Hasta La Ideas

We love a good pun here at CR – so we thought we’d share some with you, courtesy of a new set of witty postcards devised for client Harvey Nichols by Ruan Milborrow and Mark Nightingale of agency Mr.H…

The postcards will go on sale in the Harvey Nichols Foodmarket later this week. “They are based on ‘Food Celebrities’ – I was [originally] going to call them Stars in Their Pies”, explains Milborrow.

Featuring the likes of Cake Winslet, Banana Mouskouri, Wayne Pruney and Pea Diddy, the postcards will be sold for £4.95 a pack in both a Boys and Girls version – here are some of our favourites:

Eine’s piece for Inkie’s auction at Paradise by way of Kensal Green on Thursday 23rd April

Although not as famous outside the world of street art as say Banksy or Goldie, we’re assured that a chap going by the name of Inkie is an urban art legend here in the UK (he came second in the World Street Art Championships in 1989, we’re told).

Next week Inkie is hosting a charity auction event in London that will see pieces of work by the likes of the aforementioned Banksy, 3D (from Massive Attack), Goldie, Insect, D-Face, Sick Boy and Pure Evil sold to raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital and promote awareness about the Cochlear Implant. Inkie’s daughter, now four, was born deaf but has had one of these small electrical implants so this auction is Inkie’s way of raising awareness of the device and the quality of life it can offer to the seriously hard of hearing.

The auction (which will take place at the Paradise By Way Of Kensal Green pub) will include a three course dinner – and just 70 tickets are available for this at £100 each. The auction will be conducted by the respected auction house, Dreweatts and each ticket rewards you with a limited edition numbered print which has been designed by Inkie himself; especially for this event. For those of you that can’t afford to go to the dinner and auction, there will be an after party taking place upstairs at the venue from 9pm with a host of DJ’s including Scartch Perverts, Justin Robertson and Stanton Warriors. Entry is a recession-friendly £5 and there will be screenprints available to buy.

Here is a selection of pieces that will be up for grabs at the auction next week:

Goldie produced this screenprint specially for the auction

This original painting by Grafter will be up for auction

3D’s piece, a hand-finished Giclee print

This screenprint by Insect will be up for grabs

Inkie’s Urban Art Auction will take place on Thursday 23rd April at Paradise By Way Of Kensal Green.
Tickets available from Thursday 2nd April on 0208 969 0098 and ask for Pedro or email pedro@theparadise.co.uk.

Installation view of Ken Briggs show at Pump House Gallery

Currently showing at the Pump House Gallery – the exhibition space within Battersea Park in London – is a presentation of early graphic design work for the National Theatre by Ken Briggs.

Briggs worked with the NT for a number of years from its opening in 1963 under literary director Kenneth Tynan. His design work there drew on Swiss modernist style, with Briggs choosing to use Univers for the programme texts and Akzidenz Medium for the headings.

Poster for Coriolanus, 1965

According to the Pump House, Briggs introduced a new programme size that would fit easily into “an evening handbag and a dinner-jacket pocket”. He also advised the introduction of advertising pages into the programmes to cover printing costs – these were positioned in a separate section to the editorial texts.

Poster for The White Devil, 1969

The show at Pump House includes a selection of material from the 60s and 70s including original programmes, screenprints and leaflets. The exhibition continues until May 17.

Poster for As You Like It, 1967

Here’s a nice-looking design from ilovedoodles on Threadless {via DesignWorkLife }

By Alexei Vella, graduate from Sheridan College’s illustration program. I’m a big fan of many of the illustrators from Sheridan College. Check out Alexei’s website for dozen’s of similar illustrations, he has a very consistent style.