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Rouge Buddha Call for Entries

 
The Rogue Buddha Gallery is hosting a four-day pop-up art exhibition
opening Thursday, July 29th and running through Sunday, August 1st.
The exhibit will feature work by local artists themed around a
positive message about voting. Additionally, the exhibit will be
judged by a committee of local art experts, and the winning work will
be reproduced as free, limited-run posters.The [...]

B-Girl Be Exhibition 2010

(work in progress; self-portrait, glass on glass)
About a month ago I was called to attend a meeting about the gallery portion of B-Girl Be, and annual event held at Intermedia Arts celebrating Women in Hip-Hop. I thought the meeting was going to be about coming up with ideas on how to [...]

AIGA Minnesota Design Show

(Photo by B-Fresh Photography)
Not only was I Chair of the AIGA Minnesota Design Show, I won an award with a group project I completed as a student at MCAD (Minneapolis College of Art and Design), the redesign of Emil Ruder’s Typogrphie book. Now some might think, “Of course she won, she’s chair!” It doesn’t work [...]

COexhibitions Presents: Wings & Teeth

Originally posted on and for www.frank151.com

We were lucky enough to be invited to the sneak-peak preview of the latest gallery to open in Minneapolis, COexhibitions. In a space that housed a photographer for over 27 years now belongs to the former First Amendment Gallery/Burlesque Design crew and Permanent an Art & [...]

Book-in-a-Box Feat. On Typography Served

In 2009 I worked on a collaborative project with fellow associates and comrades Matt Van Ekeren, Molly Hein and Catherine Grothe on a redesign of Emil Ruder’s classic book “Typograpie.” We took his book and turned it into a book in a box that included a motion graphic piece on setting up your type, a [...]

Scion Art Installation 6

Scion Installation 6: Video - Los Angeles from Scion ART on Vimeo.
Scion Art Installation 6 kicks off this weekend in Los Angeles on Saturday January 23 and will run through February 13, 2010. This is the 6th year of Scion’s Art Tour that travels throughout the United States and this years focus is on Interactive/Video [...]

C-Rocka Interview with AIGA Minnesota

Check it out! I was recently interviewed about my current position as the Minnesota Design Show Chair 2010…(read full distiller here).
AIGA Minnesota Design Show
Interview with Christina Rimstad, Chair,
AIGA Minnesota Design Show 2010.
1. What do you like about your position as chair of Design Show?
The best part of serving as the AIGA Design Show Chair [...]

URB + C-ROCKA

Check out this sweet illustrated type pattern that I created and made it into URB Magazine’s first digital issue titled “NOW”!!

W Desires

W Magazine is holding its annual photography contest. “W: THE ART PROJECT” invites emerging, talented artists to share their works of photography and gain a connection with some of the most influential art personalities working today. The winning photographer will receive a grand prize that includes agency consultation, profession-grade camera, professional photo website and W [...]

Sorting Through The Madness

I was recently asked my Maijaliisa Burkert to create a custom header for her blog, “Sorting Through the Madness.” Hand drawn lettering was used as well is a color pallete to match the theme and colors Burkert already had. Check out the blog here.

FLOSSAHOLICS

Currently in production, Flossaholics is the lastest project that C-Rocka is kickin' out. This will be a quarterly publication that is anything but typical! Flossaholics is made up of the main subject or theme's 10 essentials, the things s/he just can't live without. Be on the look for the print piece soon to be out along with one sick mix that WHUTNUT DJ and C-Rocka put together.

LOUDER THAN BOMBS

Louder Than Bombs has been throwing some of the freshest parties since May 2007. With the backing and support of the label Black Corners, Louder Than Bombs was created by Jon Jon Scott and Christina "C-Rocka" Rimstad. Read more here.

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