Fino al 19 giugno, presso la Tomio Koyama Gallery, verranno esposte le ceramiche dell’artista pop Yoshitomo Nara.
Yoshitomo Nara “Ceramic Works” Exhibition
Closes Saturday, June 19th
Tomio Koyama Gallery
1-3-2-7F Kiyosumi, Koto-ku
Tokyo, Japan 135-0024
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I recently watched a video clip of the Oasis guitarist, Noel Gallagher, talking about “his favourite world cup moments”, writes Michael Johnson. Somewhat surprisingly, his first thoughts about the 1978 tournament were about the logo…
Having admitted that he could barely remember 1974’s tournament, he then proceeded to analyse, in forensic detail, the Argentinian finals four years later. Now you might have expected chatter about great goals, flowing hair, the tightness of Mario Kempes’ shorts, military juntas, ticker tape celebrations, sinking the Belgrano, and all that. And they all came up (well, maybe not all of them). But before any of that, his first comment about this world cup? He really loved the logo.
I looked it up. There it is, above. It does have a sort of clear, simple charm. You can see how it would leave an impression on a football mad 11 year old Mancunian (although the colour match to the strip of his beloved Manchester City is a bit of a give away). But seeing the compelling, clunky logic of a design from 30 years ago compels you to Google-image a few more.
So what do we get? Well, we’re about to see a lot more of this one – straight out of brushstroke central, to be parked straight back there once its lease has expired. But at least you could say it’s marginally better than this shocker from the last tournament.
If you look back, it’s amazing how few you remember. Mexico has had two goes at it and neither fare so well. For the older of the pair, they obviously had some Letraset left over from Lance Wyman’s Olympics scheme of two years earlier.
The 1966 date might be ingrained on English memories (the one and only victory) but few will remember this badge.
Parked over in a pile marked ‘completely generic and instantly forgettable’ are ones like these – Germany ’74 and France ’98. That’s WM for ‘weltmeisterschaft’, in case you were wondering.
I always quite liked Woody Pirtle’s mark for USA ‘94 (clever mix of balls, stars and stripes)…
…but always suspected someone else put this type on when Woody went out to lunch, or when he wasn’t looking.
Perhaps grudging respect should go to Spain’s offering from 1982. Movement? Flag? Ball? It could have been worse.
Oddly, and again perhaps because of relative English success/tragedy (semi-finals, Gazza, tears, penalities, more tears, etc) the Italia ’90 mark and its mascot feel as though someone cared, a least a little.
I can only presume that the 2002 design for Korea and Japan is meant to be some sort of vague reference to the re-designed Jules Rimet trophy, since this motif crops up again in the last German and now South African marks as well…
…hence exacerbating the recent whole less-is-a-bore, I’ll-go-for-more aesthetic that pervades the designs for most modern sports tournaments and Olympiads.
But now for the good news. The weird wiggly person plus ball thing? It’s been dropped for the next tournament. 1-0. And the tournament is in Brazil. 2-0. You know, five-time winners and everyone’s second favourite team. Game over.
The bad news? The logo looks like this.
Sigh.
How is it that ‘the beautiful game’ never gets a beautiful logo?
This article originally appeared on Michael Johnson’s Thought for the Week blog. Reposted with permission.
Once again Moss, NYC’s highly revered design destination, opened one of the most important openings during ICFF, called “Poetic License,” to much frenzied fanfare this weekend. Despite considerable downsizing over the past two years—the company shuttered both of its West Coast operations and its joint-venture restaurant, and gave over its previous gallery space to lighting producer Flos—Moss managed to pack more talent into a single room than seemingly possible. Billed as a “gallery-wide celebration of rule breaking, envelope pushing and taking chances,” Poetic License offers work in a multitude of forms and mediums, including for the first time the representation of true two-dimensional “art” in collaboration with independent curators Thea Westreich and Ethan Wagner. (Pictured above, the Koons-esque Chippensteel Chair by Oskar Zieta.)
The ensemble certainly makes for some interesting comparisons. The techno wizardry of Starck’s pre-production Light Photon OLED lamp for Flos, for instance, doesn’t hold a candle to the lyrical simplicity of Finn Magee’s Flat Light. Similarly, a series of grotesque bowls by the Campana brothers, while attention-grabbing, aren’t nearly as compelling as the considered architectural facade-cum-trays by Michele de Lucchi (above). While proprietor Murray Moss always has an uncanny knack for pairing disparate styles, at times the juxtaposition of such varied work on the same stage feels almost schizophrenic. Then again, it is his name on the window and he’s allowed some poetic license of his own.
Poetic License runs through 26 June 2010. Check out a slideshow of installation shots below.
Dans la continuité des focus sur les bureaux de Google et ceux de Facebook, voici un tour d’horizon des bureaux des studios Pixar, la référence en film d’animation 3D. Le siège social est basé à Emeryville, en Californie. A découvrir en photos dans la suite de l’article.
Now based in Montréal, Château-Vacant is the studio of Yannick Calvez, Lémuel Malicoutis & Baptiste Alchourroun. Another find on TheStrangeAttractor.
Some amazing illustrations, photographs and short films.
British designer Thomas Heatherwick has co-designed the replacement for London’s iconic Routemaster bus, mayor Boris Johnson announced this morning. (more…)
YouTube commenters have been calling Saatchi’s Carlsberg Team Talk ad ‘the best ever’. Really? It’s not even the best football-related Carlsberg ad
In the ad a line-up of English sporting ‘heroes’ gathers in the players’ tunnel to wish The Lads good luck as they make their way onto the pitch. Everyone from Sir Ranulph Fiennes to Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor (who, helpfully, throws a dart just in case anyone was wondering who he was) is here to urge on Our Boys as they click-clack their way out for the game.
I’m just not sure what they were going for here. Last time, Carlsberg produced a wonderfully warm tribute to past England players that didn’t take itself too seriously
This one doesn’t seem to know which way to go. It’s far too pompous to work as an ironically over-the-top call to arms like this
yet the random ‘comedy’ bits (Sky Sports’ Jeff Stelling in body paint) undermine any attempt to be genuinely rousing or moving (and let’s not dwell on the horribly mawkish ‘Do it for Sir Bobby’ moment)
If the idea was to do the Great English Team Talk, they could have gone either this way
or this way
But they’ve ended up somewhere in the middle – not funny, not moving, just slightly weird. Let’s hope Fabio has something more inspired planned before England’s first game in the 2010 FIFA World Cup TM ®©
And while we’re talking football, check out this teaser for a forthcoming Nike ad featuring a bloated, has-been Wayne Rooney reduced to wondering what might have been. Looks promising – and Rooney would make a good Bear
When developing these pieces the designers tried to explore the legibility limits of type. The overall disposition of the individual blocks comes from..
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