DNA Art Blog by DNA 11 the Original Creators of DNA Art

DNA Art Featured on The Doctors on CBS

dna11 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:29:27 +0000

Tune in Wednesday September 16, 2009 for the one-hour episode of The Doctors titled Health Trends and Controversial Cures.

DNA 11 created individual DNA Portraits for the show’s hosts- Dr. Travis Stork, Dr. Jim Sears, Dr. Lisa Masterson, and Dr. Drew Ordon.

The DNA art featured on The Doctors TV show is the world’s most personal form of artwork on canvas. No two portraits will ever be the same.

We had a great time working with the show to create the portraits and we are excited to be a part of the new season!

Check your local listings for show times here. You do not want to miss the show.

DNA Art featured on MTV, Forbes and HBO

dna11 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:36:48 +0000

It’s a new month and DNA 11 has some up coming media appearances:

1) September 3rd 2009 – 8pm ET HBO- A Dog Year

Keep an eye out for DNA 11’s artwork in Jeff Bridges’ new HBO movie A Dog Year.

It is a story is a story of a writer in the midst of a mid-life crisis who decided to adopt a dog that turns out to be even crazier than he is.

FYI: Keep an eye out for one of our DNA portraits in the daughter’s bedroom.

2) September 8th, 2009 – It’s on with Alexa Chung – MTV – 12 pm ET/PT

DNA 11 has a special announcement for Tuesday’s show. A Major Celebrity had his portrait created by DNA 11. Hint: He was in the movie Sin City. Tune in to find out who!

3) DNA 11 is featured in Forbes Online Magazine: Eight Million Dollar Businesses You’ve Never Heard Of.

(I’m not so sure about the “You’ve Never Heard Of ” part considering the amount of media we have been getting lately… )

DNA 11 Pet Portraits featured in People Magazine

dna11 — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:56:03 +0000

The modern pet portrait by DNA 11 is featured in a recent People Pets article that highlights what people are doing with Pet DNA.

DNA 11 has been creating unique art pieces from the DNA of dogs, cats, horses, and even a Bengal tiger at the request of our customers since its inception in 2005.

Adrian one of the co-founders actually had a DNA Pet Portrait created of his own dog Bosley, and hangs it proudly at home.

“Bosley lays for a quick snapshot in front of his very own DNA portrait.”

Show of your creative side and evoke conversation with art made from Pet DNA.

What are your thoughts? Please join the conversation.

Show us your DNA on Facebook and WIN!

dna11 — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:35:28 +0000

Now is your chance to show off your personalized art. We would love to see what you’ve done with your DNA 11 Portrait.

Upload photos of your DNA Portrait, Fingerprint or Kiss Portrait to our Facebook fan page and you can win a $500 DNA11 gift certificate!

We’ll donate $1.00 to World Vision for every new Fan!

Becoming a fan is easy. Follow the 3 steps outlined.

Saring your photos is easy…

1. Go to our Facebook fan page and become a fan.

2. Submit your picture of your DNA Portrait, Fingerprint Portrait, or Kiss Portrait right on our Facebook Wall.

3. Be sure to tell us a little about the portrait and the picture. Creativity and Interest are the winning combination. We cannot wait to see you DNA!

We can’t wait to see what you have done!

The winner will be selected August 14^th by the co-founders of DNA 11.

Cool Video: How Does DNA Copy Itself?

dna11 — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:01:34 +0000

This video (computer generated animation) illustrates how DNA is able to copy itself. Simply amazing! Click here to learn how DNA11 can create genetic art portraits from your DNA.

6 Inspiring Genetic Art Projects

dna11 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:10:21 +0000

DNA is no longer just part of our genetic code. DNA has become the underlying inspiration for various artists, organizations, and research programs. DNA 11 is proud to be part of the “DNA as art” movement- and we’re inspired by others that create unique concepts with DNA as part of their underlying theme.

Here are 6 inspiring DNA Art concepts:

1) PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG READER

Mangalno-Ovall developed the award winning Portrait of a Young Reader: An early DNA Portrait made from glass and steel located in The Bronx Library Center.

The Bronx Library Center commissioned artist Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle to create a custom art piece with three simple principles: Identity, New Technologies and Artistic Expression. With the help of Chicago-based architect Colin Franzen, Mangalno-Ovall developed the award winning Portrait of a Young Reader.

“DNA is the code and catalog of information from which we are individually and uniquely expressed.” Manglano-Ovall stated.

The DNA creates a unique identity principle in the work, while the use of state of the art genomic technology was used to identify the unique DNA sequence of an anonymous young reader.

Over 3000 colored glass circles are imbedded into 71 steel panels. Each glass circle represents a genetic marker of the anonymous young reader.

2) WEB 2 DNA Art Project

This is DNA11.com as a web2DNA portrait.

Thomas Baekdal, from Denmark, designed a really interesting web application he created the WEB2DNA Project that is rather simple. You can easily enter any website URL and create a unique graphic representation of the website’s structure. These images look very similar to a PCR Gel- a process used to visualize DNA.

Thomas inspiration came from two sources DNA 11’s process of turning real DNA into works of art and Marcel Salathe’s Websites as Graphs.

Try turning your Website into DNA Art here

3) DNA Jewelry

DNAStuff is a not -for-profit vendor of DNA-themed products. Their DNA Jewelry is custom designed and handcrafted. Proceeds from the sale of each piece helps to raise funds for research in genetics and bioinformatics at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. All of work done by DNAStuff represents their support and commitment to raising awareness for DNA research.

