The project is calling for entries until the 15th of March, hoping to auction off the submitted work to raise at least $1M for Doctors Without Borders.
The posters should be specific to the earthquake in Haiti, signed and numbered editions in quantities of 25-100 (no one-offs), at least 11″ x 17″ (ideally 18″ x 24″), and you have to produce and deliver them to The Haiti Poster Project yourself (unfortunately they don’t have the funds to print them). So get to it! More info HERE.
Please come down to Art Central this evening for First Thursday festivities! Mike Kerr’s Show of Letters was hung last night and it is looking great. (UPPERCASE will be open from 3pm – 9pm today.)
I’ve got one month to go before the baby is due, so I will be working from home more and more (it is getting more difficult to walk/waddle/breathe these days!) So tonight is really the best time to come see the show (and purchase some affordable, original paintings) in person. There are plenty of First Thursday festivities (plus the opening of my landlords’ newest development project, Fashion Central, just a block away.)
The show will be posted in the online shop by the weekend.
Gestalten.tv’s latest podcast is an interview with illustrator and graphic designer, Christoph Niemann. He talks about the presentation of data, why clients have made him work better and how he’s most relieved that, as yet, he still hasn’t gone insane…
Niemann’s illustrations have appeared on the covers of The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine and American Illustration. He’s a self-confessed lover of charts and graphics and, in the Gestalten film, observes that “this way of presenting data has become a mainstream thing.”
His aim in his work, he says, is to use a visual language that lots of people can understand – it’s “all about the audience. [It’s] not about fulfilling your own creativity, although that’s a part of it, [it’s] about the reader understanding what you do.”
In the film, Niemann also discusses how clients can get a bad reputation for killing ideas but that, conversely, “when you have a good client, they can make you so much more of a better designer.”
Despite the recent success of his Abstract City blog for The New York Times, Niemann claims that “my greatest accomplishment, professionally, is that I haven’t gone insane doing what I do all day.” He currently lives and works in Berlin, having spent 11 years in New York.
More of his work is featured in the new Gestalten book, Data Flow 2 (£45) and you can see a selection of his illustration and graphic design at his website, christophniemann.com.
I was very sad to read that illustrator Nick Dewar has passed away. He was an illustrator that I admired. When organizing The Shatner Show in 2007, I had list of dream participants and I was delighted that someone as talented, busy and well-known as Nick accepted our invitation with such enthusiasm. His humourous silkscreened poster was one of the most popular images of the exhibition. I’m honoured that I had the chance to exhibit his work.
My condolences to his family, friends and colleagues.
I was fortunate enough to catch his show a couple months ago at the Narwhal gallery on Queen West. All the pieces were fairly small and really dark (literally). Big fan!
He was one of the founding members of Team Macho, however the show at Narwhal (The Invisible College) was solo. Here’s the description from the gallery:
“Emerging artist Stephen Appleby-Barr presents a solo show of portraits at Narwhal Art Projects. Entitled The Invisible College, this new body of oil paintings explores Appleby-Barr’s profound involvement with the merits of portraiture. The Invisible College draws inspiration from an independent organization of philosophers whose purpose was to acquire knowledge through experimental investigation in 16th century Europe. Akin to the guild system, this group practice is exemplified by Hegelian collaboration: the free transfer of thought, expertise and tradition carried out without the establishment of designated facilities or institutional authority. Appleby-Barr explores the state of the personal disassociation with tradition and searches to find a connection with one’s self and heritage. Working within a body of meticulously detailed oil portraits, Appleby-Barr conjures clues to uncovering the secrets of his own creation.
Continuing with the imagined legacies first constructed in the esoteric Nortammag Archives, allegoric images depicting varsity, academia, the occult and couture give lineage to an arcane society. Through the deliberate celebrity and obscurement of each character, Appleby-Barr speculates on the traditions of metaphorical, social and personal history. The Invisible College runs October 29th to November 29th at Narwhal Art Projects. The opening reception is Thursday, October 29th from 7-10pm. The artist will be in attendance.”
Mike Kerr has been busy getting the artwork ready for his upcoming show in UPPERCASE. When you set out to create a show based on the alphabet, you automatically have your work cut out for you! Here are some pictures of his work-in-progress and a finished piece below. Click here to view more images from the upcoming show. (We’ll be putting all the pieces in the online shop, so that link will be posted following the opening next Thursday.)
Agency Saint at RKCR/Y&R has collaborated with illustrator and animator Andy Rementer to create a series of animations for this year’s Virgin-sponsored London Marathon. The animations – which will appear online on Virgin sites hosting weekly videos documenting people training for this year’s event – show a host of Marathon-running characters – each sporting a particularly strong look…
Mark Hamilton, founder of the band Woodpigeon, has been generously lending his talents as a writer for many issues now. (thanks, Mark!) Woodpigeon is playing tonight at Broken City in Calgary. Their poster is illustrated by Jeff Kulak, who was part of the first edition of Work/Life in 2008. His full page illustration for Work/Life has always been one of my favourites:
I’m planning a new edition of Work/Life to be released by the end of the year. The details are being worked out and the website prepared, but if you’d like first notice of the call for participants you can sign up here.
London-based illustrator Mr Bingo is, very commendably, doing his bit to raise some money for the relief effort in Haiti following last week’s devastating earthquake. He is offering two 100mm x150mm prints for sale at £5 each – with every single penny going to UNICEF’s Haiti Earthquake Children’s Appeal.
There are two prints, one of a cat wearing a corset (below) and one of a group of sheep (above) – each one is hand silkscreened on 350gsm Bright White Colourplan paper and signed by the artist. Paper for this charitable project was donated by GFSmith and screenprinting done by K2 Screen.
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