30.06.2009
Anna S – Nude in Sitges
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Aram Bartholl 2009
28.06.2009
Sexy Tarts on Cards
About the project
Tart cards are the means by which many London prostitutes advertise their services. Step into almost any central London phone box and you can contemplate up to 80 cards inviting you to be tied, teased, spanked or massaged.
Even if a police crackdown, the internet and the increasing use of mobile phones suggest their days are numbered, tart cards are still so pervasive they are now regarded as items of accidental art and have something of a cult following. Once on the periphery of design, tart cards have influenced the work of many mainstream artists such as Royal Academician Tom Phillips and Sex Pistols designer Ray and Nils Stevenson.
In conjunction with St Bride Library and Type, we asked designers – from students to superstars – to find the tart hiding in every type and create their own graphic numbers. Along with a selection in the magazine, all 450 cards can be viewed here. They will also be on display at KK Outlet, London from 22nd to 29th June.
In among this plethora of brilliant, witty graphic designs we would like to highlight the serious issue that lies at the heart of the world of tart cards – the plight of trafficked women in the sex industry. It is a subject touched eloquently on by Mike Dempsey of Studio Dempsey, who is a volunteer at the Helen Bamber Foundation which helps rebuild lives broken by human rights violations. While our exhibition is an ode to the graphic qualities of the tart card phenomena, Dempsey’s design is a pertinent reminder of the sinister world that lies beneath every card.
11.06.2009
When You Grow Up!
This was the note her daughter brought into school the next day:
Dear Ms. Davis,
I want to be very clear on my child’s illustration. It is NOT of me on a dance pole on a stage in a strip joint. I work at Home Depot and had commented to my daughter how much money we made in the recent snowstorm. This photo is of me selling a shovel.
Mrs. Harrington
10.06.2009
Bormental, Skazka Orchestra
Enjoy the first official video of Skazka Orchestra:
The Russian band “Skazka” (fairy tale) enter to a miniature hut in the middle of a white German forest representing the dwarfs in a surrealistic version of the fairy tale “Snow White”. While they are playing the song “Bormental” inside the hut, the story between Snow White and the Witch takes place outside in the cold forest and later inside the hut. At the end comes the prince to save Snow White from a freezing death. Nothing but a little bit of vodka can help her coming to life again.
