It was my 43rd birthday on Sunday, I know, I’m looking good for my age, and my darling other-half surprised me with a present of this brilliant cushion made by an anonymous prisoner currently residing at Her Majesties pleasure somewhere in Scotland. It’s entitled Moustaches – for obvious reasons – and features surface embroidered bushy moustaches. You can see the entire range of products from Fine Cell Work here.
Whilst trawling through the internet trying to find the website I came across this site which demonstrates prisoners’ incredible ingenuity when not guided. Unfortunately these are not available to buy on-line.
Nathan Usmar Lauder
Posted on Thursday, 10th of December 2009 Permalink
Everyone by now must have seen Muto the epic eight minute stop frame animation from Italian artist Blu. Well, to my delight he’s just completed a new film as part of the Fame festival which kicked off in Grottaglie Italy on the 19th of September this year. It’s called Combo and this time it’s a collaboration with David Ellis who has been making similar animations as part of Barnstormers since 1999.
Alex Geoffrey
Posted on Tuesday, 29th of September 2009 Permalink
There is a very welcome addition to the Grand Parade on the seafront in St Leonards on Sea. British designer Deborah Bowness has been busy renovating the space at No. 14 and will be opening her doors from the 5th September. Deborah has been designing and producing her sophisticated and unique hand printed wallpapers for seven years. We welcome her to the town and wish her every success.
Nathan Usmar Lauder
Posted on Wednesday, 19th of August 2009 Permalink
Sunday saw almost 200 models in the shape of children’s TV favourite Morph arranged in a terracotta army outside Tate Modern to honour the memory of the late TV artist Tony Hart. If you don’t know who Morph is, he appeared alongside Hart from 1977 on several of his UK TV programmes, notably Take Hart and Hartbeat. Tony Hart influenced a generation of artists and designers, including me. Check out the different morph renditions here.
Vikesh Bhatt
Posted on Monday, 2nd of March 2009 Permalink
Here’s a really nice Levi’s advertisement that I spotted down on Old Street. The ad is made up of different styles of real 501 jeans cut into the shape of butterflies. Check it out before it flies away!
John Alexander
Posted on Wednesday, 8th of October 2008 Permalink
The V&A was awash with con’s by the end of this years Village Fete. And what a sorry looking bunch of miscreants you all were – Dance Floor Murderers, Fraudsters, Racketeers, Fashion Criminals and Nuclear Arms Dealers all rubbed shoulders with the other law-abiding visitors.
Criminality saw no boundaries as offenders young and old queued up to have their fictional Civil Liberties stripped. Some followed in the footsteps of other dynamic-duos and chose to be photographed with a partner-in-crime, others took the wrap for themselves and stood in the docks alone. Either way we caught some real hardened crims and did our part at ridding the streets of some of society’s most dangerous transgressors.
Our thanks goes to all those who took part and kept us busy for the entire event. And, if there are any of you felons reading this who received a Fibre Criminal Record, can you send us a scan of the picture side of your cards so that we can add it to our files.
Alex Geoffrey
Posted on Tuesday, 29th of July 2008 Permalink
In the US, marshmallow Peeps are as famous as the Easter Bunny. Introduced in 1952, the sickly confections were originally only in yellow chick form, hence the name. Now they come in a variety of shapes, colours and flavours, which makes them ideal material for building sickly sweet dioramas. The Washington Post has just judged it’s second annual Peeps Diorama Contest and with over 800 entries, it’s clearly catching on.
TV shows, films or the year’s events inspire many of the entries such as this year’s winner “The Tomb of King Peepankhamun” by Laura Sillers. My favourite however is Sue Hauser’s campfire scene “Suddenly There Was a Peep!” in which four Peep rabbits toast their marshmallows over a fire – surely that’s cannibalism?!
David Rainbird
Posted on Tuesday, 25th of March 2008 Permalink
Seeing David’s earlier post, titled ’Flaming Logos’, it was clear that a lot of work was put into recreating those 80s motion graphics logos. Plenty of 3D and a good dose of Flame or After Effects I’d wager.
After Effects, Schmafter Effects. Check out how they did this back in the day…
Who needs Maya when you’ve got 6 craftsmen sweating night and day over 3 months, a motion control camera from the ark, and some old school ingenuity.
Hey, I know it’s a 10 minute video, but trust me it’s worth it just for the soundtrack… Altogether now, “Pay a little closer attention to detail…All the things you’re taking for granted… Are just as important as what you see”
Gary Butcher
Posted on Friday, 14th of March 2008 Permalink
Rejoice! The Thomas Heatherwick Christmas card has arrived! This Heatherwick tradition has three simple rules – the stamp that plays a central part in the design, an unusual production technique and the involvement of the Mount Pleasant sorting office. The result is that rare thing – the Christmas card that never gets thrown away.
And this year’s card is no exception, the stamp is the star atop a Christmas tree that looks as though it has been drawn in the snow with the stamps own perforations, revealing shiny metallic green. The stamp is cancelled with a gold frank that becomes part of the design and the whole thing is shipped in a glossy see-through envelope. Beautiful. Thank you Heatherwick Studio!
Jennifer Kabat
Posted on Friday, 21st of December 2007 Permalink
Director Aaron Duffy has combined his love of crochet with stop-motion to create The Special Guest. His new studio, SpecialGuest, is dedicated to the use of stop-motion, CG and cell-animation, and has created some quite charming story-driven animations. See them at his crafty website. Link
David Rainbird
Posted on Thursday, 29th of November 2007 Permalink
