Showing posts with label Light Night. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Light Night. Show all posts

Tuesday, 22 September 2009

Frigg






Imagine it's Friday, imagine a man who thinks it's Friday because he's been working too much and has his days mixed up. As Nous Vous say 'A day's a day'.

Yes I missed my post last week so thought I'd pop a blog today instead. Again I have been very busy - one job down and one to go. Exciting. After which time I'll be taking that down time I mentioned in my previous blog - with a view to drawing and preparing for a personal project we collectively have in mind - and are very keen to get into. Alongside another couple of my own personal projects. 3 people just aren't enough for the work we've had on - or it could be the case that we have made it too much work for ourselves being characteristically over ambitious. Or it is enough work for 3 people who don't want to do anything but work.

Here's a little bit of what we've been working on. They're a set of Flyers / Postcards for this years Light Night 9th October - for Leeds City Council. We've created a set of 4 Postcards, if you'd like to collect them all you'll have to negotiate your way around venues in Leeds and search them out. We didn't want them to be as throwaway as flyers generally are - so we made them into postcards and have hopefully made them collectible. One of the stipulations in this years promotion was that it had to be economically friendly as well as environmentally friendly. We printed them onto FSC paper stock using Soya based inks.








We came up with the strapline 'See things differently', which in all fairness has probably been used lots and lots of times. Nevertheless we thought it was fitting and wanted to focus on how you would experience the City on this one evening and how your perspective is changed - we focused the campaign on this idea. We used upcoming events from this years Light Night, whereas in the past the marketing has focussed upon what happened last year as a device to promote the coming year. We felt it would be more appropriate to look forward to what is going to happen rather than reflect upon has happened.

Friday, 28 August 2009

Frigg



Haven't really got an awful lot to say this week. This week we've just had a bit of a catch-up fest in the studio.

Wanted to say sorry to Dawn as someone had pointed out - I called Dawn who curated our show in Newcastle - Ruth. I'm putting this down to tiredness and meeting alot of people wthin a very short period of time between Newcastle & London. Excuses aside - I'm Sorry.

We're currently working on promotional material for this year's Light Night - a large scale one night art festival held in Leeds every year - there's over 80 events on the one evening this year so it'll be the biggest one to date. As well as ploughing on putting together a promotional package for the Leeds Universities: Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery for a show coming up featuring a contemporary art from the Lodeveans Collection. Both are proving challenging, with restricted budgets and us aiming quite ambitiously high in our production specifications. A challenge is always good for the create juices though. Hard work though.

I've also been chasing stock left right and centre for the re-launch of 'theartmarket' we're all chipping in getting it off the ground and I've been given the task of sourcing zines / artists books. Also an exciting challenge. Currently located stock from Analogue Books, Islands Fold, Cafe Royal, Its Nice That, Nieves, Soyfriends. So there should be a nice selection for the opening, still ploughin on though, so there'll be more to follow and it'll be the only place in Leeds stocking any of these types of publications - can't wait.

I'll be spending most of the day tomorrow painting / fixing, getting hands on in the new space which is always fun. Then I'll be spending the remaining part of my weekend entertaining my mum and brother - who have travelled over from the Isle of man for the bank holiday to spend some time with me. Nice!

Hopefully I'll manage to steal a few moments next week to get sit back and do some investigation. Until then here's some pictures of my pieces from our Newcastle show 'Massive Contact'








Good day & Good Weekend!

J x