Shelter House of Cards Exhibition
I haven’t been able to go to all of the London Design Festival events that I wanted to this week, there was just too many and not enough time, but the Shelter House of Cards exhibition launch is one non-London Design Festival event I have had on the ‘cards’ for a while now, so I was really looking forward to checking it out at the Haunch of Venison Gallery. In short, Shelter asked 53 designers and creatives (including a ‘joker’) to create a deck of cards inspired by Shelter’s recent House of Cards campaign and to be silently auctioned off to raise money for the work Shelter does. Participating artists included: Nick Park, Sir Terence Conran, Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, Damien Hirst, Amelia’s Magazine, NB Studio, Neville Brody, Jon Burgerman, D*Face, Henry Holland, Experimental Jetset and Mauricio Ortiz, who was the winner of a public competition that Shelter also ran as part of the campaign and exhibition.
My favourites were Ortiz’s 8 of clubs, Burgerman’s 9 of clubs, D*Face’s Queen of clubs, Ella Doran’s three of diamonds ‘cushion’, Experimental Jetset’s 9 of diamonds, Park’s 6 of spades, McQueen’s King of spades ‘sculpture‘, Amelia’s Magazine’s 2 of hearts, Amanda Levete Architects 3 of hearts, M/M Pari’s 4 of hearts, Polly Morgan’s 10 of hearts, Gerald Scarfe’s Jack of hearts, Antoni and Alison’s ace of clubs, NB Studio’s 2 of clubs and Lacey’s 5 of clubs. Check out a full set of exhibition photos on my Flickr page here.
www.shelterhouseofcards.org.uk
What a great looking exhibition! I wish I could have seen these up close!
Just wanted to say “thank you” for your kind comments and featuring my design for the ‘Eight of Clubs’ in your blog. Great photos by the way! I am very happy to have been given the opportunity to participate in SHELTER’s House of Cards campaign and would urge anyone who has not already done so to purchase a set of the very smart limited edition A5 art cards – all proceeds go to SHELTER the housing and homelessness charity. Mauricio Ortiz
Mauricio,
No worries – yours was one of the best there – reminded me of the Banksy insect hacks he did, really liked it – I am going to get one of the cards sets soon! :)