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Paper cutting isn’t just for playschool. Rob Ryan shows us all up.
Very nice.

Very nice idea - well realised which is just about the greatest thing i’ve seen all morning,

Barcinski-jeanjean are from Amsterdam and they have some great work to boot.

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 share our office with some very cool product designers - they would most famously be known for their “make your own cardboard cut out AK47” kit they have in the shops at the moment - but last week they launched something to top that…. A Concorde turbine engine on display in a Selfridges window on Oxford Street, check it out:

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.

Finally, after years of producing crap, Guy Ritchie has found his form again with the new Nike Ad. Great concept, really well executed. Check it out here.