June 29th 2009

Karlssonwilker & Frank DeRose

I remember seeing KarlssonWilker speak in New york about four years ago and have been a fan of their dry wit and design ever since. We are pleased to have them involved in this year’s project and they will be working with fellow creative Frank DeRose. Frank was born and raised in Queens and has a history in performing hiphop and rap music but also is a designer and has his own studio, Zut Alors, Inc.

In Jan Wilker’s own words “The starting point for us will be a hiphop song that the two of us will create together. Hopefully during the process sound and words will lead to other adventures.”

KarlssonWilker Zut Alors!

June 26th 2009

Stefan Kraus & Sebastian Wrong

Sebastian Wrong and Stefan Kraus worked together on the Font Clock two years ago and are seeking a new challenge. They are both directors, Sebastian of Established & Sons, Stefan of Polimekanos and both work as independent artists. They haven’t formulated their concept yet, but their aim is to produce an object, combining graphical language together with craftsmanship.

Polimekanos
Established & Sons

June 24th 2009

BCMH & William Smith

Welcome to the rosta of artists exhibiting in January BCMH (Bravo Charlie Mike Hotel) and William Smith from design company Smith & Wightman.

Their proposal is called ‘One of one off’ and explained in their own words…

“Inevitably much of the work that both of our practices’ make is made in multiples. This common requirement gives us the opportunity to re-approach use of materials and methods of production in order to make new things, often steering the final outcome and bending it into shape. Our collaboration will look to examine the richness of the multiple through a series of machines and experiments in an attempt make a one off for the exhibition.”

Sounding special already.

BCMH
William Smith

June 10th 2009

Marion Deuchars & Margaret Calvert

I’m not sure that there’s anything that I can say that hasn’t already been written about Margaret Calvert - one half of the brains behind all the road signs you see every single day. Master editorial illustrator Marion Deuchars asked her to team up with her for IYC Collaborate and this is their plan:

“The M1, Britain’s first “full-length” motorway, connecting the North to the South, carries over 130,000 motorists a day. The southern section of the M1 from St Albans to Birmingham was opened in 1959.

‘A trip down the motorway’ is a collaboration between Margaret Calvert and Marion Deuchars, utilising the materials used to manufacture the signs. We are honoured to have this as part of the show and are very excited to see their progress!

Marion Deuchars
Margaret Calvert

June 10th 2009

HelloVon & Timothy Saccenti

HelloVon and Timothy Saccenti is a duo that we could have only dreamed on having involved in the project. They will be producing a one off piece combining Tim’s incredible photography (see the pictured portrait of Tricky) and Von’s artwork based on the female nude and we are looking forward to seeing how it develops…

HelloVon
Timothy Saccenti

June 10th 2009

Build & Flying Lotus

Switching the traditional role of a sleeve designer and a musician, whereby the designer interprets visually the music of an artist. This proposal aims to switch the role. The designer (Build) will produce a series of images that the musician (Flying Lotus) will react to and interpret into music to accompany the images. The images will be projected in the gallery space with the accompanying music played alongside.

Build
Flying Lotus

June 10th 2009

George Hardie & Leonardo Sonnoli

As well as some emerging talent we’ve also got some of the best in the business taking part in this year’s project. None more so than Hipgnosis legend George Hardie, designer Leonardo Sonnoli and children’s illustrator Sara Fanelli

They propose to play a game of Consequences stemming from a visit George took to see Leonardo in Rimini in 2003. While he was being shown around the city George noticed a set of rubber number stamps, but unfortunately could not find the alphabet set of the same type. A couple of years later George suggested that he and Leonardo might play a game of consequences with the alphabet. The first making an A and the second following some theme in the first’s work to create his own B and so on. George also suggested that Sara might make an excellent third (or perhaps first) partner.

So, what better excuse than this to make the project a reality, and watch this space for updates. Pictured is one of Leonardo’s many brilliant posters to whet your appetite.

Leonardo Sonnoli
Sara Fanelli

June 10th 2009

Jacob Dahlgren & Johan Löfgren

Jacob Dahlgren has made compelling, colourful work for a range of galleries and shows and it’s an honour to have him showing his work as part of our exhibition in January. Alongside Johan Löfgren they will be making a film about abstraction, incorporating both moving pictures, animations and still photos.

Jacob Dahlgren
Johan Löfgren

June 10th 2009

Michael Moloney & Daniel Eatock

We’re thrilled that Michael Moloney is involved in this year’s project and equally as excited that he’s chosen Daniel Eatock to work with him. They are going to explore the idea of emptiness/nothing/voids, developing a video piece based on all the things that can go wrong with a projector during a presentation.

