Need to Know Basis: November 2008
Bargains! Bargains! Bargains! Get on down to Somerset House for the åbäke Garage Sale tomorrow to pick up cheap and cheerful Kitsune CDs [kitsune.fr] and loads of other stuff as part of the top Wouldn’t It Be Nice exhibition [somersethouse.org.uk] (sweeps the floor with the Design Museum’s ‘Design Cities’ exhibition [see 959]) ❤ Boicozine’s favourite ex-i-D Art Director, Stephen Male [via Flickr], has taken to helm at US Vogue [vogue.com] although you can’t tell just yet. We’ll be keeping a close eye on those butt-ugly horizontally scaled cover lines to see if he can make them right ❤ It’s all about collectives these days. This week’s collective (don’t worry, it’s this isn’t going to be a regular feature) goes by the name of the Goodfellas Network [goodfellasnetwork.com]. The Goodfellas are a truly international group for creative types including ex-Boicozine contributor Luis Mendo, who now runs the very excellent BladBlog [bladblog.nl] and Joachim Baan [anothercompany.org] amongst others ❤ Matt Pyke aka Universal Everything [via Vimeo] has been curating a collection of moving image works on the theme of synasthesia through his Advanced Beauty website and has just announcing the first Advanced Beauty DVD, available for pre-order now [advancedbeauty.org] ❤ Another ex-mitDR [thedesignersrepublic.com] employee, Michael C Place is a name any design geek will recognise instantly as Mr Build, well just ‘Build’ really [wearebuild.com]. He is currently doing a nice line in graphic interactivity through his Flickr site. Join in… [via Flickr] ❤ Every band should have an archive like this, for the lovingly collated artwork alone… [niagara.edu/neworder]. A weirdly elaborate version of the usually stark record sleeve for New Order’s True Faith is shown above.
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100 Things #007
Modernist London Cards
Designed and produced by Stefi Orazi [stefiorazi.co.uk]. This year sees a special Winter Edition featuring illustrations of Telecom Tower, Royal Festival Hall, The Isokon Building, a K8 Telephone Box, Great Arthur House (or Boicozine Towers, if you like… joking!) and the Barbican (natch). Available via [thingsyoucanbuy.co.uk].
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New Drop in the Boicoshop
Blatant plug alert! The boicoshop [shop.boico.net] has just been updated with a new fabric design via Bon Bon Kakku [bonbonkakku.com] and a heap of new posters available via POD from Imagekind [shopboico.imagekind.com]. Check it. Here’s a poster design that didn’t make the cut…
And Freakin’ Shoes!
Yes, I’ve gone completely POD crazy. Did you know that Zazzle are now offering customisable canvas shoes? Madness, huh. I had to have a go utilising some of the designs I’ve been posting over at Bon Bon Kakku [bonbonkakku.com]. They’re not the most super stylish of models and trainer-heads are likely to sniff at them but when you can put yer own pattern on them… who gives a toss, really. POD it’s all about you… but mostly it’s about me. Me. Me. Me… sorry, we. We. We. We. See the latest bunkum replete prints on yer feets here (they’ll be posted in the boicoshop too eventually) [zazzle.com/retailfashions] and [zazzle.com/retailfashions].
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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Things to Make and POD
The lovely Miss Gemma Leigh recently pointed us in the direction of some ace (and totally official) prints you can now buy, that are taken from the Ladybird books archive [ladybirdprints.com]. Cabinet [picturecabinet.com] is the name of the company behind the venture. They reproduce the archival images on a ‘print-on-demand’ basis through memoryprints [memoryprints.com] and also offer image archival services. They certainly seem to be doing something right, having chalked up an impressive list of clients in a short space of time. The National Theatre [ntposters.org.uk] (the Eqqus poster from the 1970s is pretty cool), the V&A [vandaprints.com] and The Royal Photographic Society are just some of the organisations that very signed up.
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Modern People Live Through Modern Ideals
Polite Notice: We’ve just added some ace tshirts designs to boicoshop [shop.boico.net/apparel] as modelled by our luverly Zazzle model above (we’ll take some better pics soon, I promise) well as a couple of fabric designs that you can purchase now through the Bon Bon Kakku website, here [shop.boico.net/BBK001] and here [shop.boico.net/BBK002]. Let us know what you think or post slogan suggestions here and we may do another batch in a different style if you get enough good ones. Email Michael if you’re shy. boicoshop out.
It’s Your Thing Too
Michael Thorsby is a Swedish designer in Tokyo going by the alias PMKFA [pmkfa.com]. Thorsby collaborates with fellow ex-pats Sweatshop Union to produce a range of ace tshirts and sweats under the name It’s Our Thing [itsourthing.net]. Now this may not be news to you but what’s cool is they have just opened an online store, so now more sulking about trying to find your nearest purveyor of It’s Our Thing Ts (here’s a hint if you’re in London… it’s Lik+Neon [likneon.com]). Neat, huh.
