Tax disc holder by Sir Peter Blake. Yep – that’s right – a tax-disc holder
They’re a little bit tacky and verging on the ridiculous, but these tax disc holders add a sprinkling of creative spice to the dreary necessity – and otherwise creative blackhole – that is car tax. And among a new range from Pretty Taxing are some new designs by artists Sir Peter Blake, Mat Collishaw and Ian Munroe.
Hospital (Ground Zero), 2008, all images courtesy Hauser & Wirth Zurich/London and Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, © Isa Genzken
Currently showing at Hauser & Wirth gallery in London is a series of sculptures by German artist Isa Genzken that are also architectural proposals for Ground Zero in New York. Leave any expectations that this notion may give you at the door, however, for Genzken’s sculptures are far removed from formal architectural models and instead are wild, glitzy forms incorporating materials ranging from everyday household items to flowers.
Drawings And Other Objects opens at London’s Kemistry Gallery later this week and is designer and illustrator James Joyce’s first solo gallery exhibition…
In design terms, what do we think of first when we think of Factory Records? Perhaps it’s the impact of Michael Winterbottom’s 2002 film, 24 Hour Party People and, more recently, that of Anton Corbijn’s Control, that steers our thoughts towards Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures, or that famously costly New Order sleeve for Blue Monday. Or the yellow and black striped columns in the Haçienda… But wait, there is another chapter to the Factory design story, one that often gets overlooked…
Nike 1/1 film, by AKQA. Creatives: Davor Krvavac, Greg Mullen, Nick Bailey
Art and football become unlikely bedfellows in a new competition launched by Nike, which offers the chance for artists to exhibit during the Basel Art Fair and design a limited edition series of Nike Dunks.
Land Design Studio has worked with Studio Simple to create Station Masters – a new interactive digital art gallery experience in the Eurostar departure lounge at St Pancras International in London…
Inside North Korea as photographed by a Russian news service. (Link: Coudal)
So the sun's been shining this week in Blighty... but the guys at Hunter (purveyors of posh wellies) are no fools. They've just launched a spanky new website (by Edinburgh-based design firm, Lewis) in time for the British Summer
Adrian Shaughnessy's Graphic Design on the Radio series starts again tomorrow (9th May) with Spin's Tony Brook, followed by John Walters and Simon Esterson of Eye, Simon Waterfall, KarlssonWilker and Mike Dempsey. Tune in at Resonance FM
Iron Man is the latest feature film to get a 'remixed' trailer (to be distributed virally) courtesy of VJ boffins Addictive TV
Production company Up The Resolution has a spanky new website
The finalists for the UK's Angel of the South are announced: is it us or are they all a bit uninspiring?
Designer and illustrator Stephen Kelleher has just produced a smashing limited edition poster that's available from his website's shop
A new development on the flash mob: freeze mobbing
The Adam and Ron Show is the title of the exhibition of Ron English and Adam Neate's work that opens today at London's Elms Lesters Painting Rooms
D&AD Pencils on sale in market store! Not really... it's a promotion for the awards dinner
An artwork has died in the Design & The Elastic Mind exhibition at MoMA New York
NODE and Kate Moross are the two latest artists to create limited edition, two colour (red and black) prints for If You Could's 2008 print series project
Vignelli's NYC subway map: updated and available as a limited ed. print of 500, from Men's Vogue (link: QBN)
BRAG – a Brighton-based collective of gig poster artists are having an exhibition of their work every weekend in May
Frieze has a terrific interview with Rob Janoff, designer of the original Apple logo
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