To launch a new season of Six Pillars we mark the current London Design Biennial running until 23rd September at Somerset House, with 40 countries, cities and territories exhibiting under the theme Emotional States. Dance, hashtags, sound art, new technology and desert sand are among the mediums used to explore emotion in the usually more … Continue reading
Cambodia-based photographer Thomas Cristofoletti photographs what he sees as evidence of the rapid growth of commercial ideologies in the theocratic state of Iran. On his website, beside some lush photos of scenes of shopping and use of technology in Iran, he quotes former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when he said “Thankfully we are already witnessing … Continue reading
British designer Alexandra Llewellyn has played backgammon since growing up as a child in Cairo. Since 2010 she’s created these stylish, cool and modern designs for boards of the oldest recorded game in the world (5000 years). For many, adapting the board this way will seem almost sacrilegious and it’s a game about which the … Continue reading
Each year Tehran’s Graphic Design Week bridges April and May, and this year opened at the Iranian Artists Forum, Momayez Gallery, off Taleqani Ave. with a show of posters by young artists; “Minus 30”. Works by 168 graphic designers aged under 30 were taken from all over Iran and selected by a jury panel, drawing masses … Continue reading
به افتخار روز جهانی گرافیک —————————————— “What’d it be like if the characters of the Persian script replaced the characters that perform in a circus?” We’ll tell you what it would be like, it would be like Charlie Chaplin’s own moustache had run off to start a career of his own, and he’d love that! … Continue reading
As part of our #IranUKSonics residency running until Dec 20th, we feature a series of interviews with each of the five selected participants. Nemo Ghasemi Tafreshi, also known as Bluesy Guy, is an award-winning blues guitarist, electronic musician and song writer from Iran. Originally from Tehran with a background in film scoring and sound design, Ghasemi … Continue reading
Farhad Fozouni, Tehran [0002] Poetry, Tegel, Installation, 2012, Left to Right Exhibition, BerlinFarhad Fozouni is a leading figure in the contemporary Iranian graphic design with an international reputation and impressive list of accomplishments and recognitions. (1) Fozouni dares himself to get out of his comfort zone for the sake of creating new aesthetic experiences and … Continue reading
For tonight’s closing party we begin with a discussion at 7pm between participating graphic designer Maral Pourkazemi, curator Aser el Saqqa of Arts Canteen and the curator of New Players New Roles, Fari Bradley. Not having writing extensively about the show, instead allowing interpretations from Indian arts writer Rajesh Punj and leaving the curation and … Continue reading
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