Somerset House presents Pick Me Up, the first contemporary graphic art fair in the UK. The fair will bring together the most exciting graphic artists working today, giving you the opportunity to buy limited edition, affordable graphic art, illustration and design from the likes of HelloVon and Alex Trochut. There’s also going to be a tasty programme of events and activities including an open studio from legendary paper artist Rob Ryan, a pop-up print workshop from Print Club London and film screenings from It’s Nice That.
So get yourself down there between Friday 23 April and Monday 3 May.
I just came across this video for a Lexus concept car. I’m not really a car nut, and don’t even like this car. Although I do like a lot of classic and top end models, particularly the ones I’ve no chance of ever owning. But it’s the design process that really fascinates me, it’s the same for anything, cars, buildings, gadgets etc. Seeing how it begins with the early ideas/sketches/modeling, it always gets me excited. Especially when they are brought to life with some great motion graphics.
Cracking mixed media portraits using old floppys from Nick Gentry. His official blurb is that his focus has been to explore how technological advancement is affecting society. Each floppy disk used in the paintings has a history and story of its own. It represents the increasing pace of the modern life cycle, where objects are created, used and disposed of quicker than ever. To challenge this notion, as these personal artefacts of life are cast aside, the obsolete are now given new life and a renewed purpose by using them as a medium for art.
If you weren’t lucky enough to see the Design Museum exhibition of the late great Alan Fletcher a couple of years ago, you are in luck. The Cube gallery in Manchester is holding a ‘major retrospective’ of 50 years of his work. The show was opened last week by a fashionably late Peter Saville, who worked with him briefly at Pentagram, and there’s a curatorial talk by Emily King at the University of Salford on March 5th.
If you’re a student get yourself (and your class) there, especially to the talk. If you aren’t, the exhibition is open on a Saturday, so get a weekend trip to Manchester planned in.
Alan Fletcher: Fifty Years of Graphic Work and Play
22 January—03 April 2010
Cube Gallery, Portland Street, Manchester, M1 6DW
£2.50 for 64 pages, an Eboy cover and fold-out poster, articles by creative types including Adrian Shaughnessy, Sanky, D&AD, Glug, Eboy etc. Want it? Buy it here.
The Revolution has begun. Rebel Radio - Originally a call-to-arms for Che Guevara’s Cuban Militia, now a beautiful A2 Poster available to you! Get it here and read the full post here.
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)
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.
