09 October 2009

Lyrics and Type

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bLOGOS/HA HA follows online (and occasionally adds to the home heap from) the daily deluge of gig posters. Below is my 2009 favorite. It's by Melbourne graphic designer/illustrator/artist Timba Smits : see more at THE FAD EXPERIMENT


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Lyrics and Type opens in Melbourne tonight at Gorker Gallery (corner of Gore & Kerr Streets, Fitzroy) until Sunday 17 October
As an official Semi-Permanent side event, Wooden Toy Quarterly has invited 17 of the worlds most crafty and creative typographers, illustrators & graphic designers to interpret song lyrics by famous (both past or present) singers, songwriters and bands for LYRICS AND TYPE, a series of artworks combining typographic treatment of words, image and illustration. Featuring work by:

DAREN NEWMAN (UK) / JAE COPP (AUS) / JON CONTINO (USA) / KARL KWASNY (AUS) / KEN TAYLOR (AUS) / LINZIE HUNTER (UK) / LUCA IONESCU (AUS) / LUDOVIC PRIGENT (FRA) / LUKE LUCAS (AUS) / MAGOMED DOVJENKO (RUS) / MCBESS (UK) / NATE WILLIAMS (USA) / RIK LEE (AUS) / SHORT (FRA) / LITTLE FRIENDS OF PRINTMAKING (USA) / TIMBA SMITS (AUS) / TOKO (AUS)


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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something . . .

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