The Girls are re-emerging British artists Andrea Blood (1975, UK) and Zoe Sinclair (1976, UK), whose collaboration began in 1996 at Central Saint Martins. The duo are now working together on a project set for the new year, which will feature much of that mystery, nostalgia, make-believe and dream like character the rest of their work accomplishes so well. We’ll post more on this soon!
Featured project: The Embodied Soul Passes Through Girlhood to Death
Nicola Woowat just graduated from Sheffield Hallam University with BA(Hons) Graphic Design. We bumped into her at New Blood where she handed over one of her floppy business cards made from latex and acryclic-based inks. Using the same experimental method, Nicola produced a poster series. We got in touch to ask more about the process.
“For the poster I etched my design into a large single sheet of acrylic using the laser cutter, this had to be the same dimensions as the poster as I had to do it all in one go. I etched the design in reverse for it to come out the right way round from the mould. I mixed my latex, which is a liquid, with my colour, I used acrylic ink, and then poured it over the sheet of acrylic- I needed a lot of it! I had to pour it right up to the edge of the acrylic sheet to cover the area, so it needed to be in a DIY card box to stop it flowing everywhere (which had happened in previous attempts!) Then I just needed to wait for it to set, peel it
off the acrylic carefully and cover it in talcum powder front and back to stop it sticking together.” Click here to see more of Nicola’s work.
Great work from Eskimo Square.
Final Gathering, HDRI, Global Illumination… Yes, 3D rendering if you hadn’t guessed. Go grab a Frappuccino and a Maya manual and get stuck into some 3D.
The Twisted Originals is an art project celebrating 10 years of Levi’s Engineered Jeans. The three characters ‘Fingers’, ‘Bernie’ and ‘Hopper’ were created by artist Wilfrid Wood, providing the basis for a series of commissioned street art pieces. The project was created by the London design boutique Neighbour.
Read more about the project here:
www.thetwistedoriginals.com
and here:
Levi’s Engineered Jeans
Matt Keers has freelanced and interned at various London design studios since graduating in 2008, including BB/Saunders and SEA. A nice update here from some earlier work of Keers, showing a broad spectrum of talent across branding and music packaging.
Hugo & Marie, a creative direction and artist management agency, have flown in from New York this week to present a showcase of their finest work to various London design studios.
Sensitive hues from fashion photographer Laurence Ellis.
Root Ginger: A Study of Red Hair by Jenny Wicks, will be exhibited at Idea Generation Gallery, 11 Chance Street, London E2, 17 February - 1 March 2009.
The photographer behind these works is Jenny Wicks. Visit her site here.
SoYo’s DR, otherwise known to human beings as ‘South Yorkshire’s Designers Republic’, saw many designers pass through its Sheffield doors and setup their own studios: Build, Universal Everything, Human, Sanderson Bob, and Yolo to name a few. And now the most recent GOLDEN. Although there is little to display, the holding page promises much, much more.
OK so recently we held a couple of events. If you were at one of them, go tag yourself on our facebook page. Or just go and stalk if you weren’t. (If this is you, hi Noel)
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I’m confident that being young, fresh, beautiful people, you will have all heard of Spotify. We’ve started a collaborative playlist for you all to add to with tunes you love. Click here to add the playlist to your Spotify then add one song that you love. Try and make it something we might not have heard before. Tune.
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