Its Nice That / [On...] Innovation & Ownership
Last night Holly and Bobby spoke at [On...] Innovation & Ownership hosted by It’s Nice That; it was indeed Nice and three pints of Red Bull got us home nice and quickly at the end of a fun evening. Thanks to everyone who came down to see us! Holly Wales, joined by Bobby Evans from OPEN, will be exploring the ‘Ownership of The Visual’, thinking through making, and... Read More
Liv Taylor interns at OPEN
Liv Taylor is just about to start her third year studying illustration at Brighton University. She joined us at OPEN for 1 month for our first studio internship. These are some images from a project she made whilst working here on a project set for her by Holly and Bobby to reflect the monochrome nature of her existing portfolio by encouraging her to consider a set of 4 colours... Read More
Land of fill
Hugh from Landfill Editions was invited with author Ned Beauman by Dalston art and music festival Land of Kings, to talk about both their own work but also about how they came together to publish Ned’s short fiction piece ‘The Dolphins of Lagos’. Short, insightful and pretty funny, the two covered everything from their careers to date, how they worked together... Read More
UNTITLED at University College Falmouth
On Friday Holly and Bobby were invited down to Falmouth to talk about OPEN and their individual practices at ‘AN EVENING UNTITLED’, organised by final year students at UCF. We also ran a series of crits for illustration and graphic design students throughout the afternoon. Untitled is a self-published interdisciplinary zine celebrating photography, writing, art &... Read More
Bucks Student Projects
It’s always exciting to receive a nice looking package through the post, which is partly why we set the students of Bucks New University a project to be posted back to us after their recent visit to Open. Upon their visit, we asked the students to each bring along an object which they really didn’t like; and we had confessions of hatred for all manner of things including... Read More
Tom Rainford visits OPEN
Grocery Day from Tom Rainford on Vimeo. Tom Rainford, who is currently working nearby for Art & Graft as a placement as part of his studies as a 3rd year illustrator at Winchester School of Art popped in today and showed us some of his recent work. Tom’s animation Grocery Day was part of a live brief set by Art & Graft to bring together 5 of his likes & dislikes. Read More
Bucks New University visit OPEN!
Students from the Graphic Design programme at Bucks New University visited OPEN today for a series of talks about our self initiated work and a small workshop. The workshop focussed on the importance of thinking positively about a new project, just in time for their final major project which launches tomorrow! Students were invited to bring with them 1 object which they... Read More
Illustration: a definition – Part 1
Synopsis What is illustration? If you have been introduced to the discipline through the production of, commissioning of or have a friend or relative in the professional field, this question has no doubt crossed your mind. My personal experience has been that instead of answering this question directly, the responses encountered have largely consisted of a speculative… What... Read More
Holly Wales for Frieze
For the third year running, I have art directed and illustrated the Family Guide for Frieze Art Fair, as a collaboration with good friends & design studio Europa and the brains behind the content for the project, Hannah Murgatroyd. The theme for this year’s illustrations were based on Simon Fujiwara’s artwork for Frieze 2010, a new site-specific work, Frozen;... Read More
