This is gonna be big! Roll on Thursday!
12th February 2010 – 27th March 2010
To kick-start 2010, Laz Inc are proud to present a rare treat in the form of Faile and long-time collaborator Bast. “The two floors of Lazarides Greek Street will be taken over for a truly experiential exhibition. Faile and Bast’s signature elements will resound throughout the gallery, creating an explosive installation.”
Together, Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann make up Langbaumann; Creating stunning and thought provoking outdoor/indoor installations. Nice stuff!
Houston born Ryan Browning, creates surreal, colourful landscapes and sculptures. Check out more here
Lovely images made with data and code.
Interesting set of images of the Firth’s old stomping ground by John Bulmer
Dan, here at Six pointed me towards the work of the young and talented Zhou Fan. Based on his childhood dreams, these paintings are an obscure and vivid tale of an alternative world; Detailed and colourful reenactments which have attracted a lot of attention through numerous exhibitions in New York, Germany and Shanghai. Definitely worth checking out.
The Apple iPad.
Overview
Six is an independent creative consultancy based in the UK, providing Design & Art Direction for brand, print and screen.
We concentrate on strong ideas, solid research, clear strategic thinking and attention to detail, and we choose our partners carefully in order to maintain the high standards of innovation and creative excellence that are central to our studio practice.
We are currently seeking to establish a relationship with an experienced front-end developer, either individual or small company, for collaboration on a range of web projects. Our eclectic client list offers diverse opportunities for expression, and we expect all our partners to approach this with the same energy and dedication as we do.
Working with Six as a front-end developer, you will become the interface through which our designs are realised. You will be an integral and vital part of the creative process, informing the project from concept to delivery, and working with our designers and art directors to create beautiful, usable interactive design.
Skills
• HTML
• CSS (SASS)
• Javascript / Jquery
• AJAX / JSON
• PHP / MYSQL
• Strong understanding of web standards / cross-browser compatibility
In addition, it is of vital importance that your eye for detail is as exacting as ours. You should be able to take a design from Photoshop / Illustrator and faithfully render the aesthetic as an interactive experience.
You should also have the initiative to take a proactive approach within a project — we consider the development stage of any project to be an integral part of the design process, and as such we rely on our development partners to take an active part.
As an external supplier, we also expect you to be experienced in putting together quotes and specifications on a project-by-project basis, as well as being available if necessary to attend pitches, briefings and meetings with prospective or current clients.
In return, we offer a long-term opportunity to work with good people on good projects, in an creatively charged environment designed to allow everyone involved to achieve their best. If this sounds like your kind of thing,
please contact: work@madebysix.com
This, although the program was on a couple years ago, is fancy. Found at Computerlove
Finally, God has put these two giants amongst men together. Found over at Terry’s Diary
The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and his Letters opened at the Royal Academy on Sunday.
Lucian Freud’s ‘Self Portrait with a Black Eye’ was painted in 1978, immediately after a fight with a cabbie. The work has remained in a private collection since, and will go on sale at Sotheby’s on February 10th, where it is expected to fetch £3million to £4million.
Thanks for @gradiate for pointing this out on twitter, I totally missed it on the night; Perhaps the lure of the bar distracted me. This is such a simple, understated but effective visual short. Michael and John made this time-lapse film set 2500ft up a big hill in the Great Langdale area of The Lake District. They shot continuously for 24 hours with the camera rotating twice through 360°.
Again, props to Will and Alex at ‘If You Could’ for putting the show on.
“Elzo Durt is an artist who uses serigraphy as a medium. His works translate the distress and desires of young adults; this mental confusion towards the complexity of everyday life translates into pop colours on surrealist collages.Elzo is inspired by music and vice versa. From rock and electro to hip-hop, the wacky world of Enzo is a rebuttal to the social and moral order, expressed throughout independent music. It’s a relationship where the world of music and graphic design work together through the creation and organisation of album covers or concerts.”
Nice stuff. Elzo will be showing at the Alice Gallery in Belgium very soon, 21.01.2010 – 27.02.2010. His site it worth a look.
Christian Boltanski has filled Paris’s Grand Palais with a 50-tonne mountain of clothes, and the sound of 15,000 heartbeats. Personnes is Boltanski’s new project for Monumenta, the annual Parisian equivalent to Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall commission.
Toy is an idea that unites independent artists for commissioned projects. Working collaboratively to apply a range of styles across product, motion, print and screen.
Via @FormFiftyFive
The Qlock is beautiful enough as it is, oddly enough even more so in German. You can get one here.
Monocle magazine has a store packed full of pretty things, one of the prettiest being this Delvaux newspaper bag. It’s £1,500, but one has to put ones newspaper somewhere.
William Eggleston, one of the most influential photographers of the last half century, has an exhibition of new photographs showing concurrently at two venues.
21st Century by William Eggleston will be on show at Victoria Miro Gallery, London from 15 January to 27 February and at Cheim & Read, New York from 7 January to 13 February 2010.
