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Behind the scenes studio visit with FAILE
Last week Mark posted about FAILE’s upcoming show “lost in glimmering shadows” at Lazarides Gallery in London. Manuel Bello from FECAL FACE DOT COM was reportedly lucky enough to be blindfolded and led to FAILE’s undisclosed studio locations.
The dewds from FAILE have been up to their old tricks again and added a big-ass bag of new ones. I have been pretty fixated on these guys work for some years now and every time I feel like they can’t impress me any more, they do. I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to swing by their undisclosed studio locations and pretty much get the run of the place while they dialed in the last minute details of their London schooling.
More pics following the jump.
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No comments. Posted by tanner in exhibition, picture, streetart on 19 November 2008.
If you’ve ever had the impression you were unique, I’ve got a project to share with you.
Exactitudes kicked off 14 years ago when Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and stylist Ellie Uyttenbroek noticed that their city’s youth were expressing their mass nonconformity by wearing nearly identical outfits. (The name is a mash-up of exact and attitude.) The project grew exponentially from there — you’ll meet tattoo babes, grannies, punks, and preppies — and its excellent website now includes subjects from London and Paris. (They, too, look eerily alike.) The overall effect is cool but disconcerting: Isn’t this how Invasion of the Body Snatchers began? (Via VSL)
Check out the mind-numbing collection at exactitudes.com
No comments. Posted by tanner in exhibition, photography on 13 November 2008.
Faile are returning to their early aesthetic influences growing up in the Southwest by channeling appropriated Pop cultural renderings of American Indian culture into their trademark heavily layered work in a pointed commentary on “the expanse of contemporary commercialism at the expense of society’s connection with nature and spirit.”
Faile
Lost In Glimmering Shadows via Supertouch
2 comments. Posted by md in exhibition, streetart on 13 November 2008.
Postage stamps by type designers
The Offices of Kat Ran Press present a series of postage stamps designed by Neville Brody (pictured above), Wim Crouwel, Adrian Frutiger, Eric Gill, Erik Spiekermann, Hermann Zapf and the like.
Although a field that is often overlooked by bibliophiles and historians of printing and typography, several of the most important contributors to twentieth century book and letter arts have made significant contributions to the design of the seemingly modest postage stamp.
Its not every day I get a chance to say: I would be honored to lick nearly anything on this site.
(Via Zeldman)
No comments. Posted by tanner in exhibition, typography on 12 November 2008.
Fo Sho: Second Annual Fourth Year Poster Show at ASU
Fo Sho, the second annual exhibition of posters collected internationally and domestically by fourth year Visual Communication Design students at ASU, will be taking over the College of Design at Arizona State University this November. Additionally, select pieces will be sold via silent auction, to fundraise for a senior class thesis show occurring at the end of the Spring semester.
NOV17/ NOV28, 8a-5p : Poster Show
NOV17, MON 6-10p : Silent Auction + Opening Reception
College of Design Gallery 850 South Forest Mall / Tempe, Arizona
(Designer list following the jump.)
Visit the website, download the press release. Read more. →
No comments. Posted by tanner in exhibition, poster, silkscreen on 25 October 2008.
The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London is starting a new monthly event called Heavy Pencil. They are starting off with Ian Stevenson and Bob London. They will be drawing and playing some of their favorite tunes.
Heavy Pencil starts next Thursday, October 2nd at the ICA in the heart of central London. If you are there, or plan on visiting London don’t miss out.
No comments. Posted by adria in art, exhibition, presenting on 25 September 2008.
New book/exhibition by Paul Insect: Poison
Last week, Paul Insect opened a new exhibition, entitled poison, at a Turkish bath. This week, he announced a limited edition book to accompany the show. Read more. →
1 comment. Posted by tanner in art, books, exhibition, limited on 17 September 2008.
For anyone around the Phoenix area, who likes to give speeches, and might have something to say, I’d suggest submitting your idea for the upcoming Ignite Phoenix II which is happening on October 29th at the Jobing.com arena.
I wasn’t able to attend the first one, but I watched some of the webcast and it was informative and interesting. I can’t think of anything to present about in the next few weeks, (or the time to prepare it) but I will definitely be trying to make it this time.
Ignite Phoenix’s aim is to get the creative community in Phoenix together and talking about anything and everything. Presenters get 5 minutes and 20 slides to get their point across and pique interest or keep any fruit from flying. Send in your presentation or just show up and have a fun time.
Check it out, submit an idea and lets try to make the Phoenix design scene start to…well…lets just start a Phoenix design scene.
I’ll keep you updated as it approaches.
No comments. Posted by md in exhibition on 16 September 2008.
VIVID Gallery presents Wim Crouwel
VIVID Gallery recently announced a Wim Crouwel exhibition that runs between 11 October + 23 November 2008.
In case you’re in the dark, Wim Crouwel is a designer, artist, professor, museum director and typography extraordinaire who cofounded Total Design, the first multi-disciplinary design studio in the Netherlands. VIVID sums it up well when they explain, his works “are still fresh. [They contain] the original spirit on which a lot of contemporary design is based. Therefore his work is both inspiring and influential for present and future generations.” Read more. →
No comments. Posted by tanner in exhibition, poster, typography on 11 September 2008.
