Cool Hunting
| 13 February 2007view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
The Hoody Gallery
by Ami Kealoha
Now that the hoody's been elevated to avant-couture, it follows that there's an exhibition devoted to the ubiquitous item of clothing. Featuring works by local Bay Area designers, such as Nicacelly (pictured), Uhu Clothing and Like Minded People, The Hoody Gallery is a group show of limited-edition hoodies that have been silkscreened, re-invented and otherwise tricked-out. The one-night event also features a line-up of DJs including a few from the label Solos, who are the hosts of The Hoody Gallery. (Click the flyer for a larger version.)
The Hoody Gallery
16 February 2007
222 Club
222 Hyde Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
map
tel. +1 415 440 0222
180 Things I Hate About You
by SummerSeventySix
I love this idea. Eighteen artists based in London were asked to design a dartboard with the thing they most hated on it for an exhibition curated by Garudio Studiage that starts at the Dazed & Confused Gallery this week. From left, Bono, moths and drivers on mobile phones were most hated by artists Miles Donovan, James Hollingworth and Annabelle Hartmann respectively. (Click images for detail.) Who are we to disagree?
You can see more of the works at the 180 Things I Hate About You site, or head to the exhibition, which runs from this Friday, 16 February until 23 March 2007.
Dazed & Confused Gallery
112-116 Old Street London
EC1V 9BG United Kingdom
Op Art at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
by Ami Kealoha
Any major survey of the most important works of Op Art promises to play up the definition of the genre as "art which deliberately demands too much of the eye." The very thought of the collected works of CH favorite artists such as Bridget Riley ("Blaze 4" pictured right) and Victor Vasareley, as well as the other 53 artists represented in the show simply called Op Art at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is dizzying itself. Including both two-dimensional pieces and three-dimensional works, highlights include François Morellet's bright orange neon circles, Gruppo N's "Kinetic Structure" and the “Mirror Room,” which Christian Megert originally created for Documenta 4 in 1968. They're all pictured here, but the exhibit itself has a lot more to discover.
Op Art
17 February-20 May 2007
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
Römerberg
60311 Frankfurt, Germany
tel. +49 69 29 98 82 0
via E-Flux
Also on CH: The Responsive Eye
Clocky Revisited
by Tim Yu
The last time we told you about Clocky it was a prototype, but it recently entered the production phase and is now available online. A new and clean design, Clocky is now more compact and the beefier new wheels make it more durable. Oh, and if you want Clocky to stay put, just disable the wheels and hit the snooze as much as you'd like from the warmth of your bed.
For more details and to purchase it for $49 visit Nanda. It will be available in white, aqua and mint by the end of the week.
Guerilla Lighting London
by SummerSeventySix
A hundred-strong guerilla army is descending on London this Thursday night, to peacefully spread their love of light. After successfully turning Manchester many different colours in November 2006 (see images), Martin Lupton and his team from the Building Design Partnership are going to do the same in the English capital as part of Switched On London—a lighting festival that's been centered on a part of the River Thames all week. Cued by an air-horn, designers, architects, and manufacturers armed with high-powered torches, projectors and hundreds of gels and filters will blitz the area called the Pool Of London, between London Bridge and Tower bridge, with a transient light installation. It won't be on for long, and after it's photographed for posterity, it will be switched off forever.
Guerilla Lighting London happens on the evening of Thursday 15 February 2007, at around 7pm.
More images, including before and after, here.
