In conjunction with the Street Art exhibition at the Tate Modern, various works
have appeared in the area surrounding the Fibre studio.
Artists from Spain, Italy, France and Brazil were all showing works at the gallery
and in the nearby streets. Some placed legally, some appear to have been done
without permission. Either way, the message would seem to be the same:
Street art’s ok so long as the perpetrator’s not from Britain.
In a decision I support, the gallery purposefully excluded Banksy in an attempt
to draw attention to other just as accomplished artists and aspects of the art
form. Just a shame I think not to celebrate some more of our own emerging
and already established talent.
Santa’s sleigh must have hit a highway sign on the way to my house this year – I’m now the proud owner of two vintage highway letters. The holes are for reflectors and the X is missing a few but I like it better for that. The typeface Highway Gothic is being phased out by the Federal Highway Administration and replaced with the more legible Clearview. Replacing all the signs across the States will take ten years so hopefully there will be more vintage letters becoming available.
David Rainbird
Posted on Friday, 11th of January 2008 Permalink
Anyone in business knows this rubric. The problem that designers have is that we always want to produce good work while clients always want it cheap and fast – perhaps this is why designers are so poor. Occasionally we succeed at making everybody happy but when clients expect all three every time – well, then we don’t expect to be working with that client for very long. (Image found via Eyebeam)
David Rainbird
Posted on Friday, 12th of October 2007 Permalink
Ever since coming to the States I’ve been amused by the 110V electrical sockets that look, if you’ll forgive the pun, shocked.
It’s the sight of faces in everyday objects that is the founding principal of Faces in Places, an ever expanding, user contributed library of images of faces in, er… places.
Someguy is some guy working across the studio from me who has turned an fascination for bathroom wall graffiti into one of the most engaging collaborative art projects I’ve seen. Back in August 2000 he distributed 1000 blank journals around San Francisco, leaving them in bars, on the bus and handing them to friends and strangers. Inside were instructions to contribute something to the pages of the journal and pass it on. The journals made their away around the world, like some sort of global ‘exquisite corpse’ they became a product of the groups collective consciousness. What has happened to the journals is as compelling as the content found therein. They’ve been stolen at gunpoint (#949), taken to remote mountaintops (#323) and in journal #587 someone wrote a heartfelt apology and sent the journal to the friend they had wronged. The apology was not accepted.
The journals are catalogued online at 1000journals.com and in a book. If you’re not fortunate enough to find one or be passed one then that kind Someguy has created 1001 journals just for you.
Gary Butcher
Posted on Tuesday, 8th of May 2007 Permalink
Dougal Wilson has directed the new campaign for the Big Yellow Storage Company, the ad features beautiful stop motion animated waves of possessions.The possessions, which include a piano, various toys, a teddy bear, old vinyl records and a radio move perfectly in the ebb and flow of a wave across an empty room.
Vikesh Bhatt
Posted on Wednesday, 2nd of May 2007 Permalink
When I was first sent a link to www.Flexiblelove.com I was perhaps understandably a little dubious. But with a small amount of trepidation I was excited by the discovery of the ‘FlexibleLove 16’.
Featured at Taiwan’s ‘2006 Young Designer’s Exhibition’, this experimental piece of diversiform furniture the is truly accommodating. Designed by Chishen Chiu, it uses an accordion style design and can expand from 22cm to a whopping 720cm seating up to 16 people and supporting a hefty 1920kgs. It is also environmentally accommodating – constructed entirely from recycled paper and wood, and produced with minimum ecological impact. See it in action here.
Kirsten Gracie
Posted on Tuesday, 27th of February 2007 Permalink
Joana Meroz is a dutch based product designer, I recently acquired one of her metal-laced drain plugs, its a beautifully simple idea and so nice it seems a shame to put it down your plug hole! Another of Joana’s superb ideas is to collect discarded, chipped and cracked crockery and celebrate and draw attention to their imperfections by glazing and decorating the breaks. See more of her work at her website the ornamented life, or if you’re in Amsterdam, pop along to 16 Prinsenstraat in the 9 Streets to the superb kitchen and furniture store OP16 where some of Joana’s work is available.
Dave Brown
Posted on Tuesday, 3rd of October 2006 Permalink
Found by a friend at a market, this superb 1974 World Cup brochure proves that World Cup design, typography, photography, kits & especially haircuts aint what they used to be! Franz beckenbauer lifted the Cup in Germany back in 1974, lets hope a different Becks lifts it this time round! Flickr set
Dave Brown
Posted on Friday, 30th of June 2006 Permalink
