Visitors to London’s Truman Brewery will have spotted the presence of a beautifully drawn flock of birds on one wall, the work of illustrator Von. Later this month the birds will migrate to New York to reappear on the wall of another gallery…
John Pasche’s original artwork for the Rolling Stones’ logo, acquired by the V&A for $92,500
In 1970, while still a student at the RCA, John Pasche designed a logo for the Rolling Stones that has become one of the most recognised pieces of graphic design in the world. He was paid £50. Today, the V&A Museum announced that it had bought the original artwork for $92,500. We talked to Pasche about the logo and working with the Stones…
While it’s common knowledge amongst Mighty Boosh fans that the surreal TV show’s spaced out Shaman, Naboo, is played by Noel Fielding’s brother, Michael, it’s less well known that the man inside Boosh character Bollo’s gorilla suit is actually a graphic designer and photographer. Bollo’s design skills (his real name is Dave Brown) are showcased in the the forthcoming Mighty Book Of Boosh, published by Canongate on 18 September. Brown, has art directed and designed the book and contributed the bulk of the photography therein. Here we reveal a selection of spreads and images from the book…
Fear #09: “A fearless adventurer is on his way to climb up his last mountain. After that he will only stay home, reading newspapers, drinking tea and picking his nose. This is the daydreaming in his head right now. He is used to it. Actually this really will be his last mountain. An avalanche is coming.”
Bulgarian artist Nedko Solakov’s latest work is a collection of 99 drawings. Using pen and ink, Solakov describes a range of personal worries and a few of the more general anxieties that characterise modern existence. So it’s cheery stuff then? Well, actually, it’s all very funny – in the wry, existential way of David Shrigley – pairing bleak imagery with a few scrawled sentences in order to bring each piece together…
David Shrigley has been hard at work for Tate again, this time coming up with this appealing selection of goodies that comes with the purchase of a gift membership. Shrigley, who previously designed a limited edition travel wallet for the Tate, has put together a bag, a selection of stationary and a membership card all drawn in his signature style. And with the London Tates showing blockbuster shows of both Mark Rothko and Francis Bacon this autumn, it might be just the time to join.
Frank Gehry’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion during construction, ©2008 Gehry Partners LLP
This year’s Serpentine Pavilion has been designed by architecture master Frank Gehry, and marks the first built structure by him in England.
The first ever UK retrospective of the work of Vilhelm Hammershøi is showing at the Royal Academy of Arts in London until 7 September writes Katya Kan and features over seventy paintings by the Danish artist. Hammershøi’s works are famed for conveying an atmosphere of equanimity and mystery: therapeutic by nature, his paintings almost lull the viewer into an absent-minded daze…
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We came across this image today, taken recently at London’s King’s Cross station. While it’s nice to think that London Underground sanction this kind of freedom of expression in their employees, we believe it might be the work of artist Jeremy Deller. The artist had apparently been set to collaborate with LU staff on a series of pieces as part of the wider Art on the Underground programme, as Tamsin Dillon, head of the project explains in the current issue of CR: “Jeremy has come up with a booklet of quotes by the famous and not-so-famous and staff will be invited to use those in their communications with customers.” So, if this is Deller’s work, then there may be more underground philosophising to come. Keep ‘em peeled.
Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, Composition, c. 1921. Courtesy UEA Collection of Abstract and Constructivist Art, Architecture and Design
No movement in art has found more favour with designers than the short-lived creative revolution that became known as Constructivism, writes Hugh Aldersey-Williams. Why should a design movement so strongly identified with a nation and a moment in history so remote from, and apparently irrelevant to, most of our lives speak so clearly to us? Is it just a question of nicking the style and ditching the politics?
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Rushes Soho Shorts Festival 2009 is free to enter and open for submissions across six categories: Short Film, Animation, Documentary, Music Video, Newcomer and Broadcast Design
Designing through the recession: Michael Bierut has some advice for 2009
There’s probably no God… The atheist bus campaign is to appear on 800 buses across the UK
Objectified, the new documentary film from Gary Hustwit, looks interesting. Marc Newson, Jonathan Ive and Karim Rashid all feature
The Vignelli Canon, a “little book” – available as a 50 page PDF – “for a better understanding of typography in Graphic Design”
The Wellcome Collection’s excellent exhibition War and Medicine has a website, Remembering War, which encourages people to post up their own memories of war
So what is the art of the Bush era? Well, Kevin Drum reckons its Damien Hirst and Jack Bauer in 24… (link: Andrew Sullivan)
Bizarre marketing image of the week: MillerCoors’ entire 1,200 person sales and marketing team come together to form the brewer’s new Pentagram-designed logo.
Playboy Mexico says its latest cover is nothing to do with the Virgin Mary, honest
Mojo is the name of a new software that allows you to share the content of your iTunes with friends…
Burger King launches meaty perfume
Santa’s Beard competition. Download the beard. Cut it out. Take a pic of yourself wearing it and send it to the guys at Un.titled. You could win a prize!
Something’s very wrong with the cover of January’s Tatler (and not just the subject matter). Clue: count the legs…
Eric Baker’s “images of the day” is always an intriguing post over at Design Observer
Framestore CFC’s new Christmas game is based on their forthcoming feature animation, Desperaux. Addictive (be warned!) platform fare starring a little mouse with big ears…