Moving Walls

Perhaps the most amazing, creative and ambitious stop frame animation I’ve ever seen by artist Blu from Bologna
Soon to be appearing on walls of Tate modern.

Dave Brown
Posted on Thursday, 15th of May 2008 Permalink

Moneygami

When I was younger and had more time on my hands, I worked out how to fold a £5 note diagonally to make the Queen look like John Mcenroe, I was very proud of myself (although it appears I wasn’t alone). As great as that was, I’ve got nothing on these guys! link (via Fun Fever)

Dave Brown
Posted on Monday, 14th of January 2008 Permalink

A good T-shirt day

I work with some fairly style-savvy folk. Today was a particularly good day for T-shirts in the studio. Link.

Gary Butcher
Posted on Friday, 16th of November 2007 Permalink

Can you crack it?

Yesterday I popped down to see Doris Salcedo‘s cracking new installation in the Tate Modern‘s Turbine Hall.  Salcedo has created a massive 548ft gash in the Tate’s flooring, her latest piece “Shibboleth” addresses a ”long legacy of racism and colonialism that underlies the modern world”. 

Just like a lot of the visitors to the installation, I was left wondering how they done it. Did she dig into the actual foundations of the Tate? or did she create the crack in sections elsewhere, then section it up in the turbine hall it.  I thought i’d suss it out on visiting still in two minds, can anyone help? 

John Alexander
Posted on Friday, 12th of October 2007 Permalink

Guerilla Activity

It was 40 years ago this week that Ernesto Che Guevara was executed by the CIA and the Bolivian Army. As a tribute to the man and a protest against his assassination, Jim Fitzpatrick, a young graphic artist from Ireland, produced the ubiquitous high-contrast drawing (above) from a photograph by Alberto Korda. With the intellectual copy rights being waived by both men the image became, in essence, the first piece of viral imagery with the intention of getting “the broadest possible circulation”. And subsequently became an icon of revolutionaries, freedom fighters and Marxist students worldwide.

Oh, and of course Madonna.

Nathan Usmar Lauder
Posted on Thursday, 11th of October 2007 Permalink

Robots and Storms

It would be an understatement to say that last week weather in the U.K wasn’t to good and it seems like the same story on Mars.

With the combination of crosshairs and lightening, some may mistake this image for a screen grab from a sci-fii film such as Aliens or Total Recall. However this is an artists impression of a huge dust storm on the surface Mars that Nasa’s two six-wheeled, solar-powered robots – ‘Opportunity’ and ‘Spirit’ may of saw this weekend. The robots are operating at two distant sites just south of the Martian equator. If you want to read more into the dust storm heres the science.

Vikesh Bhatt
Posted on Monday, 23rd of July 2007 Permalink

Oil Slick

Japanese artist Sachiko Kodama blends art with science to great effect. Morpho Towers is a beautifully hypnotic installation that consists of two ferrofluid sculptures moving synthetically to music. See more of her work here

Dave Brown
Posted on Saturday, 21st of July 2007 Permalink

Blowing in the wind

Dutch artist Theo Jansen makes kenetic skeleton scultures which walk in the wind. They are incredible, at first I didn’t believe they were real, they move so beautifully they almost appear to be CGI. Eventualy he wants to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives. Genius! How long until we see his creations in a car or telecomunications ad? Visit his site and check out the gallery, or view a movie via glumbert.com.

Dave Brown
Posted on Thursday, 19th of July 2007 Permalink

If you could do anything tomorrow…

… I would go to the ‘If you could’ book launch exhibition at Exposure, boasting a pretty cool line up of designers, illustrators and trendy so and so’s.  The issue 2 book contains most of the pieces on show and takes the form of a 160pp full colour, perfect bound book, hand-stamped and numbered in a very limited edition of 1,000, buy your book here. Pics of last weeks launch will be found here and the exhibition will be found on , exposure’ on Little Portland st., London, W1. The exhibition runs until 27th July so there’s no excuse not to go.

Vikesh Bhatt
Posted on Wednesday, 11th of July 2007 Permalink

Alchemical Collage

Andy Ducett combines some mundane found photographs with some equally mundane found graphics to create some pretty sublime collages. (via Drawn!)

David Rainbird
Posted on Wednesday, 4th of July 2007 Permalink