Jasper Goodall ‘Poster Girl’ Exhibition
A quick visit to the Electric Blue Gallery this evening in Aldgate to see the first solo show, ‘Poster Girl‘ by designer and illustrator Jasper Goodall. The exhibition was a creative take on his fetish interests combining women and the poster format together to create the final piece. My favourite piece definitely had to be the black Bambi one (shown above), but there was brilliant work throughout.
Downstairs was a selection of his screen prints including his famous ‘Love vs Lust‘, ‘Wisdom‘ and ‘Wrath‘ gold foil set of prints, great stuff.
OOH! Identity in Berlin
From the creators of Cunning, comes a new company, called OOH! (Out Of Home) I did this a while back in November, but the OOH! identity and website has only gone live online recently. I was asked by Cunning to go back to the Hauptbahnhof and re-photograph the BBC ‘Big Mic’ but this time with the ‘OOH!’ letters that they shipped over to me to put the new identity into context. So now my photographs can be seen on the homepage and mobile sections of the OOH! website. I even managed to get the spoof security guard looking after the BBC ‘Big Mic’ to strike a pose with the identity.
Here’s a short video of what OOH! is all about.
Create Berlin Exhibition
This evening I went to the Temporary Kunsthalle to go to the Create Berlin, ‘20 Years Since the Fall of the Wall – Free Space‘ exhibition. Fellow designer at Pentagram, Josephine Rank and her collaborators Mijuly & Ca were in the exhibition so I got an invite from that. The Mayor of Berlin and several other important figures were in attendance this evening, so the place was packed out, I could just about squeeze by everyone to see the work.
The clue is in the name, but all pieces on display were ideas and interpretations around the Berlin Wall. All work was in different mediums and I especially liked the 3-D (with glasses provided) typographic piece of the TV Tower, the football scarves, the projections and information about healthcare in Berlin and Josephine and her team’s beds, which can be seen below (I couldn’t quite get as good a picture because it was so busy)
This was the exhibition that I missed back in the summer when it was on in Brick Lane as part of Design Week, so I’m glad I managed to take a look at it a second time around. I also picked up a lovely set of postcards of the exhibition in a neatly packaged foil envelope! See the rest of the photos on my Flickr page here.
Manystuff Qompendium Exhibition + Do You Read Me?
I attempted to visit the Qompendium Time Capsule Series Exhibition hosted by Manystuff last night, but with a lovely detour (getting lost) near Friedrichstrasse, I got there when it closed. I did still manage to see all the work through the window though, and especially liked the word processor/printer with the work coming out of it. Manystuff selected artists to submit a piece for the exhibition that could be considered to be put into a time capsule. Photos via Flickr here.
The evening did get a whole lot better though, when I visited the Do You Read Me? magazine shop nearby as well. Definitely the best art and design magazine shop I’ve ever been to. Of course all the UK ones like CR/Eye/Baseline/Grafik/I-D/Wallpaper were all in there at import prices of about €10-€20, but there were some brilliant German/American/French/Swiss mags and a nice collection of books as well. Come January just before I leave Berlin, I think I will be paying it another visit to stock up!
Fabric/K + High Fidelity Exhibitions
Yesterday I went to Program and the Kunstbibliothek for a couple of exhibitions. First up was ‘Fabric/K‘, a collaboration between Yukihiro Taguchi & Vladimir Karaleev using fabric as a robust material and installation pieces. Unfortunately when I got there, it was the last day of the exhibition and the work had been taken down, all was left was a nice three minute documentary video. A really playful take on fabric and I also managed to pick up some flyers for other exhibitions.
Next up I visited the Kunstbibliothek, near the NeueNational Gallerie as well, for ‘High Fidelity‘, an excellent exhibition about vinyl and its associated artwork, music + art. The exhibition itself was a typical snobish set up: quiet, can’t do this, can’t do that, but what was in it was brilliant. My favourite pieces included the John Lennon and Yoko Ono work and some really nice illustrative pieces that I can’t remember the name of now, and of course a Rolling Stones vinyl cover. Picture discs, vinyl sleeves, books, memorabilia and Andy Warhol pieces on display completed the worthwhile visit. Great pieces of graphic design throughout.
The Kunstbibliothek itself was an amazing building as well, so I took a general look around its permanent collection and some nice Japanese scriptures and scrolls. What’s more, downstairs they were having a clear out of books and posters so managed to grab a magazine, book and poster. All in all, a good Saturday afternoon!
I couldn’t take any photos inside, but did manage to sneakingly snap the above installation of a plastic shopping bags dress in the reception area.
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