Tag Archives: Arts and Crafts Movement

The New Waves, Surging In, and Rolling Out.

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This is a drawing of the making space and gallery that my Dad wanted to construct The flat roof is the production space where we taught and developed STEAM skills, The building was designed to merge into the hillside, If this were the road taken Andersen Design would likely still be in production. The Town would not allow my Dad to build this building, I don’t know why but I am told all the members of the deciding board stopped by to apologize to Dad before they died, but the damage was done.

Local Community is in an uproar over repeated referendum votes, and I fall into a surprisingly compatible new stream. This is a drawing of the making space and gallery that Continue Reading →

Archeologists Look At Bronze Age Craft Production in a New Light

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Andersen Design Vase made from a mold of a melon glazed in a variegated blue with a double layer at the top that flows down the form in an irregulated pattern

Looking beyond the economic realm and examining the sociopolitical role played by specialized craft production   First published on Medium·May 7, 2020 Centralization vs Decentralization in the Bronze Age In Continue Reading →

How to Tell the Difference Between Andersen Design Popular Art and Andy Warhol Pop Art

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Both used production as an art form and started in the midcentury so how do you tell them apart? How do you tell the difference between Andersen Design Popular Art Continue Reading →

Nature vs Machine: Will Human Evolution Bifurcate?

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As one stream flows deeper into an artificial world, an alternate current follows the way of nature. How will this play out in human evolution? Michael Dziedzic / Unsplash I Continue Reading →