New Work: Oyuna’s Cashmere To Keep

Daniel Weil likes to take overexposed objects and look at them afresh. His latest design for cashmere label Oyuna is Cashmere To Keep, a gusseted container bag with a folded closure that is secured with elastic. The shopping bag format has been automatically produced for over a century but Cashmere To Keep reinvents that format, removing handles and adding a foldover crease, allowing customers to open and close it like a box but carry it underarm like a bag. The crease is angled to reflect the angle of the ‘y’ on the Oyuna logotype.

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New Work: Aldo Rise Installations by Daniel Weil

Last week we posted about the Selfridges windows that Pentagram’s Daniel Weil designed for Aldo Rise, Aldo’s bold collaboration with daring new talent in the fashion industry. The windows promoted the heart of the experience, the pop-up installation in the Shoe Galleries on Selfridges’ second floor.

Daniel devised the installation around the experience of sitting down and trying the shoes. Each counter unit of the installation is supported by a single wood turning, inspired by a female shoe.

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New Work: ‘David Hockney - A Bigger Picture’

Harry Pearce and his team have created the identity for David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture currently on show at the Royal Academy of Arts. This is the first major exhibition in the UK to showcase David Hockney’s landscape work. The show takes over the full suite of main galleries and features more than 150 works, mostly created within the last decade, and with the Academy’s galleries in mind.

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Arts Foundation Awards Presented at Pentagram

Pentagram’s London office hosted the Arts Foundation Awards last night at which Guest of Honour, poet Sir Andrew Motion, announced the names of the six recipients of the £10,000 fellowships.

Five art forms are chosen each year across the fields of fine and performing arts, literature, craft and new media. In 2012 the categories selected were Animation, Choreography, Opera Composition, Poetry and Product Design as well as the Yoma Sasburg Fellowship for Sculpture.

From a breakdancing choreographer to a product designer who prefers to work in the desert the recipients were;

Robert Morgan: Animation
Wilkie Branson: Choreography
Elspeth Brook: Opera Composition
Ahren Warner: Poetry
Markus Kayser: Product Design
Ruth Claxton: Yoma Sasburg Award for Sculpture

New Work: The Selfridges London Debut of Aldo Rise

Fashion shoe brand Aldo asked Pentagram’s Daniel Weil to create both the main entrance windows and a pop-up store for the Selfridges launch of the Aldo Rise initiative, a bold collaboration with daring new talent in the fashion industry.

Collaborating with partner Naresh Ramchandani, Weil has created a display concept that runs through both the windows and pop-up store.

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Daniel Weil’s Stunningly Elegant Custom Clocks

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New Work: ‘Symbol, Mark and a Typeface’ posters

Angus Hyland has designed a limited edition series of four different posters to be given away at his talk for The Typographic Circle on 19 January at JWT in Knightsbridge.

The posters illustrate the talk title, “Symbol, Mark and a Typeface.” The evening will be divided into two parts, the first based around Hyland’s book Symbol, which analyses enduring trademarks, and the second on his ten-year collaboration with Cass Art, the iconic art materials retailer.

Lithography was kindly provided by Gavin Martin Colournet and Zen Pure White paper supplied by GF Smith.

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New Work: Daniel Weil’s Clock for a Card Player

The fourth in Daniel Weil’s series of clocks has been revealed for the first time this week as part of the Making Time exhibition at Sotheby’s.

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Last Chance to See Daniel Weil’s ‘Making Time’

Daniel Weil’s Making Time exhibition ends at 4.30pm on Friday 13 January at Sotheby’s New Bond Street in London.

Daniel Weil’s ‘Making Time’ on View at Sotheby’s

A unique collection of extraordinary clocks by Daniel Weil are currently on display in a selling exhibition, Making Time, in the Wemyss Gallery at Sotheby’s New Bond Street, London. The exhibition is open daily from 9.30am to 4.30pm until 13 January.