The Theatre of the Air/ AIRSPACE ACTIVISM=ENACTING THE INVISIBLE
is a set of 2 exhibitions – in London and Newcastle
it is the fruit of the collaboration in between geography researcher Dr Alison J Williams and Interactions designer Nelly Ben Hayoun

Where beats this Human Heart/ Space in Between
Exhibition runs 19/06/10 ‐ 23/06/10
The Bunker
@ The Print House
18 Ashwin street
London E8 3DL

A disused WWII air raid shelter in Dalston, East London, is the backdrop for the exhibition. Inside the passages and chambers of this dark and cavernous subterranean, 5 artists have created a spectacle of sensory and experiential overload.
Use an audio locator to spot the planes coming!

Interventions/ Newcastle University
Exhibition runs 28th June- 2nd July
The Exlibris Gallery
The Quadrangle
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU

Who owns the airspace above our heads? How can we take back control of these spaces? What is the extent of the airspace we can control?

Nelly Ben Hayoun (Interactions designer) and Dr Alison J Williams (geography researcher) met through the Interventions Project, an initiative based in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Newcastle University, UK. This venture teamed for 8 weeks designers with social scientists to develop innovative ways of commenting on their academic research.

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Max Lamb and Lars Frideen designed our popup shop and kitchen in Milan for FoodMarketo. Look below: a few pictures of those beautiful crates that we used for FoodMarketo in Milan; most of them were sourced at a nearby market, and later assembled togeher to form our central table on which we cooked, held workshop and shared wonderful meals throughout the week.

* Just so that we keep your apetite high enough, we are currently working on the second opus of FoodMarketo – this time in London, during the Design Week.

** Stay in touch via this blog RSS or the newsletter; more information when the dates will be set…

Alexandre Bettler (co-founder of DesignMarketo), Régis Tosetti and Loris&Livia are part of the exhibition Switzerland Design for Life at the A Foundation – along with our friends Laurent Benner, Jürg and Urs Lehni and Lex Trub. The show will feature as well Bureau Collective, Bureau Destruct, Elena Rendina, Grotesk, GVA Studio, ID Pure studio, Kellenberger-White, Kueng Caputo, Nerves, Stefan Jost, Super Position, Voegeli Voegeli, Zak Kyes and a few others.

* The show is on from this friday (private view by invitation) until July the 1st, 2010
** A Foundation: Rochelle School and Club – Arnold Circus, London E2 Old Street tube station, Shoreditch Overground (East London Line)

All Cats Are Grey are going to sell their fantastic collection and designs – GO! and visit them (they are on a stall with their friend Cleo).

Art Car Boot Fair 2010
Sunday 6th June, 12-6pm
146 Brick Lane E1
Tube: White Chapel, Aldgate East, Liverpool Street

This Sunday, the girls are joining over sixty exciting pitches with regular booters Sir Peter Blake, Gavin Turk, Bob & Roberta Smith and Pam Hogg joined by Martin Creed, Billy Childish, Pete Fowler, Oliver Guy Watkins, Ian Dawson and Jessica Albarn, for this year’s fresh and feisty take on what is already gearing up to be the hottest day of the year! Plus! Myriad entertainments from Gabby Young, Revere, Owada, Marawa, and the ultimate fun generators The Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club! Cool cocktails from The East Room, and epicurean delights from The Bath Pig, La Grotta home made ices, Mrs Marengo’s art cakes and St. John Bread & Wine!

http://allcatsaregreyprints.com/ / http://www.artcarbootfair.com/

The 2010 Art Car Boot Fair is gearing up to be the art world’s summer playground with lots of artful dodging and weaving, bartering and frivolity than ever before and serious art bargains to boot!
New! This year! A Wrestling Ring centrepiece featuring bouts of old school wrestling interspersed with some arty in-fighting and inbetween-bout secret auction thrills as this year’s crowds snap up Lucha Libre inspired original artworks from the UK’s most famous artists, the freshest talents and the coolest trend setters. Plus we’re upping the stakes with lots of artful games and gaming.

There’s a good lot going on today with books, earlier with the St Bride book we worked on – i just received an email from Amandine about the availability of the book featuring some of her recent typographic work.

You can buy the book directly from Mark Batty Publisher or from Amazon.

Amandine’s Booksetting Poster is available through DesignMarketo.

3D Typography
By Jeanette Abbink & Emily CM Anderson
Page Count: 224 pages
Size: 8.7 x 11 inches
Format: Casebound
Publication Date: June 2010
Price: $45
ISBN: 978-0-9841906-2-1

The authors
Jeanette Abbink opened the design studio Rational Beauty in 2008. Prior to opening Rational Beauty, Abbink was the founding creative director of Dwell magazine. She has also served as a designer and art director for numerous magazines, including The New York Times sports magazine Play, as well as American Craft and Martha Stewart Living.

