Artist Commissions

Artist Commissions


HYBRID

Plus is a unique festival showcasing all that is innovative, pioneering, and novel in the world of graphic and typographic design. It is a diverse event that encourages the participation of designers, artists, craftsmen and makers from all disciplines, using in any medium, whose work is based around word, language and letterforms.

Plus is a beneficiary of the Arts Council Grants for the Arts and as a result is seeking to invite two artists, makers or crafts people to exhibit experimental work that involves words and letterforms.

THEME
The theme of the 2008 Festival is Hybrid and work is sought around this topic. Hybrid, has been chosen as the focus of this year’s event as it not only aptly describes Britain today but it also expresses the current state of graphic communications. Britain is a hybrid community that absorbs, transforms and transmits myriad influences from around the world to create something new and exciting, but is still recognizably British. Graphic and typographic design are also fusion disciplines that amalgamate graphic languages from around the world and from across the creative disciplines – often with surprising results. The 2008 Festival seeks to expose the hybrid in design.

MEDIUM
In addition to paper-based work, artists may use other mediums and environments: 2- or 3-dimentional; large-scale installations; screen-based media; or site-specific work enabling the artist to explore how the graphic arts reflect, blend and interact with the urban environment and the community beyond. Work that uses alphabets other than roman is particularly welcome reflecting the cultural diversity of the graphic field.

WHO CAN APPLY?
Work is sought from across the national and international creative and craft-based industries: fine art; letter making; calligraphy; ceramics; jewellery; stone carving; silversmith; glass engraving; photography; illustration; graffiti artists; multimedia; animation; computer games. Applications are welcomed from individuals, institutions and co-operatives; collaborative work between designers, artists and craftspeople is encouraged.

THE AWARD
The successful applicants will each receive £1,500.00 towards the creation and installation of their work, which will be exhibited at the Plus International Design Festival, Birmingham, 5-8 November2007.

SUBMISSION P ROCESS
An outline proposal of not more than 500 words and an abbreviated CV in Word format and up to 5 low-resolution jpg images (where appropriate) to be sent to:
info@youplusus.net.

CLOSING DATE
All entries to be receive by 12-noon on Wednesday 1 October 2008.

ENQUIRIES
All entries: info@youpluus.net | 056 0125 9160