Our collaboration with Rick Mather Architects for the shop design at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum has won a RIBA prize!
Wednesday
Thursday
Monday
War Horse goose
After a lengthy development process the rolling flapping and squawking (if only in our heads) goose puppet is on sale! Devised by Sato Hisao and produced by Kit Grover it is £30 at the National Theatre / online.
Cerith Wyn Wyn Evans
Pleasingly, the first person that comes up when you google 'Wyn Evans' is not the mustachioed Welsh artist Cerith but Cambridge Astrophysics professor Wyn.
We wonder how they'd get along...
We wonder how they'd get along...
Thursday
Site of the month: Kiosk Kiosk
KIOSK KIOSK is a New York based shop that sells products the owners have picked up on their travels. It is truly worthy of the overused term 'eclectic'.
IS GREAT BECAUSE they sell pretty much anything. That is not to say their tastes aren't discerning, far from it. Sourcing products from around the world, Kiosk Kiosk are particularly good at finding unusual objects that are often beautiful and occasionally practical. Expect to find multi-coloured pipe cleaners, a traditional Japanese carpenters knife and 'Nun calms', a German remedy to alleviate nerves.
Arguably the best thing about the site is the highly entertaining approach to product descriptions, Kiosk Kiosk subscribe firmly to the 'why use one word when you can use 5?' school of copywriting. We would particularly recommend the $28 fly whip description HERE.
OUR FAVOURITE PRODUCT IS the American Lottery ticket (actually from Sweden) which is as beautiful as it is useless to the average person. Wouldn't it make a fantastic necklace?
The Kiosk motel-style key ring came a close second. It is stamped with their details and a promise to guarantee postage.
The theory is that if you lose your keys, some kindly soul will pop your keys in the post, you call KK and eventually you get your keys back. Very clever.
IS GREAT BECAUSE they sell pretty much anything. That is not to say their tastes aren't discerning, far from it. Sourcing products from around the world, Kiosk Kiosk are particularly good at finding unusual objects that are often beautiful and occasionally practical. Expect to find multi-coloured pipe cleaners, a traditional Japanese carpenters knife and 'Nun calms', a German remedy to alleviate nerves.
Arguably the best thing about the site is the highly entertaining approach to product descriptions, Kiosk Kiosk subscribe firmly to the 'why use one word when you can use 5?' school of copywriting. We would particularly recommend the $28 fly whip description HERE.
OUR FAVOURITE PRODUCT IS the American Lottery ticket (actually from Sweden) which is as beautiful as it is useless to the average person. Wouldn't it make a fantastic necklace?
The Kiosk motel-style key ring came a close second. It is stamped with their details and a promise to guarantee postage.
The theory is that if you lose your keys, some kindly soul will pop your keys in the post, you call KK and eventually you get your keys back. Very clever.
Monday
Vanity of Small Differences
Grayson Perry's latest show has just opened at the Victoria Miro gallery.
His modern take on Hogarth's Rake's Progress charts the rise and fall of 'Tim Rakewell' - from humble beginnings to enormous wealth and celebrity to a grisly death.
The tapestries are littered with modern indicators of class and style, as in traditional Vanitas paintings, and many references to early Renaissance artworks. In the third tapestry the poses of Tim (who bears more than a passing resemblance to nineties class-investigator Jarvis Cocker, see Common People) and his girlfriend echo Masaccio's Expulsion c1425, left.
Look out for an upcoming Vanity of Small Differences-related project from Kit Grover!
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