I only found out about this yesterday, the Anti Design Festival is happening around Redchurch Street in London’s Shoreditch. Apparently there are a host of exhibitions, installations, workshops, performances and talks in Art, Design, Product, Film, Sound, Fashion, Performance, Print and Interactive etc.
This is what the website has to say “As a response to 25 years of cultural deep freeze in the UK, the Anti Design Festival will attempt to unlock creative fires and ideas, exploring spaces hitherto deemed out-of-bounds by a purely commercial criteria. Created initially as a direct response to the pretty commerciality of the London Design Festival, the festival will shift the focus from bums-on-seats to brain food, and from taste and style to experiment and risk.”
Go check it out.
Well this mornings Tube strike does have some benefits, you get to see things you would never normally see.
Probably the most iconic plane to ever to take to the sky, a Spitfire plus pilots outside St Paul’s Cathedral this morning which I am guessing is part of the 70th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain.
Spin have been busy updating their minimalist website. I really do like it when agencies take time out to present work well online. Great photography complimenting great work.
Continuing the trend of lunch time finds I came accross this lovely illustration portfolio by Jelle Gijsberts. You can’t really appreciate the amount of detail and crafting in them until you watch the video of how long a typical illustration takes to put together.
One of the most amazing things for me is that they are produced in photoshop from start to finish. Go check it out!
Is it me or has it become an English obsession to always focus on the negative?
I know it always happens with English sport but at the moment the British press are obsessed with giving us a daily dose of how bad the world is, how we are all going to succumb to the global downturn (credit crunch, doom and gloom, credit crisis, please feel free to insert your own) and that life in general will never be the same again so why bother.
Well it was nice this week to receive an email from William Corke (Harvest Digital) with a positive spin on the whole situation.
Subject: Nice upbeat comment from Audi’s CEO
When Rupert Stadler, Audi’s chief executive, was asked how his company was preparing for the downturn last autumn, he replied: “We heard about it, so we had a board meeting and discussed it thoroughly and have decided not to participate.”
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