Browse: Art
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Outcrowd Collective Presents: The Joyful Bewilderment
The Outcrowd Collective are putting on “The Joyful Bewilderment“, an exhibition featuring over fifty international artists, or “image makers” as they describe them, at Rough Trade East in London this October. The first few days feature live music from the awesome Einstellung and the whole thing runs from 2nd to 27th of October. If I lived in [...]
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Design Agency Crush Makeover The Bible
This is a stunning book-sleeve for The Holy Bible commissioned from the Crush agency.
It unquestionably brings the Holy Book comfortably into the contemporary book shop realm, but say what you like, the patter still sounds ancient!
Design agency Crush were set a tough challenge…
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About Missing the Forest for the Trees
Glasgow heads get on down to the +44 141 gallery at the swg3 warehouse space this weekend for the exhibition of new work by Maria Karantzi, Jamie Kenyon & Dan Scott, titled About Missing the Forest for the Trees, combining installation, sculpture and illustration.
Link to swg3
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Beautiful Losers + Bombit the movie
Beautiful Losers
Beautiful Losers is the Aaron Rose directed ode to DIY creativity, centered around the goings-ons at a small New York storefront gallery founded the 1990s, and the subcultures of skateboarding, surf, punk, hip hop & graffiti. The film is being screened around the US at the moment with no UK dates planned for now- [...]
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Print Liberation: The Screen Printing Primer
Print Liberation are a design troupe from Philadelphia who just released the paperback- Print Liberation: The Screen Printing Primer- on North Light Books. The book offers a do-it-yourself guide to the fundaments of screenprinting, which also journeys briefly into the history of craft, and comes adorned with lashes of graphic design and visual examples. In [...]
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Cancersell, Charity Art Event
Artist ©opy®ight decorates the walls in advance of Cancersell. Photos: © HowAboutNo
Cancersell is a one-off event taking place in London this week, where pieces donated by progessive young artists will be sold to raise money for the Florence Nightingale Hospice and Cancer Research UK. There’s a lot scheduled for the night including a 20 lot [...]
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Motivational Art
I like this page from Mandrew Fitzgerald’s book entitled ‘STOP LOOKING AT ME OR I’LL HIT YOU’.
It kinda reminds me of Philip Vigil who I interviewed back in February.
Link at Daddisonish.
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Yours, Sighned “Its OK”
Cutting 1,000,000 “ITS OK” in wooden blocks has become a lifetime’s preoccupation for artist maverick Sighn (real name unknown to the masses) and he has already filled galleries and weirded-out friends with his ambitious project. I spoke to him right before he embarked on a 24 hour “cut-a-thon” in the name of DIY resolve and [...]
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Writer Daze Gets Free
Glaswegian draughtsman and now ex-graffiti writer Gary Shields (better known as the guy who spray-painted “Daze” on trains and got jailed for it) had his jail sentence quashed today!
Shields’ 28-month sentence- for causing “£270,000″ worth of damage through his painting-spree- sparked debate here and abroad for being “over harsh”, and subsequent press attention no doubt [...]
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Art: Ashley Brossart
Ashley Brossart is a 21 year old artist from Lousiville in Kentucky.
Through applying paint onto canvas I create an abundance of information through color, texture and form; reflecting the information overload experienced while standing in the middle of a crowd of people or being engulfed in good conversation. I then sift through and select areas [...]
