What’s Up #39: Peter Crnokrak
Peter Crnokrak is deep into graphic design. It wasn’t always the case though. A brief snippet from his bio tells the story, “…studied medicine, completed a doctorate in evolutionary genetics, moved to Toronto to start a postdoctoral fellowship but become crushingly bored with life, decided to leave the sciences for design…”. Yep, Graphic Design has a proper scientist in it’s midst. Under his current moniker, ‘The Luxury of Protest’ [theluxuryofprotest.com] Peter has been producing precisely-detailed limited edition posters for you to purchase via Design Supremo [designsupremo.com], a sample of which you can see above.
Bloody Show Offs
Meirion Pritchard, currently Art Director for Wallpaper [wallpaper.com] (along with pals Simon Robinson and Matt Thomas) likes to encourage shy and retiring creative types to Show Off (well, they’re not all shy, definitely top notch creatives though). I’ve been a tad slack and you now have only a few days left to catch the latest Show Off exhibition at the Art Vinyl store in Broadway Market, East London [facebook.com/events]. See original new pieces by Chrissie Abbott [chrissieabbott.co.uk], Laurent Fetis [laurentfetis.com] and Anthony Burill [anthonyburrill.com] (his contribution is shown below). Thanks to Melvin Galapon [mynameismelvin.co.uk] for pointing this out.
The weather’s wine, wish you were beer
Boicozine is participating in a postcard exhibition to be held at the Geoff McFetridge designed Sunshine Cafe in Tokyo. The advantage being that postcards are such a neat size, you can pack loads more contributors in (66 at last count), so something you everyone? Visit [postcard-exhibition.blogspot.com] to spot submissions by creative types such as Toby Neilan [tobyneilan.com], Andreas Samuelsson [andreassamuelsson.com], Ingela och Vi [ingelaochvi.com], Körner Union [koernerunion.com] and Carolin Löbbert [ykeschotten.com]
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Ostrowski on the line
Alex Ostrowski [www.alexostrowski.com] recently got in touch with boicozine to share some quality linkage and here tis… Chris Clarke’s [chris-clarke.co.uk] Type Cube a neat idea that’s been doing the rounds on design blogs recently. Chris investigates modular typography and has created a movable typographic toy which you can mess about with to create letterforms and whole typefaces of your own. Hattie Newman [hattienewman.blogspot.com] crafts beautiful little three dimensional models which she turns into animations, or simply 3D illustrations. She has some gorgeous work, in particular her set designs. Alex himself is super busy, not least with this year’s YCN Book [ycnonline.com/blog/24] in collaboration with HudsonBec [hudsonbec.com]. The image above is from the recent YCN Live launch event. See more from the event here [Flickr].
This Post is Untitled… ish
Just a quick plug to a new gallery in Melbourne with some cool, graphic designer-ish work called the Untitled Gallery. Currently showing the graphic juxtapositions of Danny Guinsberg, up coming shows include the embroidered infographics of Michelle Hamer. Visit [untitledgallery.com.au] to feed your head.
Melbourne Festival City
Melbourne, like London, has the cool sweat of festival fever right now (even though it’s winter). For people who haven’t heard what’s up down under, here’s the skinny…
The Melbourne International Design Festival is on again, and getting bigger and better every year. There’s loads of things to do and see and make. We like the idea of Patrick Blanc’s Vertical Garden thing [nationaldesigncentre.com] (see the image below) and an exhibition that tells the story of, arguably the best course of it’s kind in the country, the National School of Design at Swinburne University’s Graphic Design degree [nationaldesigncentre.com]. Over at the festival’s ’satellite’ series of shows entitled State of Design [stateofdesign.com.au] there is another truck load of interesting events. the ones we really like are mostly in Design for Everyone [stateofdesign.com.au].
If your feeling a little jaded by this design overload, how about spending some time alone in the dark? The programme for The Melbourne International Film Festival [melbournefilmfestival.com.au] is looking as strong as ever, we especially like the idea of Ozploitation [melbournefilmfestival.com.au].
Saucy Treasure
Whilst on assignment at Nick Bell Design [nickbelldesign.co.uk], Nick very kindly let me have a rummage around the studio for things to post and I came across an issue of Avant Garde magazine, published in November 1968. Designed by Herb Lubalin [typogabor.com/herb-lubalin] and featuring artwork by Tom Wesselman [artnet.com]. So there’s now a bunch of saucy 60s stylee pics over on our [flickr] page for your perusal. Enjoy.
What’s Up #34: Ludovic Balland
Ludovic Balland’s foliosite [ludovic-balland.ch] is almost, completely monochrome which highlights how bold his studio’s typographic vision is. To achieve this they’re not only manipulating existing typefaces in new and exciting ways but also creating new typefaces from old (or from scratch). If you are looking for a sample of his studio’s more exciting work, seek out the compendium they produced for the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art [bb5.berlinbiennial.de] entitled ‘When Things Cast No Shadow’ [jrp-ringier.com], where a crazy cast of typefaces that should be jostling for attention are roped into order with surprising results.
As a sidenote jrp | ringer are also the publishing house behind Ezra Petronio and Suzanne Koller’s forthcoming (and rather expensive) monograph [jrp-ringier.com]. You may know them better as Work In Progress [petronioassociatesblog.com].
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What’s Up #33: Claire McManus
Claire McManus [ampersand8.co.uk] is super busy. Currently installed as part of the talented team at the AA (Architectural Association) Print Studio [aaschool.ac.uk], working with Mr Zak Kyes [www.zak.to] and Mr Wayne Daly [waynedaly.com], she’s been producing all manner of sparkling typographic treatments for various AA events and activities (including their end of year show, the AA Projects Review [aaschool.ac.uk/publications]). She’s also pointed Boicozine in the direction of a couple of bits and bytes that may be of interest to you, dear reader, such as this rad ‘documents folder’ [25togo.com] and, more importantly, in case (like me) you didn’t realise it was under threat, a petition to save the Type Museum from closure [petitions.pm.gov.uk/typemuseum].
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All City, All the Time
Movie posters might be shite these days… (I mean, have a look at your local cinema… would you honesty put that up on your wall) but it’s nice to see movie poster designers All City Media [allcitymedia.com] are not letting it get them down and putting those high quality yet rejected designs online so we can start to imagine a world free from unimaginative marketing directors and associated killjoys. Found via Danny Grey’s excellent blog [binkythedoormat.com] where he’s been getting stuck into the problems with modern movie poster design lately. I blame Adobe for encouraging people to design in Photoshop. It’s for messing about with photos not designing stuff, you dolts. The clues in the name (er… no, I don’t know why it’s a shop either).
