Art
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Do Ho Suh at the Tate modern
Do Ho Suh merging his childhood hanock home with a 19th century american townhouse in polycarbonate sheet…
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Are you Good Enough for the Cha Cha Cha? Stephen Willats
I first came across Stephen Willat’s work in the Tate Britain which was showing his piece ‘Living with Practical Realities’ which captured the reality of an elderly lady living in high rise flats. I was taken with the way he presented the information, in a sort of photomontage meets service design customer journey map. I…
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A surprise Giorgio Griffa at the Tate modern
Finding Three lines with arabesque No.111 by Giorgio Griffa in the Tate modern.
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7 Reece Mews Francis Bacon’s Studio at the Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin
Francis Bacon’s studio at the Hugh Lane gallery.
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a fleeting rather joyous moment – Calder again
Who has an Anthony Calder sculpture by their swimming pool? La Colombe d’Or hotel.
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The Life and Opinions of John Baldessari, artist
John Baldessari and Laurence Sterne. There is an edition of ‘The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemen’, written by Lawrence Sterne, printed by Arion Press with 39 photo-collage illustrations by John Baldessari in his own unique style. Discovered by coincidence after reading Baldessari’s obituary. I have always liked the coloured circles on his photo-collages.…
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a fleeting rather joyous moment – Hockney
Who has an an orange football in their bath room? David Hockney.
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Stephen Willats , how tomorrow looks from then…
I saw these photo collages at the Tate modern ages ago and didn’t know what to make of them. Really struck me they were using the visual language of service design. But was very struck by their combination of messaging, diagrammatic structure and provocative text. I have spent a while looking around the internet and…
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Floating Sharks
Went to see Ashley Bickerton’s show at Newport Street gallery and was very taken with the hammerhead sharks floating around the space. For me Bikerton is something of a throwback to the eighties/nineties New York art scene. But I first saw the shark idea at Serpentine galleries in a show called ‘Some went mad some…
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Space Oddity
Thinking about branding at the moment and was reminded of this great photo of painting Atlantis name onto the space shuttles wing. Back when NASA was still using the ‘worm logotype’. Unit editions have printed the guidelines in their ‘Manual 1 Design & Identity Guidelines.’ NASA have also shared the guidelines here.
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