Rocket Prints

Apologies for the lack of posts, i am up to eye balls in a major project!
But must mention a sale of prints at the rocket gallery this Thursday. Featuring Robyn Denny, John Hoyland and Ellsworth Kelly amongst many others. Nice.

Favela Painting

Amazing looking stuff form the Favela Painting project.
"This art....has the potential of working as a catalyst of social renewal and change"

Cardiff & Miller

I have tried to make (low tech) musical furniture before and really like this new work by Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller. Very different style to mine but the same ethos - Playing furniture as it were an instrument. Watch the video here.

Committee

With the London Design Festival not far off, here is one of my highlights from the past couple of years. A dysfunctional family of objects by Committee.

"Continuing their anti-design explorations, Committee’s ‘Plastic Fandangos’ are non-sense products; visions of quotidian items from a parallel universe that parody and expose the oddness of our own familiar gadgets. They were designed to explore our perception of usefulness in product design and to question why things have evolved to be the shapes they are."

Dancing Feet

Very cool looking little invite i got through the door recently.

(Really hope to make it Tom. xxx)

Ark Booktower

Totally stunning piece by Rintala Eggertsson Architects, part of the small spaces investigation at the V&A. This is very wrongly not getting the headlines, because it is a gem. Five levels of cheap pine, bits of blockboard, exposed screws, hex bolts and wire have never felt so good. Reviews all focus on this lack of 'finish' here, but it is so far and beyond that level of critique. It is emotionally at ease, and at the same time fully inspiring, its a library, its a house, a sanctuary, a swaying (it moves a lot) scuplture, its somewhere i would like to spend lots of time, and sleep given half a chance.
The shelf framework is infilled by the books, all facing outward, acting not unlike insulation within a stud wall. But because you can only see the edges of the pages, its essentially a mono colour exterior, only revealing every hue imaginable as you enter and see the books covers.
Towers, by their conception, are not usually discreet, they are structures of power and presence, but that dynamic is wholly subverted here.
(Check out their site if you have a chance, the floating structures and buildings are super cool too.)