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JR's '28 Millimetres: Women' at Lazarides
Posted October 6th, 2008 by notesdesignIf you use ffffound.com, you'll recognise the shot above, which is the work of paste-up supremo JR; and if you live in London, you will probably have seen more of his stuff adorning walls across town last June, including a...
Technorati Tags: D*Face aPoPcalypse Now
Posted October 3rd, 2008 by notesdesignWe scooted over to the Black Rat Press on Rivington Street last night to check out the latest show from D*Face, aPoPcalypse Now.It's a fantastic show, featuring a few site specific installations, and a host of new canvases based on...
Cold War Modern at the V&A
Posted September 26th, 2008 by notesdesignAs we mentioned in the previous post, Cold War Modern is the new show at the V&A.And it's a corker.The show looks at the decades after the Second World War, when the two super powers were locked in a constant...
Design Event '08 Preview
Posted September 24th, 2008 by notesdesignHot on the heels of the gargantuan (and slightly overwhelming) London Design Festival comes the far more intimate and friendly northern version, Design Event, which gets busy from 9 to 26 October 2008. We nipped up there this summer to...
7thsyndikate: the cat is out of the bag
Posted September 18th, 2008 by notesdesignAs we mentioned a while back, we've been getting some strange email communications from a group called 7thsyndikate.They've led us a merry modern dance, which even took us via the classified ads of a London newspaper. Sometimes it felt like...
Little People in the City
Posted August 27th, 2008 by notesdesignThat master of the miniature moment, Slinkachu, has got a new show opening at Cosh in Soho, to celebrate the launch of his new book, Little People in the City. The private view is tomorrow evening, and you can sign...
Cans Festival Recycled
Posted August 25th, 2008 by notesdesignWe made our way up the road to Waterloo on Saturday to check out the new work on display at the fantastic Cans Festival. The street-art show began back in May this year, set up by Blank Expression, turning a...
A design guide to Newcastle
Posted August 18th, 2008 by notesdesignLiving in a city like London, where there's constantly another show opening to attend, another private view to check out, another must-see product launch to go see, it can be easy to find yourself never venturing outside of Zone 6....
35 Beautiful Music Album Covers
Posted August 4th, 2008 by notesdesignAlbum cover art is often considered to be one of the "extincted" fields in modern graphics design. In times when digital copies are cheaper and quicker to get, album covers have somehow lost their importance as less and less customers actually buy CDs and LPs in the stores. That's a pity because album covers can be extremely expressive and convey the message of the album in a number of creative ways. This post attempts to prove exactly that.
A Recent History of Writing and Drawing
Posted July 2nd, 2008 by notesdesignNow this looks interesting. A Recent History of Writing and Drawing is the new show at the ICA, opening on Wednesday 9 July. It's curated by design historian Emily King (who's also design editor at Frieze magazine), and is a...
DHL viral hype
Posted May 27th, 2008 by notesdesignSo, how do we feel about this one? It's called 'the biggest drawing in the world', and is the work of Erik Nordenankar. It was allegedly created by sending a GPS unit around the world (courtesy of DHL, with Erik,...
Outsiders
Posted May 22nd, 2008 by notesdesignThe folks over at the achingly hip Lazarides Gallery have got a new permanent space opening on Charing Cross Road, and are kicking things off with a new show called Outsiders, featuring bits and pieces from the gallery's entire roster...
