A cheeky photo of me and my work.

For those who missed it, yesterday was the opening of The Art of Winning at BoxPark, it was a fantastic night!! The exhibition is up for the whole of this month, so there is time to check it out.

You can win prints of my poster and the one Martina illustrated here and there are more photos of the other cool posters on BoxParks facebook.

Book arts and design final exhibition

The final major exhibition of our degree.

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Book arts final exhibit!

niiicethings:

Come to the opening night and see our final exhibit for Book arts and design at LCC!

Guests need to either print off a copy or show on their phone to gain entry

Its the final show for us!

Interim show

Last week at university we have had our first exhibition of the year on display.

“The Book in Context is an exhibition of bookworks created by the third year London College of Communication undergraduates on the BA (Hons) Book Arts & Design programme.

These bookworks are a demonstration of how our traditional preconceptions of the Book can be challenged through exploration and interrogation of the Book’s form.

As Book Arts & Design is an interdisciplinary subject, the student’s work on display incorporates fine art, graphic design and independent publishing, together with a drawing of inspiration from historical and contextual sources. Consequently, the bookworks are self-authored projects, a communicating and packaging of ideas tailored to the student’s chosen theme - a demonstration of books as verbal and narrative exploration, as documents, as a visual form and books as conceptual spaces.

As a result, The Book in Context exhibition challenges how we, the audience, are being encouraged to think about the way information is consumed, how reading patterns and styles are evolving and how the Book is responding to the digital age.

However, the Book as a printed artefact is still one to behold and this exhibition is recognition of the wonderful fluidity and possibilities within the Book; how it stretches our imagination and continues to adapt to our ever-changing world.

‘A book is a highly complex organisation of material and conceptual elements’ (Drucker, J. 2004. The Century of Artists’ Books)”

Text from the interim show blog.
All photos from my phone. 

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Artists’ books on tour

I’m still really suprised about this but in june I found out that I was one of the winners in the competition “Artists’ Books on Tour.” A total 925 projects were submitted to this competition and of those 50 were chosen and I was one of those 50.


“In order to bring visibility to contemporary developments in the field of artists’ books, we offer artists a platform to share their work within a unique all-European competition among book artists for the first time ever. We therefore invite artists to hand in their recent or planned art projects in the field: submissions will be accepted as completed physical or digital book objects or in the form of conceptual designs for projected but yet-unrealized book works. Outstanding works will be awarded a grant given by an international jury.”
Quote from the ABOT website. 

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This is a sneaky look at the book I have made for The Piracy Project.

“Andrea Francke & AND Publishing would like to invite you to  contribute to The Piracy Project, an international publishing and  exhibition project exploring the philosophical, legal and practical  implications of book piracy and creative modes of reproduction. The  project includes a series of talks and a five-day production workshop  held at the Byam Shaw Library. The submitted works will then tour to  international venues in 2011.” Taken from the website here.

Events and exhibitions

Does anyone live in london?? theres a few book arts related things going on this week which are a must see!!

First thing, tonight I will be doing book making demonstrations, along side one of my friends and someone else at this http://www.arts.ac.uk/alumni/arts_monday.htm  at the Book Club, even though Im first years book arts and not an alumni. There will be photos of this tomorrow.

and next…

The final years book arts, sound arts and photography show starts on Thursday 3 June till Wednesday 9 June http://www.arts.ac.uk/newsevents/8792/show-two-power-of-ten/. And there will be in a huge metal container/reading room, outside uni, with books made by 1st [the year Im in] and 2nd years book arts, one of my books will be in this.  Theres also a shop which Ive got a few lino prints for sale too.