Right, summer holiday time. Flip flops – check. Camera – check. Books – check.
We’ll see you in a week or so. Until then – besos.
Archived posts: June 2011
British Isles Map
So this is rather lovely – a map of the British Isles created out of text that relates to its geographical location – so the Isle of Wight is illustrated with the word 1970, for the epic festival that occurred there in that year.
It’s by Angus McArthur & Alison Hardcastle, and you can pick it up from Theo.
Ephemera and Car Boots
There’s a couple of rather fine events coming up this Sunday – the latest Ephemera Society Fair kicks off at 11am, with its usual mix of bits of printed ephemera from the past couple of hundred years. You’ll find it at the Holiday Inn on Coram Street WC1N 1HT, and it runs until 4pm.
Just a few miles away on Brick Lane, the latest Art Car Boot Fair gets into gear at midday. It’s a great place to pick up exclusive art works at bargain prices, from the likes of Damien Hirst, the Chapmans, Peter Blake, Gavin Turk, Tracey Emin and Harland Miller. They’re also promising a band on a car, Sarah Stockbridge as a human snowstorm, a big fat gypsy fortune teller, live magazine production from a car boot; and the chance to have your portrait done Star Trek style by Jessica Voorsanger! It’s only £3 to get in, and there’s normally a queue, so it might be worth getting there for the pre-sale of tickets at 11am… The entrance is on the corner of Brick Lane and Buxton Street.
Central Saint Martins pop-up shop
Kate Goodridge, a second year student on Central Saint Martins BA Graphic Design course has been in touch to let us know that they’re running a pop-up shop next week at the City Arts & Music Project, selling a mix of limited edition, bespoke and handmade items. The show is part of their Off Sight exhibition, created for their campaign (which we recently posted about) to keep the printmaking facilities on site when the college moves to Kings Cross later in the year.
The pop-up shop runs from Wednesday 8 to Friday 10 June, and the main exhibition until Tuesday 21 June. All the profits go towards their final year show – it’s a good cause, but more importantly, you might find some great work from an as-yet undiscovered talent…
Lovely flyer too.