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To help celebrate the 20th anniversary
of Post-it® Notes, fashion designer Ilze Vitolina created
an impressive line of avant-garde evening wear fashioned
from Post-it® Notes. To create the clothing, the notes
were placed on a durable plastic, and plastic strips were
used as fasteners. Each dress was named for the color palette
of the notes from which it was made. Pictured here are the
Neon and Ultra dresses. In all, Vitolina created eleven
dresses - including a wedding dress - as well as several
hats and a bridal bouquet. The dresses were modeled at a
2000 fashion show sponsored by 3M Latvia.
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Put 60,000 Post-it® Notes together
and what do you get? Art, of course! Alaskan artist Melynda
Schwier-Gierard uses intricately folded Post-it® Notes
to create wall-sized works of art. Using 30 different types
of folds, she folds each 1-1/2 by 2-inch note an average
of four times before placing it onto one of her panels.
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When 3M Greece invited six artists,
including four painters, a sculptor and a painter/engraver,
to experiment with creating art from Post-it® Notes,
the artists rose to the challenge with fantastic results.
Art Fry's invention inspires art-lovers everywhere. They
helped the everyday communications tool transcend its utilitarian
role to become a thing of beauty.
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After receiving a prestigious residency
at the American Academy in Rome, Vanalyne Green, an artist
from Chicago, found her muse amid the famous cats of Rome.
Her 28 x 28 foot portrait of a cat named Juno attracted
plenty of attention at the Academy's annual art show for
2002 — even stopping traffic as people got out of
their cars to take a better look at the giant feline.
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 Vanalyne
used 50,000 Post-it® Notes for her creation, which
was inspired by the thousands of once-royal cats who still
make their homes in Rome. In 2002, the city showed its
appreciation for the cats by declaring them part of the city's
patrimony and celebrating with a one-day event.
By choosing
a cat as the subject of her work, Vanalyne hoped to attract
publicity and support for the organizations that protect and
feed the colonies of feral cats protected by Roman law. Torre
Argentina is one of the more ambitious of these organizations.
Established in the place where Caesar met his end, this cat
shelter gives new life to cats with the help of volunteers
and tourists. Here, visitors can give their time and money
to help care for the cats — or they can adopt one to
bring home.
Now back
home in Chicago, Vanalyne is a professor in the Department
of Film, Video and New Media at The School of the Art Institute
of Chicago. She was assisted in the creation of Juno by technical
consultants Marc Bowditch and Vale Bruck and by studio assistants
Julie Allen, Sara Magenheimer, Megan McNamee and Esmeralda
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