The fine men and women at Illustrators Ireland are running a competition with blog Scamp.ie to win some tickets to the now SOLD OUT OFFSET2009 conference.
With less than 2 weeks until we kick off the OFFSET2009 3 day conference we’re delighted to announce some of the speakers who’ll be speaking in the intimate surroundings of the second OFF ROOM. With a capacity of only 80 people this promises to be a great chance to get up close and personal with some of our leading lights. Full schedule in the next week.
Adam neate is back with a new solo show at Elms Lesters Painting Rooms. There are some great new works in the show. He’s one of street art’s finest stars, so get down to the show if you’re in London between 9th October - 21st November 2009.
Brad Downey has just finished a fascinating mural at ARTotale. Speaking to him this morning, he said that he was worried that people would react badly to it, but most of the students seem to like it. He was commissioned to do a mural but didn’t tell the university what he was going to paint. With so many street artist reworking brand logos to say contrary things to the brands identity, Brad as just painted a big McD’s logo.
Here’s a quote from a great interview over at Ekosystem “The university students understood my work very well. I was very worried that the painting would be misunderstood by the students and my fellow artists. The University is undergoing a process of “Rebranding”. To my understanding, Leuphana has recently paid a large sum of money to design a new logo, name, and concept for the whole Universiy. Part of an effort to raise student fees. One student explained to me that it has been referred to internally as an Americanization of the old German school. And many of the students are unhappy about this. Some have made their own films addressing this same issue. Our ARTtotale, street art project, seems to be a part of this re-branding.”
Brad will be speaking at OFFSET in Dublin, 6th-8th November
We are proud as punch to announce we have just secured a rare live onstage interview with one of the great pop artists of all time. Sir Peter Blake has been added to the lineup of OFFSET2009 and will be part of our Saturday afternoon programming (time TBC) with one of our speakers that day moving to Sunday where we’ll be running 30 minutes later to 6.30 (TBC).
For those of you who don’t know, here’s a brief overview of Sir Peter and his incredible work.
Australian design company Mash from Adelaide have been producing some inspired wine label designs over the last few years. They’re designs take a fresh look at what a label should be. The inspired idea below for Changing Lanes uses a lenticular effect to show two different portraits of the wine makers
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