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SHOWstudio : Fashion Revolution

Somerset House's fashion exhibition SHOWstudio: Fashion Revolution brings the world of photographer Nick Knight's SHOWstudio.com to life. The show includes works by Alexander McQueen, Gareth Pugh and Vivienne Westwood, and projects featuring Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell.

Live fashion shoots take place regularly including a British Vogue cover shoot with Nick Knight on 5 & 6 November in the Studio.

SHOWstudio: Fashion Revolution is at Somerset House until 20 December, tickets £5, late night opening till 21.00 Thurs and Fri.

Lulu and Iris Exhibition

© Lulu & Iris

© Lulu & Iris

I was thrilled today when i received an invite to a Lulu & Iris exhibition opening in November.

Louise Anderson, the wife of Liberty Radio Breakfast Show presenter, Richard Anderson, today releases the date of her first UK art showcase.
 
Entitled  ‘You and I’, the showcase takes the form of an exhibition featuring exclusive artwork inspired by the beauty in everyday life and how it shapes and influences us (the human being).
 
With a background in fashion design and having designed for Top Shop, Hollister and Thomas Pink; Louise takes illustration into a new dimension by introducing inspirations from vintage garments, children stories and the sense of nostalgia and belonging to the countryside.
 
Having sparked admirable and controversial attention from her illustration of model Lily Cole, Louise is set to leave attendees in awe, shock, mesmerized and intrigued as she introduces the world to a new form of illustration.
 
“Throughout my artistic career, I have always created pieces that broke traditional moulds and want to inspire artists and attendees to look outside of the box and take a journey of artistic creativity to see the world through my eyes, hence the reason why I called my company Lulu and Iris. Lulu is my nickname and Iris for my eyes” Louise Anderson, Creator of Lulu and Iris.
 
The launch will be on Saturday 21st November, doors will open at 4pm and will be held at Tiffinbites, 23 Russia Row, Off Gresham Street, St. Paul’s, London EC2V 7PG.
 
Lulu and Iris is set to create a storm in the art world and attendees are advised to arrive early as places are limited.
For examples of Lulu and Iris’ previous work please visit www.luluandiris.com.

P.S Tigerprint wishes Louise much success with the show!

Designers Marketplace

The Designers Marketplace is coming to a city near you! The next stop is at Middlesbrough Town Hall Crypt Sunday 29th November. Ideal place for Xmas shopping oh and of course treat shopping no reason needed! For more details check out here.

Kevin Cummins at Salts Mill, Saltaire

Kevin Cummins - Manchester: Looking for the light through the pouring rain is an exhibition of photography currently been shown at Salts Mill in Saltaire.

Here at Tigerprint we are lucky to have Salts Mill on our doorstep and had a look at this exhibition a few days ago. It is well worth a visit for the photographs and the ambience of the exhibition as you walk around the untouched roof space of Salts Mill with Joy Division and others bursting out of speakers and one end of this amazing space.

"Salts is proud to present, by kind permission of the Richard Goodall Gallery, Kevin Cummins' definitive photographic exhibition of the Manchester music scene from 1976 to the present day.We will be opening the roof space from 11am til 4.30pm every day to house iconic photographs of Joy Division, The Smiths, Happy Mondays, Oasis and other bands that shaped two generations of teenagers and changed the course of pop music".

MMU MA Show

 

It's that time a year again when the MA shows start happening up and down the country. Manchester Metropolitan University has the last day of its exhibition today with show 2 showcasing Design & Art Direction, Textiles and Art as Environment. If your over that way its well worth popping in.

P.s if you have an exhibition that you would like us to feature please email Vic vlem2@hallmark-uk.com

Woo!

Windows Of Opportunity, is a project promoting York Museums Trust. It's an innovative digital design programme to address the visual impact of empty shops in York city centre. Basically a chance to get your work shown on a big scale in the tourist capital of the north! Get involved and use empty boarded up shop windows as your canvas! A few entries are up on display already HERE

Design Event 09

Design Event began in 2005 as a festival and has grown to be an organisation delivering an annual programme of design based exhibitions and events across the North East. Each year  across the North East region there is a festival celebrating design and a programme of talks with leading designers in their fields.

Designers Marketplace

 

One of our freelance designers, Rachael Taylor will have a stand at this years Designers Marketplace in Leeds in October.

The Designers Marketplace is a non-commercial showcase of some of the best creative talent in the region independent of gallery and studio based groups and memberships. Founder Helen Stevens formed the market to build on the idea of an open support network and creative hub for regional artists and designers.

The event provides a platform where both emerging and established designers and artists have a chance to promote and sell their work directly to the public. Designs and products on sale show greater innovation and design awareness to what you would find at the more commonly found ‘craft fair’, through a series of mini-boutique like stall spaces.

Prints Charming at Liberty

© Liberty

Prints Charming is the Liberty exhibition which is on at the famous London department store until 2nd September.

The exhibition is celebrating all things wacky and wonderful about the iconic Liberty print. From an entire wall of the building being swatched in Betsy fabric and bicycles sporting the micro-floral to this season's must-have fashion pieces and an out-of-this-world art fabric collaboration, this is a spectacle not to be missed.

KiosKiosk

© KiosKiosk

© KiosKiosk

This is quite a cool thing going on in London town at the moment.
The design museum has a new exhibition called SuperContemporary. It includes commisions from 15 of Londons most dynamic creatives including Ron Arad, Paul Smith and Wayne Hemingway.

Wayne Hemingway's decided to do a thing called Kioskiosk.
"Designer Wayne Hemingway has set up a market stall in a bid to help new designers get a break.

Dozens of young designers have been allotted a free slot on the stall over the next two months to sell jewellery, furniture, ceramics and clothes. Hemingway said he was inspired to help by the dearth of cheap opportunities for designers. The markets where he first started selling clothes used to charge £6 a stall and £80 for a string of pitches. They now charge £1,760 a week.

"It means that the whole idea of having a go and if you fail you've lost a bit of pocket money has gone," he said. "I believe we've got to get that back."

The events/workshops look pretty good too. Especially this one a couple of weeks ago by Amy Lame!