Badaude

Great Britons!

When I'm not writing about Surrealism, I design stuff including, sometimes, scarves: well it worked for Elsa Schiaparelli...

I was delighted to work with the wonderful Age of Reason again, this time on a design showing British cultural - and other - icons, each wearing a scarf tied in a different style.

 

The version posted above is one of several colour schemes I tried out for the scarf. You can see the final colourway here. The scarf is available in three sizes, from a reasonable £35 for a headscarf to £195 for something you could probably camp under... 

(ps: spot the non-Briton: she was off project but I couldn't resist her)

The Village Bike

...a fragment of the design I've been working on for Age of Reason scarves this week...

I drew a New Button for 3am Podcasts

You can see it about half-way down the right sidebar on this page.

But here it is too...

It's a 1930s Dutch parabolic listening device.

Wild Hare Club Solstice Spectacular

(and a poster I did for it: tickets & more info here)

Magic in Modern London

I re-imagined some of amateur folklorist Edward Lovett's notebooks for The Wellcome Collection's newly-launched app, Magic in Modern London.

If you would like to join Lovett's quest for London's magic in a GPS-triggered treasure hunt around the city, you can download the app here.

Maths Cabinet

Here's a taster of my contribution to the Whipple Museum, Cambridge's, first art book, The Rules of Form: Sonnets & Slide Rules

'It is certainly true that, as the nineteenth century progressed and the British Empire expanded across the globe, a very ugly fascination with power, domination, and force increasingly crept into British culture, culminating in the preoccupation of many fin-de-siécle thinkers with the proto-Fascist philosophies of eugenics and social Darwinism. In this sense, both the poem and the paintings can be seen as expressions of a kind of psychopathology of technical mastery, in which the artist’s mastery of form – superbly evident in all these works – becomes contorted into a fascination with its power to set restraints and limits on other people’s bodies and minds.' 

-- From the Whipple Museum Art Book, essay by Dr Joseph Crawford

 

The book will be published in November 2012 and is available from the Whipple Museum, Cambridge. 

 

 

 

A Bigger Bang #4

...long shots, last...

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A Bigger Bang #4

...long shots, last...

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A Bigger Bang #3

...close-ups. See last post, and the one before...

Bigger Bang #2

...in progress