4) Ancient Art Inspires DNA Science

A new study out of the Dana-Farber Cancer institute has combined the ancient art form of Origami with nano-technology to create 3-dimensional structures known as ‘DNA Origami ‘. Origami is an ancient process in which Japanese masters make a series of folds in a single piece of paper to create intricate models of animals and other shapes.

The researchers have folded sheets of DNA into multi layered objects. These objects are a thousand times smaller than the thickness of a human hair.

William Shin PhD is the senior author of the study. He believes that this development will enable scientist to make customize DNA objects, with any real 3-D size. The DNA molecules are not being used as they traditionally would be. Instead of being the blueprint for making proteins the DNA molecules are being used as a building component. It is believed that these tiny structures could be the foundation for the invention of advance delivery vehicles that would sneak drugs into patients’ cells.

5) DNA as Music?

Gil Alterovitz is a research fellow at Harvard Medical School (HMS) who has created the Musical Gene Expression. With the hope that doctors will be able to provide patients with better treatment by using technology to monitor their patients.

The Gene Expression combines art with science by paring certain protein structures with certain musical instruments. The result will be a harmonious melody or an atonal melody depending on the health of the patient. For the purpose of the study they used a healthy patient and a cancer patient. The harmonious melody is representative of a healthy patient where as the atonal pairing denotes the sickly patient.

6) Genome Quilts

"Human red cone pigment gene - otherwise known as a quilt- made from your DNA"

Beverly St. Clair is a practicing psychiatrist that has combined DNA with the hobby of quilting. The “Human red cone pigment gene” quilt is featured on the cover of December 2008 Nature Genetics. Her quilts are have strong colors and a seemingly traditional design but they reveal an entirely block of information. Beverly use’s a simple quilt block to represent the four bases in DNA: cytosine, guanine, adenine, and thymine.

WIRED Magazine and DNA 11 Present: Tweet for Dad and win a DNA Portrait

dna11 — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:54:40 +0000

Entry is easy:

You can win the ultimate unique Father’s Day gift

Follow us on twitter (www.twitter.com/dna11).
Tweet about us- say anything you want- just be nice
Just add #dna #art to your tweet to automatically be entered to WIN a $199 DNA Mini Portrait.

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. To enter, Twitter message must link to www.dna11.com. Winner will be selected at random on June 16, 2009. Open to legal residents of the 50 United States/D.C., and Canada, excluding Quebec. Entrants must be 18 or older, except employees of Sponsors their immediate families and those living in the same household. Odds of winning depend on the number of entries (Tweets) received. A.R.V. of prizes $199US. Sponsor: DNA 11 Inc., 70 George St., Ottawa, ON K1N 5V9, CANADA.

Now this is a personalized business card!

dna11 — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:51:06 +0000

When DNA 11 was looking to create a business card we knew it has to be personalized and very custom. After all, we create the world’s most personalized art. So we turned to Moo. A very cool company that lets you make personalized business cards using a bunch of images that you can pull from your Flickr account or just about anywhere. What makes these cards different is that every card can have a unique image on the back of it. So awesome! – and worth every penny. The quality is best I’ve seen- colors so pure you would swear they are using an offset printer to make these. If you’re a designer, an artist, or a photographer these are the cards for you.

I have to say that Moo is a wonderful company. I love their website, their passion, their packaging and the customer service is top notch. Everything we strive to be too.

If you are looking to get business cards done just go to Moo and check them out. They are also giving DNA 11′s friends and clients 15% off any order of 50 or 200 cards. We’re not getting any commissions from this. This is a special offer from DNA 11 and Moo because we like you.

Follow this link to get the MOO discount. Valid until June 2! Use MOO discount code “DNAMOO” for 15% off.

If you want to get the ultimate personalized business card contact us and we can add your DNA or fingerprint to the back of your card.

Check out the cards we made with Moo below.

My fingerprint portrait on the back of my Moo business cards.

DNA Art Portraits on the back of DNA 11 Business cards. How unique!

DNA 11 Pop-up Gallery Wrap Up

dna11 — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:48:04 +0000

After three beautiful months in sunny Los Angeles the time has arrived to “pop down” our temporary pop-up gallery. By all measures it was a huge success. Hundreds of guided tours, piles of media and a great wrap up party co-hosted by our friends of 944 Magazine ensured we went out with a bang! We made lots of fantastic friends in Los Angeles and we’ll be back soon.

Here are some of the pictures from the DNA 11 / 944 Magazine event. Many thanks to GreenSUV for providing the transportation, HOPE Wines for supplying the wine, Poixen (for the delicious pisco sours) Carly Harill from 944 for helping to coordinate everything and of course our PR firm RF-PR.

My day at LACMA

dna11 — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:56:12 +0000

LACMA Lights

LA has some serious art museums my favorite so far being the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Recently I had the opportunity to spend a day touring the museum. Nothing inspires me more than seeing the works of some of the greatest modern artists of the century.

One of the more fun exhibits was the BMW Art Cars. Artists included: Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, etc. I’d love to do a BMW art car one day. I’m a pretty big fan of BMW as a company and I’ve owned several Beemers so far including an M3 that is currently in storage back in Canada -hmmmmmmm ideas anyone?

Check these out:

There are many sections of the Museum where you are not allowed to take pictures but I managed to take this picture of a Marc Rothko – he is absolutely one of my favorite artists. In fact, it was his art that inspired us to see art in DNA images. The MoMA also has an impressive collection of Rothko paintings LACMA only has a couple but I love this one:

Me (Adrian Salamunovic) posing in front of a Mark Rothko painting at LACMA. Me happy.