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Leigh Ledare’s photo portray of his relationship with his mother, currently on show at Guido Costa Projects in Turin, is everything a PC family album should not be. Leigh Ledare, Mother As Baby Jane, 2004 Ledare’s mother, Tina Peterson used to be a delicate and precocious ballerina performing with the New York City Ballet. As [...]

Packing my baby blue (going alarmingly dirty grey) suitcase again. Not sure how much i’ll be able to update the blog over the coming week so here’s a quick one for the road. Elvis Was Here, 2008, Photograph by Thierry Bal In June 2008, Onkar Kular (a designer making regular guest appearances on the blog) [...]

Art in the Age of Technoscience: Genetic Engineering, Robotics, and Artificial Life in Contemporary Art, by Ingeborg Reichle (available on Amazon USA and UK.) Publisher Springer writes: Is science the new art? Starting from this provocative question, art historian Ingeborg Reichle examines in her book fascinating responses of contemporary artists when faced with recent scientific [...]

Here’s the promised second part of our round up of great work spotted at the Roycal College of Art’s SHOW Two yesterday… Paul Scattergood displayed this series of untitled lenticular images which were, in part, the fruit of his research project, Materiality and Space in Illusionist Pictures. The lenticular display helps to fool the viewer into [...]

We went along to the Royal College of Art’s SHOW Two yesterday. There was some great work to be seen; here’s a selection of some of the best bits from the Communication Art and Design exhibitions… Daniel Frost‘s exquisite pencil crayon drawings warranted a closer inspection. Frost, who seems to have a penchant for horses, [...]

Sociologist David Harvey takes a radical look at the causes of the financial crisis in the latest of the RSA’s animated lecture excerpts   RSA Animate is a collaboration between the Royial Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) and illustrator Andrew Park. In a novel attempt to engage audiences with ‘difficult’ [...]

Here’s my second instalment of great work from New Blood this year… Piotr Klarowski‘s project, created on Edinburgh College of Art’s Graphic Design course, is “inspired by the imagery of people-tracking devices used by CCTV systems”. He placed shiny cuboid structures in various buildings monitored by CCTV and made a film from the footage obtained [...]

Karl Maier and Craig Redman (both members of design collective Rinzen), now live and work on opposite sides of the world –  Maier in Sydney, and Redman in New York. The pair have been collaborating on new artworks which will be shown in a new exhibition opening tonight in Sydney… The exhibition, entitled Pick Me [...]

  I popped over to the LCC graduate show yesterday, where there is some excellent work on show. Here is a selection of the high points…   The show is titled Super Graphics, and it encompasses work by the students on the BA Graphic and Media Design degree course. This includes six pathways: Design for [...]

We’ve had some great advertising and music video projects sent into CR Towers lately – here’s a selection of our favourites… First up is this print ad from DDB London for the FT, which was launched to coincide with last week’s emergency UK budget. The ad plays on the Tesco Value logo to comment on [...]