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New Work: Scope Miami

admin — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:12:25 +0000

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.

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.

There are a few more images here on Flickr.

HELP JAPAN

admin — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 01:16:44 +0000

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.

SCOPE NEW YORK

admin — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:12:08 +0000

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.

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

admin — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:01:44 +0000

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.

The Emer Swift Bike

admin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:25:42 +0000

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.

The Terminal Bar

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:08:01 +0000

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.

The Maid

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:35:24 +0000

These huge quad size cinema posters arrived today, something i’ve been working on for Artificial Eye at Fluid. The design was created using a combination of traditional brushwork and some serious Photoshop, at one point the file was a painful 6 gigabytes! You can see a larger version here.

Abracadabra Island at the Tate

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:14:18 +0000

I heard today that the Abracadabra Island zine by myself and Jonny Costello has been accepted as part of the Tate Gallery’s Rude Britannia exhibition at Tate Britain from 9th June – 5th September. The book will be exhibited in the British Comic Art area of the show, something we’re really excited about.
The same title is also going to be exhibited and sold at this years Tokyo Art Book Fair organized by ZINE’S MATE which runs from 30th July – 1st August in Shibuya and Chiyoda. Last years show was an amazing with over 8,000 visitors and 150 exhibitors, including Nieves, Paperback, Printed Matter, Daiwa Press, Taka Ishii Gallery and Motto.

Not My Type: An Out of Character Experiment

admin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:38:19 +0000

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.

A Beautiful Machine

admin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:14:11 +0000

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.