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Work / Guest Post

Kate MccGwire

Words by Alex Bec, Monday 08 February 2010

Strangeness and Charm is an incredibly apt title for the most recent show at Viktor Wynd by London’s Kate MccGwire. Astounding sculptures made with a intricacy and care that need to be seen in the flesh to be appreciated fully. Luckily, the show runs until the middle of March, so you’ve got more than ample chance. We’re very pleased to have Kate as our guest on the blog this week, so you can see what makes her tick as well as appreciate her stunning collection of work.

Work / Guest Post Fraser Muggeridge

The work of Fraser Muggeridge Studio (founded by Fraser and completed by Sarah Newitt and Stephen Barrett) is an output of largely artist, gallery, critically aesthetic content-driven publications and printed matter. With each project is an allowance for “images and text to sustain their own intent and impact” – the sine qua non to the studio’s design, not style. Fraser Muggeridge is also an educator and founder of the Typography Summer School, and this week he will be bringing five examples of creative stimulus to our last guest post slot of 2011.

Bryony Quinn — 12 December 2011
Work / Publication Boat Magazine

Boat Magazine is the “nomadic biannual” that picks up house for a month and transports itself to a different city, investing in insightful editorial on the culture and characters that populate it. Number one was Sarajevo, number two (the latest) is Detroit – making visible both a local and an outsider perspective of the metropolis whose history is made remarkable by its former grandeur, dystopic decay and current phoenix revival. Designed and art directed by Luke Tonge and edited by Erin and Davey Spens who will be guest posting all this week. And they’ve selected a host of brilliant, autonomous endeavours that echo Boat in their “antidote to lazy journalism.”

Bryony Quinn — 05 December 2011
Work / Publication Lernert & Sander

Issue #7 of It’s Nice That launches today (pow) and in it is an interview with the original, inimitable (people try) and charmingly funny artists, Lernert Engelberts and Sander Plug. They straddle the blurry line between art and commercial work – “we like to investigate different mediums to do things we think are worth while” they say – and both audiences get it so they defy a definition other than being simply brilliant creatives. They’re guest posting all this week (pow II) and have some very excellent things to show us all…

Bryony Quinn — 28 November 2011
Work / Guest Post Jooney Woodward

We’re very pleased to reintroduce photographer Jooney Woodward as our guest poster this week. We posted her own-brand of disarmingly honest rural characters and occurrences a little while ago – just as she had deservedly won the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize – and now this week she’ll be pointing us in the way of others artists and creatives that inspire and influence her…

Bryony Quinn — 21 November 2011
Work / Product Design Felix de Pass

This week’s guest poster is designer Felix de Pass. In a happy sort of contradiction, we were dazzled when we first came across the rational simplicity of Felix’s products and furniture – many designs pre-empt your needs, like his Boundary Desk which has been created to answer functional questions that might not have occurred to you yet – and the quiet beauty formed by reduction rather than ornateness that all the pieces have. With that in mind, we’re looking forward to what he has to show us…

Bryony Quinn — 14 November 2011
Work / Guest Post Boo Ritson

We’re no stranger to the uncanny, paint-on-people portraits and still lifes of Boo Ritson, but every time we see her new work, as art goes, we’re incomparably happy. With her show All Aboard now open at New York’s Bravin Lee Gallery, we welcome her to our guest post slot this week to share a little insight into the things that go someway in inspiring and informing her work.

Bryony Quinn — 07 November 2011