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The New Situation - Art in London in the Sixties Exhibition Number: L13144 This exciting exhibition will focus on the decade when British artists, many of them fresh out of art school, captured the world’s imagination, finding recognition and success both at home and abroad, in Europe and America and at the biennales of Venice and Sao Paulo. From ‘Colour-Field’ and ‘Hard-Edge’ abstraction, through to Pop in its many guises, from the New Sculpture, with its minimal aesthetic and use of industrial materials and flat colour, through to the beginning of Conceptual art, The New Situation tracks a period when British art was at the forefront of global art trends. NWCE Page Welcome to The Chest, the North West's Local Authority Procurement Portal. The Chest has been created with funding from the North West Centre of Excellence to bring together buyers and suppliers making it easier for businesses to find out about new sources of potential revenue and to grow and develop to the benefit of the local economy. Local Authorities in the north west currently spend between £6bn and £6.5bn each year on goods and services so they could provide long-term stability for local businesses. Follow the Current Opportunities link on your left to browse north west opportunities. Suppliers can register online via the Suppliers’ Area to receive email updates on opportunities that match their capabilities. Suppliers can reduce tendering costs by registering their interest in opportunities online.
The Aesthetics of Nation Building The artist collective GCC has been making work that is both inspired by and addresses the contemporary culture of the Arab Gulf region. Comprised of eight delegates—Nanu Al-Hamad, Khalid Al Gharaballi, Abdullah Al-Mutairi, Fatima Al Qadiri, Monira Al Qadiri, Aziz Al Qatami, Barrak Alzaid, Amal Khalaf—the GCC is named, in part, after the intergovernmental body that helps bind the region. For their inaugural series of exhibitions, the collective focused on the notion of achievement, focusing on the rituals that mark accomplishment as well as the physical objects that embody them. They have created a series of Congratulants based on trophies exchanged in the Gulf as well as videos examining ribbon-cutting ceremonies and installations that reference the spectacular cities that have been recently constructed in the region.
'Open Cube' exhibition at White Cube Mason's Yardwjlondon White Cube Mason’s Yard presents ‘Open Cube’ an exhibition of the work of 17 international artists curated by Adriano Pedrosa. These 17 artists were chosen from a total of 2900 applicants who responded to Pedrosa’s call for entries sent out via Art Agenda in January. Pedrosa’s only requirement was that the artist be available for interview in London in March. Taking his cue from Brian O’Doherty’s seminal title, ‘Inside the White Cube’ (1976), Pedrosa’s exhibition aims at dissecting the ideology of the gallery space, challenging the dominance of the white cube as a physical and conceptual exhibition space and questioning existent notions of ‘inside’ and ‘outside’. The 17 artists included in this exhibition, from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, the Netherlands, Portugal, Ireland, the UK and the USA have produced site specific work that seeks, in Pedrosa’s words, ‘to contest these national boundaries as well as the very identity of White Cube itself’.
Beats Digging Ditches - My Life as a Professional Graphic Designer Packaging to Die(line) For… To a newbie, product packaging design requirements can seem rather mysterious if not overwhelming. Besides the package design itself, there are multiple issues involving FDA and USDA requirements as well as product and category specific government rules and regulations.
Tom Dixon, Designer Lighting, Furniture, Accessories Google Analytics This site uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics sets number of cookies (default is 4) in order to evaluate your use of the site and compile reports for us on activity on the site. Google stores the information collected by the cookie on servers in the United States. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf.
