Out & About: Go Figure: New Fashion Illustration Exhibition at the LCF

This looks like a great exhibition, featuring Lesley Barnes, friend of T&C; amongst other amazing fashion illustrators. 'Ligaya Salazar, contemporary curator at the Victoria & Albert Museum, follows on from her celebrated retrospective of Yohji Yamaoto’s career with this exhibition at London College of Fashion’s Fashion Space Gallery.'

"The exhibition brings together more than sixty works from thirteen different fashion illustrators who work in a variety of media, from the digital to the hand-drawn via the physical. Each of these illustrators comes from a very different background, from fashion design, photography to animation. We wanted to reflect what is really going on in the field rather than get caught up in a debate around which way of making is better than another way."

Featured illustrators:
Richard Kilroy
Artaksiniya
Tara Dougans
Hanna Mueller
Jarno Kettunen
Rosie McGuinness
Zoya Smirnova
Lesley Barnes
Cristian Grossi
Laura Laine
Ingela Och V
Eugenia Alejos
Sabine Pieper

Go Figure: New Fashion Illustration
9 May – 21 July 2012 
Fashion Space Gallery, London College of Fashion
20 John Princes Street, W1G 0BJ

Found via Jotta.

Out & About: Sandra Dieckmann Solo Show

The wonderfully talented and friend of T&C, Sandra Dieckmann, is having her first solo show right now! From 15th May (yesterday!) until 12th June, pop down to The Beach Hut and have a gander at some of her beautiful work.

The Beach Hut
28a Highbury Park
London N5 2AA

xx

Out & About: British Design 1948-2012 at the V&A

Last week I popped along to the V&A to check out their new British Design 1948-2012: Innovation in the Modern Age Exhibition.

It's an "homage to the creative spirit of Britain's design story over the past 60 years. Using the 1948 London ‘Austerity Olympics’ (the scaled-back post war games) as its starting hook, the show's buoyant, can-do attitude echoes the spirit of current Olympic anticipation.

This is the first time the subject of British post-war design and art has been tackled on such a scale. The narrative, bolstered by over 350 objects (250 harvested from the V&A’s archive collection) looks at some of the country's key design innovations, spanning everything from fashion, furniture, fine art, graphic design, photography and ceramics, to architecture and industrial products."

Unfortunately, you're not allowed to take photos while in the exhibition so I'll have to make do with ones borrowed from le interwebs.

On that note, before I continue - I think it's horribly archaic to ban photos from exhibitions these days. SLRs, ok, fine, I can understand because of copying/copyright issues as they are such high res, but tiny digitals and camera phones? Please. This is the age of the internet, of sharing, and the way in which the exhibition staff pounced on me as I got my phone out of my pocket was disgusting. "You can't take photos!!!" they yelled (loudly) "Yes, I know, I'm texting...?" (which I actually was) "Yes, well, you can't take photos in here!" What the actual frog? Seriously. It made me extremely uncomfortable. Most people have blogs or tumblrs these days, and want to post their thoughts on exhibitions etc - it's not 'revenue protection', it's out of touch and it's wrong.

So anyway, the exhibition starts in 1948, just after the war and before the coronation of Elizabeth II and the Festival of Britain. It continues chronologically, depicting most major British design successes in a fairly comprehensible layout.

 Ah, David Bowie. How we love thee.

The punk era section was one of my favourites I think. As was the Factory Records/Hacienda-esque corner, too. Nice originals from Peter Saville for great record covers from New Order and Joy Division.

 Lots of beautiful examples of great British textile designs too - we often forget we were once the world leaders in textile design and manufacturing.

 Some amazingly well preserved Mary Quant and Cecil Beaton dresses.

 V&A British Design 1948-2012 Exhibition Print Collateral by Barnbrook Design - the collage image was enough in itself to make me want to go!

I came out of the exhibition feeling thoroughly proud of this country's design heritage - everything from Grand Theft Auto (yes, a british made game) to Alexander McQueen, Jamie Reid to Concorde - it really makes you think about how much this country has done. I thoroughly recommend spending a couple of hours here. Amazing.

Out & About: "Tales from a pea green boat" Le Garage Gallery

"The owl and the pussycat went to sea…"

Holly Clifton-Brown, Jennifer Pitchers and Sarah Dennis warmly invite you to an exhibition of illustration to celebrate Edward Lear’s 200th anniversary!

This exhibition will convey the timeless limericks and literacy nonsense of Edward Lear though three diverse and complementary mediums: paint, collage and etching.

Sounds amazing! You can find the exhibition in the wonderful creative hub that is Dulwich:

"Tales from a pea green boat"
Le Garage Gallery
115 Dulwich Road
Herne Hill, London
SE24 ONG
http://apeagreenboat.tumblr.com/
https://vimeo.com/35986922

The exhibition runs from Thursday 5th April - 18th April, 9.30am - 6.30pm every day. See you there!

Outline Editions presents ‘The Joys of Spring’ - An Exhibition

Hey Crayonettes! (That's what I'm going to call all you lovely T&C fans ^.^)

There's an ace new exhibition on in London, starting this friday, that I know lots of you will be interested in. Following its hugely successful winter show, Outline Editions is on a seasonal cheer-up mission, with  a new exhibition of specially commissioned, Spring-themed prints at their buzzing pop-up gallery in Berwick Street, Soho.

The show will include work from some of Britain’s most in-demand image-makers. Anthony Burrill, Kate Moross, Noma Bar, David Foldvari, Beyond The Valley and Klaus Haapaniemi are among the roll call of new-wave graphic artists whose work will be on display.

The gallery, in a former second-hand record store, will be transformed for springtime by the internationally renowned Anthony Burrill, who is creating a bold new design for the front window and interior space.

In addition to the wall art, Outline Editions will be selling a selection of T-shirts, books, plates and other products created by Kate Moross, Anthony Burrill, Supermundane, Emily Forgot and David Foldvari.

 

Kate Moross

 

Beyond The Valley

Berwick Street is a great location, right in the centre of Soho, a great place to be.

‘The Joys of Spring’ runs from 4 March– 9th April 2011, Tuesday to Saturday, 12pm to 6.30pm at 94 Berwick St, London W1F 0QF.

I’ve kindly been invited to go to the Private View on 3rd March (after I’ve had my hair cut; been waiting so long for that damn appointment!) So will take tonnes of photos, if I make it in time! Really exciting, hope I get to meet a couple of the artists. Noma Bar is one of my favourites, I went to one of his talks at a Glug Meet Up and he’s so inspirational:

The folkloric fantasia of fashion-favourite Klaus Haapaniemi (below) are among the highlights of this celebration of graphic art’s new wave.

The temporary gallery is designed by master-sloganeer and all-round graphic god Anthony Burrill:

Specially commissioned limited-edition prints will be available, from £15 to £200, and also available from the online shop at outline-editions.co.uk from 4th March.
Can’t wait! Are any of you guys going to take a visit?

Rachel L x x