Archive | August, 2012

Meet Ellen McGrath – Luxury Stationery Designer: I don’t think you can be a truly great designer without knowledge of production, because you don’t know all the things you can achieve.

Anzu

When did you realise you wanted to design products for a living? I pretty much fell into this profession. When I graduated I was really unsure what to do, but I was painting a lot (which I love) and as a quick money spinner I did some illustrations and put them on filofax sheets. I [...]

Meet Suky Best – Visual Artist: One of the things I like about the studio complex is everyone’s studio feels totally different, and they even smell different.

Suky Best is a visual artist living in London. Currently she teaches Photoshop classes at Artupdate Learning. Suky has been using Photoshop as long as she can remember. She has also taught Illustrator at Central Saint Martins for a number of years. A lot of artists and designers can’t work without having a studio is [...]

Artupdate Learning Elsewhere: Alighiero Boetti – Game Plan – New York America

Alighiero Boetti

July 1–October 1, 2012 Organized chronologically, the exhibition will span Boetti’s entire career beginning with his sculptural works, or objects as he preferred to call them, comprised of everyday materials including wood, cardboard, and aluminum. Brought together (many for the first time since Boetti’s seminal exhibition at Galleria Christian Stein in Turin in 1967) and [...]

Artupdate Learning Talks To The Party Of Five Behind Goodbye Horses Film

Goodbye Horses is a film in the making by five men who met online. Here is what they have to say about the project, which makes most of us envy. The photographs alone make you want to leave the office and hire a van. Where are you right now? Currently we are in Houston, Texas [...]

Artupdate Learning Hang Out: Five Best Coffee Shops Around Shoreditch

Coffee At Bricklane

Kahaila Cafe Fantastic if you want to work in peace, drink decent coffee, eat nice cakes and not people watching. It seems like a friendly place, Kahaila offers origami workshop and an opportunity to ask for skills needed to complete a project. It doesn’t try to be a trendy coffee shop and there’s a nice vibe [...]

Artupdate Learning Talks To Sebastian Tarek about The Craft Of Making Old Fashioned Shoes And Why He’s Cautious About Vegan Materials

Sebastian Tarek

When did your fascination with shoes begin? I first considered becoming a shoemaker when I saw “hans Christian Anderson”, the Danny Kay film. I decided that roaming the country side telling tales, making shoes seemed like a nice life. It was later revealed to me that I was from a long line of shoemakers, skipped [...]