Daisy are proud to be supporting the brilliant Breakthrough Breast Cancer charity with the launch of this eye-popping limited edition neon pink Chakra Bracelet.
The bracelet is available in both 24ct gold vermeil (£86) and 925 sterling silver (£58) and 15% of each sale will be donated to Breakthrough Breast Cancer, in association with the tireless Too Many Women campaign.
Studio Fernando Gutierrez have just finished the re-design of the popular illustration magazine Varoom!
Varoom – the illustration report has changed to a tabloid format clear bagged newspaper celebrating and commenting on the illustrated image in today’s vibrant visual culture. Larger images, more space and great content will make it even more appealing to those interested in design, illustration and the modern image.
Varoom features interviews with leading illustrators and image-makers and explores the attitude behind their designs. New contributing editors, industry experts in the areas of digital work, children’s books, graphic novels, reportage, comics, fashion illustration and more, report on the recent work they have identified as being the best in their fields, and major articles look at the surprising history of the speech balloon, going from illustrator to sexual assault worker, and how imagination is boosting digital media.
Opinionated, writer-led and stuffed with visual delights, Varoom is the definitive statement on visual communication.
Branding and Innovations consultancy Ergo, based here at Great Western Studios, have recently launched a new product for Carlsberg called Beo*. Beo*, a ‘brewed soft drink’, is Carlsberg’s first venture into radical innovation – using their brewing skills to create a new type of drink. Focusing their research on the opportunity for ‘adult soft drinks’, Ergo developed a brand to reflect the product experience – “Delightfully Refreshing” – natural, fresh yet sophisticated. They created the packaging, brand guidelines and brand magazine, and devised a refreshing launch strategy.
September has been a big month for Ergo in the Danish press, on both the launch of Beo* and the state of global branding. For those who are interested in brand development; Ergo are looking for a creative team to collaborate with and share their space. Ergo develops each project through collaboration with diverse creatives – and is looking for brand designers to share their beautiful studio in exchange for occasional collaborative work.
This summer, the South Bank is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the original Festival of Britain. As part of this Honest Entertainment were enlisted by Dishoom to take you on a little summer holiday, right here in London. Taking over an old sad portacabin, Honest has injected into the Southbank landscape a magical Chowpatty Beach pop-up bar, named after the eponymous beach in Bombay.
Southbank have installed 48 tonnes of sand in front of the psychedelic pop-up beach bar Dishoom where children build sand castles whilst their parents sip on fresh coconuts from a boat painted by Sam Birch and Rebecca Menzies, Honest’s artists in residence.
The design spirit and inspiration evolved from Honest’s discovery of the Hindi term ‘Jugaad’ which means ‘making do’, ‘reusing’ or ‘creative improvisation’.
Many of the materials are either recycled, found or second hand and have been reinvented and up-cycled creating a welcoming homely and relaxing vibe that is completely in keeping with the growing awareness and opportunity for sustainable design. Honest felt the ‘Jugaad’ approach appropriate in current climates. It is not sterile or permanent in its conception/execution but clever and accessible to all in its tactile approach. You can sense and appreciate many hands at work in its making… Sid from the Studios made the Irani café style tables and Afroditi who won awards for the design of Dishoom Covent Garden acted as a brand advisor.
It truly is a magical place as expressed by visitors in chalk on the blackboard toilet walls: “Thank you for being so creative” is Honest’s favourite so far! They hope you will make it down and leave your own messages. Their cocktail of choice is the Colaba Rum Iced Tea which “we hear” is delicious!
As our expert in all things beautiful for hair, Pip Hackett’s exotic head pieces are garlanding magazines this season. You can see Natalia Vodjanova in a cute bunny headpiece on the cover of May’s Tatler and an elegant flowery piece on the cover of Italian Vogue (March ’11) followed by a collection of eerie, romantic bridal wear.
Also in Tatler, her hats have been used in a shoot by Kristian Schuller both for the opening page and in a feature. Bridal (May/June) mentions her hat in a piece on the best country wedding.
Great Westerner Sophie Smallhorn collaborates with Sebastian Bergne to produce ‘Colourware’ for this year’s ‘Collect’ event at the Saatchi Gallery showing from 6th to 9th of May.
Relaunched at the Saatchi Gallery in May 2009, COLLECT has an enviable reputation as a premier, annual fair for contemporary craft. Through its presentation of work from the best international applied artists, COLLECT has become a prestigious event in the international cultural calendar gaining the respect and support of many private collectors, museum curators and galleries.
Fresh from her recent exhibitions at the Sheffield Insitute of Arts and Camberwell College of Arts, video artist and printmaker Suky Best is now taking part in ‘Fieldwork’, a group show featuring the work of the Royal College of Art (Visual Communication) Research Department.
Fieldwork proposes an engagement between audio/visual media and exhibition practice that examines the moving (and stilled) frame’s intrinsic resonance, potentiality and ability to articulate rich streams of thought.
The exhibition is at the Regency Town House, Brunswick Square in Hove and opens on the 9th, 10th, 16th and 17th April.
Other artists include Nicky Hamlyn, Nanette Hoogslag, Woodrow Kernohan, Joséphine Michel, Catrin Morgan, Gareth Polmeer, Andrew Vallance and Ian Wiblin.
Max and Izzy from Health Cuts – Great Western Studios’ resident inventors – were asked to give Jamie Oliver a hand. Literally. As well as some hearts, guts and a good deal of blood.
Health Cuts Ltd design and make highly realistic simulated anatomy and physiology for use in medical education, films, etc. Their products include fully interactive surgical models, wounds and special effects make-up. This time their elaborate reproductions of human insides serve in a rather, uhm, ‘different’ biology lesson. The youths are asked to assist an urgent surgery, shoving their hands right into the body itself.
Joy Richardson’s latest exhibition War & Peace, Boys & Girls: Paintings and drawings is on display at the Green Room, National Theatre in South Bank until the 7th of January.
Tree-Jewellery – collaboration between jeweller Melissa Hunt and designer/illustrator Tommy Penton – gets picked up by The Magma Product shop in Covent Garden for the Xmas rush.
It comprises a range of nine individually hand pierced silver charms presented in a countryside scene. The range of the gems, designed by Melissa Hunt, consists of nine separate creatures that are set in an illustrated tree and meadow meticulously drawn by Tommy Penton. A versatile fastener enables the pieces to be worn as a necklace, bracelet, dog tag or button-hole.
