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Mike Slone Develops Woman of the Millennium
Calendar Print to Be Distributed Locally and Overseas
(Louisville, Ky.)--After 150 sketches and a running dialogue
with the owner of Dawn Marie Interactive, designer Mike Slone
has developed a thought-provoking, powerful woman of the
millennium in his latest calendar/print.
Slone describes his current branding work for DMI as a mix of
surrealism and renaissance. "The world is dynamic and instead of
two cups and a string, we are using two computers and a
phone line. This woman depicts the human interactions that remain
in new media. It's one of a series of images we are developing
as Dawn Marie Interactive expands."
"The 'new' woman of the millennium is a well-crafted collage of
what has been and it politely questions what will be," according
to Dawn Marie Yankeelov, owner of Dawn Marie Interactive. Each
texture in the work depicts a rapid move forward leading to the
web-based technologies promoted today. The woman is represented
as a whole, because this is the purest way to display a human
being, according to Yankeelov and Slone.
The print was designed to be viewed at different levels: ?Greek
influences--The central pose is universal, and speaks to all
humanity.
Early Renaissance--The blue colorwash speaks of the fresco, an
art done on sections of white plaster, and begins the journey of
disseminating the news of the day. Industrial Revolution--The
steel plates are included because they helped us build and
construct our first visions of progress, such as ships and later
airplanes. Digital Communication--Speed through light and the
tremendous change in communications makes up the form. The
Marking of Time--The foundation or leg of our humanness is still
marked as time spent. Time follows paths into the vortexes of our
decisions, and we become a human hourglass.
Africa and the Environment--The woman is holding the weight of
the world and all its responsibility. Africa may represent the
last opportunity for preservation.
"My team wanted this piece to generate
discussion, conversation and communicate creativity. The woman
asks questions without speaking. This is the key to the print's
success. It sends you to the website and its creators to seek
out more information," said Yankeelov. The questions debated
upon the poster's unveiling include:
The questions debated upon the poster's unveiling include:
* What use of technology is wise for the human
spirit?
* Will the computer start to run our lives and blueprint us?
* How can technology interact in a more earth-friendly way?
* What is the proper role of technology in today's world?
More than 2,000 prints will be distributed to
Louisville corporations and overseas at trade-related events.
Mike Slone's credits include 2 Graphis International Design
Awards for poster art in 1997:
1997 Dinnerworks, a benefit for the Louisville Visual Arts
Association;
1997 The Louisville Ballet's Nutcracker. (both a collaboration
with his partner, Julius Friedman)
Dawn Marie Interactive is a new media marketing firm based in
Louisville, Ky. Client services include: strategic planning for
the deployment of web-based technologies, website development,
corporate CD-ROM development, and all forms of marketing and
public relations to support those venues. For more information
contact owner Dawn Marie Interactive at dawny@dawnmarie.com and
check out www.dawnmarie.com.
DMI Print Calendars will be distributed at the following events:
March 24-26, 1998
Eurotel '98 International Conference; Brussels, Belgium
Approx. 700 attendees including European Counter-Intelligence,
military networks, electronic publishers, law enforcement.
March 25-28, 1998
SCIP Annual Internet Conference; Chicago, Ill. SCIP stands for
Society of Competitive Intelligence.
Approx. 3,000 to 4,000 attendees
April 1st and 2nd, 1998
Annual International Meeting on Search Engines Technology;
Boston, Mass. by Infornortics Ltd. of the United Kingdom
Approx. 120 attendees www.infonortics.com.
April 12th, 1998
AIIP Annual Conference (AIIP stands for Association of
Independent Information Professionals) Approx. 5,000 attendees
Sept. 17th-19th, 1998
Annual Digital AGSI Conference on Data Mining, Data
Visualization, and other Intelligent Agents; Atlanta, Ga. (AGSI
stands for the Association of Global Strategic Information)
Approx. 250 attendees
www.infonortics.com
Oct. 12th-14th, 1998
Online '98; San Francisco, CA
Approx. 600 attendees
www.onlineinc.com
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