by Gavin Lucas Brutalist concrete architecture from the 1960s and 1970s might not be to everyone’s taste, but for Manchester-based design studio Dorothy, such buildings are the objects of no small amount of affection—as a new series of illustrated prints attests.
Competition: Dezeen and UK designers Dorothy have teamed up to give readers the chance to win one of five prints that group Hollywood actors into constellations named after films they have starred in (+ slideshow).
Dorothy‘s pair of Hollywood Star Charts feature constellations named after culturally significant films since 1927 and the group of stars that form the clusters are the actors that appeared in them.
Films on the Golden Age chart include The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Casablanca and fifty-nine more classics.
The names are mapped onto the Los Angeles night sky as it appeared on 6 October 1927 – the release date of Al Johnson’s The Jazz Singer, the first feature-length motion picture with synchronised dialogue.
The Exorcist, Star Wars and Pulp Fiction are among the 108 movies on the Modern Day print, based on the night sky over New York on 16 June 1960 – the date and place that Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho debuted.
Titles were included if they are chosen for preservation in the US National Film Registry, Academy Award winners or the designers’ personal favourites.
A key at the bottom of each print lists featured actors, date of their Oscar win or nomination and position of their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Readers have the chance to win either a dark blue Golden Age or dark grey Modern Day open edition chart, worth £25 each.
The litho prints are also available as signed limited editions in gold and silver, which cost £100 each. All prints are available to purchase at Dorothy’s online store.
To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Hollywood Star Charts” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers. Read our privacy policy here.
Competition closes 4 July 2013. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeen Mail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.
We’ve previously run competitions to win maps with locations names after films and prints that feature bands and songs with colours in their names next to corresponding hues on the colour wheel, both also by Dorothy.
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by Gavin Lucas British design and ideas studio Dorothy has just unveiled two Hollywood Star Chart prints, each of which re-imagine, and re-name, the constellations after some of the most culturally significant films to have emerged…
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Competition: we’re giving readers the chance to win one of five prints by UK designers Dorothy that feature bands and songs with colours in their names next to corresponding hues on the colour wheel (+ slideshow).
Dorothy created the two new litho prints titled The Colour of Popular Music and The Colour of Song by searching through old record collections to find as many colour-related titles as possible.
The Colour of Popular Music includes the names of 154 bands and artists like Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Smashing Pumpkins.
576 song titles such as Back in Black, Goldfinger, Brown Sugar and Purple Rain feature on The Colour of Song poster.
The posters are 100 centimetres high by 70 centimetres wide and printed on 120gsm uncoated art paper.
Open editions of the prints to be won in this competition can be bought for £30 from Dorothy’s online shop, along with signed and stamped limited editions for £100.
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To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Colour of Popular Music and Song” in the subject line, stating which print you would like. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers. Read our privacy policy here.
Competition closes 10 January 2013. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.
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Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with UK designers Dorothy to give readers the chance to win one of five prints of a fictional map that features locations named after film titles.
Reservoir Dogs, Jurassic Park and Nightmare on Elm Street are among the 900 titles used to create the map, which has districts dedicated to Hitchcock and cult British horror movies.
Loosely based on the style of a vintage Los Angeles street map, it includes an A-Z key at the base that lists all the films featured with their release dates and names of the directors.
The map is 80 centimetres wide by 60 centimetres high and can be purchased on the Dorothy website.
To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Film Map” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers.
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Competition closes 21 August 2012. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the bottom of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.
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Le collectif Dorothy a eu l’idée de montrer l’impact de la guerre et de ses méfaits en reprenant des soldats en plastique pour enfants, mais en détournant leurs actions. En soulignant alors les horreurs de la guerre ainsi que ses conséquences sur la santé mentale des soldats.
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Le collectif Dorothy a décidé de travailler sur une série de peintures reprenant des logos mondialement connus, en enlevant l’identité de la marque. En créant ces pièces, le collectif cherche avec talent à montrer que les formes basiques des logos nous restent en tête.
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