media-Art
Commercialized by the customs I wear
Advertised by the guitar I play
Walking around, every one is tagged
Back of every each of us a brand is dragged

I can't visit you on-line
It's the digital divide

I live in an interior designed
Walking around with shower-proof disguise
Followed by a hi-tech advice
On my PC display rolling dice
Now they surround you with their web-cams
Dream-works through your head-bangs
To kill myself or stay alive
Both feels like suicide

And I can't visit you on-line
It’s the digital divide
I'm cyberactively numb
The digital divide

Words by Sohrab Mohebbi
Comingaroundmusic
www.comingaroundmusic.com

13 video artworks From Iran In New Dehli

13 video artworks From Iran In New Dehli
Iranian Viedo artworks in india curated by Dr. Hamid Severi (I was his student in the Azad University...) TMCA's curator with some arworks of these folks: Farid jafari, Barbad Golshiri,Rozita Sharaf jahan, Neda Razavipour,Daryoush Mehrjoee, Mania Akbari,Simin Keramati, Maryam Niazadeh,Seyfolah Samadian,Ebrahim Haghighi,Zohreh Eskandari & Morteza Darebaghi,I refused to send artworks to him to review as I am not acceptbale one & I'm not his friend &I hate all these TMCA things & stuffs,aslo in my opinion a curator should find the artists but here evertything is upside down, artists mostly find the curator sitting in his office & they ask him to accept them (this is just like begging some times). Amoung these collection Rozita Sharafjahan's video artworks [deep depression] was shown once in her own gallery the Tarahan Azad art gallery Tehran Feb 2004 (the exhibition which I curated), Farid Jafari who makes video artworks for many so called iranian video artists specially the Group 30+'s members called once & said: He (severi) wants to review the artworks wanna come i said no cause a good curator should come after these things not me! I meant visiting the exhibitions, going to artists' studios & ... is their job! ( As many international cuartors came here to parkingallery to see our artworks) We don't have to wait at their door! & this is the result there is no image in the news just some lines & no feed back, that's all!

My answers to Jacek Mrowczyk's questions

Jacek Mrowczyk is editor of 2+3D magazine & i met him In Tehran during the 8th tehran Poster Biennial.He sent me some questions for an article about Iran which published recently....
1. What is inspiring for you during your design process? Who is your hero in design world?
I do lots of photography during the design process, then I work on typography, after that i mix them with each other I liked David Carson's when I was younger, Now I'm interested in MM Paris Design & uwe loecsh, among Iranian designers , I like Reza Abedini & Ghobad Shiva because I have been learning a lot from them & I still can do now

2. Is it important for you to keep Iranian character (stylistic) of your work?
Not that much because I'm living in another period of time & I hate to absorb the world's attention this way its a long story [just like our cinema] while western collectors, curators & art director are paying attention to this co called character which is recently being wasted be new Iranian designer by using the old images with lack of knowledge & concept & just for show off or for the international festivals' tastes
I have to mention these new waves of looking at the Middle East [we are in the news everyday] in west caused the world's view to searching on the surface not deep in side just as the news reporters are looking at it & promoting this to the world.

3. How deep influence has non figurative Islamic art?
I think this background caused us to imagine better than the other designers but I pushed us into abstract images & motifs, I work with photography so I can't be much non figurative designer, for me those influences could be useful in layouts & typography because of our heavy back ground in calligraphy...

4. Very often I could find Latin typography together with Arabic letters. Which typography (Latin or Persian) has bigger potential for creativity?
perhaps every good designer likes to work with his own letters the Persian typography is a little bit different because our basic unit in typography isn't letters but the words, We design [if we design?! many Iranian designers still use the ready fonts which are available & few & ugly ] each word by its connections & its own atmosphere so we have more space to change or create something out of it, its harder than working on letters like Latin typography but the result in my opinion will be brighter & deeper.

5. How looks like Iranian market for graphic designers? Is it easy in Iran to start your own company? Is it possible only in big cities?

I can't tell exactly cause we are bad surrounded by low type & low taste cheap un educated designers[?!], advertising companies & many rules & there are some permission committees in the government that we have to pass to show our creativities in our design, another problem is the clients who are not aware of the importance of the good design they are some companies in every filed which simply employ some students or some in expensive technician to do perform the manager's idea with out the normal design fee that they have to pay if they work a professional designer, as the result our advertising out put is awful the only hope is the cultural activates which are no very well paid projects , so we can not easily depend on that too. yes the only big cites can have such studios because the money is there, I've been traveling In Iran during past 4 months I visited many cities the were full of advertising companies or even print shops which are offering the design as a discount to their clients, no idea, no creativities, nothing.

About parkingallery in its 2nd anniversary!

