Jonathan Barnbrook Presents

Startas

An intense musical collaboration between well known British designer Jonathan Barnbrook & Croatian musical partnership Rafaela Drazic & Davor Gazde.

Startas (named after a communist shoe brand) use only analogue synthesizers and vintage drum machines mixed live with experimental graphics. Their music seems broadcast from crackly radio station in an alternative europe that exists in all our minds. Primitive mechanical rhythms from communist obsolete technology combine with the warm bakelite sounds of London. The music is both danceable, edgy and exudes a painful nostalgia for the future.

Jonathan Barnbrook is a full time member of Startas and has collaborated with Damien Hirst and David Bowie on their visuals. He is also actively engaged in anti-advertising organisation adbusters. In 2007 the design Museum London had a major retrospective of his work.

This will be a fantastic opportunity to witness one of the foremost acclaimed Graphic Designers of the 21st Century at work in a unique environment. 

Entrance for Graphic Design students in the North-West will be at the specially reduced price of £5. 

Startas live
DJ sets by Startas & Lakes

Sunday 31st May 2009
The Deaf Institute 
135 Grosvenor St Manchester
Tickets available on the door £7

Info: Matt Ryan ryanmattd@hotmail.com
Tel: 07983 605 295

www.myspace.com/startas
 

Graphic Design on the radio is a show, about graphic design, on the radio. Presented by the most wise Mr Adrian Shaughnessy, it has a kind of desert island discs format. The great and good of the graphic design industry chat and select a few tunes. Well worth a listen, most of the shows from the last few years are available here courtesy of resonance fm.

A design student made a battered old Skoda “disappear” by painting it to merge with the surrounding car park.

Sara Watson, who is studying drawing at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN), took three weeks to transform the car’s appearance.

She created the illusion in the car park outside her studio at Uclan’s Hanover Building in Preston. The car is now being used for advertising by the local recycling firm that donated the vehicle. You can see a video and full article here.

Thanks to Adam Sutcliffe (2nd Year Graphics) for sending us this.

Congratulations to Rebekah Grace, 3rd year graphics student, who won overall silver in the student catagory at the Roses awards last night.