Marian Bantjes Creative Visual Art – Dalston House: The Building That Lets You Defy Gravity Argentine artist Leandro Erlich was commissioned by the Barbican in London to install a version of his popular optical illusion that creates the visual effect of instant weightlessness. Using a wall of giant mirrors propped against a huge horizontal print of a Victorian terraced house, visitors are free to climb and jump around as their reflections appear to move freely without the pesky effects of gravity. Titled Dalston House the piece was erected in Hackney just off Dalston Junction. Dalston House is open and free to all visitors until August 4th.
Alison Carmichael Posters - A Bunch of Crock The series consists of 12 posters. Below each poster is a quote, fact or an anecdote that served as the inspiration for that particular poster. If you're interested in buying a poster, visit my store. Television Nearly one-in-five (18%) Americans say President Barack Obama is a Muslim. Source: Pew Research Center / What were those 18% doing when the Reverend Jeremiah Wright controversy was on TV 24/7? Colored People ‘’I want to be able to say what’s on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful.’’– Laura Schlessinger, 63, radio host, announcing her decision to quit her show following complaints over her use of the word “nigger” 11 times during an on-air phone call Source: Time magazine / And here’s a tweet by Sarah Palin in support of Laura Schlessinger and her vocabulary: “Dr.Laura:don’t retreat...reload! Democrats ‘’I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country. Earth ‘’It’s a flat-out lie. Source: New York Times
Alan Fletcher Alan Fletcher Graphic Designer (1931-2006) Alan Fletcher: fifty years of graphic work (and play) 11 November 2006 - 18 February 2007 Designed to be opened at random, The Art of Looking Sideways, Alan Fletcher’s 2001 book, is an unfailing source of wit, elegance and inspiration. While designers and design students rifle through its pages for ideas, others enjoy its gently provocative mind-teasers. Alan Fletcher is one of the most influential figures in post-war British graphic design. Born to a British family in Kenya 1931, Fletcher came to Britain as a five year-old after his father became terminally ill to be bought up by his mother and grandparents in West London. During the 1950s he attended four different art schools, each one more forward looking and cosmopolitan than the last. Towards the end of Fletcher’s three-year stint at the RCA, the head of design Richard Guyatt exchanged places with Alvin Eisenman, his opposite number at Yale University. © Design Museum + British Council, 2006
Hi-Fructose Magazine | New Contemporary Art Magazine Alan Kitching Freedom not Genius: Works from Damien Hirst’s Murderme Collection ‘Freedom not Genius’ is the first exhibition of work from Damien Hirst’s Murderme collection to go on display since ‘In the darkest hour there may be light’ was presented at the Serpentine Gallery, London in 2006. Curated by Elena Geuna for the Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin, it features over fifty artists and spans five centuries. Taking Picasso’s ‘Nature morte au crâne et au pot’ (1943) as its starting point, the exhibition includes the work of some of the twentieth century's most significant artists including Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol and Bruce Nauman, alongside contemporaries of Hirst such as Tracy Emin and Sarah Lucas. It also features a collection of sixteenth and seventeenth century skulls and objects of curiosity. Amassed since the early 90’s when Hirst began trading work with his contemporaries, the exhibition reflects the artist’s life-long commitment to the process of collecting, something he describes as: “|ike stuff washed up on a beach somewhere, and that somewhere is you.”
Edward Johnston Edward Johnston, 1902 Early life[edit] The family returned to England in 1875. After his mother's death, his father was remarried, to a sister of Robert Chalmers, 1st Baron Chalmers. Career[edit] After studying published copies of manuscripts by architect William Harrison Cowlishaw, and a handbook by Edward F. He has also been credited for reviving the art of modern penmanship and lettering single-handedly through his books and teachings. Private life[edit] He met Greta Grieg, a Scottish schoolmistress, in 1900, and they were married in 1903. Publications[edit] Johnston Sans printing blocks Johnston, Edward (1995). References[edit] Further reading[edit]
Eric Gill Bob Cobbing Bob Cobbing (30 July 1920 – 29 September 2002) was a British sound, visual, concrete and performance poet who was a central figure in the British Poetry Revival. Early life[edit] Cobbing was born in Enfield and grew up within the Plymouth Brethren. Early involvement with poetry and performance[edit] His involvement with performance began with the Hendon Experimental Art Club and the Hendon-based magazine And in 1951. Better Books[edit] He left teaching around this time and managed Better Books on Charing Cross Road, London. This shop was the venue for a number of events and happenings associated with what Cobbing's friend Jeff Nuttall termed the Bomb Culture, the British version of the 1960s counterculture. The 1970s[edit] During the first half of the 1970s, Cobbing was able to use the facilities of the Poetry Society to produce Writers Forum books. In the early 1970s the Poetry Society did not have any printing facilities. Later life and work[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]