Hasta La Ideas

Type designer Seb Lester‘s latest screenprint, Peace (sketches for it, shown above) was, he says, inspired by Anglo Saxon art, 18th and 19th century penmanship, and medieval illumination. Here’s a look at the two different available colourways of Peace which both make stunning use of shiny metalic paper stocks…

Peace is available in a gold on black version (shown above), and also as a dark chrome on white print:

Actually, it is the black that’s printed on to gold stock, and the white that’s printed on to chrome stock – something that’s a little clearer when you see the prints drying on the rack

Peace (Gold) is a two colour screen print on Gold Mirri H-Range paper, 270gsm, in an edition of 100. Dimensions: 850 X 255mm. Peace (White) is also limited to 100 editions and printed at the same dimensions but onto Dark Chrome Mirri paper, 270gsm. Both are available from Lester’s website, seblester.co.uk, priced at £85 plus postage and packaging.

Both colourways of Peace, plus a selection of Lester’s work will be shown at London’s Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen for the next two months (as of Thursday, September 1), much of it printed at a much larger scale than ever before.

For more info and directions to Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen, visit hoxtonsquarebar.com

See more of Lester’s work at seblester.co.uk

CR in Print

Thanks for reading the CR website, but if you are not also getting the printed magazine, we think you’re missing out. This month’s issue has a superb feature on the Sainsbury’s Own Label packaging of the 60s and 70s, a profile of new Japanese creative supergroup Party and our pick of this year’s top graduates. Read all about it here.

If you would like to buy this issue and are based in the UK, you can search for your nearest stockist here. Based outside the UK? Simply call +44(0)207 292 3703 to find your nearest stockist. Better yet, subscribe to CR for a year here and save yourself almost 30% on the printed magazine.

Over the next months we will be highlighting award-winning projects and ideas from this year’s Core77 Design Awards! For full details on the project, jury commenting and more information about the awards program, go to Core77DesignAwards.com

Designer: Design for America
Location: Evanston, IL, USA
Category: Design Education Initiative & Design for Social Impact
Award: Notable

Design for America

Design for America is a nation-wide initiative that supports a network of student-run design studios based in college campuses throughout the US. These initiatives provide a framework for students from all majors to gain the experience, skills and confidence necessary to lead and innovate local and social impact design projects.

The principles of DFA’s learning approach are based upon a new student-directed approach to education called Extracurricular Design-Based Learning (EDBL) (Gerber, Olson, & Komarek, 2011). The EDBL model provides opportunities for students to develop the non-technical skills critical to examining and prototyping solutions to ambiguous and complex problems from a design perspective, and engages students early in their academic experience within a community of professional practice that extends beyond university boundaries to inspire careers in innovation.

Theoretically, EDBL blends perspectives from many learning models, including project-based learning, adaptive learning, and design-based learning. Like these models, EDBL leverages the student-centered elements of student interest and self-direction; however EDBL depends upon knowledge being co-created by the students, peer mentors, and facilitators who are applying learning in a specific service learning context and applying this learning to complex social problems in uncertain organizational systems.

Since the original conception of the organization in 2008, DFA student founders, faculty advisors, administration, and community partners have followed a participatory design approach to refine DFA. Through one-on-one conversations, weekly check-ins, evaluations, and reflective workshops, DFA continues to include its various stakeholders on the refinement of its services. Through rigorous evaluation of learning outcomes it is found that participation in DFA positively influences students’ beliefs in their ability to use design to innovate (Gerber, Olson, Komarek, 2011). DFA’s services continually adapt to meet the needs of their users and encourage input from each participating member to offer insight for improvements to exemplify the learning model that we advocate.

Core77: How did you learn that you had been recognized by the jury?
Design Education Initiative: We had checked the awards after the end of the work day and were thrilled to learn we were recognized as notable among such excellent entries. To use, the recognition is validation that we are meeting an unmet need and look forward to growing our initiative and the impact of our projects.

Design for Social Impact: We thought, if we were recognized once, surely that would be it, but that night, a friend of ours posted a congratulatory comment tagging us on Facebook so were pleasantly surprised to learn that we were in fact recognized twice!

Core77: What’s the latest news or development with your project?
Design for America Northwestern just kicked off their summer studio looking at childhood obesity prevention, foot care for the homeless, and learning through tinkering with local community partners including the Chicago Children’s Museum, Howard Area Community Center and Inspiration Corporation. This week we’ll have 20 students from throughout the country joining us for our Leadership Studio in preparation for their official launches in the fall. Should be exciting!

