Mummyslittlemonkey.com reviews CultureLabel’s Finger Print Art Set, 3D Doodle Kit and Crystal Tree.
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Archive for February, 2010
The deadline for RELEASE is approaching… It is a great opportunity for all designers aspiring to see their designs placed in Tate shops, on Tate online and CultureLabel.com. Here are just a few examples of the great ideas that have been submitted so far.
Have a look at many more here.
Selfridges is undoubtedly one of London’s biggest architectural landmarks that houses one of the largest retail collections in the UK by some of the biggest design names in the world and yet from the 5th of February to the 7th of March the mega store is paying tribute to all things small. The Museum of Small Things is a collaboration between artist and designer Kit Grover and POCKO that aims to celebrate all things tiny, delicate and, well, cute?
Grover says that the interpretation of small was left up to the artists. He says small “can mean something minuscule or something that’s generally ignored or thought of as insignificant.” The exhibit is arranged in the form of a labyrinth, with a rotating eight-foot head created by the Japanese artist Kin Pro at the center. “Kind of like a Macy’s float, but not from this planet,” Grover says. “We wanted to play with scale. You can’t see all of it as you approach it, so you feel like you’re being peered in on by someone very large — and you’re miniature.”
A bag designed by Grayson Perry is on show at the exhibition. CL has attached an image of this work. Other artists include Richard Wentworth who has entered a dictionary (“of small, of course”) and animations James Braithwaite.
Products by Grayson Perry are also available on CL. Check out this scarf he designed for Tate.
Release also featured on Graphic Competition. Check it out here
Our design competition RELEASE, which is taking place this year in collaboration with Tate and Wallpaper* featured on popular designer blog Dexinger. Click here to read the article and check out the views!
We all know what the saying “to blow one’s trumpet” means but so far we never attached a literal meaning to it. This has now changed thanks to Behaviouristics Ltd who has created a kit that allows you to really blow your own trumpet!
The idea behind this project is that our bodies are the instruments whilst the devices included in the kit are the means with which we can hear them and play them. Behaviouristics Ltd dream of an orchestra of people, each instrument carefully linked up with a musician who has learned to play them. The group wonders which people will make the best instruments; Who will emerge as a shrill piccolo, a smooth bassoon, a crude drum or a wailing cat? Will this change with age, experience or gender? who will make the best player? one who plays their instrument with tenderness, love and care? or one who manipulates and tortures?
These questions will be answered when the Behaviouristics perform at the Barbican on the 4th of March CL suggests you take your bodies and selves down there! But one question remains; what would you most prefer to be an instrument or a musician?
The Straights Times: Put London in a Bag
CultureLabel partner Designersblock are embarking upon a very exciting adventure in anticipation of the world’s most important furniture fair; Fuori Salone 2010. From 30th March to April 5th, ten designers will be exchanging their city studios for a woodland workshop in deepest Herefordshire. The designers will be working with country chair-maker Gudrun Leitz to create original greenwood chairs without the aid of computers, machinery or electricity. This is a genuine back to basics mission and the chairs will be created according to the strict traditions of the craft using original equipment such as pole lathes, steam benders and hand tools. The 10 chairs plus a chair of Gudrun’s will be exhibited with Designersblock at Spazio Revel, Milan, during the Milan Furniture Fair which takes place 14th – 19th April 2010. The intrepid designers taking part in the venture are; Amos Marchant, Carl Clerkin, Chris Eckersley, Dave Green, Gareth Neal, Gitta Gschwendtner, Matthew Hilton, Rory Dodd, Suzanne Barnes, William Warren. This group of the UK’s finest designers are all set and ready to bodge next month so keep an eye out for the finished designs. www.verydesignersblock.com 
This weekend wrapped up 2010’s Kinetica Art Fair and it really was quite a show with an impressive and eclectic range of robotic sculptures, serene light shows and digital art works on display. Kinetica is the UK’s only art fair dedicated to the visual and interactive medium of kinetic electronic art and hosts artists from all over the world. The show took place at Marylebone’s converted car park galley, P3, where upon arrival we were greeted by a huge clanging truck, adorned with wheels, pullies, ropes and pipes that churned and turned like a perfectly crafted living rubbish dump! This impressive preview piece was just for starters and was a mere taster of the 150 plus artists works which were exhibited across the whole show. Several pieces caught our attention,in particular, most notably, Liquid Athletes (pictured right), a light projection, water and audio installation piece by a group of New Media Art and Design students at Thames Valley University; Ryan Best, Immo Blaese, Sally Butterfield, Panos Diamondis, Nimra Javaid and Marcin Wysocki. The piece was inspired by the London 2012 Olympic Games and combines projections of light with droplets of water which ripple outwards in the manifestation of a perpetually moving image of the iconic symbol of the Olympic rings. We were also particularly mesmerized by a piece entitled Trace Yourself by Balint Bolygo (pictured right), in which a revolving plaster cast of a person’s head is slowly deconstructed into a mathematical diagram. Although this is by no means a new concept in kinetic art the smooth operation of the machine as it spiraled repeatedly to create a really quite beautiful graphic image was totally hypnotising. The fair was bustling with enthusiastic visitors, all of whom were buzzing with the fun of the fair. The show offered a genuine good time to all unveiling the fun side of art whilst also offering a unique opportunity to view and purchase artworks from leading contemporary arts organisations and artists specialising in kinetic, electronic, robotic, light, and sound art. For those looking to buy but lacking in budgets, Laikingland’s Kinetic sculptures are available to buy at CulutreLabel with a 10% discount for a limited time only.
Have you been feeling the chill also? As the temperature has continued to plummet we thought we should dress our Roman Antinous with some warm clothes. Fancy sending us some styling tips? Please do so at press@culurelabel.com!
CL would love to wish Sophie, our superb Comms Director, a very Happy Birthday!
Sophie is in the depths of South America now, so we are unable to give her any pressies – instead we are sending her some virtual ones….
- Rings from Other Criteria – here and here because we know how much she loves them;
- A shortbread tin box from Beyond the Valley which will look lovely in her kitchen but works great as a clutch bag also (not often you get to say a sentence like that one, huh?!);
- A pair of peapod shaped earings from Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum to remind her of her garden;
- A gin bottle brooch by Tatty Divine to remind her of her English friends whilst she is away;
- Sausage dog shaped cufflinks from CultureLabel Supplies because we know how much she would love to adopt the real one running around CL offices;
- And finally, a Get Lost print because even if she does not say so we know she sometimes want to.
Happy Bday Sophie – we miss you!!
