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New Work: Scope Miami

In recent years my work has focused more on sculpture, often using found materials to create new forms. These three dimensional pieces are almost an antidote to the hours spent working digitally.

I’ll be exhibiting at SCOPE for the second time this year where I have new work to be shown for the first time. The event takes place from November 29th until December 4th and celebrates 11 years of SCOPE, running concurrently this year with Art Basel Miami.

There are a few more images here on Flickr.

Posted Saturday, November 26th, 2011 in Art, Exhibition, News, by hand | No Comments »

HELP JAPAN

W+K have created this handmade print designed by Max Erdenberger to raise relief funds for the the devastating 8.9 earthquake and subsequent massive tsunami that struck Japan March 11, 2011. So far they’ve raised raised over $4,000 to help the earthquake relief in Japan. Take yourself here to donate and get your print.

40″x26″ 1-color screenprint on Neenah Environment Ultra Bright White 80# Cover.

Posted Monday, March 14th, 2011 in Design, Exhibition, News, Uncategorized, by hand | No Comments »

SCOPE NEW YORK

I’m very happy to be taking part in this years Scope art show in New York which opens on the 2nd of March. It’s the largest and most global art fair in the world featuring emerging contemporary art with 7 markets worldwide. I’ll be represented once more by C. Emerson Fine Arts who’ve done an amazing job over the last two years.

There will be three new sculptures and drawings created for the show, along with a small selection of previous work. The show runs until March 6th.

For more images, take a look here.

Posted Tuesday, March 1st, 2011 in Art, Design, Exhibition, News, by hand | No Comments »

A History of Knee High Japan: The In Sound From Way Out

Lucas Badtke-Berkow has been exploring the world of the printed page in Japan for the past 16 years with his company Knee High Media, producing inspirational, independent and open-minded publications and consistently looking at things with new eyes and an infectious inquisitiveness of the world around him.

Starting with Tokion magazine (which I wrote about in Level issue 05 over 1o years ago— ‘part 1’ of this story) Lucas and his company have remained absolutely true to their values while developing new and exceptional places, products, events and publications for themselves and others—and most importantly, for this one-island Earth.

Here’s the full story of the Knee High Media history I wrote for Level recently with a slideshow of extensive archive photographs and cover art.

Posted Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011 in Design, News, Publications, Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Emer Swift Bike

When I first found out about this it was a complete surprise, two friends I grew up riding BMX with have designed a completely new bike. Johann Chan the owner and designer at Emer has a long history in BMX, producing clothes, sponsoring riders, making videos, organising competitions as well as still being a great rider today.

Tired of being overtaken by mountain bikes, racers and folding bikes on his 12 mile commute to work. Johann wanted to design a new kind of bike that rides with modern BMX geometry but with the benefits of the large, fast wheels that you’d find on a cruiser,. It has the same agile body position as a modern BMX but combined with a short rear end making it perfect for manuals, a cruiser for people who want to beat fixies to the pub.

Mark Noble at Deluxe helped with tried and tested quality manufacturing, the design is simple and elegant in gloss black and gold with graphics created by typeface designer Seb Lester – also a BMX flatland rider – bringing the image of the Swift to life with beautiful hand drawn lettering and head badge, also available in gold and black print t-shirts here.

The bike is in prototype stages at the moment, and should be out hopefully by the end of the year.

Posted Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 in Bikes, Design, News, Uncategorized, by hand | No Comments »

The Terminal Bar

There’s an exhibition at Trove Gallery showing 810 of Sheldon Nadelman’s portraits, all shot at Manhattan’s Terminal Bar over a ten year period from 1972-1982. There are some more photographs here and an interesting video interview with the curator Morgan Quaintance here.

Check the Trove website for dates and times.

Posted Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 in Art, Exhibition, News | No Comments »

Not My Type: An Out of Character Experiment

I’ll be bringing forward a big wooden ‘O’ to this project. A typographical exploration of 26 letters (and a few sneaky characters) by 35 talented illustrators, designers and artists, all displayed in one giant alphabet.

The work is going to be stylistically diverse, with artists ranging from Jon Burgerman, I Love Dust, Sam Pierpoint, Lewes Harriot, Dan Westwood and members of The Outcrowd.  The exhibition will be showing initially in the Created In Birmingham store, opening May 6th; all prints will be available to buy from both the store and through the Facebook group here, although the designs are going to be kept secret until the day of the opening.

Posted Monday, April 19th, 2010 in Art, Design, Exhibition, News, by hand | No Comments »

A Beautiful Machine

I’ve just finished this new piece of work for an exhibition celebrating everything about bikes, curated by howies & McFaul Studio. It’s a two-week event of art, talk and bikes, based above the howies store in Bristol, with work created specifically for this even from over 50 global artists inluding; Jody Barton, Mr Jago, Stef Grindley, Vault 49,  Jon Burgerman and ilovedust.

All artwork at the event will be for sale with all money going to the Save the Children – Haiti Earthquake appeal. The auction will begin at 7pm Friday 26th March and will end at 10pm Friday 9th April.

The website is here.

Posted Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 in Art, Bikes, Design, Exhibition, Lectures, News, Uncategorized, by hand | 1 Comment »

To Haiti With Love

I was recently asked to contribute to To Haiti With Love, a worthwhile cause with a slight difference, when you donate you actually get a piece of artwork as a digital file. You can send this onto a friend or simply use the image as your own desktop wallpaper. Each piece of work will be sold as a digital postcard for £1 to raise money to help the situation in Haiti.

There are artists from around the world donating work, with more getting involved as this project snowballs every day. Some of the artists so far include; David Shrigley, Genevieve Gauckler, Bob Kronbauer, Simon Peplow, Alex Trochut and Rob Ryan with photographers Ye Rin Mok,  Cass Bird and Valerie Phillips recently getting involved.

The piece i’ve donated was created with Jonny Costello originally in a project with Digiki. We’ve also included a signed one-off print of the work on archival quality paper which will go into a live auction at the end of the project.

Posted Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 in Art, Design, Exhibition, News, by hand | No Comments »

Campags and Campfires

In August I made the equally pleasurable and painful journey from Exeter to Bude, on the coast of Cornwall. With a bike a tent a camera and a friend, not realising just how hilly that part of England actually is. There’s a little piece I wrote for Level here with photographs by myself and Simon Peplow. There are a few more photos over at Flickr.

Posted Saturday, November 14th, 2009 in Bikes, News | No Comments »