Brian Griffiths’ installation Life Is A Laugh, at Gloucester Road tube station
Gloucester Road Underground station in London has been colonised once again - this time by artist Brian Griffiths who has filled the disused platform with Life Is A Laugh, an epic installation which is part assault course, part giant panda head.
The short film evening Short & Sweet, which has been held weekly in Brick Lane for over a year, has arrived in the West End of London.
The event, which showcases the best in shorts, music video and animation, will continue its weekly Monday evening screening at Cafe 1001 on Brick Lane, but is now also held at the AKA Bar near Holborn every Tuesday evening.
Late last year, UK artist James Ford finally completed a project that he’d been working on for two years. Back in 2004 he bought a rather fine tan coloured Capri, for £99, with the sole intention of completely covering it in red and orange toy cars. The result is his homage to the famous “General Lee” car from the Dukes of Hazzard: The General Carbuncle.
Mother ad agency continues its advance into Redchurch Street in Shoreditch, with this sponsorship of Lucky’s Newsagents, situated opposite its offices. The shop has a beautiful retro style, yet glancing through the door, it looks like the effect may end there rather than continue inside, sadly. All front, nothing behind - is that a metaphor for the ad industry at large? Discuss
This evening, photographer Helga Steppan will be giving a talk about the work that forms her “Be long a part” exhibition, currently on show at Man&Eve gallery in London (7.30pm). As well as installation and moving image work, Steppan is also exhibiting these fanstastic images of her personal belongings that she grouped by colour.
We give it 6 months before someone rips this off for another brand (thanks to MCP for the link)
A trailer for Marc Craste's beautiful new film Varmints has been released online
Christoph Niemann has a new blog, Abstract City, on the New York Times' site. His first post is a rather sweet illustrated tale of his sons' infatuation with the NY Subway
What the @&$?!! is a grawlix? Hoefler and Frere-Jones explain all (link: DO)
Non-Format reveal a nice new site, updated with lots of new work. Check out the FAQ section for everything you need to know about Jon and Kjell and their working process
South Carolina not "so gay", apparently...
Shepard Fairey auctions the original artwork for his Obama poster for charidee. Current bid: $60,000
The Museum of Notebooks. There's some lovely stuff here... (link: Coudal)
Noel Gallagher opens his rather large mouth once again... this time proclaiming that the new Oasis album cover art has been created by "the most expensive graphic designer in London". That's Julian House, according to Gallagher
"Ad agencies borrow from artists who borrow from advertising. Isn’t it great when things just work?" The NYT looks at the creative industry's most notorious cycle of influence...
Another chance to see Iain Follett's beautiful collection of stamps that made up our January 08 edition of Monograph (free to subscribers of CR)
A vast archive of vintage Russian advertising posters
Don't Panic has launched a competition to design a character for new PS3 game LittleBigPlanet. Deadline: August 4
Smoke & Mirrors post-production is sponsoring Blitzkrieg Bop, an exhibition at Man & Eve gallery in London, featuring work by Peter Saville, Ian Davenport and more
Designer and art director Matt Willey recently published an animation on YouTube which documents every single decision made in laying out a magazine feature
Comic Sans, applied well? Armin Vit thinks he's spotted the one good application of the typeface graphic designers love to hate (link: DO)
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