Another inspiring teacher in my life... :)

I just saw him in front of the entrance door of Khib design building today. So surprising since I had not seen him since January 2012! The fisrt time I met him was in December 2011, in a creativity workshop with another lecturer of Khib, Torhild Eide Torgersen, who is a wonderfully inspiring person herself! I learned a lot from that course and also our creativity work shop in January. Anthony Quinn was so kind to give me sometime to talk about my project the next time he comes back to Bergen, I m happy for that! I m sure there will be lots of new ideas and creativity after this meeting!

My new Hero

My turtor in the Bergen National Academy of Arts, Geir Goosen, he sent me a link about a project called matchmaking. First of all I found my former teacher Reza Abedini in this project for which I was so pleased. :) Then I found out about a lady called "Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares"the founding creative director of the Khatt foundation. She is my new hero now. I would like to meet her one day and I would like to be her! not xctly her of course but she gives me clear picture of my ideal future! :) Huda, I will see you one day and show this post to you!

Made in Bergen!!!

http://www.madeinbergen.no/ verrrrrrrrrrry creative name! I loved it !

Let's see how this picture will work??!!! with the lable of Elham Mahootchi

A poster for the ULTIMA music Festival in OSLO, just a class pratice

A semester with 55% work!

on Friday 16th of December 2011 my first semester in KHIB just finished. we had the semester evaluation in the first week of December and then some left lectures. Writing a semester report at the end of the term helped me understand that i had used half of my energy on studying and the rest for learning the language and getting used to living in Bergen. I really need to be more focused in the next semester and work harder. I have to read so many books on Visual Rhetorics and Semiotics. We had the basic communication theories with Morten W.Knudsen who was a real great lecturer and made us learn the basics of the visual studies very well.I am looking forward to the next term to begin and study the books he told me. In the last day of the semester I had a very short interview with him about my master project and at the end he told me that they are delighted that I study in this school! =)
I also made a new blog for the joint project we had by the name ofour group "Idea Hunters" and uploaded our project descriptions there.
To have an overview during my 1st semester of master of Design in KHIB I had the honor having classes with Torhild Eide Torgersen, Linda Lien and and Bente Irminger,Randi Benedikte Brodersen and Jena Habegger and also Anthony Quinn from London.

introduction courses

in the 1st week of the Master of Design in kunsthøgskolen i Bergen we had 5 days of different and very exciting classes named "introduction course".
we talked about creativity and design and the description of our master project to each professor and it helped us to have more clarified vision to what we are going to do in the nest 3 semesters. one of the most exciting classes was with Ole Hamre the famous and creative Norwegian musician. I took a picture with him and I will never forget how energetic he was. :D

Classical music concert

like Norwegian people say: hei !
I am here again with lots of things to say about my last 2 months in Bergen. but one of the best ones was when I went to Grieghallen for a classical music concert consist of the Bergen philharmonic orchestra and Lei Ove Andsnes (one of the best Norwegian pianists!) aand I can just say that it was wonderful !

& Here I am

Yes! Now I am here in Bergen, Noway ! :D
the weather is rainy all the time and i have just experienced the sun for 2-3 half days during my 20 days of being here! Life is absolutely expensive here!However if i find a job i will be able to manage it ;) The bergen National Academy of Arts (Khib ) is fantastic actually. I really enjoyed my M.A classes last week. Now I'm about to start my Design Project as an M.A student.It's just verrrrry exciting ;)

Good news

Changes are about to happen :) some sort of big changes! After being busy thinking of studying abroad in the winter, I applied for the Bergen National Academy of the Arts (KHIB) in April 2011. During this time I continued my job as a graphic art instructor in Dino Danesh institute of higher education. After teaching photography in the autumn semester, I started teaching Poster design and computer graphics again in the spring semester. Meanwhile I received al letter from Khib that I was invited for an interview on June 15th. Having lack of time for applying for a visa I responded to their suggestion to have the interview on the phone. We had the interview on June 15th and it was really good. After a few days on June 21st I had a LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE for the MASTER IN DESIGN AT KUNSTHØGSKOLEN I BERGEN from Mr.Ingjald Selland the director of Academic Affairs! :D wow! that was great! :D new opportunities! new experiences! I can not really say how I feel in that moment :))
Since that day I have been involved in the visa process, ticket, learning Norwegian, Packing & ...
and I am going to leave next Wednesday August 25th at 2 a.m
Shall it be my last post from Tehran?