Exhibitions : ICA Off-Site: A Journey Through London Subculture: 1980s to Now 'I love this show' - Adrian Searle, The Guardian. Read the review → A major new project at The Old Selfridges Hotel in London as part of a series of off-site events this summer, A Journey Through London Subculture: 1980s to Now illustrates a perceived thread of creativity between the post-punk era and the present day - a legacy that underpins London's incredible creative potential in the present. Gilbert & George, John Maybury, House of Beauty & Culture, Tom Dixon, Jeffrey Hinton, Bodymap, St John, Alexander McQueen, Martino Gamper, Julie Verhoeven, Giles Deacon, Charlie Porter, Chisenhale Gallery, Lucky PDF, Vogue Fabrics Nightclub, Sibling, J W Anderson, Bethan Laura Wood, Matthew Darbyshire and Louise Gray are amongst the 60 influential figures from London’s creative scene involved in the project. The project occupies the vast first floor of The Old Selfridges Hotel, a cavernous industrial raw space, situated on Orchard Street directly above the Selfridges Food Hall. Project Supporters
text artist Text Text Site specific, the economic circles of viscious and virtuous circles, the old canals, the recession. As the sun moves through the day the shadows cast change from the viscious circle to the virtuous. Change is possible, we can move on. Below is the macquette for the installation Redacted Love Story Stick System, 1x4, Grey/Grey - MENU A/S Sticks that stick together. Wooden sticks and joints of steel are the components that transform the versatile Stick System into a shelving system, a clothing rack and a worktable; interior elements of strong constructions that are easily assembled and offer multifunctional solutions for residential use as well as the contract market. The organic construction of Stick System is the creation of Czech designers Jan Plecháč and Hennry Wielgus, who in recent years have earned recognition for their design philosophy.
Visit us - Roca London Gallery by Zaha Hadid Architects Travel options London Overground - The Imperial Wharf station links Clapham Junction in the south and Willesden Junction in the North. Trains also stop at West Brompton and Shepherd's Bush for underground. Bus - The C3 bus runs between Clapham Junction and Earl’s Court, stopping outside the Gallery. Design Initiative Design Initiative Announces Closure , the regional design development agency that supports the design sector in the North West, has announced its closure on 13th April 2012. The decision results from the loss of funding from a number of sources over the past 12 months. The organisation remains extremely proud of its achievements and the opportunities it has created for thousands of businesses in the region. Design Initiative has provided an active voice for the sector and through advocacy, information services and project management, has promoted the benefits of good design, worked with commissioners to secure work for designers and developed the infrastructure for design in the North West.
STAYCATION — Eric Trine Staycation is a home collection by artist/designers Will Bryant and Eric Trine. Riffing on the notes from their Alley-Oop collaboration earlier this year, Bryant and Trine have produced a series of pieces that are explicitly useful. Whereas, the objects created in Alley-Oop could be used for something, these objects exist as specific things—a chair, a lamp, a table, etc… In true Bryant and Trine fashion, they have turned this project into a game of bumper bowling, using these constraints to bounce off each other—creating ever more interesting ways to knock those pins down. The shortest distance between two points may in fact be in a line, but where’s the fun in that?
Christmas Past 2013 Time Out says Posted: Mon Sep 23 2013 One of London's prettiest attractions, tucked into a cleverly converted alms-house building, the Geffrye Museum in east London traces changes in middle-class taste in interior design from 1600 to the present day through a series of period room settings. At this time of year, a few carefully researched festive touches are added to each space: a spray of greenery here, a bauble there; nothing very flashy.
European Commission - Creative Europe: support programme for Europe's cultural and creative sectors from 2014 European culture, cinema, television, music, literature, performing arts, heritage and related areas will benefit from increased support under the European Commission's new Creative Europe programme, which was approved by the European Parliament on 19 November and by the Council of the EU on 5 December 2013. With a budget of €1.46 billion over the next seven years – 9% more than current levels – the programme will provide a boost for the cultural and creative sectors, which are a major source of jobs and growth. Please find all Calls for proposals under Creative Europe Creative Europe will provide funding for at least 250 000 artists and cultural professionals, 2 000 cinemas, 800 films and 4 500 book translations. It will also launch a new financial guarantee facility enabling small cultural and creative businesses to access up to €750 million in bank loans. 2014 updated video on Creative Europe