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Today I came across the web site for Accept, an exhibition by artist Perry Hoberman. I’m not normally keen on art about technology but Perry nicely skewers the absurdities of the meaningless messages we get from our computers as well as issues such as trademarks and surveillance. Make sure you try out Your time is valuable and have a look at his older works if you’ve not come across them before.

Today I visited the exhibition Pixar: 20 years of animation at the Science Museum in London and it’s great. Most of the exhibition is made up of concept artwork and development materials from Pixar hits like Monsters Inc and Toy story. As far as I can see the process starts with Pixar artists producing drawings of the main characters and scenes in a number of different styles. These are then assesed and the final design developed from a composite of the elements of each design which seem to work best. Part of the fun is spotting which well known artists and styles the studies are derived from. Here’s a study from Monsters Inc which reminded me of this well known work. See what you think. The exhibition closes on 11th June 2006 so if you want to see it you’ll have to hurry.