10/08/2008
Designer's Republic
Sheffield-based Designers Republic is to both exhibit and speak at Plus 2008. Initially, Ian Anderson founded tDR to design flyers for the band Person to Person, which he managed at the time. His first ideas were inspired by Russian constructivism. From their beginning, the works were in contrast to the current understanding of design (Quote: tDR is a declaration of independence from what we perceive to be the existing design community[citation needed]). An early client was Leeds band Age of Chance, for whom they developed a series of striking record covers between 1986 and 1987. The sleeve of Don't Get Mad ... Get Even was one of Q Magazine's "100 Best Record Covers of All Time" in 2001.
10/02/2008
Design a type-tart card
You are invited to have some graphic fun and at the same time help support the St Bride Library, London – one of the world’s most important resources for the graphics industry.
ST BRIDE LIBRARY
St Bride is the world’s foremost graphic arts library and a rendezvous for all those involved in contemporary graphic communication—designers, printers, publishers, journalists, academics and students. Located in Fleet Street, the traditional heart of the UK’s printing and publishing industry, it is a place where anyone from Britain or abroad with either a professional or passing interest in design can meet and where all aspects of the practical,cultural and technical achievements of the industry can be studied. It is also a place of inspiration that has encouraged many designers, motivated generations of students and stimulated numerous authors. (www.stbride.org)
Please help to maintain this vital and invaluable resource by participating in the
type-tart project.
THE BRIEF
We would like you to design a tart card either for a typeface or a letter of the alphabet. If you are unfamiliar with these things, tart cards are the means by which London prostitutes advertise their services. Step in to any Central London call box and you can contemplate up to eighty cards inviting you to be tied, teased, spanked or massaged either in luxury apartments, fully-equipped chambers or the privacy of your own hotel room. So pervasive are these things, and so curious is their typography, images and copy writing they are now regarded as bona fide items of accidental art and have something of a cult following. Once on the periphery of design, the cards have influenced the work of many mainstream artists including Royal Academician Tom Philips and Sex Pistols designers, Ray and Nils Stevenson.
Perhaps they can inspire you too? Maybe Sabon would invite you to caress its counters, or Palatino would advertise its ‘Mega Serifs’. Bodoni boasts some magnificent finials, Baskerville’s swash can really inflict some pain, and Century Schoolbook would undoubtedly keep you in after class. Perhaps you see something seductive in the curves of the ‘S’ or the ‘A’ exhibits dominatrix tendancies. However you see the alphabet there is a type-tart in every letter.
SPECIFICATION
A6 (105 x 148 mm) landscape or portrait
Typographic, illustrative, photographic: or a combination of techniques of your choosing
Hand or machine made
Single- or full-colour
Side 1 – image and text
Side 2 – sign and date
Supply hard copy only, electronic versions will not be accepted
THE RESULTS
All entries will be exhibited at the Plus International Design Festival, (www.youplusus.net) Birmingham 5-8 November 2008 and the St Bride Institute, London in early 2009; after which the collection will be auctioned and proceeds donated to the St Bride Library. Prizes will be awarded for the top 3 entries, which will be assessed by a panel of judges from St Bride Library and Plus Expo Ltd.
CLOSING DATE
30 October 2008 (individuals) 15 December 2008 (universities)
All entries to be sent to Type LLP, 1st Floor The Toll House, The Bond
180-82 Fazeley Street, Birmingham B5 5SE
ABOUT US
Type LLP promotes typography - its history, development and application - through
researching, writing, lecturing, teaching and consultancy as well as organising events both professional typographers and enthusiasts of the subject. Type also works to raise public awareness of the role of typography in society and aims to develop an appreciation of the link between art and cultural typography. (www.uktype.com)
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Caroline Archer | 0121 766 7948 | caroline@uktype.com | www.uktype.com
ST BRIDE LIBRARY
St Bride is the world’s foremost graphic arts library and a rendezvous for all those involved in contemporary graphic communication—designers, printers, publishers, journalists, academics and students. Located in Fleet Street, the traditional heart of the UK’s printing and publishing industry, it is a place where anyone from Britain or abroad with either a professional or passing interest in design can meet and where all aspects of the practical,cultural and technical achievements of the industry can be studied. It is also a place of inspiration that has encouraged many designers, motivated generations of students and stimulated numerous authors. (www.stbride.org)
Please help to maintain this vital and invaluable resource by participating in the
type-tart project.
THE BRIEF
We would like you to design a tart card either for a typeface or a letter of the alphabet. If you are unfamiliar with these things, tart cards are the means by which London prostitutes advertise their services. Step in to any Central London call box and you can contemplate up to eighty cards inviting you to be tied, teased, spanked or massaged either in luxury apartments, fully-equipped chambers or the privacy of your own hotel room. So pervasive are these things, and so curious is their typography, images and copy writing they are now regarded as bona fide items of accidental art and have something of a cult following. Once on the periphery of design, the cards have influenced the work of many mainstream artists including Royal Academician Tom Philips and Sex Pistols designers, Ray and Nils Stevenson.
Perhaps they can inspire you too? Maybe Sabon would invite you to caress its counters, or Palatino would advertise its ‘Mega Serifs’. Bodoni boasts some magnificent finials, Baskerville’s swash can really inflict some pain, and Century Schoolbook would undoubtedly keep you in after class. Perhaps you see something seductive in the curves of the ‘S’ or the ‘A’ exhibits dominatrix tendancies. However you see the alphabet there is a type-tart in every letter.
