Kemistry Gallery
Published August 17, 2008 Design , Exhibition , Gallery , Graphic Design , Illustration 0 Comments
I paid a visit to this gallery/design studio in Shoreditch yesterday. The gallery is quite interesting in that it exhibits solely graphic design work, somewhat similar to what Image Now are doing in Dublin. The current exhibition is a retrospective of the galleries last four years and features work from Experimental Jetset, Geoff McFetridge and Parra among others.
Rineke Dijkstra - The Buzz Club/Mysteryworld
Published August 10, 2008 Art , Exhibition , Installation , Photography , Video 0 Comments
I visited the Street & Studio exhibition in the Tate Modern today. It features photographic works from the likes Of Martin Parr, Juergen Teller and Pieter Hugo, all based around the idea of urban portraiture.
By and far the highlight for me though was this two channel video installation by Rineke Dijkstra, which documents a group of teenagers from Liverpool and Zaandam dancing in make shift studios the artist created in each city. All set to a soundtrack of 90’s acid house and rave, it had me completely transfixed.
Some low quality videos of the piece here and here.
Tim Walker at the Design Museum
Published August 9, 2008 Exhibition , Fashion , Photography 0 Comments
I’ve been doing work experience at Imagination in London for the past week so haven’t had time much time to update here. I just visited this exhibition in the Design Museum though and was really impressed.
“London based photographer Tim Walker has established himself at the cutting edge of fashion photography. His images capture a sublime moment in time, evoking a sense of epic drama and beauty. Stunning sets and lavish locations juxtapose the everyday with the absurd and the fabulous, to create captivating, original photographs. Tim’s evocative images are full of textured nuance and intriguing detail. His innovative photography is amongst the most imaginative and exuberant being produced today.”
“Objectified is a feature-length independent documentary about industrial design. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. It’s about our relationship to mass-produced objects and, by extension, the people who design them.”
New documentary from Gary Hustwit, the director of last years brilliant Helvetica film. Its due out early next year and features discussions with many of the worlds leading industrial designers, among them Dieter Rams and Karim Rashid.
“With the release of his new book “Berlin Calling,” Alex Flach presents impressive photographs about life in his native city over the last twelve years.
In response to The Clash’s famous album “London Calling” his work depicts the heart of Berlin’s creative atmosphere and simultaneously functions as a timely marker of the fast pace of change the city has undergone since the fall of the wall.”
Exhibition of work featured in the book runs at Berlin’s Pool Gallery until August 9.
The book is published by Drago.
Dot Dot Dot
Published July 24, 2008 Design , Graphic Design , Magazines , Publication , Typography 0 Comments
“Dot dot dot is a graphic design magazine intended to fill a gap in current arts publishing. We are not interested in re-promoting established material or creating another ‘portfolio’ magazine. Instead, we offer inventive critical journalism on a variety of topics related both directly and indirectly to graphic design. We hope to achieve this by inviting people to both write and design pieces about aspects of visual culture that occupy their thoughts.”
New issue was released today, with essays from Cory Arcangel, Paul Elliman and Ryan Gander, among others.
Psycho Buildings: Artist Take on Architecture
Published July 20, 2008 Architecture , Art , Design , Exhibition 0 Comments
“This exhibition marks The Hayward’s 40th anniversary as one of the world’s most architecturally unique exhibition venues. Taking its title from a book by artist Martin Kippenberger, the exhibition brings together the work of artists who create habitat-like structures and architectural environments that are mental and perceptual spaces as much as physical ones.”
Admission is £10 and the exhibition runs in London’s Hayward until August 25.
Won Hundred from Copenhagen just posted up previews for their two autumn/winter collections. Looks great, definitely one of my favorite labels at the moment. Lookbook was photographed by Sacha Maric, who’s work I featured a few months back.
