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

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…

March 18th 2009

Oliver Jeffers & Aaron Ruff

What do you get when you cross a children’s illustrator with a furniture turned jewellery designer? Welcome to IYC Collaborate Oliver Jeffers and Aaron Ruff who will put their heads together to produce a product for the show. More updates very soon, but in the mean time have a look at one of Oliver’s drawings above.

www.oliverjeffers.com
www.digbyandiona.com