Typeface Film Screening!
March 5, 2010
Build / Standardistas present —
Typeface
Where: Conor Lecture Theatre, UU York Street Campus
Date: Thursday 25th March 2010
Doors: 7pm,
Tickets: £5
I just wanted to give a shout out about this amazing screening that is taking place at the University of Ulster Belfast in the next few weeks. The above video is a trailer for the film which focuses on The Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, a Midwestern Museum and print shop where international artists meet retired craftsmen. The film explores traditional technique and modern design, the combination of the historical and contemporary. One weekend every month the silence of the museum is interrupted by the buzz of fellow mid west artists whom drive across country to partake in print workshops. The unfortunate truth is that this magnificent museums days are numbered.
“A film about perseverance and preservation in the heart of America.”
BUY tickets here!
Wrangler’s Blue Bell Website.
February 15, 2010
This is a must see website. It is probably the best interactive website I have ever visited. It is plain, simple, to the point yet extremely fun.
The website was launched this month and was designed by Swedish interactive production company Kokokaka. It was designed to debut Wrangler’s Blue Bell Jean Spring Collection. Without giving too much away, the website is designed to allow the viewer to interact with the model using drag on your cursor. You get to see the clothes in action, try before you buy almost! Intrigued? Well go check it out, it can be enjoyed on many levels, it is for a male line but to me seems aimed at a female audience but from a design aspect it is pretty amazing, puts the power of flash websites to a whole new level! You can also download scenes, music from the site too. A site to remember! Let me know your thoughts on it! I love it!
Excitement.
January 29, 2010
I recently received the most exciting package in the post. I have never been so excited or nervous of receiving post in my entire life. I do not think I have ever opened a piece of mail so fast. ( I also don’t think I have seen a package sealed with so much glue.) I had tracked this parcel for four days as it traveled from one side of Europe to another via FedEX. I will upload the parcels contents once I get pictures later on this evening.
Banksy Film.
January 22, 2010
Banksy’s New Film ‘Exit Through The Gift Shop’, debuts at the Sundance Film Festival this Sunday (24th January). In the past Sundance have shown films by unknown artists but with this film Banksy is making history at Sundance as they have never shown an anonymous film. When I first saw the trailer I did not take it seriously I thought that it was just a joke, but no it is an actual documentary, you will see what I mean when you watch it.
The Sundance press release on this film is as follows:
“Los Angeles–based filmmaker Terry Guetta set out to record this secretive world in all its thrilling detail. For more than eight years, he traveled with the pack, roaming the streets of America and Europe, the stealthy witness of the world’s most infamous vandals. But after meeting the British stencil artist known only as “Banksy,” things took a bizarre turn.
Sundance has shown films by unknown artists but never an anonymous one. Banksy turns the tables on the only man who has ever filmed him, creating a remarkable documentary that is part personal journey and part an exposé of the art world with its mind-altering mix of hot air and hype.“
It is 89 minutes long and Rhys Ifans even narrates it. Definitely a film to see and it does claim to be ‘the worlds first street art disaster movie’.