Parkingallery is a Tehran based independent art space founded by Amirali Ghasemi in 1998 in a parking area of a residential apartment. Parkingallery started initially as design studio, to help young Iranian visual artists through their exhibitions by designing the invitation cards, making portfolios & booking galleries and later by designing web sites [iranian profile] to introduce young talent. During this period we held several exhibitions in the parking area. [the actual parkingallery] Parkingallery also started some audio visual projects such Parkingallery video tryouts & the Meera project . We are grateful for the support of these people while parkingallery was setting out: Navid Ghaemmaghami , Nariman Amiri , Nazli Ataei & Yasser Raad .

In Sep 2002 Amirali Ghasemi, Borzoo Forootan & Armin Zoghi started the Parkingallery.com project as an online gallery to present a brand new generation of graphic designers, photographer & contemporary artists. Drawing & photography sessions & web design classes were also held in this period.

In Feb 2004 parkingallery held its 1st annual exhibition around the theme of ‘deep depression' with international participants producing video & audio installations, photography, performance & typography. In March 2004 parkingallery took over the 127 project, started by Reza Haeri in 2002, documenting the progress of the Tehran band 127.

As we reach the second anniversary of parkingallery.com, we have more than 20 active artists; a new generation of Iranian contemporary artists. We seek to provide an international platform for independent, creative artists.

Parkingallery Team Sep 2004

PICCOLO band dot com | Persian Rock Band ...

PICCOLO band dot com | Persian Rock Band ...I haven't heard their music but the design of the site sounds good!!! I dont like the messy hand writing like typos but the structure is good & the colors work well together... but the site is killingly slow! Now its 3 AM & its the fastest time I ever connected but...

Parkingallery NEWS...Arash Hanaei's Photos in Silkroad Art Gallery

Parkingallery NEWS...

Arash Hanaei's Photos in Silkroad Art Gallery Oct. 6-24, 2004. Opening -5:00 to 8:30 PM. Sat. to Wed. from 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM Thur. from 4:00 to 7:00 PM
Click here to see his photos on parkingallery
Arash Hanei

Add: No 112, Lavasani Ave. (Farmanieh)
Tehran 19368-39631, Iran Tel: +9821 272 7010 Fax: +9821 272 7011

our poster exhibition in Iranian.com

THE IRANIAN: Here and there our poster exhibition in Iranian.com
All of us with Reza Abedini in Mehrin art Gallery.

parkingallery version2 is ready

Tehran art expo

no commentIs this realy a web site related to ART?what do you think?I will write more as I visit this messy so called art gig!!!

Live from the IRIS

my post for the I-gizmo contest : SOLITUDE
I missed one contest Music but you can check that as well, as far as i know I'm writing these for no one, as no one is cheking my blog, so please if you read these lines drop me a comment!!

Group Graphic design Exhibition in Mehrin art gallery

{{{{Welcome to Amirali Ghasemi's website}}}}}Group Graphic design Exhibition in Mehrin art gallery by Amir Ali Ghasemi, Maryam Enayati , Soha Shirvani & Reyhaneh sheikh bahaei , curated by Reza Abedini Sep 27- Oct 2, 2004,Visiting hours 4-8 Pm Opening 5-9 Pm

clouds cut by wires

Live from the IRIS on the day Setareh My friend left Iran & went to Rome to study art, I had a peotic exploration in our neighborhood & as she flew over the Tehran's Cloudy sky in early morning I found this: clouds cut by wires....

A PERSIAN CRY [Graphic designers in Iran]

Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image imprim?A PERSIAN CRY [Graphic designers in Iran]
from 25 september to 12 december 2004 two posters of mine is in the exhibition i will put a link of them very soon

FILTERing the I-gizmo & my Photoblog

my photoblog is FILTERed By another ISP: Datak
what's happening? what are you escaping from? How a photography website & photoblog should seem political to you?aren't you carzy?what should we do? demonstartion in the street?signing some useless papers? sending letters?
For god's sake stop this or....!!!

FILTERing the I-gizmo & my Photoblog

my photoblog is FILTERed By another ISP: Datak
what's happening? what are you escaping from? How a photography website & photoblog should seem political to you?aren't you carzy?what should we do? demonstartion in the street?signing some useless papers? sending letters?
For god's sake stop this or....!!!

working on parkingallery.com

hi there parkingallery is under construction & we are working on it hardly,i wish this can be finished in one week ,1st we will publish a static version then the programmized version will be avaliable in one month... so pary for us couse we will be one of the gateways of Iranian contemporary art [the new generation]

a part of our Sappi proposal

"...We aim to take graphics out of books & galleries & studios where handful of people get to see them & put it out thereon the streets of our city where it belongs, where millions be exposed to the possibilities it offers.

There are hundreds of billboards in every corner of Tehran but what gets posted on them begs to be injected with the pure energy & vitality of great artists working in this field.

