i’m kneeling in a pool of seawater, getting wet shoes and jeans, taking photographs of mirrors stuck in the sand. was the likelihood of this mentioned when i first started down the path of being a designer? no it wasn’t.
but working with rachel at least gets me out of the studio. we might tell you what we were doing and why later in the year.
we would. we do. our studio-cum-gallery has been featured in the latest update of the culture vulture e-magazine/blog in their ‘who would work in an office like this?‘ section including an short interview about the gallery and scarborough.
i’ve also been invited to be a blogger on their site supplying tasty cultural nuggets from the east coast so if you follow me on twitter you’ll be seeing a lot more mention of that. in the meantime we recommend you pay the culture vulture a visit, sign up for their e-newsletter and keep an eye out for some cool competitions and freebies.
[photo by david chalmers. showing light box and window pieces by rachel welford]
‘how do we keep our annual report in people’s minds over the whole year?’ is a conundrum many organisations have. one idea developed with coast and moors voluntary action was to have the annual report also be a calendar, keeping the annual report on people’s desks through the year.
the front of each card in the plastic case is of a particular project with a quote from someone in the community. the rear has the annual report stuff on.
photography was by sarah photogirl, carl rudlinton and james here at electric angel – some photos are as they were taken, others have been manipulated to enhance the effects of a fish eye lens.
our first exhibition in the tiny gallery – new works in architectural glass by rachel welford – is over and we’re rather sad to see the lightboxes go although very pleased that the two window panels specially created for the exhibition have remained and are now in their new places at either end of our studio/gallery windows. they were in the background when we were interviewed on bbc look north last week. so you can still have a look if you’re passing.
we’ll also be keeping some of rachel’s work on the gallery website – the idea is to build up an online gallery of work for sale by artists who have exhibited with us.
our new exhibition opens on thursday evening [invitation above] and features work by local painter malcolm macdonald. do come along.
you heard it here first: scarborough has been awarded the grand jury prize in the european enterprise awards.
we were entered in the awards after wining the 2008 enterprising britain competition which was pretty much our life at electric angel for a month or two last year. we updated the material we produced for the national competition to go to the european judges and produced some new illustrations for scarborough’s submission to help explain some of the key economic changes in the town. so we’re well chuffed to have helped scarborough and great britain win this prestigious award.
the real congratulations go to everyone who has been involved in scarborough’s renaissance over the past 7 years – it has given the town reason to believe in itself again and that is why we won. well done everybody.
the festival coast is a brand developed for the yorkshire coast festivals association to promote a wide variety of festivals and events. we designed the logo – flags forming the the shape of the yorkshire coastline – a couple of years back and have continued develop a house style which is very much a tribute to artist tom purvis who designed posters for the london and north eastern railway. he pretty much defined what’s known as ‘the golden age’ of railway posters.
despite me being a big fan of purvis et al, it was actually members of the association who suggested we reference old railway posters, i think partly because ‘the festival coast’ has that 1930′s ring about it but also to create a style that stood out as something different from racks of shiny photograph-based leaflets – a visual shorthand that there was something more substantial for visitors [and local residents] in this part of the world. james drew the illustration which is a montage of several views along the coast.
the large envelope was a cost effective way of gathering lots of printed material for a conference – an idea we originally suggested for a similar event for the north yorkshire creative industries network.
this weekend is your last chance to catch the excellent bawden and ravilious exhibition at scarborough art gallery. below are a couple of snaps of some of the information panels we designed for the exhibition. for each we hand-drew a capital letter in the style of the alphabet ravillous designed for wedgwood and chose fonts that were appropriate for the era when bawden and ravilious were working together -today i also spotted the same style lettering in a ravilious illustration of a shop front.
i’ve tweeted about another couple of special exhibitions on over the weekend >
next up at the gallery is a touring exhibition curated by turner prize winner grayson perry who was in scarborough recently judging the rotunda museum for the art fund prize. the rotunda is at the bottom of the terrace our studio is on and we’re pleased to be working on some educational material for them at the moment.
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