Here at Studio.Build we are massive fans of the guys behind Design Manchester. So it's always great to see what they have lined up. Design Manchester 18 launched this week (this years theme - Disrupt!), the event is hosted at various venues and places around the city and the Greater Manchester area. Runs 11th Oct — 21st October 2018.
We will be having a Studio.Build Away.Day trip to the conference on Friday Oct 19th. If you see us there, please do say hello!
As an aside- we are also pleased to have been invited to participate in a couple of the events, I Shout For The Fall and Transient Space, a bit more info about those two events below.
I Shout for The Fall. A big thanks to John Rooney, senior teaching fellow at the University of Leeds, for inviting us to contribute by designing a response to words written by the eponymous Mark E Smith from The Fall.
Our submission— ‘Living Too Late’ was intentionally designed to be hard to read. But if you persevere you will get it, a bit like listening to The Fall. Other creatives involved in the exhibition include Malcolm Garrett, Alan Kitching, Instruct, Spin and Patrick Thomas.
Transient Space. A projected gallery that explores the concepts of time, space and the culture of the transient screen. Recent research shows the average time people look at a work in a gallery is a median duration of ’17 Seconds’ and with this in mind we have briefed and incredible array of creatives to respond to this with a 17 second piece on the theme.
Taking the 17 second theme outlined in the brief we produced a rapid-fire blip animation. The piece contains descriptions of a number of our favourite pieces of art (see list below), alongside a range of emotions when viewing these pieces of art.
S.P Behind A Glass Door by Philip Harris. Bathroom Mirror by Patrick Caulfield.
Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci.
IKB 79 by Yves Klein.
The Physical Impossibility Of Death In The Mind Of Someone Living by Damien Hirst.
Mr And Mrs Clark And Percy by David Hockney.
Untitled (Riot) by Christopher Wool.
My Bed by Tracey Emin.
Slow Motion Car Crash by Jonathan Schnipper.
Daniel In The Lions' Den by Peter Paul Rubens.
Fountain by Marcel Duchamp.
Leap Into The Void by Yves Klein.
Self 1991 by Marc Quinn.
Broadway Boogie-woogie by Piet Mondrian.
Convertible Fat Car (Porsche) by Erwin Wurm.
House by Rachel Whiteread.
Three Installations In Fluorescent Light by Dan Flavin.
Campbell's Soup Cans by Andy Warhol.
Untitled (Menziken 89-10) by Donald Judd.
Tree With Stones Around It 07 by Andy Goldsworthy.
Untitled (Crash 2) by Dirk Skreber.
The Weather Project by Olafur Eliasson.
The Raft Of The Medusa by Théodore Géricault.
Nighthawks by Edward Hopper.
The Hay Wain by John Constable.
Death Of Warhol.
Convergence by Jackson Pollock.
Girl With A Mandolin by Pablo Picasso.
Dogs Playing Poker by C.M. Coolidge.
The Son Of Man by Rene Magrittees.
Royal Red And Blue by Mark Rothko.
American Gothic by Grant Wood.
The Kiss by Gustav Klimt.
Angel Of The North by Antony Gormley.
Chant 2 by Bridget Riley.
Reclining Drunk by Gilbert & George. Plan by Jenny Saville. The Tragic Conversion Of Salvador Dalí by Glenn Brown. Going To The Match by Ls Lowry. The Lady Of Shalott by John William Waterhouse. Nor Any Haunt Of Mine by Emma Bennett.
We really encourage everyone to support and get involved in what is always an amazing series of events. So get inspired, get disruptive and get yourself along to Design Manchester 18!