We plan to have a giant exhibit of these artists whose work would be displayed on carefully selected & strategically located boards around the town (along with our own work) for a definite period of time...."

winds of changes

Neda ISP has filtered the I-gizmo.com so many Iranian user who use their services can't visit my photo blog, and there are many other small IPSs who use neda's services as big provider has the same problem,I sent an Email to Neda support the said they did it acourding to Smart Filter's database!!! and they promised to fix it very soon but the problem is still remianed. as 57% of my visitors are from Iran ... so you can guess....

I turned it on I mean the comments this is a test is there any body out there?

Sappi Ideas that Matter - Europe 2004 Grant recipients Parkingallery did not recieved the this year's grant I will post the details of our proposal very soon....

Koozeh in Photo This is Kabeh's photoblog my new friend

my latest photo in I-gizmo: Light explored in a cup
the god damn smart filter's database categorized I-gizmo as site to be filtered so some of my iranian visitors [who use Neda network ISP]may not be able to see this page !!!! I told them once but they did fix it but i think every time they update thier filter list the problem repeats....
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The Lonely Rave Shervin's weblog my old pal, he writes in english...

Rene Wanner's Poster Page / 8. Tehran International Poster Biennial 2004the great Rene wanner created a full coverage on 8th Tehran poster biennial In his Great Poster pages

The Untitled Projecta very interesting project

I'm trying to write again, I didn't put a space for others to use comment , I know that nobody read these words cos i didn't recevie any feed back by email & my main focus was on my photo blog,which is blocked by Neda network ( i think by mistake) & their user can't see my photos so I advertised for pars online :)) which didn't make such a mistake...
I will write I promise but too sad these days ...so be good to me this is not a take care of me message...

Fourty typography works selected from Bouf-e Kour (The blind owl), the first iranian typography exhibition
will be on show from 18th of June in Castello Svevo, Piazza Re Manfredi, Trani (BA), Italy.

Amirali's Old Blue TV collection

Canada's Best Blogs we are selected by Top Blogs Judges : Live From The IRIS
Two great photoblogs in one. The nomination was for the nariman blog but we're awarding Top Blog status to both photobloggers, nariman and amirali, for the joint effort. Visit when you have plenty of time. There are hundreds of excellent pics to see.

printemps persanpersian spring; an art exhibition from Iran in Paris

Do You See What I See? a photo journal by robin

BBC Persian interview amiralighasemi & 127 band

BBC
persian's
(by Raha Faridi) Interview with 127 band members & Amirali Ghasemi,
about 127
concert & its back projection clips! You can see
some of the clips here in 127's website... I will add some still
frames & some demos very soon. Download
Factors music video here.
[LAST UPDATE 23 MAY 2004]

Just Brighter colors, more details & more fun with 4 color Super HAD CCD, Sony F828.Live from the IRIS [amirali]

127 Rock concert in Farabi Hall May 11-12,2004127 Rock concert in Farabi Hall May 11-12,2004. 6 PM

Farabi Hall Art (Honar) University Valiasr Crossing, Oposite Bozorgmehr St. Tehran

Poster By Niloufar Lohrasbi & Shervin Shahamipour

127 official web site

127

Mark's photoblog [My New friend] markmyshots

Kargah.com | Yalda Moayeri's weblog I realy like her weblog because it she follow a very special way in photography and also she writes about the problem in photographers society [read in persian]

Kargah.com | Persian Weblog | Iranian Artists'SiteThe Kargah.com which is a very important iranian artists' site pressented my photographic art works in kargah's weblog here is the link read in persian.

www.amiralighasemi.com

Live from the IRISI was working on picture that i took for a video art poster. When it finished, I found my reflection in TV. So this unexpected auto-portait was created. Tomorrow our selfportrait exhibition will be opened in baran art gallery, this is my artwork there please leave some comments for me!!!

shutterbug : photographs by tracey very talented photographer : tarcy from sydney I found this on : photoblogs.org

Photoblogs.org - Profile for AMIRALIGHASEMI.COMmy profile@ photoblogs.org I was in 25th position in hot list , it was wonderfull! vote for me plasae!

Deceptive Media : Leopard / Friday 9th April 2004 a great photo blog by a friend of mine

Live from the IRISone of my new photos

{{{{Welcome to Amirali Ghasemi's website}}}}}

Live from the IRIS me & Nariman isn't it great?

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Hockney hits out at photography

Guardian Unlimited | Arts news | The camera today?You can't trust it. Hockney sparks a debatewhat is uncle david saing I can't understand? Is hockney tired? these digital cameras made me more powerfull to experience almost for free...
I starting a photo blog with my old friend Nariman I will put the link for him very soon !!

Z MAN Design.com Famous Zartosht Soltani !! let take a closer look to his site...!