Michael Moloney
Daniel Eatock

June 10th 2009

Job Wouters & Roel Wouters

Our only family pairing to take part this year are the brothers Wouters. Amsterdam based Job and Roel have been seen on numerous stages including exhibitions, adverts, personal projects, workshops and beyond, but what you can always count on is that their work is of the highest standard out there. Unsure of what to do at first they’ve settled on making a movie about a machine Job made last year, ‘The Rainbow Gun’. It’s a tool that uses seven spraycans at the same time and the rest we’ll levae to your imagination for now…

Job Wouters
Roel Wouters

June 10th 2009

With Associates & Anthony Dickens

With Associates have been producing slick site and systems for many years, and in-keeping with the diversity of this year’s show we asked them to be involved to bring their thoughts and ideas to the table.

They have chosen to collaborate with industrial designer Anthony Dickens (note his brilliant Anglepoise lamp pictured) who’s made some fantastic products and will help them explore the theme of ‘time’.

Their goal will be to have a physical object at the end, that combines technology with product design. Yes please.

With Associates
Anthony Dickens

June 10th 2009

New Partner!

Hvass&Hannibal have had a change of heart on who they’re going to work with for the project. They’re now set on Anne Werner who is a Danish artist, educated from the Islandic School of the Arts and from the Technical College of Copenhagen studying tecnical pattern cutting. She collects old crafts and DIY books from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s and a lot of her work draws on tecniques she finds in them.

They’ve known Anne for a long time, and we really love her colorful, crazy work. So they are looking forward to getting started on this and seeing what’s inside her head and how it will melt together with their own ideas.

Their plan is to make is a giant wall carpet or drape, using different colours and materials. Experimenting with textures and compostions in a huge hand-sewn image. The fabrics will vary, from pieces of old clothing to hand dyed or woven bits.

They hope “it will look like a mix between the remains of a tablecloth after a wild 17-hour party, and a more saturated version of the bayeux carpet.” If it’s half as good as it sounds it’s going to be spectacular.

June 10th 2009

Sandy Suffield & Fiona Woodcock

We met Sandy when she came in and blew us away with her stunning emroidered work. Unfortunately she doesn’t have a site to show us it online, but take our word for it being fantastically intricate and satisfying. We asked her to be involved in this year’s project on the spot and she has chosen Fiona Woodcock to be her partner.

Fiona and Sandy’s project was prompted by the press reaction to the budget, with broadsheets shouts of ‘Armageddon’, The Sun countered with a headline – ‘At least it’s sunny’. Fiona and Sandy will produce a series of images using cover headlines from the paper, they’re interested in the poetry and wit of the copy, the potentially short-lived period in which people understand the meaning/context of a headline and how this is further obscured by our treatment of them – stitching and painting the words and embellishing them with drawings.

Fiona Woodcock

June 10th 2009

Sam Messenger & Ben Holt

Sam Messenger makes some beautiful pieces of art and for the exhibition he’ll be working with a carpenter named Bart Long. They are going to produce an artwork using materials usually used by carpenters & builders to be hung on the wall and measure approximately 4” x 4”

Pictured is some previous artwork by Sam, made from chalkline, ink and household gloss on birch ply…

Sam Messenger

June 10th 2009

4D Glasses

Not just content with being one of the finest children’s illustrators in the business, Oliver Jeffers has decided to turn to excellent jewellery designer Aaron Ruff to help him make something physical. To be more precise, a set of 4D glasses.

They will provide the opportunity to observe not only all 3 dimensions, but time as well, the fourth dimension. Thus making it possible to observe the future and the past in glorious techni-colour, from the comfort of your own living room. Their appearance will have the taste of an over elaborate set of binoculars, a pair of goggles and the multi filtered optometrists eye test machine, in the style of Jules Verne meets Jacques Cousteau, inside a 60s textbook. They’ll be sweet.

Pictured is another one of Oliver’s contraptions built in 2007…

June 10th 2009

Max Lamb & Gemma Holt

Max’s furniture has been exhibited all over the world and his work is directly influenced by the materials and process used to create them - form follows material and process.

Artist Gemma Holt’s work comes from objects, materials and ideas of the everyday. The things we live with and use on a daily basis, yet so often take for granted and has taken particular interest in stationery items and patterned floor surfaces, and recently has combined the two into interior-specific installations - floors using subtly edited stationery equipment and geometric patterns composed from the shapes found in mathematical stationery sets.

The two will collaborate with the notion ‘furniture as an extension of the floor’. and pictured is a photograph taken by Max in Milan a few years ago, where the floor has become ‘three dimensional’.

Max Lamb
Gemma Holt

June 10th 2009

Let Your Freak Flag Fly

Having come across Karl’s work through a flag he created on his own, his proposal with And Beyond is going to continue on a very interesting thread… “A flag is a piece of fabric with a symbolic meaning, used for signaling and identification. The term is also used to refer to the graphic design employed by a flag, or to its depiction in another medium. The flag is a powerful icon with ever-changing connotations. It represents the history, the future, the collective, individuality, hope, terror, peace and war.

