My wife Olivia has recently launched her new website promoting her work as an art consultant and dealer.
I’ve been lucky enough to meet all of the artists she works with personally, and their quality is superb. Web design layout by yours truly.
www.oliviaconnelly.com
As part of my partnership with Choque Cultural gallery we decided to co-publish some screenprints together with artists that we both wanted to work with. The first up is a print by the French artist Remed printed in Brighton with Artizan Editions. Two colours on Roaspina paper.
The prints are now on sale on the UK website and in the gallery in Sao Paulo.
Remed is artist I’ve been wanting to work with for a while since featuring him in Street Sketchbook. Since then I seem to bump into him everywhere – Spain, France, UK and Sao Paulo…
For a number of months I have been working with a team of students from Brislington Enterprise College, Bristol to produce a magazine called Smudge.
Once a week I worked with the students, introducing them to design ideas and generally helped them realise their own ideas for the magazine. The broad theme of this issue was ‘Space’ so the students looked at issues ranging from local places to Outer Space. The team made their own puppet story, took photographs, designed type, wrote poems, interviewed artists and reviewed films and generally worked very hard!
The project was facilitated by Creative Partnerships.
The pictures here are from this weeks launch party – which featured these great fairy cakes using images from the magazine.
Habitat Mugs series. For around two years I’ve been talking to Habitat about curating and designing a series of mugs with the theme of stencils. Finally they have been made and are in the shops – sporting artwork by Pablo Fiasco and James Dodd. Turned out well!
I finally have a printed copy of my new book “Street Sketchbook” published by Thames and Hudson, ISBN 978 0500 513620. The book will not reach the shelves for another few weeks yet.
I have to say that its looking fantastic – hard bound, rounded corners, spot varnished cover and 272 pages!
After two years hard work [...]
http://www.streetsketchbook.com/
Just finished designing a flyer and poster for Modern Art Oxford’s next Late series on Friday 21 September 2007. The night features paintings by Stella Vine with music by Katiejane Garside and Gina Birch.
Congratulations to friend and collaborator Tony De Marco whose photographs are on the cover of the current issue of Creative Review. Tony is a font designer, publisher and artist based in Sao Paulo. The acompanying story is quite amazing. In September last year a law was passed banning all outdoor advertising in the city. As the advertising has been removed the architecture of many giant billboards has been revealed as documented in Tony’s great photographs. Sao Paulo is a city close to my heart – I believe I’ve visited 7 times now! So any news stories there are always interesting to me.
For the accompanying story by Patrick Burgoyne read here – http://www.designverb.com/2007/06/19/sao-paulo-city-without-ads/
For more of Tony’s photographs see here – http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonydemarco/sets//
Artist and curator Vlad Nanca has invited myself and Kasia Korczak to give a few talks in Bucharest – my first time in Romania.
http://vladnanca.blogspot.com/2005_10_01_vladnanca_archive.html
Slav poster is by artist and designer Kasia Korczak. For more about her work check here – http://www.slavsandtatars.com/