What is one quick anecdote about your project?
In DFA, we try to ask the obvious as we are often surprised by the contrast between assumption and reality.

Read on for full details on the project and jury comments.

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Dezeen Wire: UK design organisation Hidden Art is to close at the end of September due to cuts in its funding.

Hidden Art currently receives half its funding from the European Regional Development Fund but this is due to cease at the end of next month.

Fears that the organisation may be forced to close were first reported on Dezeen Wire in December last year.

Hidden Art will still exhibit with new products at 100% Design during the London Design Festival and the online shop will remain open until the end of December 2011.

Here are some more details from Hidden Art:

Hidden Art forced to close due to funding issues: 22-year history of turning passion into products ends in 2011

Hidden Art, the Shoreditch based award-winning not-for-profit organisation that has helped designer-makers and designers transform their passion into products since 1989, will close at the end of September 2011, due to ongoing funding issues (with the Hidden Art e-shop continuing until the end of December)

Since its beginnings with the Hackney Contemporaries in 1989 Hidden Art has supported more than 6,000 designers, including success stories such as Ella Doran, Kay & Stemmer and Committee. Hidden Art helped to put east London on the map, turning it from a no-go area into a destination for designer-makers, design companies and shoppers.

Hidden Art director, Dieneke Ferguson, said:

“We are sad to announce the end of Hidden Art, but proud of our 22-year track record in providing support for UK designers and designer-makers. Unfortunately, in the current climate there is little money available to support small businesses in the creative sector. We hope our closure draws attention to the dwindling resources for new design graduates in this country. Combined with the higher fees for students, it means that the UK design sector is in danger of losing the new blood which is essential for its survival”

With the closure of the London Development Agency (LDA), and other funding issues, it has now become impossible to continue. Hidden Art receives 50% of it’s funding from the European Regional Development Fund, but this will also cease at the end of September.

All of the planned Hidden Art events and support will continue until we close, including a stand at 100% Design, launching 8 new products from 5 of our designer members. It’s a great reminder of our proud history in supporting innovation in the UK design sector, and a way for us to go out with a bang. Come along and support us at our last event.

The E-Shop at www.hiddenartshop.com will also continue until the end of December and be available over the Christmas period.

Over the years our excellent work has been acknowledged by the design sector, the press and the public. Our awards include the 2010 Community Partners Dragon Award, awarded by the Lord Mayor of London, as well as best Social Enterprise in Hackney (2005) and the 100% /Blueprint Award (2005).

The design sector is an important part of the London and the UK economies, contributing £3 billion each year: more than the Visual Arts, Cultural Heritage or Literature sectors. Designer-makers represent 13% of all those employed in the creative and cultural industries. Taking away Hidden Art’s support will affect the sector as a whole, leading to an impact on innovation, the most important driver in the UK recovery.

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You’re undoubtedly a fan of the director Errol Morris because, well, who isn’t? You’ve also proved that you have great taste, hence your presence here on this site, and people with great taste always like Errol Morris. For those of you, like we, who are super fans, you’ve no doubt instantly read Morris’ essays in the NY Times the minute they’ve been posted. Now several of them, those pertaining to photography, have been expanded and accompany additional writing, in a new book released this week, Believing Is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography. True to his familiar and incredible method of getting beyond what we think is truth, the book uses a number of examples (most of which had, as mentioned earlier, appeared in multi-part form in the NY Times) to illustrate that simply because there’s photo evidence doesn’t mean that what you’re seeing is accurate or hasn’t been manipulated. It looks terrific and like every other Morris project to date, we’re eager to devour it. Here’s a description from the publisher:

In his inimitable style, Morris untangles the mysteries behind an eclectic range of documentary photographs, from the ambrotype of three children found clasped in the hands of an unknown soldier at Gettysburg to the indelible portraits of the WPA photography project. Each essay in the book presents the reader with a conundrum and investigates the relationship between photographs and the real world they supposedly record.

…With his keen sense of irony, skepticism, and humor, Morris reveals in these and many other investigations how photographs can obscure as much as they reveal and how what we see is often determined by our beliefs. Part detective story, part philosophical meditation, Believing Is Seeing is a highly original exploration of photography and perception from one of America’s most provocative observers.

An excerpt of the book can be found here.

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Focus sur le travail photo de Thomas Jorion avec “Silencio Series”. Un intérêt particulier pour les bâtiments en ruine, ou en cours de démolition. Son geste photographique explore les rapports avec l’environnement en privilégiant des espaces délaissés. Plus d’images dans la suite.

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