National Theatre: Shopping & E*ting launch

The Kit Grover team had a great time last night at the Shopping & E*ting launch, making full use of the green screen photo booth.

Head down for shopping, cocktails and seriously delicious food including chorizo and black pudding Scotch eggs, g&t truffles and goose pies.

National September 11 Memorial & Museum

About five years ago, MoMA kindly recommended us to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Our brief is so broad that the intended uses for our work are still not finalised, but momentously for us the designs have travelled from person, to desk, to department and have been approved for use. The 9/11 Memorial is free to use them while we keep a custodial eye on the project.

Here is the first of our designs: the shield is an ancient object. In its contemporary use, the shape of the shield, while significant is secondary to the words and images that identify the organisation to which those who wear it belong. The design is in honour of all shield bearers. In this application, the shields honour the courage and sacrifice of the first responders on 9/11. The design employs the shapes used by the principal organisations involved. It will be used in clusters of three or as a wallpaper, usually reproduced as black on black.

Cube Shop

Concept Design, our collaborators on the Cube Shop have made a great video showing how it works:

Monday Portrait: Dead Tom with Collar Buttoned

Dead Tom with Collar Buttoned

Kit Grover 1980

Wax crayon & ink on paper

In memory of Tom Piechowski - for 33 years he defiantly fought the title of this work and died June 6, 2013. RIP

ACE Awards

The War Horse products we created for the National Theatre have won Best Product Range at the Association for Cultural Enterprises Awards 2013.

Available online from the National Theatre. See other award-winners here.

Found in the office: Richard III

Rooting around the office yesterday we found this illustration Kit did in the late seventies for Washington's Folger Shakespeare Library. 

Dover Street Market

This Christmas we swooned at all six floors of Dover Street Market; there are few shops that summon unadulterated admiration (and greed) from everyone at Kit Grover.




Where else would you find T-shirt vending machines, a giant Octopus sculpture and portaloos - albeit repurposed as changing rooms - under the same roof? On January the 26th DSM close for their biannual 'Tachiagari' during which they redesign the space, creating installations and making room for new designers. This exercise ensures that the concept store is constantly evolving - as fashion has seasons it makes perfect sense that a fashion store should too. So much sense that we can't work out why all of them don't do it...

A 'Tachiagari' for our office may also be in the pipeline.

See a comprehensive report by the Clothes Whisperer on the SS11 Tachiagari here.

Kit Grover inflatable wreath

What better time than the first day of Advent to show you our Christmas wreath!

A modern alternative to the traditional prickles, the Kit Grover inflatable wreath is available at Selfridges this Christmas.

News: A1 bag

Our A1 bag is going to be on sale this winter at BEARSPACE Gallery's shop as well as from Culture Label. The ideal Christmas present for artists sick of lugging unwieldy portfolios around London.

Grayson Perry table mats

The Grayson Perry mats we made with the artist for Yoox have landed! Available here.

GRAYSON PERRY: “ Why have I chosen to have my tapestry images made into a set of table mats? The Vanity of Small Differences is about taste and class in British society and table mats, like net curtains, caravans, tattoos and having a clean car seemed to be one of the clearer symbols that divided the socio economic classes … when I researched taste for my television series I encountered table mats in all parts of society, protecting a glass coffee table in a hairdressers house, pseudo-ironically arrayed on a vintage dining table and casually strewn ready for breakfast for a man who owns a castle and six thousand acres. So who knows , buy these without fear.”

The thinking man's Supreme hat

Damien Hirst umbrella

Beautiful, amore, gasp, eyes going into the top of the head and fluttering (painting)...

 The umbrella we made for the Hirst exhibition at Tate Modern was featured in Stylist magazine's art special!

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.