SPECIFICATION
A6 (105 x 148 mm) landscape or portrait
Typographic, illustrative, photographic: or a combination of techniques of your choosing
Hand or machine made
Single- or full-colour
Side 1 – image and text
Side 2 – sign and date
Supply hard copy only, electronic versions will not be accepted
THE RESULTS
All entries will be exhibited at the Plus International Design Festival, (www.youplusus.net) Birmingham 5-8 November 2008 and the St Bride Institute, London in early 2009; after which the collection will be auctioned and proceeds donated to the St Bride Library. Prizes will be awarded for the top 3 entries, which will be assessed by a panel of judges from St Bride Library and Plus Expo Ltd.
CLOSING DATE
30 October 2008 (individuals) 15 December 2008 (universities)
All entries to be sent to Type LLP, 1st Floor The Toll House, The Bond
180-82 Fazeley Street, Birmingham B5 5SE
ABOUT US
Type LLP promotes typography - its history, development and application - through
researching, writing, lecturing, teaching and consultancy as well as organising events both professional typographers and enthusiasts of the subject. Type also works to raise public awareness of the role of typography in society and aims to develop an appreciation of the link between art and cultural typography. (www.uktype.com)
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Caroline Archer | 0121 766 7948 | caroline@uktype.com | www.uktype.com
9/25/2008
Workshop and Demonstrators Commissions
Workshop and Demonstrators Commissions
Plus is seeking to invite artists, makers or crafts people to demonstrate techniques or run workshops that involve 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.
WHO CAN APPLY?
Workshops/demonstrations are sought from across the creative and craft-based industries. 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 £100.00 towards the running a half-day workshop/demonstration at the Plus International Design Festival, Birmingham, 5-8 November 2007.
SUBMISSION PROCESS
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 Monday 6 October 2008.
ENQUIRIES
All entries: info@youplusus.net | 056 0125 9160
Plus is seeking to invite artists, makers or crafts people to demonstrate techniques or run workshops that involve 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.
WHO CAN APPLY?
Workshops/demonstrations are sought from across the creative and craft-based industries. 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 £100.00 towards the running a half-day workshop/demonstration at the Plus International Design Festival, Birmingham, 5-8 November 2007.
SUBMISSION PROCESS
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 Monday 6 October 2008.
ENQUIRIES
All entries: info@youplusus.net | 056 0125 9160
Bursaries (artists and freelancers)
Bursaries (artists and freelancers)
Plus is a beneficiary of the Arts Council Grants for the Arts and as a result has a number of small bursaries it will award to 5 artists, makers or crafts people to exhibit their work at the Festival.
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: 2- or 3-dimentional; installations; screen-based media.
WHO CAN APPLY?
Work is sought from across the creative and craft-based industries: graphic and typographic designers; fine art; letter making; calligraphy; ceramics; jewellery; stone carving; silversmith; glass engraving; photography; illustration; graffiti artists; multimedia; animation; computer games. Applications are welcomed from individual artists and designers or collectives; collaborative work between designers, artists and craftspeople is encouraged.
THE AWARD
The successful applicants will each receive £200.00 towards the creation and installation of their work, which will be exhibited at the Plus International Design Festival, Birmingham, 5-8 November2007.
SUBMISSION PROCESS
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 Friday 3 October 2008.
ENQUIRIES
All entries: info@youplusus.net | 056 0125 9160
Plus is a beneficiary of the Arts Council Grants for the Arts and as a result has a number of small bursaries it will award to 5 artists, makers or crafts people to exhibit their work at the Festival.
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: 2- or 3-dimentional; installations; screen-based media.
WHO CAN APPLY?
Work is sought from across the creative and craft-based industries: graphic and typographic designers; fine art; letter making; calligraphy; ceramics; jewellery; stone carving; silversmith; glass engraving; photography; illustration; graffiti artists; multimedia; animation; computer games. Applications are welcomed from individual artists and designers or collectives; collaborative work between designers, artists and craftspeople is encouraged.
THE AWARD
The successful applicants will each receive £200.00 towards the creation and installation of their work, which will be exhibited at the Plus International Design Festival, Birmingham, 5-8 November2007.
SUBMISSION PROCESS
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 Friday 3 October 2008.
ENQUIRIES
All entries: info@youplusus.net | 056 0125 9160
9/22/2008
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
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
9/18/2008
9/04/2008
Plus in Hello Digital
Plus is exhibiting at the Hello Digital Festival in Birmingham 23-26 October 2008. We will be installing a great big interactive Field of Light in the atrium of Millennium Point. For more information take a look at the Hello Digital blog - the Field of Light website will be ready soon.
9/03/2008
Type Tarts
UKType will be at Plus having a bit of saucy typographic fun and helping to raise some money for St Bride in the process. UKType are inviting designers and typographers from around the world to create a type tart card: the results of which will be exhibited in Birmingham and London and then placed for auction: proceeds will all be donated to St Bride. If you fancy taking part then email UKType for the details - caroline@uktype.com
9/01/2008
MarieJoe Raidy Douaihy
Mariejoe Raidy Douaihy. Creative Director from the Raidy Printing Group in the Lebanon will be speaking at Plus this November. Mariejoe will be talking about the role of leadership in the printing industry. In the fast changing world of printing and technology, where typography, design and printing come into one, where the creative is combined with the technical and concepts mingle with reality constraints, the role of leadership and consultancy play are vital for a quality end product.
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