It's another bank holiday. Whether you're in your hammock or at your desk, enjoy your day.
(post by Mike)
Art for Tibet (A4T5)
The Art for Tibet auction is now live online! Our tote bags have hit the streets of New York – sported here by Tsepa and Lucy from Students for a Free Tibet.
Don't delay, take a look at all the wonderful artworks on the auction site before they sell out. (It's open to bidders worldwide.) You can even buy a tote bag on the fifth page of the listings ...
Auction link:
http://www.benefitevents.com/auctions/sft14/
Art for Tibet link:
http://www.artfortibet.com/
For the full story on our work for this project, see our website:
http://www.chutneychoruscreative.com/#/print-students-for-a-free-tibet/
(Photos taken by Pema Yoko ©SFT 2014)
Balls
Well, the league is finished. Just the Cup Final, the play-offs, some international friendlies and then a month today the World Cup begins. Could do worse than draft this fella in. Tricky feet and pretty damn quick up the wing.
(post by Mike)
The sound of silence
It's Bank Holiday Monday. On a day off, industrious types can feel lost without the hubbub of the workplace. If this is you, why not consider installing one of these at home?
(Taken in the National Railway Museum, York).
A4T5 - Art for Tibet auction
We've had the enormous pleasure over the last fortnight of creating an identity and logo for A4T5, the fifth annual Art for Tibet charity auction in New York. The honorary committee members include Richard Gere and Professor Robert Thurman as well as Moby and Shepard Fairey, who've both donated artworks. The auction aims to raise money for one of our favourite charities: Students for a Free Tibet – a global network working for human rights and freedom in Tibet.
The auction features over 75 artists and is open to bidders worldwide. There are some really wonderful artists and if you go to the site below on 12 May, you'll see their work:
The gradient and colours of the identity are influenced by traditional Tibetan Buddhist paintings. The logo is an interpretation of the '3 jewels' which is a core symbol of Buddhism. The jewels are encased in flames and the four print colours are represented: cyan, magenta, yellow and black.
On a more informal note, it all came together rather well we think ... Mike took care of the graphics and the logo is Tanya's. It's been quite the labour of love – we've had our larger projects to contend with too so we've had to forgo quite a lot of sleep to meet the tight deadlines. However, when you're really enjoying a project that's for a worthy cause, it's more than worth the effort. Oh, and we'd like to say we'll be in New York for the auction but alas, we'll be at our desks in London.
A special thanks to Pema Yoko and Kurt Langer for getting us on board and being such great clients.
Egg Stores
While eggs are at the forefront of our minds and mouths, here are a couple of shots of the Egg Stores Ltd., a Stoke Newington mainstay since 1948. We start with the back of the store, which we think you'll agree is a little more punk than the elegant facade.
Don't lose, reuse
We like recycling, we like signage, therefore we love recycled signage. These businesses in New York pay homage to their on-site predecessors. Closer to home, rather than create fresh enamel diagrams when new lines appeared, London Underground riveted painted washers to the existing signs to indicate interchanges.
(Locations: Greenwich Village, Lower East Side - both New York. Underground line diagrams at London Transport Museum, Acton Depot.)
Whatever you're doing, stop it.
(Locations: Armley Mills Industrial Museum, Leeds; Chateau de Chillon, Switzerland; Armley Mills Industrial Museum, Leeds; Transit Museum, New York; Tokyo hotel).
Design archaeology
Last weekend we found these posters marooned in a blocked off pedestrian underpass in Leeds city centre. A little investigation shows they are both 23 years old (the Hula Hoops poster has an 'offer ends' date on the bottom and the Radio Times began covering all channels, not just the BBC, in 1991). Graphic design of this sort often has a very limited shelf life and it's usually only 'classic' designs that last any length of time. It's good to see some more pedestrian examples slipping through the net.
There's one spawn every minute
It's that time of year again ... daffs, bunnies, tadpoles.
(post by Mike)