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Fitzgerald’s Clothiers

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:11:25 +0100

A new Brighton-based menswear brand, Fitzgerald’s Clothiers ‘specialise in producing classic mid 20th century menswear, specifically, but not limited to, Ivy league style garments’. Their initial offering is a proper Oxford cloth button-down shirt that recalls the classic Sero ‘The Purist’ shirt of yore; classic, rather than slim, fit with, crucially, an unlined collar for that perfect roll. Definitely one to keep an eye on.

Saloua Raouda Choucair

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:10:00 +0100

Opening tomorrow at Tate Modern is the first major museum exhibition of the diverse work of pioneering Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair. Based in Beirut, she was taught by traditional landscape painters, but carved out a unique modernist vision of her own, influenced by Islam and western abstract art.

The Saloua Raouda Choucair retrospective runs from 17 April – 20 October 2013.

(Pictured: ‘Composition in Blue Module’ 1947–51, © Saloua Raouda Choucair Foundation)

russianavantgarde: Gustav Klutsis - Maquette for...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:37:48 +0100

russianavantgarde:

Gustav Klutsis - Maquette for Radio-Announcer, 1922

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Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:46:20 +0100

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Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:34:50 +0000

Extreme Metaphors

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:26:20 +0000

Fascinating review by Kevin Jackson of Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with J G Ballard, 1967-2008, edited by Simon Sellars and Dan O’Hara.

This collection of forty-odd bits of journalism can be enjoyed as a kind of protracted non-fiction novel … The ‘Ballard’ of Extreme Metaphors, like the ‘Ballard’ of Crash or the ‘Jim’ of Empire of the Sun, is a well-wrought character. And a fascinating character at that.

Read the full review at the Literary Review website.

Brutalism in the UK An ongoing series by architectural...

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:13:26 +0000

Brutalism in the UK

An ongoing series by architectural photographer Andy Spain.

via publicobsessions:

http://www.archdaily.com/70676/brutalism-in-the-uk/

Stravinsky and The Rite of Spring Jazz pianist and composer...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:21:00 +0000

Stravinsky and The Rite of Spring

Jazz pianist and composer Julian Joseph is at the Southbank Centre’s The Rest Is Noise festival to speak about the fascination of jazz and black music for composers such as Stravinsky. Here he talks to the Guardian’s Imogen Tilden about the Russian composer’s visionary classical work The Rite of Spring.

One map, a thousand reviews

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 19:21:35 +0000

A literary map of David Foster Wallace.

Inside Savile Row: life as a master tailor Edward Sexton,...

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:53:00 +0000

Inside Savile Row: life as a master tailor

Edward Sexton, master tailor, and Claire Malcolm, creative director at Hardy Amies, discuss working life at the British home of tailoring, Savile Row in London.

London Underground 150th anniversary stamps

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 17:31:34 +0000

As part of the celebrations for London Underground’s 150th anniversary, the Royal Mail is to release stamps featuring famous artwork created for the network. More information at the CR blog.

(Pictured: stamp designed by Hat-Trick featuring a poster illustration of Boston Manor tube station by Tom Eckersley)

George Nelson in two dimensions

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:14:58 +0000

Design critic Alexandra Lange visited the retrospective of modernist furniture designer George Nelson and found herself even more interested in the graphic design output of his associates than in the furniture itself.

(Pictured: Modern Management Group advertisement (1955) via George Nelson Foundation)

The Modernist magazine

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:45:25 +0000

The Modernist is ‘a quarterly publication about 20th century modernist architecture and design, with a view from the North of England’. You can buy recent issues or subscribe via the Modernist website, but the first four issues are now available to view online for free at Magpile.

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Sun, 25 Nov 2012 23:15:43 +0000

Landmarks: mapping the landscape of modern music

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 17:49:16 +0000

Kicking off tonight at Turner Sims in Southampton and continuing at London’s Southbank Centre is London Sinfonietta’s Landmarks, a series of concerts which explores some of the most important moments of twentieth century music. The concerts are presented in collaboration with Netia Jones/Lightmap, whose video projections between and alongside the music will map and uncover the context in which each work was conceived.

Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
The first concert in the series looks at Olivier Messiaen and his Quartet for the End of Time, premiered in 1941 at Stalag VIII-A prisoner of war camp where the composer was incarcerated.
Olivier Messiaen: La Colombe; Plainte Calme; Theme and Variations; Quartet for the End of Time.

Webern and the Second Viennese School
The composers of the second Viennese School, and not least Anton Webern, influenced many of the composers of the second half of the 20th century championed by the London Sinfonietta today.
Anton Webern: 3 Lieder; Six Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6; Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10; Three Traditional Rhymes, Op. 17; Symphony, Op. 21; Three Small Pieces for Cello and Piano, Op. 11; Concerto for Nine Instruments, Op. 24.
Arnold Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16.
Alban Berg: Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 5.

Repeating Patterns: The Start of US Minimalism
An introduction to the world of minimalism, tracing its origins in 1960s New York loft apartments and art galleries to a cult musical movement in the 70s and beyond.
La Monte Young: Composition 1960 #7; X for Henry Flynt.
Terry Riley: In C.
Steve Reich: It’s Gonna Rain; Clapping Music; Violin Phase.
Philip Glass: 1+1; Knee Play 2.

More details at the Landmarks page on the London Sinfonietta website.

JazzFM brochure

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:05:00 +0000

Check out some images of designer Matt Willey’s beautiful promotional brochure for JazzFM on Eye magazine’s blog.

Design and Paper, No. 13 (Controlled Visual Flow) and No. 19...

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:11:00 +0000

Design and Paper, No. 13 (Controlled Visual Flow) and No. 19 (Shape, Line and Color) Reprints, 2003 (via Display | Design and Paper, No. 13 and No. 19 | Modern and Rare Graphic Design Books), designed by Ladislav Sutnar.

via rmgdesign.

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:09:48 +0000

Modernism series at Southbank Centre

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:44:42 +0100

Continuing today and running throughout the autumn at London’s Southbank Centre is a series of events, curated by Will Self, which explores the legacy and provocation of literary Modernism on contemporary writing.

Events today:
• Leading novelist and literary critic Gabriel Josipovici asks whether contemporary fiction has lived up to the experimentation and verve of earlier Modernist writing
• A discussion of the life of experimental British writer B S Johnson, with Jonathan Coe, author of Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B S Johnson, along with Julia Jordan and Philip Tew, joint editors of Johnson’s work

Other events in the series include:
• An evening exploring the legacy of David Foster Wallace’s writing, with his biographer D T Max and writer and comedian David Baddiel
• Jacqueline Rose, one of the great contemporary writers on the subjects of literature, psychoanalysis and politics, examining the issue of subjectivity in a lecture entitled The Unfinished Project of Modernism
• John Gray discussing Enlightenment dreams and Modernist nightmares with Will Self
• Slavoj Žižek discussing his new book The Year of Dreaming Dangerously, an analysis of the riots and revolutions that swept the world last year

More information on the series at the Southbank centre website

vitsoe: 1989: At the height of his work for The Face and Arena,...

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:23:15 +0100

vitsoe:

1989: At the height of his work for The Face and Arena, Neville Brody worked with Vitsœ to launch the 606 Universal Shelving System in the UK.
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1989: Auf dem Höhepunkt seiner Arbeit für The Face und Arena arbeitete Neville Brody für Vitsœ, um das Regalsystem 606 in Großbritannien bekannt zu machen.
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雑誌 The FaceやARENAで活躍していたネーヴィル・ブロディが手がけた、英国で発売開始した当時の606 ユニバーサル・シェルビング・システムのカタログ。（1989年）