The flag is worshipped and burnt, forced upon you and banned. It is a symbol of freedom and identity, it is your good old home, the revolution and it doesn’t belong to you. And still, it’s a piece of fabric. Let your freak flag fly.”

June 10th 2009

Dance / Danse (working title)

Julien and Nicholas have come up with a great proposal… in their own words: “Each day, we are surrounded by seemingly insignificant objects, taking them from one place to the other, or leaving them on a table for weeks, without paying any attention to them. We ignore or forget them, using things only when we need to, making sure they donʼt interfere or inhabit our space. But what if they were not so stable and subservient? What if they could swivel, bounce or even fly. And what if they did so all at the same time?

We want to imagine a place where objects could live and move, harmoniously, and of their own accord. Without interfering with each other these objects would bounce, roll, turn and cross each other’s paths. This experiment is about re-discovering our daily surroundings. The scene would be interactive. Each object is assigned to a letter on the keyboard, and can be activated or deactivated at any time.

This experiment is based on the short film ʻTangoʼ from Zbigniew Rybczynski. During the exhibition, we will invite people to interact with these objects. They can randomly press any button, or even spell some words, their name, and see how the space will react.”

June 10th 2009

Jon Klassen & David O'Reilly

Take two fantastic motion directors who have set themselves the open task of creating a looping 3D animation sequence and you’ll no doubt end up with something of note. Jon and David have total freedom to do exactly what they want, and we hope they do.

Jon Klassen
David O’Reilly

June 10th 2009

Jesse Auersalo & Jesse Pietilä

Jesse Auersalo makes incredible illustrations, Jesse Pietilä is a talented spatial designer and holds a masters in the subject. Together they’re looking to explore how posters could be exhibited in more interesting way (pictured is some of Jesse’s previous work). To do so, they’re keeping the plans tightly under wraps but aim to “create a series of posters.. with a new perspective”. Intriguing.

Jesse Auersalo
Jesse Pietilä

June 10th 2009

James Gilpin & Helge Fischer

Young interaction designers James Gilpin and Helge Fischer seem to have ideas to spare. To add to the already diverse range of proposals for projects, the two Royal College of Art students will be working together to produce a reactive sound piece.

Post rave pop oddballs “My Toys Like Me” (http://www.myspace.com/mytoyslikeme) have approached they to initiate a design process capable of bringing an intelligent new audience to their music. They felt that the white gallery space presents an interesting set of design constraints as anything audible will need to have its own voice in a visually rich space.

Helge Fischer

June 10th 2009

Fontaine Anderson & Deanne Cheuk

We are pleased to welcome to the line-up illustration duo Fontaine Anderson and Deanne Cheuk.

They are planning to create a zine/artist’s book together. The format for the zine is undecided too but they imagine it to be A5 bound, and the spreads will also be exhibited as posters.

The theme for their piece is ‘costumes and nature’ and this theme will flow through each spread. Due to geographical limitations Deanne and Fontaine will be collaborating solely via email and the postal system…

Fontaine Anderson
Deanne Cheuk

June 10th 2009

Calligraffiti

Sadly design superstar Paula Scher has had to pull out of this year’s project due to a mountain of work that’s not getting any smaller. In her place Craig has kept the bar very high, choosing two collaborators in the guise of lettering geniuses Sean Freeman and Alison Carmichael. Having grown tired of street after street of the same old tagging, Alison, Sean and Craig will be bringing an altogether more beautiful form of typography to the streets of our capital. Largescale, outdoor, beautifully realised typographic compositions. What could be better? Pictured is some of Alison’s hand rendered work…

Craig Ward
Sean Freeman
Alison Carmichael

June 10th 2009

Chrissie & Marie's Proposal

Chrissie and Marie have let us in on their plans for their final piece… they are working towards creating a performance of sorts, which will be documented as photographs and moving image. The content will take the form of a garment, doll, installation, prop, theatre set, costume, machine, collection of artifacts or all of the above. With a list of references as long as your arm including folk art, painted doll shoes, Alexander Girard, talismans, quilts, the oversized, Eduardo Paolozzi, guatamalen knitted face hats I think we’re in for a bit of a treat.

June 10th 2009

Bryan Dalton & A Nice Idea Everyday

We love Bryan’s work and we also had no idea that he knew the guys at A Nice Idea Everyday. The idea of them teaming up is a very exciting one and they will be making two short 20-30 second films for the show in January.

Bryan Dalton
A Nice Idea Everyday

June 9th 2009

Jim and Andy's Proposal

After having a few different ideas of what to do, Jim has decided to team up with Philadelphia based illustrator and designer, Andy Rementer. They are hoping to produce a collaborative collection of drawings, to be presented as a zine. There will also be a full colour drawing to work alongside the zine and all of the work produced will be based on the theme of living in the future. They want to “experience first hand, the environment and cultural swathes that the far distant future have in store.” Some of Andy’s work is pictured to give you a taster.

Jim Stoten
Andy Rementer