Hot on the heals of his conference speech today’s Guardian front cover features four stills of Peter Mandelson – with a little addition we get an amusing twist.
Medium – Pentel fine liner on newsprint
That sucker has always known how to sell – whipping up a Beatles-esque frenzy with nothing more than a basic slide show presentation. It’s easy to forget how revolutionary it must have been at the time.
Abi Williams is the current Creative Director and founder of Rude. The studio established a successful fashion label back in the early Noughties, at the same time becoming one of the originators of a hand drawn aesthetic that is often imitated today. A refusal to be tied to any one medium has led to a varied and interesting career, allowing Abi to apply her ideas and trademark style to everything from products to music videos. Read the full profile here.
Mixing the expensive with the inexpensive… Thanks to Tim Sumner (UCLAN Graphics Student) for sending TDOD this. More info can be found here.
After Tuesdays post on the fantastic Peeps Project. Who should I bump into on my way to work this morning? but the artist himself Dan Dubowitz. We had a really interesting chat, during which he told me about a book on the project soon to be published. I had a sneak peak of the proof (in his hand), designed by Axis.
Dan see’s the installations as a kind of artistic restoration project and insists that even he doesn’t know how many there are. Apparently some of them have been sealed off from public view by further building work in the area, left to be discovered by some future generation.
I think what impressed me the most was his determination to retain the subtlety of the work, by resisting the temptation to point them out in any obvious way, or to create some kind of sculpture trial. Great stuff.
