Royal Wedding Sick Bags

Graphic desinger Lydia Leith has created the perfect accessory for the Royal Wedding, a barf bag. Sadly it appears Leith did it all in good fun and not out of a severe distaste for both monarchies and ridiculous spectacles.

As Leith told the HuffPo:

“The bags are just a bit of fun, a sort of antidote to the hysteria surrounding the wedding — I’m not an anti-monarchist in the slightest! It started out as a joke around the dinner table and I made them expecting to sell a handful to friends and family but it seems there is a much greater demand.” Indeed there is! Apparently, the first batch sold out very quickly.

Leith added, “I’m a fan of Royal memorabilia myself and I just thought it would be a lighthearted addition to what’s available to commemorate the day.”

Order yours here

Tired and Emulsional

• Tired and Emulsional
The Bourgeois Pig (6 East 9th Street in Lawrence, KS)
Friday, October 29, 6pm-12:30am

From the Organizers:
Handprinted Show Posters from the Test Kitchen, Leslie Kay & Pride of Gumbo Jeff Eaton.
Jeff Eaton learned screen printing while working at a sign shop in the 1990s. An active participant in the Wichita music scene, he found a new artistic outlet in screen printing eye-popping concert posters, which were enjoying a popular resurgence at the time. After leaving the sign business to tour with the band Split Lip Rayfield, Jeff opened his own print shop, Pride of Gumbo, in Wichita in 2004; both he and the shop relocated to Lawrence in 2008. Mixing homegrown development techniques with computer design and use of reclaimed or recycled substrates, he, alongside Lawrence artist Leslie Kuluva, launched The Test Kitchen in East Lawrence in January 2010.

Leslie Kuluva is an artist and native Kansan who makes prints, drawings, paintings, sewings and knittings, among other projects. Her involvement in the Lawrence music scene has played heavily into her art over the years, and she currently works closely with many bands, artists and small businesses through made-to-order design and screenprinting. She presently keeps a workshop in East Lawrence shared with Pride of Gumbo, which is open to the public.

Properties of a Guild

• Properties of a Guild
Wonder Fair: Art Gallery, Shoppe & Studio (803 1/2 Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, KS)
Friday, October 29, 5-10pm

From the Organizers:
Wonder Fair is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition by Kansas City artist Briana Lauterbach. Lauterbach, BFA 2009 Printmaking Kansas City Art Institute, pursues a handmade existence, growing her own vegetables, co-directing a bicycle collective, and reclaiming a dilapidated house on Troost Avenue in Kansas City MO. Lauterbach translates her daily activities into precise, organized, highly detailed works on paper in pen and pencil featuring theoretical gardens, half built structures, and evocative word play. Additionally, Lauterbach makes use of the directness of drawing in order to create series upon series of drawings whose linear growth and retreat mimic the cycling of the seasons.

A.D.D. podcast interview with Bri Lauterbach on iTunes for this upcoming show

Go See: “Welcome to Asteroid Head Land…Dude”

Exhibition Info: (by Alaska Noyes)
Asteroid Head Art Club is at it again. Their upcoming show at the Lawrence Arts Center (940 New Hampshire Lawrence, KS), Welcome To Asteroid Head Land… Dude, is a tacit invitation to escape everydayness, at least momentarily.

The group has been doling out such invites since they formed in the spring of ‘09. Clad in matching uniforms they have set aside the lone artist in the studio art production model for something a little more tribal, a little more exuberant. Collaboration is at the heart of their work, often a multitasking of painting, sculpture, printmaking, and performance.

This is an outlet with a healthy dose of optimism and no dearth of absurdity. There is potential energy when Asteroid Head gets together, energy greater than the sum of its parts. It is in the interactions, the exchanges, the sharing of information, dreams, anecdotes, theories, and whims. It is in having things to do, not because you have to, but because you want to and you can. Nothing is too silly, too weird, or too ambitious to talk about, laugh about, consider, attempt. Asteroid Head Art Club, for its ragtag members, has become a site for experimentation, trials, tribulations, and camaraderie.

Asteroid Head Land is a physical embodiment of this group spirit. It is an unpredictable installation full of collaborative energy, absurdity, and papier-mâché. Welcome to Asteroid Head Land… Dude.

Opening Reception: Friday, February 12th, 7-9pm

Exhibition Dates: February 12 – March 13, 2010

posted by: Brent Carter

“The Great Carnival” by Eric Van Den Boom

The Great Carnival is the graduation project of Eric Van Den Boom, a designer with a bad ass name from the Netherlands. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague Area with a bachelors degree in illustrative design. The concept of his project is the culture of haste: “These days our culture teaches us that faster is better. But in the race to keep up, we all suffer the consequences.”

Van Den Boom invented an imaginary carnival to make us aware of how this generation perceives and manages its time. Which is great a idea to be sure, but it’s Van Den Boom’s typographical work and color scheme that really blew us away.

Find out more about The Great Carnival here. Also check Van Den Boom’s full portfolio through his design studio BoomArtwork.

posted by: Brent Carter