Graphic designer Emily CM Anderson was selected as an Art Directors Club Young Gun 6 in 2008. She has worked for magazines such as Dwell and American Craft, and co-designed the book Brooklyn Modern for Rizzoli.

From type crafted of steel and neon, to carefully-cut live moss, everyday items like buttons and sugar cubes, to giant installments of polythene and paper, the work in 3D Typography serves as a bold reaction to the fact that so much of today’s typography is conceived via screens.

“If you’re anything like us, you may never look at letters in quite the same way – and may even be inspired to undertake a project of your own,” said Abbink and Anderson. “As we learned, potential letterforms are everywhere, just waiting to be cut, carved, knitted, grown, spun, melted, molded, hammered, flown – and otherwise reclaimed.”

Along with a fascinating introduction by renown architecture and design critic Karrie Jacobs and interviews with artists, contributors include Amandine Alessandra, Thorbjørn Ankerstjerne, asa~ama, Autobahn, Huda Abdul Aziz, Andrew Byrom, Rhett Dashwood, Keetra Dean Dixon, Oded Ezer, Hikaru Furuhashi, Anna Garforth, Keith Hancox, HandMadeFont, Fons Hickmann, Karrie Jacobs, Gyöngy Laky, Amitis Pahlevan, Mike Perry, Clotilde Olyff, Miguel Ramirez, Camilo Rojas, Stefan Sagmeister, Dan Tobin Smith, Typeworkshop, Thijs Verbeek, Thomas Voorn and many, many more. For the full list of contributors and to learn more about the book visit the official website, http://3DTypographyBook.com.

* bravo Amandine! :)

FOUNT is available for pre-order; it will be on sale at St Bride Library tonight; right after Phil Baines’ conference on Puffin Books. Rather than a perfect book, FOUNT should be considered as a series of suggestions, an incomplete guide to designing and making a book. Its content has been directly sourced from St Bride’s bookshelves (which house some amazing and rare volumes) and we have also added a couple of extra annotation and instructions of our own.

This volume was created and compiled by Adam Chelstov, Jackson Lam, Patrick Lacey (åbäke) and Jérôme Rigaud (electronest) at the occasion of the Ninth Friends of St Bride Conference.

* You can come down to the talk and see the thing for real – or alternativelly you can pre-order it from DesignMarketo directly: http://designmarketo.com/fount/

We just received this invitation to the show Connectors, a selling exhibition of contemporary design organised by Phillipps de Pury & Company, Simon de Pury and Brent Dzekciorius.

Tòmas Alonso, Oscar Diaz, Glass Hill (Markus Bergström + Simon Jones + Joe Nunn), Max Lamb, Peter Marigold are part of the show

… along with Michael Antrobus, Pieke Bergmans, Best Made Company, Mark Braun, Julien Carretero, Michel Charlot, Tristan Chochrane, Charlotte Dumoncel d’Argence, Humans Since 1982, Tomas Kral, Nicolas Le Moigne, Finn Magee, Oscar Narud, Nendo, Leon Ransmeier, Raw Edges, Hanna Sandin, Marcus Tremonto and Oskar Zieta.

Connectors
Saatchi Gallery
Duke of Yorks HQ
King’s Road
London SW3 4SQ

* Tòmas Alonso, Oscar Diaz, Glass Hill (Markus Bergström + Simon Jones + Joe Nunn), Max Lamb, Peter Marigold all took part to FoodMarketo for the Milan Furniture Fair last April.

** Phillips de Pury & Company successful introduce the best of new art talent to the secondary market as well as hosting a significant range of selling shows for contemporary artists and designers. http://www.phillipsdepury.com/

*** This the text that is accompanying Glass Hill piece:

We asked Markus Bergström and Joe Nunn to create
a chair that would complement their design for the
exhibition space at Phillips de Pury. The duo from
Glass Hill responded with this perfectly propor-
tioned seat that speaks to the virtues of simplicity,
form, and craftsmanship, and our need for them.
Asked about their process, they said well-consid-
ered dimensionality speaks with the greatest elo-
quence. We agree.

‘Southern yellow pine variously planed, dimensioned
and machined. 450 mm front seat height pitched at 3
degrees to rear along 290 mm deep seat. Back rest
opens at 102.5 degrees from seat plane rising to
760mm above floor height and dropping 290 mm
towards to seat back. Overall depth of seat area from
back rest plane is 360 mm. Seat is mounted to double
rails set at an angle 6 degrees from seat edge with 8 no.
4×40 mm screws. Both rails are ex45× 60mm with a
machined top angle of 4 degrees in opposing lateral
planes. All legs and support for back rest are mortised
into this rail. Front legs mount perpendicular to rail
and seat, back leg at 24 degrees from seat angle and
back rest mount at 12.5 degrees on opposing (top)
surface. The rail’s pitch pushes the front legs out to
the limits of the chairs overall width of 340 mm dic-
tated by the square cut seat and back. The sides of the
chair are parallel.’ – Glass Hill