Après un voyage au Mexique en mars 2013, le photographe Thomas Prior a pu immortaliser avec de superbes images une fête annuelle à Tultepec durant laquelle les citoyens se battent et s’amusent avec des petards et feux d’artifices. Un rendu impressionnant à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
Over the course of this year’s degree show season, CR readers will be guest blogging reviews of shows up and down the UK (and beyond). Here, Gordon Beveridge of Traffic Design visits the University of the West of Scotland’s BA Creative Industries Practice (Graphic Design) show
I popped along to the UWS exhibition at The Hub in Glasgow. The course, which operates out of Cardonald College’s design department, took me by (a rather pleasant) surprise. A considerable section of the work wouldn’t be out of place alongside the graduate work from some of the country’s larger art school exhibitions this year, with great concepts, strong typographic sensibilities and excellent presentation.
Ross Allan
Ross had a couple of projects that caught my eye. His quirky book ‘Follow Me…’ (shown above) on the ins and outs of Twitter (for the uninitiated) was enlightening and, at times, hilarious. Another distinctive project he had on show was an infographic piece exploring the relationship between Religion and Peace throughout the ages (below). I hear he’s been snapped up by an in-house design team in Edinburgh.
Craig Black
Despite these two projects being fairly male-centric, Craig’s experimental typography and vintage aesthetic shown in Hardwired Beer packaging (above and top) and ‘The Life and Tales of Modern Male Grooming’ was extremely beguiling. The latter, a letterpress-styled digest, was an engaging insight into the preening habits of the metrosexual man, very much in tune to the Movember culture.
Craig Whiteford
Craig had a striking self-initiated poster project called ‘Music of the USA’. It showed a full USA map made of many thousands of vinyl record graphics. Locations on the map where platinum and gold selling records were recorded are shown with foil elements. I believe Craig has created breakout graphics for selected states featuring characteristics of those states’ musical history.
David Swift
David’s Infographic on what becomes of our phones after we bin them for the latest model was an extremely attractive and informative piece. Packed with detail, and resembling a blueprint, the environmental consequences of throwing out the various components flows beautifully from left to right.
Gordon Beveridge is senior deigner at Traffic Design Consultants in Glasgow
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For this season’s Quarterly, Hand-Eye Supply is doing something different (we promised never to be consistent in our little publication!). In the spirit of supporting inventive thinkers and makers of the Northwest, we are launching the Industrious Minds Fellowship, a grant program to help cool projects happen.
For 2013’s Summer Quarterly, we’re excited to introduce our first recipients, Escape Collective. ESC Co. is a youthful group of designers, engineers and artists working to build modular habitats in as many beautiful places as they can. Armed with tools and gear from the H.E.S. Summer Collection, ESC. Co. built their first geodesic dome, Escapehatch, at the Sasquatch Music Festival, and the crowd went wild.
Get the full flavor of fanciful fabrication in the Hand-Eye Quarterly, where we’ll supply you with behind the scenes build pictures, design dirt, and inventive inspiration.
To celebrate the release of our Summer Quarterly we are throwing a banging party! Jam out to DJ sets and live music by Pegasus Dream. Installation, illustrations and video by ESC Co. will stimulate your visual cortex. And of course we’ll have refreshments! The party is this Thursday, June 27—RSVP on Facebook
Click through for images of the Escapehatch build-out from the ESC Co. trip to Sasquatch.
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Burger blogger Burgerac has released a part art, part recipe book featuring 24 burger-themed illustrations commissioned for 2011 pop-up exhibition Burgermat.
Published by Nobrow, The Burgermat Show includes artwork by illustrators including James Joyce, Andy Rementer, Lazy Oaf founder Gemma Shiel, Linzie Hunter and Jen Bilik, founder of Knock Knock.
Each artwork doubles as a placemat and is accompanied by a burger recipe, from Burgerac’s own ‘super easy cheesy’ to burger chain Byron’s signature creation, with photographs by Thomas Bowles.
The Burgermat Show was launched in London in 2011 and has since travelled to Cape Town and Dublin.
“The show was inspired by the Burger Monday events put on by Daniel Young of Young & Foodish. For each event he invites a great chef to cook up a one-night-only burger for ticket-buying guests.
“After going to a couple, I knew I wanted to collaborate with him and bring art into the equation. I went for a burger (naturally) with Daniel and through a series of conversations, the concept for The Burgermat Show was born,” explains Burgerac.
“The concept for the book was born at precisely the moment we knew we were going to showcase artwork as paper placemats. I initially thought I could print and publish it myself, but once you start really thinking about it, you realise a publisher is far more than a print-broker. Working with Nobrow gives the book the credibility I feel the artwork deserves and the chance to be distributed around the world,” he adds.
