Dirty Mouse // Food For Designers’ Dirty Little Mice

Jonathan Stuart sent us this intriguing email, “I made this book entirely from first and last pages I collected. It took me over three years to complete.” See this, and more, on his website.

Fresh in the inbox from our friends over at Sennep is the news that they’ve completed the new site for BBH, the genuinely huge worldwide advertising agency. It’s a really nice site that conveys its global focus well, and showcases some ace work.

James sent us this interesting press release and images relating to the Becks Canvas initiative, which supports up-and-coming artists.

Contemporary art is a living part of our cultural heritage. Encouraging raw ability and building a broader public appreciation of the diversity and excellence of artistic accomplishment is a vision which Beck’s has long supported.

To this end, we have championed talented artists without compromise for over 20 years. As a bold statement of commitment, Beck’s has given outstanding artistic talent a truly original canvas to work on. Our label. Collaboration over two decades reads like a ‘Who’s Who’ of contemporary art; Gilbert & George, Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Tim Head, Sam Taylor-Wood, Jake & Dino Chapman, and Tatsuo Miyajima to name but a few.

The result of these partnerships has not only been the creation of a unique library of contemporary artwork, but also providing a significant platform for emerging artists to reach a greater audience. This year we plan to take the project to a new level by literally placing contemporary artwork in the hands of the public.

2008 sees a landmark for the Beck’s art programme, with the launch of Canvas. For this very special project, we needed a very special partner. The Royal College of Art is a particular kind of ideas factory unlike any other. As the world’s only wholly postgraduate university institution of art and design, the college boasts a global reputation for artistic excellence and an unrivalled creative environment. College alumni and internationally admired artists Tracey Emin, Tim Noble and the Chapman Brothers all created Beck’s labels during the 1990s. Then, as now, Beck’s was striving to support those determined to express themselves creatively. A partnership with the College presents a great opportunity to achieve this goal.

Four young artists will be selected by a panel of judges from the Royal College of Art to showcase their art on the labels of over 27 million bottles to be distributed nationwide from August 2008. The first bottles to receive the new labels will be launched at an exclusive gallery exhibition to be held at the RCA.

In the endless state of motion that is contemporary visual art some elements remain constant, but never static. Beck’s Canvas marks an evolution of our ongoing support for emerging artists and our vision to bring inspiring and challenging artwork to a broader public.

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Adapter, graphic and design group.

Studio Grafik

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Well, this is it! In only one year we have smashed through the 1000-post mark! So I’m taking this opportunity to say thank-you for all your submissions and those who read the blog on a daily basis which makes it all worthwhile. I’m sorry I can’t respond to you all in person, but over 90% of all the work displayed on the blog now is directly from your submissions, and it’s hard to find time to respond to you all!

Please keep your submissions coming - most of them make it on. You can find the address to mail them to over on the right there —>   Also, we are moving to a new home soon, and will hopefully have a brand spanking new site and features. Keep your mince pies peeled!

Hype Type Studio have teamed up with Si Scott, a UK-based illustrator, to produce a run of prints. His intricate, entirely hand-drawn technique has seen his work commissioned by the likes of Nike Europe, UNICEF, Casio and the BBC as both an illustrator and art director.

Find out how to buy one here at the Hype Type store.

‘Hype Type’ Screen Print
1/100
Available in Black & White

Measurements: A1
Spec: Black silk screen print onto 280 micron
Crusade paper
Limited edition of 100 in each colour
Hand Signed and Numbered by Si Scott.
Price: £59.99

We got this nice little email from Keren last week. “A5 Magazine is a printed black and white magazine from Tel-Aviv which present works by artists and designers from Israel and abroad, Each issue deals with a chosen theme.

Its a non profit project which present works by talented people which are yet unknown as well as well known artists and designers.Till now we had 5 issues: Beginning, Fantasy, Obsession, Portrait and Future.”

Please visit our site, where you can find more details: www.thea5magazine.com
and our Flickr pages to see more: www.flickr.com/photos/a5magazine

The talented Tom Crawshaw dropped us a line over his site. He’s currently hunting for a job, but he shouldn’t have many problems landing one.

Lots of nice work from Rinzen.