>----Deepression art; a multimedia project by parkingallery...
A review of a strange exhibition might be interesting if you put some the facts which are strange but easy to understand, when you enter the exhibition you will face a black suitcase full of fiction in the middle of the stairs, the papers are dropped here and there and if you pick up one of the you can easily read a title " Depression".
Then when you turn and go down the rest of stairs you will face a man which his face is like the dead people working on a grave stone, around him are filled by many candles… as it can be read on his grave stone his name is Omid Bamdad & he died today. He is presenting the visitors a box full of dates as Iranian tradition in moaning after some one who passed away…
Just after you met this dead guy you will meet a bride (angelo di morte) her name is Tinoush Shariat Panahi, walking around the exhibition hall with deadly silence her face is white instead of her eyes which are looking around to hunt!
End of part one
Amirali Ghasemi
To be continued

Photo Friday: Morning

Rene Wanner's Poster Page / Self portrait posters

asemoonehaftom

Yahoo! News - Britain's Prince Charles Arrives in Iran

Welcome to Amirali Ghasemi's Web site! Finaly I registered my own web site this is a temporary page but it will be uploaded soon...
follow the links on the page for the deepression multimedia project by parkingallery...
enjoy!

127 my friends' web site.....
they are great!

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | British art show debuts in Iran

Kargah.com | Yalda Moaeri's weblog
some Secrets about the "For bam" exhibition in Iranian Artists' Forum .... I will talk about it later

Photo Friday - The Weekly Photo Challenge my photo in photofriday's Challenge this week : man !!

I'm really deepressed. we are working on the deepressionart.com a multimeda project which contain video art, audio art, typography and photography. my video will be about a fake Tv which is caled deepression Tv just like fashion TV which is trying to make people feel depress; It says; are you depressed ? Come to depression area ! Join the deepTv model awards!!

Me & Farid jafari are working on the edit of the video !
the exhibition will be Feb 21-26 2004 tehran in Tarahan Azad Art gallery KEEP IN TOUCH
TILL THEN

AmirAli Ghasemi's quick notes...from parkingallery.com this is my blog is any one reading it?

deepression a multimedia project by parkingallery All artists from all over the world can join exhibition. Joining exhibition is free but there are some costs for invitation cards & posters, (the estimated fee for each participator will be around 6 US$s) but it can be reduced when more participator join the exhibition.We are also looking for sponsors who are interested in this project if you are interested or if you know some one who may be able to help please let us know. Current & basic location of the exhibition is parkingallery's office in Tehran.We are trying to make this travel around the world, so 1st step is the exhibition's web site to find more audiences .After receiving more artworks/ideas/proposals we will book some other galleries to expand the exhibition.

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deepression a multimedia project by parkingallery All artists from all over the world can join exhibition. Joining exhibition is free but there are some costs for invitation cards & posters, (the estimated fee for each participator will be around 6 US$s) but it can be reduced when more participator join the exhibition.We are also looking for sponsors who are interested in this project if you are interested or if you know some one who may be able to help please let us know. Current & basic location of the exhibition is parkingallery's office in Tehran.We are trying to make this travel around the world, so 1st step is the exhibition's web site to find more audiences .After receiving more artworks/ideas/proposals we will book some other galleries to expand the exhibition.

Zosia Zija photography
an exciting photography site!

Pictures of Colors - Architecture photograph - Nikon coolpix 5700 camera
Nariman Amiri my friend who lives in canada is great photographer you can see your self!

quexistence - design & innovation
watch this i realy like the design

CNN.com - Iranian rights activist wins Nobel - Oct. 10, 2003
celebrate this moment!

DNA-BAND.com
I recently finished DNA-Band.com' design let me know your Idea...

'Bug and Coin' by Jacko - DPChallengewow!watch this..

a Persian Shout Exposition - Un cri persan (graphistes d'Iran) - ville-chaumont.fr
I'll have a poster exhibition in France/ville de chaumont with members of IGDS Iranian Graphic Designer sociaty I've send two posters posters are collected by Alain Le Quernec the French graphic designer [commissaire de l'exposition]

INTERNATIONAL ART BLOG, a Centre of Attention exhibitionTell me your ideas I am some how on the air now! With a very strong exhibitors and
challengers
Matti Blind+Lotte Møller (Berlin)
Adam Chodzko (Whitstable, Moscow)
Meredith Etherington-Smith (London)
RoseLee Goldberg (New York)
Dave Muller (Los Angeles, Lyon)
Abner Nolan (San Francisco)
Steve Reinke (Chicago)
Martha Rosler (Brooklyn)
Chiara Somajni (Milan)
Johnnie Walker (Tokyo)
that you can see their blogs on this page:

Historical Perspectives On Islamic Dress Essay (Women in World History Curriculum)a Brief history I found it usefull!