Fibre Opportunities

Fibre is looking for a Senior Designer and for help with New Business Development. 

David Rainbird
Posted on Tuesday, 8th of January 2008 Permalink

Quick Draw Santa!

Ho Ho Ho! here’s a Flickr set of jolly Santas – each drawn in one minute without lifting the pen off the paper. The challenge was set by Fibre last weekend at a charity event for Médecins Sans Frontières. At the end of the evening the winner (top-left - uncanny!) loaded his sleigh with a creative Christmas hamper. See also photos of the event.

David Rainbird
Posted on Friday, 23rd of November 2007 Permalink

Quick Sculpt Queen Vic – Winner

Thanks again to everyone who entered Fibre’s “Quick Sculpt Queen Vic” competition at the V&A Village Fete last week. Over 200 people had five minutes to sculpt a likeness of her royal grumpiness. We had a few pro-sculptor hustlers on the day but we can spot them a mile away (usually a slightly shambolic, art teacher look). Our judges have been deliberating all week and have now declared the winner of the creative hamper – Frank Pope. Also commended are Gavin Knight and Andrew Rae.
Above left is Frank’s masterpiece, on the right the original by J.E. Boehm in 1887 (um, or is that the other way around?)

See all the sculptures here and photos from the event here.

Also don’t miss last year’s Quick Draw Queen Vic stall and drawings.

David Rainbird
Posted on Monday, 6th of August 2007 Permalink

We Are Amused Again

Fibre’s sculpture masterclass at the V&A Village Fete this weekend was a great success, with over 200 eager students picking up the plasticine to create a worshipful likeness of her majesty Queen Victoria. Everybody captured a different side of our favourite monarch – shown here: regal Victoria, Skeletor Victoria, googly-eyed Victoria, and of course giraffe-with-it’s-tongue-out Victoria. Judging takes place this week and a Flickr set to follow shortly after. But whoever wins the coveted creative hamper everyone graduated with honours.
Big thanks to Simon and Steve from Not Actual Size for helping out this year!

David Rainbird
Posted on Sunday, 29th of July 2007 Permalink

V&A Village Fete 2007

It’s Village Fete time again at the V&A! Nearly 400 people took Fibre’s challenge last year to draw Queen Victoria in one minute (without lifting the pen off the paper). This year it’s Quick Sculpt Queen Vic:

“The worshipful craftspeople of Fibre Design offer the opportunity for all loyal and devoted subjects to once again fashion a likeness of her royalness Queen Victoria.
Your great and sacred mission is to assemble the instrument of the plasticine in the divine image of the sovereign in the allotted time applying the immutable laws of beauty and symmetry. The artist of the noblest resemblance will be awarded a hamper of the finest craft equipment.”

More details here. Hope to see you there!

David Rainbird
Posted on Wednesday, 25th of July 2007 Permalink

Hairy Prints

Mr Bingo, illustrator and winner of last years Fibre V&A Village Fete, ‘Quick Draw Queen Vic’ competition, has produced a series of limited edition silkscreened prints of hair. There are 4 beautifully detailed prints to chose from, Details on the set and how you can get your hands on them here.

Dave Brown
Posted on Tuesday, 15th of May 2007 Permalink

393 Queen Vic’s

Last summer we asked visitors to the annual V&A Village Fete to draw a picture of Queen Victoria in one minute without lifting their pen from the paper. We called it “Quick on the Draw” and 393 loyal subjects took part. Some of the drawings were reasonable likenesses, some were a little more expressive and some were… ahem. And the best bit? after a few months of scanning they are all now online for the first time here.

David Rainbird
Posted on Thursday, 5th of April 2007 Permalink

Passport Approved

They don’t make photo booths like they used to, and that’s probably a good thing. No more waiting five minutes wondering whether the machine has forgotten that you exist, no more smelly chemicals and no more having to carry a soggy print around trying not get it stuck to everything. The booths have survived numerous technological advances simply because every so often we all need a passport sized photograph, and consequently the experience and the strip of prints have become cultural icons.
Enter Photobooth.net. Founders Brian and Tim are photo booth obsessive, hunting down every last photo booth in art, film, television, print and the world at large. There’s tons of great photo booth material here from Andy Warhol to the Hamlet Cigar commercial to the Elvis Costello video, even a Fibre photo booth. Clearly the most comprehensive photobooth resource on the internet. Smile!

David Rainbird
Posted on Monday, 27th of November 2006 Permalink

Free Good Food Ride

Who has the most stylish Ice-cream vans? Where can you eat the most Rock ’n’ Roll breakfast? What’s the Yorkshireman’s Yorkshire Pudding? All these questions and 98 more are answered in The BMW 1 Series Good Food Ride – 101 Great British Food Adventures. Edited by Richard Benson (best-selling author of The Farm), designed by Fibre and beautifully illustrated by Stephane Kardos – and it’s free. 2,000 copies are available from www.1seriesgfr.co.uk. It’s our pleasure.

(Answers: Fredericks of Chesterfield, Hotel Pellirocco in Brighton and The Gait Inn at Millington.)

David Rainbird
Posted on Thursday, 26th of October 2006 Permalink

And The Winner Is…

Thanks again to everyone who entered Fibre’s “Quick on the Draw” competition at the V&A Village Fete last week. The challenge was to draw a picture of Queen Victoria in one minute without lifting the pen from the paper. Nearly 400 people took part, which gave the judges a right royal headache. Nevertheless they managed to reduce that to a shortlist of 35 from which they picked the winner… Mr Bingo! (Yes, we know he’s a professional illustrator, but all the judges were blindfolded to make the process completely unbiased.)

By the way, the original image of Queen Victoria is shown above on the right and Mr Bingo’s is on the left – uncanny isn’t it?

Here’s the shortlist of 35 (plus any of the other 359 entries that we’ve scanned to date) and more work from our winner Mr Bingo.

David Rainbird
Posted on Monday, 7th of August 2006 Permalink