Naser Palangi's painting exhibition

I went to Mr.Naser Palangi's painting exhibition in Pardis Mellat art gallery in February. he invited me by e-mail and although having French class, I attend there with my sister for the opening ceremony. There were lots of famous artists there :) and I loved his painting. I whole heartedly wish I had enough money to buy one of his paintings! I loved them conceptual and aesthetic wise :)

Koorosh Shishegaran

During my researches for the history of poster design in Iran, I met Mr.Koorosh Shishegaran who was a great poster designer during the Iranian revolution in 1979. He was very kind and gentle and helped me with gifting some issues of his original revolutionary posters and giving good explanations during 3-4 times that we met. Since then we have kept in touch and when Dr.Gruber came to Iran in December 2010, I arranged a meeting for these two to meet each other in order to talk about the Iranian revolutionary posters. I enjoyed the meeting and we had a great time watching posters and talking about them :) His son Pouya also did a great help talking about posters and where they had been presented. This picture is taken by him in his father's art studio and beside me there's Mrs.Shishegaran and Dr.Gruber.

A beautiful day with Masters

It was a great pleasure to me that Mrs.Ch.J.Gruber the professor assistant of Islamic Art in the Indiana University came to Tehran this December and I had the chance to spend a whole day with her. I also had another chance in the same day for meeting Mr.Naser Palangi the great Iranian artist and his kind wife Mrs.Farideh Zariv who is also a professional artist. We spent almost the whole day together taking photos of Ashoura ceremony and after that they invited me to their apartment which was a real cozy and lovely place. Their apartment was full of art symbols and I could also see their paintings there. Mr.Palangi & his wife were really kind to me although they were old friends with Mrs.Gruber. I will never forget that day it was exactly December 16th, 2010. A few days after that I met Mr.Palangi in Imam Ali museum of religious arts in which Dr.Gruber had a presentation on Miraj nameh books and their illustrations. He signed his book for me named "Objective drawing and subjective drawing". I also enjoyed Dr.Gruber's speech. it was very professional and laconic. :) I was so excited for being among these great artist and art specialist that I will never forget the Ashoura day and the night of presentation in the museum. :)

these are photos of Dr.Gruber, Mr. Palangi, Mrs.Zariv and me :)

Of one Essence is the human race, thus has Creation put the Base;

i designed this poster for a calligraphy and typography poster exhibition in Ukraine today. I have used the old Iranian type of calligraphy called "Nastaliq" and the text is the poem of the famous Iranian poet "Saadi" which is used to grace the entrance to the Hall of Nations of the UN building in New York with this call for breaking all barriers:

"Of one Essence is the human race,
thus has Creation put the Base;

Play for Africa

I designed this poster for the world cup 2010 this summer when all the world were looking at Africa to see what would happen to soccer teams.
African masks are used in this poster as one the most important symbols of African art and culture. Two masks are the representatives of white and black race and obviously the pink heart is the symbol of love between different races. Sport occasions such as the World cup are the best symbols of love and peace between nations. The colors of the World Cup 2010 ball have been considered as the sign of South Africa and other African countries flags on the head of the masks and also the same pattern is used in the title of the poster. May the message of happiness and peace reaches everyone round the world just as it is the message of the world cups.

Teaching in an institute of higher education :)

Hi, as i told u ive been teaching graphic for 2 years (so i guess it should have been since September 2008 probably!) and i ve been teaching graphic design in the "
Tehran Institute of Technology (Niavaran Branch) and i had taken photos of my students' works but i have never thought of uploading those designs in my blog. About 2 months ago my father called me and said that an institute of higher education is looking for a Graphic art instructor who can teach lessons such as Layout, Designing signs, Poster and graphical softwares, well that was good news! i could be very helpful and it could be a very good experience for me too! so i decided to go there right away and thanks God it was not too far from home just an hour time to get there in the usual traffic of Tehran!
The institute was called "Asre Dino Danesh" (ADD) and it was a branch of "Applied Sciences" University which means "Elmi Karbordi" in persian. I had my first experience in the summer term there and i taught Layout/Phtoshop/Corel Darw/ designing signs there. I also had good students and this time i decided to upload their files! in order to let them be known and let myself see how i have taught them! :) i can also have an electronical connection to my students to let them know about different news while not seeing them.
here's the blog: http://dinodanesh-gd.blogspot.com
photoshop and corel students were not the first ones so i was not very much excited for what they had done, however the Sign Design and Layout works were really good ones. Therefore i made a blog and uploaded my students' works there. I will be happy if you have time and take look ;)

