Following the success of TAXI: The Global Creative Network, a social and content community focused around the professional creative sectors, such as photography, illustration, and design, the team behind the network has launched The Creative Finder, a directory service that is targeted towards businesses owners, advertising agencies, and recruiters.

The Creative Finder, which operates as an independent network of its own, will also connect with TAXI's network to deliver a greater pool of results of photographers, illustrators, designers, stylists, animators, and artist reps across North America, Europe, and Asia.

Marketing of the Creative Finder will launch in Ad:Tech Beijing on November 17 at the Beijing International Convention Centre, a major business conference targeted towards interactive agencies, digital and marketing firms from around the world, in the capital city of one of the most-powerful economies of today, China.

"For many years, TAXI has successfully catered to a massive pool of creative professionals around the world, and has grown to be a very significant database of creative professionals. Particularly with the ongoing changes of the economic climate, many of our members are looking to find more commercial opportunities, and The Creative Finder expects to serve this purpose, by creating a straightforward and easy-to-use platform for businesses to find creatives."

To access The Creative Finder, please kindly visit http://www.thecreativefinder.com

20 November 2009 - 28 February 2010

This fall, Miami Art Museum (MAM) will present Carlos Bunga: Metamorphosis, the Portuguese artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States. Bunga, whose large-scale structures explore the continuous mutation of architecture and urban space, will create two site-specific installations at MAM.  

“Carlos Bunga: Metamorphosis” will feature two handmade, large-scale structures made out of cardboard and packing tape. Bunga (born Portugal, 1976) utilizes these materials to suggest impermanence, crisis, and decay. His constructions, which sometimes recall makeshift shelters, arise from a dialogue with the existing architecture of the sites where they are built. 

The structures employ the motif of the metabolic processes that sustain living organisms as a metaphor for the continuous, organic mutation of urban environments. After carefully building his structures over a period of weeks, the artist submits them to a radical transformation. In a final, cathartic, and performative act, he tears and slices the walls of his constructions, making them implode and revealing additional layers that lie buried within their interiors waiting to be discovered, like hidden traces of memory. 

“With a particular interest in the connection between the pictorial and the architectural, Carlos Bunga investigates urban space and the transitory nature of architectural structures,” said Rina Carvajal, adjunct curator at Miami Art Museum and curator of the exhibition.

“Behind his psychologically and politically charged environments lie urgent and timely issues related to demographics, immigration, socio-economic disparity and the fragility of contemporary city life.”