What’s Up #31: Fanette Mellier
Fanette Mellier [fanettemellier.com] has just completed her residency in Chaumont as part of the annual Festival International de l’Affiche et du Graphisme de Chaumont 2008 (they could think of a snappier title huh). She has also been putting the finishing touches on an ace new identity for the Parc Saint Leger Contemporary Art Centre [parcsaintleger.fr]. It’s modular and multi-faceted, comes in a variety of colours or in basic black and has a rather nifty set of punctuation that ties in with the geometric shapes that make up the custom display typeface which you can see above. Further proof that France is kicking serious graphic butt with this latest generation of creative types.
A Beginner’s Guide to My Bloody Valentine
After seeing My Bloody Valentine [ft.com] last night for the first time in like over 10 years, I decree that this band is the reason I have ears. Not sure what the fuss is about but curious to find out more? Here I will humbly offer you, dear reader, a way in. These are MBV must hears in no particular order… BTW To the slightly obnoxious American guy in front who seemed to want to start headbanging (or at least a NuMetal nod with hand aloft) at one stage. It was Slow from the Made Me Realise EP. See I did know. Ha!
(Please) Loose Yourself in Me — From the Ecstasy EP / I Believe — From the Feed Me With Your Kiss EP / Soon (Don’t worry, you’ll probably know this one already) — From the Glider EP / Nothing Much to Lose — From the Isn’t Anything LP (just don’t try dancing to this… it’s confuddling) / When You Sleep — From the Loveless LP / Moon Song — if you have to bother with the Tremolo EP / Anything on the You Made Me Realise EP — it’s all good
Got a fave or went to the gig? Leave a comment and let us know.
So Yesterday This Happened
Part of the perils of being an avid magazine collector. Can anyone recommend a decent free standing shelving unit? This so isn’t the one.
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.
100 Things: #001
Self Service’s 100 Things
As an ode to Self Service [selfservicemagazine.com] magazine’s ‘100 Things’ series of features (sadly discontinued) we’re going to attempt our own list of 100 things (in 100 posts). That should keep us busy, huh. The first of our ‘things’ has to be the aforementioned ‘100 Things’ series and to kick it off here’s a few spreads to feast yer eyeballs on (click on an image to see if larger). Design & direction by Petronio Associates (formely Work in Progress) [petronioassociates.com]. More ‘things’ to come… 1 down, 99 to go.
What’s Up #30: peter&wendy
Peter&Wendy are a Parisian design agency [peter-wendy.com] actually run by Xavier and Cécilia. They have just completed the design and direction of the inaugural issue of UK-based high-minded culture mag, Bedeutung [bedeutung.co.uk]. The cover does away with any sort of formal masthead, replacing it with a big red square. Pretty daring. You might be interested in the Grotesque poster that they have for sale at the moment too. Mmm…metallics.
Nevermind the Grad Shows (#3)
After missing Brighton’s show I made sure I got along to the St Martin’s Communication Design show on The Mall (next to the ICA, just down the street from Buckingham Palace), only to miss the Graphic Design show (so what’s the big difference between Communication & Graphic Design? I thought they went hand-in-hand). I’m going to give up on trying to blog about all the top Degree Shows. I may report on a couple if I get to see them. If you’ve been to a show and would like to report abot it for Boicozine please email [zine(at)boico.net] There’s loads of eloquent types much more on the ball than I, reporting on the various goings on. You can read more here…
[creativereview.co.uk/crblog]
[johnsonbanks.co.uk/thoughtfortheweek]
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Plus Tony Easley has been kind enough to post a few pictures from the Brighton show up on his Flickr page. See them here [flickr].
The Key, The Clock & The Occupant
Got a hankering to return the the days when Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock presents and The Outer Limits ruled the airwaves? Dip your toes in The Lost Room [scifi.com/lostroom] and you might start believing you’re back there… only with better production qualities (natch). Here’s the bit crappy trailer…
Mags and Stuff
I stuck this latest ’stuff’ picture on Flickr a couple of days ago so it was ready to link to this post. It’s got 24 hits already… okay, so that’s not a lot but the same image of some rather attractive perspex rods in a window in Brighton went up at the same time and only three people have looked at them. That’s… some large percentage less than the other picture. Anyhoo, from this I have concluded that pictures of stuff are dead popular. This one’s going to run and run…
This weeks stuff includes a whole bunch of free magazines. To any dedicated magalophile a carefully crafted and well designed free magazine is like a little piece of christmas has been clipped off the end of the year and fallen down the calendar. You’ll find quality free publications in most cities these days. London has a few that you’ll find around the traps. These are Boicozine’s current faves…
Loud & Quiet [loudandquiet.com] has grown from A5 to A4 with some rather fetching new uncoated stock (that’s non-shiny paper to the uninitiated). Downside is, it feels more lightweight now. Upside is that is looks well classy. ¶ Art & Music is pretty decent [artandmusicmagazine.com], if very calm looking magazine, with some cracking articles and a refreshing editorial tone. ¶ Fun looks proper ‘expensive art paper’ with it’s special colours and fold-out poster format but then it features commentary on stuff like dogging! Blimey, didn’t see that one coming! It’s all in good, er… fun though, and gets away with being cheeky and cheery enough to make you care. Nice one Fun [greatenjoyment.com]. ¶ Ello, it’s Monocle again [monocle.com]. Could help meself. It’s their best cities issue with their first Design Directory supplement and a spiffy cover designed by Ken Leung and James Melaugh [dontyouthink.co.uk]. Nice work if you can get it, I say. ¶ Red sunglasses. Not posh, just red. If they’re red, you don’t need posh, do you. It’s enough that they’re red. I’ll be wearing these a lot I think (even though I can’t see a bloody thing through them). ¶ Black Skull Candy. Skulls are a bit popular aren’t they? Do you think it’s because we’ve all got one? This one contains Extra Salty Salmiakpulver and seems to be wearing chips style sunglasses. Probably from Cybercandy [cybercandy.co.uk]. ¶ Dazed & Confused [dazeddigital.com] has a new Art Director and this time it’s someone who actually likes typography (which is lucky cause being a magazine, it’s chock full of the stuff), Rémi Paringaux. No longer do I feel alienated by their uncaring and unthoughtful misuse of dodgy typefaces. I’ve bought the last two issues now, the first for a long long time. Now the UK edition can give their Japanese sibling a run for it’s money.
That’s it fer now. More pictures of stuff soon, I promise. They’re dead popular, yknow.
An Ace Shop With a Slightly Dodgy Name
There’s a new record store in London which, with a little help from No Days Off [nodaysoff.com], is single handedly helping reinvigorate a sad and bedraggled little corner of the formerly hip Clerkenwell district [wikipedia]. If you drop by you can pick up a handy and handsome guide to the local area including quiet little parks to go sit in or a warm summer evening and rowdy yet respectful pubs to loiter in. The store is called Pure Groove [puregroove.co.uk] and they have enrolled the insurmountable talents of Kate Moross [katemoross.com] to scrawl on their freshly painted walls. Look out for loads of events, instore and out-of-store too.
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