August 5th 2009

Line-Up Confirmed

All 40 projects have now been confirmed, and the countdown to create the work is well and truly on. Over the next 5 months the artists involved will be thinking, sketching, experimenting, making, doing and everything in between to come up with their final piece for the exhibition in January.

We’ll see installations, sculptures, moving image, books, posters and lots more besides before we start to fill the gallery at the beginning of 2010. From now on, this blog will document how all of the contributors are getting on, giving you a behind the scenes look at how things are coming together for the grand unveiling.

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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

March 18th 2009

Craig Ward & Paula Scher

I didn’t think we’d ever get the opportunity to work with one of our all time heroes, but after we asked Craig Ward to make a piece of work for us, the doors were opened. He appraoched Pentagram design legend Paula Scher and the rest is history. They’re currently coming up with a proposal for their project but with two fantastic typographic sensibilities I get the impression this could be something extraordinary. Pictured is a piece Craig recently did for the Economist