Oh we’ve found our Friday night frolic! The new Doodle Bar opens tonight and organisers are encouraging guests to doodle everywhere – the doors, the windows, the furniture and the staff! Nothing, dear reader, is off limits (or did we make that last bit up?). Illustrators from art collective Debut Art will kick-start the doodling.
A mural of the River Thames, created by Seidlitz and German illustrator Thomas Manig, will adorn the walls and customers will be encouraged to help create ‘a collage of Londoners’ hopes and fears’. The Intelligent Naivety team’s hopes and fears are rather too sensitive to be scrawled upon walls (or anywhere public) but we’ll be heading down nevertheless – voyeurs to the end.
More news about the venture is that Vivienne Westwood intends to hold monthly film screenings at the venue and our friends Onedotzero will help to run a programme of drawing and educational workshops.
Film and art collective Squint created the bar’s website, and is collaborating with Seidlitz on an interactive art installation for the café.
