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Gavin 28/06/07, 13:43

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If you could do anything tomorrow what would it be? That is the question to which a host of established and emerging creative talent has responded – for an exhibition that launches in exposure Gallery (22-23 Little Portland Street, London W1) on Thursday 5 July. See www.ifyoucould.co.uk for full details.

The launch of the exhibition has been tied in with regular monthly musical shindig Get Involved (which will provide music at the exhibition launch and also host the post-launch party across the road from exposure in The Social) in the form of a poster, designed by studio Build that asks “If you could… draw/write your message below, what would you do? Get involved!” – the idea being that creative types can literally get involved with the poster.

If you’d like the ‘blank’ file to get involved with, pls email gavin.lucas@centaur.co.uk and ask for the PDF. We’d love to see the results of your work so email back your posters when you’ve worked your magic. Together with Build, we will pick our favourite submissions which will appear here on the CR blog and also in printed form in The Social next Thursday (5th July) at Get Involved.

Shown above are the first four returned posters - by Jeremyville, Jon Burgerman and Mr Bingo. Don’t be shy: GET INVOLVED!

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But, what is the point of this exactly? Isn’t it just a waste of paper?
or am I missing the meaningful part… seems like a hyped up flyer to me. For the trendy London “creative” club…

Posted by lee.colwill on 28/06/07, 7:16 pm

Oh Lee… This is a blog. There is no paper. It’s a digital file that’s being passed around. Yes it’s a flyer, there’s no attempt to disguise that - but it’s also an exercise in experimental collaboration - and it’s certainly not limited to some perceived ‘trendy London club’. Illustrator Jeremyville has got involved - in his lovely non-cynical way - and he’s based in Sydney - that’s in Australia. The file’s been requested by people all over the UK and beyond – by people with a genuine passion for design and image creation who are happy to form new relationships and explore design just for the heck of it. And the world would be a very sad, dark place if it weren’t for that attitude. Long live agenda-less creativity!

Posted by creativereview on 29/06/07, 2:04 am

Can you imagine if all blogs were made from paper?… that would be a mess wouldn’t it. I’m interested to see some of the results. But I can’t help but feel skeptical about the whole affair. I’d rather see the energy put into a magazine. book or larger event… but thats just me.

Posted by lee.colwill on 29/06/07, 5:43 pm

Then you’re in luck Lee - there’s a whole book that plenty of energy has been put into… have a look - www.ifyoucould.co.uk

Posted by Alex on 01/07/07, 1:42 pm

Aha, I see. Thanks. Thats a bit more like what I was thinking about.
I may have been a little quick to shoot off last week, but the whole carbon footprint issue got me thinking the other month, I just don’t want to see trees/resources vanish for “just the hell of it”.
Hey, it’s good to see a lot of my friends ‘involved’ there. Cool.

Posted by lee.colwill on 02/07/07, 1:27 pm

Yo Lee, I tried to reply to your comment a couple of days ago, but I couldn’t get my fucking i-phone out of my jeans because they were so tight.
Anyway, I’d love to chat but I gotta dash, I’m off to Shoreditch House for an ironic meeting with The Klaxons. We’re gonna customise a tramp with all sorts of shit and do a MASSIVE YouTube attack! Keep it Mexico, yeah?

Posted by Mr Bingo on 04/07/07, 11:55 am

knock yourself out.

Posted by lee.colwill on 04/07/07, 12:25 pm

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