Hasta La Ideas

Earlier this year, while Shepard Fairey was racking up the design award wins with his now-controversial Obama print, lingering in the background of nearly all of them, notably at the Brit Insurance Design Awards and the Design Museum Awards, was Singgih Kartono, who had created the Magno Radio. Unfortunately, while he picked up audience-favorite wins and made it on to such a wide net of shortlists, we didn’t really know much about the Magno other than it was one of the most attractive things we’d ever laid our eyes on. But as luck would have it, just as it was slipping into the nether regions of our brain, the good people at Core77 found this great piece about Kartono and his process designing the radio. It’s an incredible story, given the amount of effort he poured into the project, spending the last two decades working on getting it just right, largely in attempting to keep its production local and sustainable, despite growing demand. Well worth your time if you remember swooning over it as much as we had back in those chilly days back in February and March.

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Collaboration is the name of the game in a new series of art exhibitions called Pic+Mix cooked up by Intercity for 55DSL‘s new artspace, Studio55 above their Newburgh Street store in London…

For each Pic+Mix exhibition a renowned artist or image maker works with another creative of his or her choice – be it a like-minded contemporary, a hot young talent or an artist working in a completely different discipline across photography, sculpture, moving image, furniture design, music and beyond – to create new work specially for the show.

Pic+Mix kicks off with a show that opens this Thursday showcasing the collaborative output of Sanderson Bob and his choice of creative partner – Sheffield-based blacksmith Sam Sherborne. The resulting artworks include sculptural work and a series of prints inspired by objects in Sherborne’s blacksmithery workshop:

“We dont have a specific meaning or narrative for each individual piece,” says Sanderson Bob of the work. “We spent some time with Sam in his workshop, understanding how he works and also discussing how we all thought it would be best to approach the sculpture and prints. We spent a few hours each time we visited taking photos, making marks and rubbings from the machinery and tools in the workshop – we wanted the images to feel as if both the prints and sculpture had been through a similar process. Uninhibited by the fact that we didnt have a real idea of how the final images would look, we tried to treat the images for the prints using the computer in the same way Sam stretches, bends, merges, distorts the original steel material to create the sculpture. So we enlarged, distorted, stretched the images with a disregard for conventional resolution and print practice and used the computer and software in a a way we would not normally do. The final images are our representation of the time we spent with Sam and we feel these images couldn’t have been made by us otherwise.

“It was a great opportunity to grasp a new topic and really get underneath it. We feel projects like these gives everybody a chance to develop new ideas and the opportunity to experiment with new marks that otherwise wouldn’t have been as natural. The sculpture and prints sit proudly next to each other. The original sketch on one side, the finished sculpture at the other and in between an expression of the time spent thinking and doing.”

Pic+Mix Sanderson Bob / Sam Sherborne runs from 29 October to 20 November at 

Studio55,
(above the 55DSL store)
10a Newburgh Street
London W1F 7RN 

For more information about Pic+Mix and Studio55, visit 55dsl.com

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The next issues of Little White Lies and Huck will look remarkably good on your newsagent’s shelves: the magazines’ covers are two parts of a single illustration by Geoff McFetridge…

The Church Of London, the creative agency founded by Rob Longworth, Danny Miller and Paul Willoughby, publishes, art directs and designs both film magazine Little White Lies and surf, skate and snowboarding style title, Huck.

The forthcoming issues feature Spike Jonze’s Where The Wild Things Are in some way: the director is interviewed in Huck (hence he appears on the cover alonside some rather intrusive “wild things”), while Little White Lies is wholly dedicated to the new film, based on Maurice Sendak’s children’s book (main character, Max, features on their cover).

Little White Lies is published on 31 October, Huck comes out in November.