Exhibition
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 Friday, 7th 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 Thursday, 6th of September 2007 Permalink
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
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
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
… 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