Nobrow, which organised last weekend’s East London Comic and Arts Festival and specialises in design, graphic art and illustration books, has also published a new title by illustrator Robert Hunter, who has designed artwork for Picador, the New York Times, Guinness and a book documenting the V&A’s Memory Palace exhibition, which explores the link between illustration and story telling.
Map of Days (above) follows the story of Richard, who is lost in an alternative world after stepping into his grandfather’s pendulum clock.
The Burgermat Show and Map of Days are available to pre-order at nobrow.net
Pink Floyd fans may recognise the cover of our June issue. It’s the original marked-up artwork for Dark Side of the Moon: one of a number of treasures from the archive of design studio Hipgnosis featured in the issue, along with an interview with Aubrey Powell, co-founder of Hipgnosis with the late, great Storm Thorgerson. Elsewhere in the issue we take a first look at The Purple Book: Symbolism and Sensuality in Contemporary Illustration, hear from the curators of a fascinating new V&A show conceived as a ‘walk-in book’ plus we have all the regular debate and analysis on the world of visual communications.
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Le réalisateur japonais Darwinfish105 a imaginé cette impressionnante et hypnotique vidéo prise à bord de Yurikamome, la ligne de train entièrement automatisée de Tokyo. Utilisant différents effets de miroirs avec Adobe Premiere, cette superbe vidéo intitulée «Yurikamome Hyper Drive» est à découvrir dans l’article.
Face to Face a designer's profile with Caroline Ellerbeck .
I truly hope you will enjoy visiting this home today as much I do. Getting the opportunity to see how artists live, how they decorate their home is I believe really inspiring. I am very grateful first of all to all the designers and today in particular Caroline Ellerbeck for opening their houses and to Sandra and Marjon the interviewer and photographer for making time to prepare and create these amazing home tours for us.
Caroline is a famous illustrator and graphic designer in the Netherlands. By starting her own publishing company recently a dream came true for Caroline … but much more about her and her family life right here at our Designer Profile's page … Let's us know what you think of it, we love to hear from you!
All images by Dutch phtographer Marjon Hoogervorst aka Vorstin
.. Caroline Ellerbeck
.. Caroline Ellerbeck's collection is available at BijzonderMooi
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The strange and wonderful world of contemporary architecture takes center stage in False Solution, a new play that runs through Sunday at La MaMa in New York (buy tickets here). That the dialogue crackles with pitch-perfect architect-speak is no coincidence: this is the latest work by Oren Safdie. The Montreal-born, Los Angeles-based playwright is the son of architect Moshe Safdie and grew up in his father’s modular prefab marvel, Habitat ’67, before making his way to Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture.
“Architecture is also still mostly a male-dominated profession,” says Safdie, “so the opportunity to write about sexual politics–one of my favorite topics–is plentiful.” False Solution takes place in the basement model-making studio of a firm led by Anton Seligman (played with brainy yet sizzling charisma by Sean Haberle), a starchitect who has landed a commission to design a Holocaust museum in Poland. He soon finds himself arguing the merits of volumes and voids with intern Linda Johnansson (Christy McIntosh), a striking know-it-all who flinches only when pressed into service at the drafting table: “It’s just at this stage of my career, I’m much more effective as a critical thinker than a generator of ideas,” says the first-year architecture student. Fortunately for theatergoers, Safdie has mastered both roles. He recently answered our questions about his career path, his new play, and why architects make for better characters on the boards than on the screen.
How did you go from studying architecture at Columbia to being a playwright (and screenwriter and director)?
In my last year at architecture school, Columbia University insisted you take a course outside your discipline. I took a playwriting course. A scene I wrote was selected in a contest juried by Romulus Linney, and received a staged reading. Once I saw my words on stage, I was hooked.
Your new play, False Solution, is about an architect’s struggle to design a Holocaust museum in Poland. How did the idea for the play develop?
I would say the kernel of the play was born when 10 years ago, I saw a figure skating event on television. One of the American skaters had donned a yarmulke and wore a sweater with a Star of David sewn on his chest. The theme he skated to: Schindler’s List. I was amazed that someone would actually try and give some kind of expression to the Holocaust. I was reminded by this several years later when I visited Libeskind‘s Jewish Museum in Berlin, where I felt the same sense of someone trying to convey the suffering through architectural expression, albeit more successfully. There were other Holocaust museums I visited, including my father‘s Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem that offered an opposite approach–almost creating a non-building. It was through these difference, that I created two very different type of characters. The other influence on this play comes from my mother, who lived in hiding in Poland during the war. Many of the stories are factual, and I was interested in how, per se, her experiences have impacted my own life.
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