Exhibition
Sunday saw almost 200 models in the shape of children’s TV favourite Morph arranged in a terracotta army outside Tate Modern to honour the memory of the late TV artist Tony Hart. If you don’t know who Morph is, he appeared alongside Hart from 1977 on several of his UK TV programmes, notably Take Hart and Hartbeat. Tony Hart influenced a generation of artists and designers, including me. Check out the different morph renditions here.
Vikesh Bhatt
Posted on Monday, 2nd of March 2009 Permalink
It’s that time again folks, the Village Fete at the V&A is back! This year we’re giving punters the chance to show their darker side with a replica vintage Criminal Record:
“Impress your friends with the Fibre Correctional Facility Criminal Record. Walk in the footsteps of your celebrity heroes - Steve McQueen, Bill Gates, Hugh Grant, Bob Fossil - and get your very own bespoke Criminal Record complete with mug-shot, finger-prints and all your personal details, without the need to spend a second at Her Majesty’s pleasure.”
More details here. Hope to see you there!
Nathan Usmar Lauder
Posted on Friday, 25th of July 2008 Permalink
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.
There is a map of the route available for download on the Tate website.
Alex Geoffrey
Posted on Monday, 16th of June 2008 Permalink
On my way back to Elephant & Castle train station yesterday I came across the most amazing sculpture of a “Stag”, standing in the centre of a construct site. The “Stag”, by Ben Long, is 35ft tall and made solely from scaffolding poles. This the fourth in a series of scaffolding sculptures, and it will be on be on display until July. Check it out while you can!
John Alexander
Posted on Tuesday, 20th of May 2008 Permalink
Weare is a fascinating collision of clothing and technology with a simple philosophy - everyone should be able to participate in fashion.
Moving Brands launched Weare with a socially networked and user created scarf. The Moving Brands ecosystem of friends, colleagues and clients were invited to submit images to a window gallery at the Moving Brands studio. This sequence of images was then used to create the Weare scarf. The limited edition, collectible scarf is available to buy online from Moving Brands or in selected design-led shops in London throughout December and January 2008.
Aspiring designers and contributors can create images for the next Weare product – to be produced early in 2008 – by visiting weare.movingbrands.com.
These images will be shown at the Weare exhibition (online and Moving Brands window display) from December 2007 to March 2008. As well as creating images, contributors will also be able to vote for what the next Weare product should be.
In the interest of full disclosure I am the lucky owner of scarf 203 of 1000 and I used to work at Moving Brands. Not that that should stop you checking them out.
Gary Butcher
Posted on Friday, 14th of December 2007 Permalink
Get a festive design fix at The Design Grotto, at Somerset House next weekend (same place where you can make a fool of yourself on an ice rink every Christmas). It looks like a fun event with interactive stalls, creative workshops and unique gifts for under £20. Stallholders include Beyond the Valley, Multistorey, If You Could, Johnson Banks and Tatty Devine. Oh, and Michael Johnson will be Father Christmas this year (not really, but wouldn’t he be good?).
David Rainbird
Posted on Saturday, 8th of December 2007 Permalink
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
...design anything to improve the way we live what would it be”. October sees our good friends at If you could curate a new exhibition posing a twist to their trade mark question to 12 top flight illustrators and designers.
The exhibition runs from the 20-28th October at The Fire Station Newcastle NE99 1HR and is a showcase of all the one off illustrations drawn on blueprint style paper. If you cant make it to Newcastle, check out what the creative people came up with here.
Vikesh Bhatt
Posted on Monday, 8th of October 2007 Permalink
Alistair Hall (of We Made This) took this great photo of Tom Dixon’s installation in Trafalgar Square. Last year Dixon gave away chairs, this year he’s giving away 1,000 “Blow” low energy lights. Be there at 5pm today to grab one or stay in the dark.
David Rainbird
Posted on Wednesday, 19th of September 2007 Permalink
Art director extraordinaire, guerrilla marketing go-to-guy and table tennis pro are just a few of the hats worn by Jethro Marshall. A long-standing friend of Fibre, JJMarshall Associates has just launched a comprehensive website that documents some great projects including a giant rugby ball made from thousands of balls for Adidas, an op art street vinyl project for Motorola and a taxidermic fashion shoot for Sky magazine. And as if that wasn’t enough, M. Marshall is also the wizard behind the curtain for fashion label Backhand and the Marshall&Vox line of T-shirts.
David Rainbird
Posted on Friday, 7th of September 2007 Permalink
