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Undercurrents is a collection of current 4th years dissertations, edited and compiled by Christopher MacInnes with layout and cover design by Seb Howell (vis-com-des person). All profits go back into future productions.
Short notice, sorry for not posting this sooner, but Sophie Dyer and Maeve Redmond are running a Screen Printing Workshop at Repositioned Gallery, this saturday. Details of costs and booking available by following that link just back there.
Upcoming exhibition at Good Press; Opening 16th February 2012, 6pm.
A solo exhibition of works by Benjamin Rawson.
Good Press (at Mono, Kings Court) are about to stage; An exhibition dedicated to print and publishing in the independent arts. On show and for sale are a collection of zines, posters and original works made newly available from self-publishers and small press producers from around the world.
via GOOD PRESS GALLERY.
Creative Review surveys The Occupied Times of London. Obviously, whether the protest and occupation are ‘nicely designed’ is missing the point, but nevertheless, its interesting to see something that is in someways more imaginative than the standard fare of left-of-centre graphic clichés, I think. And also good, regardless of what you think of the aesthetic/ethics, to see people deploying their design skills in a hands-on way, rather than the obscure and meaningless distant quest for a logo of this approach.
For more information on Occupy Glasgow, click this.
Vis-Com-Des person, Alan Cameron, has an exhibition opening this week:Thursday 6th October 2011, 6pm – 8pm Trongate 103, First Thursday, (via GPS Newsletter.)
Good Press is a new outlet, based in Mono (temporarily, while they find a permanent space), from this Friday the 7th October, starting with the first exhibition, The Family Show.
The Family Show will be exhibiting 30 UK and International artists (two of which; Oliver Pitt and Jess Copsey, are recent GSA graduates) who mostly work with illustration and painting. It’s also a fundraiser for their permanent space, with all the original works being available for £30 for those who may wish to buy them!
In the bookshop there will be a large variation of different independent & self-published books, zines and other printed and handmade things. All Com Des people are invited to attend, more background info here. If you’re interested in selling zines etc, they’ve asked interested parties to get in touch directly, just via that web link, that one, back there.
O! and other letters, plus associated talk, many of the details of which still to be finalised.
There was an almost overwhelming desire to call this post ‘Edwin’s big hole‘, but thankfully I resisted it. I like to imagine that these aren’t wooden hoardings, but instead is a giant solid piece of wood, perfectly carved to fill the entire void of the caseroom. Not sure why.
To those of you studying at (or former students of) GSA, it’ll be self-evident that degree show opens this week, and runs for the next week, till Sat. Opening times here. For any external audience, please feel free to come and have a look round this final degree show in the Foulis building.
Looking forward to Friday’s opening, the forecast looks bleak, but viewers may be relieved to know that the relative humidity is down to 61%, from today’s 92%, and visibility will be very good.
The vis com degree show site is here.
Image top: Newbery building.
The Serving Library is online, and the first edition is out in print. Making the articles available online as PDF’s, and by print then post distribution, in parallel, (and with an online document of those recently ‘served‘) questions are raised about the false dichotomy of analogue vs digital. On a purely practical level, students (or others) with zero budget (but a functioning network connection) can download and read/print some very interesting design/art/media documents. Below is a beautiful picture of me interacting with the Serving Library through the arcane/bizarre/logical aesthetic and anti-perspective quandry that is iBooks.
More on the Serving Library statement of intent here.
Loads of interesting reports now online from the Unbound Book conference. Some in Dutch, some in English. Dare-say video’s may follow.
Manystuff offer some very comprehensive coverage of the first Amsterdam Art/Book Fair. The kind of place where I could bankrupt myself. They also do the animated gif meme.
Skirmishes have organised for a mobile FABLAB to visit Glasgow on Friday 6th May 2010 — you can get more details at www.skirmishes.org/?p=292 The duo who run the van will have traveled from the Netherlands…
Bring an idea of something to make, or a project to share that shows how useful digital fabrication can be! They would like to make this event into a handy meet up for the wide community of makers in Glasgow, to share, learn and make, in the same way that we could in the Glasgow Fablab (AKA Maklab). It will also be a great opportunity for those who are unfamiliar with these tools and methods to experience the fablab and get a sense of what it could be used for.
The event is an informal drop in and forms part of Skirmishes Edge City design charette being held on the same day [http://www.skirmishes.org/?p=263].
The details:
St Francis Community Center, 405 Cumberland Street. Gorbals. Glasgow. G5 0YT.
Roy Mohan Shearer, previously a talker in Vis Com, has a new service using a MakerBot Thing-O-Matic 3D Printer Kit. Details below, might be a cost effective way of making prototypes. I believe GSA might also have this facility, though I’m not sure.
Affordable 3D Printing:
We can print your 3d model in hard plastic using our Makerbot
Thing-o-matic printer
[http://store.makerbot.com/makerbot-thing-o-matic.html].
The Thing-o-matic is a miniature factory that makes almost anything up
to 100mm x 100mm x 150mm out of ABS plastic.
Perfect for replacement parts, rough prototyping, and hacking-type activities!
Just email me an .stl file and some outside dimensions for a quote -
roy[at]zero-waste.co.uk or get in touch for more info.
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