If you’re in London this weekend, Print Club are having a show of 35 posters by 35 artists in the east end. The prints are all screenprinted at 50×70cm and are £35 each. They are available at the show and then from the website afterwards (www.printclublondon.com).
Private View: 11th July, 6.30 - 10pm
Afternoon Print Battle: Saturday 12 – 5pm
Closing show bbq: Sunday 12-5pm
all at MC Motors, Millers Avenue, Dalston, E8 2DS
Thanks to Andy Smith for the post. The above pic is Andy’s submission to the event entitled ‘Watch This Space’.
A few months back we publicized a competition to design the packaging for Visto Brahma. Well, we’ve just found out the winner was Toby Whitebread with the above design. 4 other runners up were picked, and you can see the winning artwork o the Visto Brahma website.
Anyway there is a continuation to this project which involves voting for your favourite of 15 runners up who didn’t make the winning list. These guys are fighting for a place in a UK nationwide Brahma exhibition that will be touring next month. You can go to www.vistobrahma.com and place your vote.
Brett and Gurps have been in touch to let us (and you) all know about a cracking new event called Facelift, a project that is focusing on typography and image through the creation of a new typeface by 40 leading image makers. Read on for the official press release…
“Facelift is the 3rd annual design exhibition by event curators Inkthis. The project showcases a unique typeface featuring 40 individually crafted letterforms developed by both new and established image makers from across the globe presenting a style-heavy blend of type, design, illustration, sculpture, painting & graffiti.
The exhibition will be on show between April 23nd and May 9th at the LCB Depot in Leicester. The launch night on April 22nd from 6pm which is open to all.
The event is sponsored by Brahma Beer, Channel 4 and Edding amongst others. The event will also be shown at the Coningsby Gallery, London in June, dates TBC on website.
For more information, please check out www.inkthis.co.uk and the attached flyer.”
The Illustrative is the biggest art exhibition dealing with illustration worldwide. Every year at two different creative hot spots in Europe, the exhibition displays an inspiring collection of current graphical art with over 400 works from more than 60 artists. After appearing in Paris and Berlin in 2007, in 2008 it’s going to Zurich.
Also, fancy a competition? Then enter the Young Illustrators Award 2008, and win a corking prize in association with Swatch! Thanks to Claudia for the email.
Some of you may have seen Life Before Death last week on The Guardian, and this thought-provoking exhibition so far has proved to be extremely popular for a variety of reasons.
From The Guardian… “This sombre series of portraits taken of people before and after they had died is a challenging and poignant study. The work by German photographer Walter Schels and his partner Beate Lakotta, who recorded interviews with the subjects in their final days, reveals much about dying - and living. Life Before Death is at the Wellcome Collection from April 9-May 18″
Images copyright Walter Schels / Wellcome Collection