There and back again (2)

Hi again :) it looks like i m writing this blog for myself since there i can see no comments in my last posts! well! ok let's smile to myself :) i know that i havent told any of my friends about my weblog! and i know that i dont update it very often! :D
in fact it s been more than a year that i havent come to my blog since there have been lots of changes in my life during the last year.
I was so busy last spring that all ended to my wedding day on August 5th 2009! :) smile? thank you
i wroked with "p.bioinformatics" and designed their catalogues and exhibition banners. I also worked with "Nasima" publication which ended to 2 cover designs and a book layout that i ll upload their pictures later on.
by the way i was also studying for the IELTS exam which was finished yesterday and i really got ride of it ! :D and during the last year so many other things happend in iran that made me severly upset. :(
i really do know what to say now. However, i came here to my blogger again to say new things.
may be to the ones that will read this weblog soon, bcz i have seriously decided to study abroad and i like people to see my past here.

Happy New Year :D

hi there :) such a long time i havent been here :) well in fact i was really busy with my dissertation which was just finished in the 2nd decade of March, i did not sleep for 2 nights therefore i got sick foe a week!!! then i went for an eye surgery called "Lasek" in order to make my glasses useless!!! of course after that surgery i could not work with computer for a long time. it took me 2 weeks to be able to watch TV and work with computer. tnx God it was the new Iranian year's holidays and i could rest at home :D
21st of March is the the start of the Iranian New Year called "Norouz" which means "the new day". the Iranian calender is exactly based on the solar system and exactly on the hour, minute and second that the earth finishes its journey around the sun the new year begins.As our new year starts with the first day of spring we have many many nice traditions that i can not explain here. but u can find them by searching "Norouz" in google and be sure u will find nice things ;)

The Handbook of 2009

i received s.hting really intersting today called "The handbok of 2009" it talks about many matters as;

Health:

1. Drink plenty of water.
2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.
5. Make time to practice meditation, yoga, and prayer.
6. Play more games.
7. Read more books than you did in 2008.
8. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
9. Sleep for 7 hours.
10. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day. And while you walk, smile.


Personality:

11. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
12. Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
13. Don't over do. Keep your limits.
14. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
15. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip.
16. Dream more while you are awake.
17. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
18. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.
20. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.
21. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
22. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
23. Smile and laugh more.
24. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.


Society:

25. Call your family often.
26. Each day give something good to others.
27. Forgive everyone for everything.
28. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.
29. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
30. What other people think of you is none of your business.
31. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

Life:

32. Do the right thing!
33. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
34. GOD heals everything.
35. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
36. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
37. The best is yet to come.
38. When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it.
39. Your Inner most is always happy. So, be happy.

Last but not the least:

40. Please tell abut this to everyone you care about :)

The M.A teachers

Studying Master of Arts in crafts i ve had many good teachers and i m really proud of being their student and today i wanna talk about two of them Mr.Hamid Severi and Dr.Hamid Keshmirshekan in this post. Mr.Severi's main field of study is photography and history of art. He has studyed Art history in one of the U.S.A universities. He taught us "The applied Arts History" and "Research methodologies". He is a real good teacher i will never forget his classes. here's his own website: http://www.hseveri.com
Dr.H. Keshmirshekan had PHD in Art history & researches from Eastern Studies, Oriental Institute, Oxford University. wow! it was really exciting for me that he was graduated from Oxford! He taught us "ART Criticism". I'm still proud of being in contact with him via e-mail and i believe that he is a real unique man in his field of study.
in this picture from left u can see Mr.Severi- Dr.Keshmirshekan and Mrs Farah Osouli (one of the most famous contemporary female Iranian painters) she's very kind i ve talk to her ;)