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Of interest to editors and journalists covering: Design, Illustration, and The Arts

 

April 1, 2009

 

Ligature Volume 7: Dave Straus Out Now

 

An innovative micro-site by and about artists making unusual connections

 

SEATTLE, Wash., April 1, 2009 – Ligature Online (http://www.bigfigdesigngroup.com/1.0/Ligature/Ligature.html ) today announced the release of Ligature Volume 7: Dave Straus.

 

Straus is a Chicago native and an ad-man; the kind of artist that has made a career of making other people’s products and ideas look great. His roster of clients is a mile long, and as a result his personal work has often taken a back seat to his client work—until now!

 

Futagoyaro—Dave’s first film—is causing quite a stir on the Internet. It has the wit and wisdom that can only come as a result of successfully bridging the chasm between advertising and art.

 

“I must be trying to relive my childhood,” says Straus, “– or the childhood I imagined I had. Most of these visuals pour out of my head after a good Osterizing®- blend of ingredients formed from time spent living and working in Japan, viewing too many monster movies and watching my daughters play.”

 

About Ligature Online

 

Each month Ligature Online hosts an artist whose work and way of thinking makes interesting or unusual connections; designer as storyteller, writer as illustrator, sculptor as playwright, or poet as seamstress. The format and content will be left to each artist, as Ligature is designed to provide a space for artists to present and discuss their own work in their own way. Artists slated to exhibit include Susan Andrade, Barbara Kosoff, Susan Benarcik Pete Benarcik, Dan Glassman, John Beach, Dave Straus, Miles Goodwin and Stacy Mar.

 

For more information, please go to:

 

http://www.bigfigdesigngroup.com/1.0/Ligature/Ligature.html.

 

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Media Contact:

Daniel Flahiff

Ligature Online

425-945-0162

daniel@bigfigdesigngroup.com

 

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