The Whole Universe in a Glass of Wine…
It’s going to be a good’un. Private view Friday 4th June from 6.30pm. Great way to start the weekend…
Kid Acne – Helmet Gallery – Munich
Kid Acne has got a solo show at the Helmet Gallery in Munich until June 5th. Kid Acne has produced a series of slogan prints for the show, using his distinct typography style and well chosen colour ways, including one of my favorite combos’ – red, purple and black. He also released an exclusive series of German and Bavarian slogan prints for the show. Kid Acne creates these amazing contemporary female characters, aspects of the imagery evoke visual references of mythological creatures and fetishism. He has attached a collection of them onto weathered looking spray cans for the show. I want one.
Check this video of the show, edited by Joe Cox.
All images taken from Kid Acne’s website .
snaps in my pocket…
The fuji instax looks like a joke camera; clunky, plastic and not even slightly stylish. The photographs produced, however, are true to fuji form – vivid, bright and full of detail.
The immediate gratification that an instant photograph gives never gets old …
Well hell’O there monsters…
The Hell’O Monsters are an art collective from Brussels consisting of four artists – Jerome Meynen, Antoine Detaille, Francois Dieltiens and Gregory Van Cleemput. I came across their work in a Toykyo Studio produced book called ‘The Carnival of the Charlatans‘. It’s 138 pages are filled with intriguing, beautifully executed drawings juxtaposed with text courtesy of Sebastien Vanden Berghe. I always admire artists who create characters in fantasy worlds with a consistent stylised quality. As well as working on paper, they let their self-created world explore city walls, exhibition spaces and transform into sculpture. Check some of their work here.
Here’s a selection of my favorite drawings by these very talented monsters…
‘Disk-It’ Notes
Obviously, the floppy disk is a data medium that could never function in 2010, but I love Burak Kaynak’s take on this obselete format. It’s a simple idea that gives a long lost format, another life.
Clerkenwell Design Week 2010
I was recently commissioned to create this illustration for Clerkenwell Design Week 2010, you will see my work appearing on the flyer, website and in the programme on the day. Here’s a little background on the 3 day festival…
Clerkenwell Design Week, a three-day festival celebrating creative design in the capital sets up base camp in Clerkenwell. From 25-27 May, Clerkenwell, the self-styled heart of design in London, will play host to a programme of seminars, workshops, debates and innovative performance. A pop-up exhibition featuring installations from international interior design and architecture suppliers will also take place at the Farmiloe Building on St John Street.
Clerkenwell boasts more than 60 design showrooms and a plethora of design and architectural practices, many of which will be providing content for the festival. The Design Week aims to emphasise the social impact and power for change that design enables, and will tackle big issues from a left-field thinking, design viewpoint, with a whole host of yet-to-be-revealed off-the-wall performance pieces.
In addition to a range of exclusive UK product launches from top design names scheduled to take place over the course of the three days, all those festival favourites – music, food, exhibitions and street entertainment – will be present and correct.
Clerkenwell Design Week 2010 runs from 25-27.05.10
