Hiddeninplainview

Work / Exhibition

Hidden In Plain View

Words by Alex Bec, Wednesday 17 September 2008

Design Event is an annual festival in the North East providing the public with an opportunity to see cutting edge work by regional, national and international design talent.

One of this year’s lead exhibitions at the event which will be opening at the start of next month is ‘Hidden in Plain View’. A show of postcards with hidden messages by some great North Eastern designers – well worth a look.

Things glorious things! The best of the postman's offerings we received this September 29 September 2016
Founder of It’s Nice That Will Hudson announces the launch of new venture Lecture in Progress on Kickstarter 29 September 2016
Dan Emmerson shoots #bikelife in the Welsh valleys 29 September 2016
Dive into Adam Higton's collages via his psychedelic new album and video 29 September 2016
Bill Baird's ephemeral online album is completely unique for every listener 29 September 2016
Ewen Spencer on new commission, Kick over the statues 29 September 2016

Work / Exhibition Mould Map's latest issue is brought to life as an exhibition

For it’s sixth issue, Mould Map has quite literally brought its publication to life. This issue, Terraformers will “take place as a exhibition/walk-in magazine” curated by its editors Hugh Frost and Leon Sadler. The magazine, dedicated to contemporary narrative comics, creates each issue as a reaction to a topic.

Lucy Bourton — 23 September 2016
Work / Exhibition Dutch studio Raw Color's prismatic visual research experiments

Paper shredders and desk fans are some of the more banal things Raw Color turns into head-turning visual installations for its experimental research around colour. The Dutch design studio, led by Christoph Brach and Daniera ter Haar, has been invited to stage a solo show at The Aram Gallery for London Design Festival (opening 19 September) which promises a look at their cross-disciplinary approach. Here, the pair discuss choosing colours like flavours, and how they use self-initiated projects to support their client work.

Riya Patel — 16 September 2016
Work / Exhibition Björk Digital showcases the fruits of embracing collaboration and creative technologies

Famous foremost for her music, the stripped-down and intimate exhibition Björk Digital showcases the eponymous Icelandic artist’s latest digital output, working across virtual reality, audiovisual installation and interactive touchscreen instrumentation. Acting as a creative director embracing collaboration and technology as a means of innovation, Björk augments her organic musicology on what she calls “the universal, 10,000 year old theme — probably older” of heartbreak.

Jamie Green — 01 September 2016
Work / Exhibition Envisions collective, breaking down the boundaries of design

Envisions is a collective of design graduates from the Design Academy Eindhoven with an aim to “showcase everything but the end product.” In doing so the group provides an insight into the design process rarely seen by the public eye. Its work is culminated into an exhibition, Products in Process featuring their designers which has already been showcased in New York and Milan and will join Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven from 22-30 October.

Lucy Bourton — 24 August 2016
Work / Exhibition A repetitive day in the life of one of Ragnar Kjartansson’s troubadours

Of his exhibition at Barbican, Ragnar Kjartansson remarked that he hadn’t realised the extent to which his work is about, or uses, repetition until he saw the show. “Maybe it comes from being an altar boy,” he says. “You repeat stuff again and again until it becomes divine.” The opening work Take Me Here by the Dishwasher: Memorial for a Marriage is a case in point, a performance in which ten musicians, scattered through the gallery on bedroom-like islands, sing and play guitar for eight hours straight.

Billie Muraben — 04 August 2016
Work / Exhibition Thee Drinkers: New exhibition conveys the joys and despair of having a few too many

Thee Drinkers is “an exploration of drinking and how we should all just try to have fun and be nice to each other.” The exhibition has a mix of works on paper, of wood and wool, and according to their author Aaron Ziggy are about “the joys, the despair, the clarity, the destruction, the dancing, the friends, the fantasies and all the things you’ve ever guzzled.”

Billie Muraben — 29 July 2016