Emak Mafu Design Spam

Faile (pronounced “fail”) are a collective based in New York. Formed in 1999 they are referred (by some) as pioneers of global contemporary street art. Founding members Patrick McNeil, Patrick Miller and Aiko Nakagawa have evolved from wheatpasting screen printed posters on streets into permanent pieces of artwork combining stencil, graf, stickers and paint. The work is stunning and the venue, an old school on the verge of being demolished; surreal.

The show is curated by Lazarides gallery and is well worth the trip.

James

We went for a look around Established and Sons new office just round the corner from us today, part of London Design Festival. So new you can still smell the paint. They have a great new showroom, more details here. Photo is of a bench by Amanda Levete.

We went along to Interesting ‘08 on Saturday and had a great day. Many thanks to Russell Davis for organizing the whole thing. Rather than talking about it I though I wold have some verbal diarrhea with Wordle. Hopefully also serves as a reminder of what went on to people who were there, I have tried to get at least one word for every talk…

The London Festival of Architecture starts this week, go to http://www.lfa2008.org/ to find out what is going on. It’s a bit of a quagmire, but if you filter through it there are some great things happening…

If you have a spare hour in Paris over the next few months go down to Monumenta 2008 and see a bit of Richard Serra. It’s just 4euros to get in, try and go on a cool day though, it was boiling in there when we went. Site with more info here.

For the fist time Zaha Hadid is having a full scale exhibition of her work in London. I’m planning to make a trip down there this week, last admission is at 5.15. Have a look at the Design Museum page on it, or read all about it on the Zaha Blog. It runs until November 25th.

So it’s that time of year again, mid show season, when the Bartfest rears it head. I have been sceptical in recent years, but this was a really good show. Check out Ellen Pages video about the flooding of london (I’m trying to get if off her to post here), a great concept really well executed. For opening times click here.