The Designers Republic - exhibition + sale

[def con juan]

The Designers Republic are having a exhibition and selling off some stuff in Sheffield - featuring some PWEI stuff.



[copied from the facebook event]
Nothing is forever, everything must go.

A very different kind of Designers Republic™ show coming soon to Sheffield. A collection of pieces available to buy from the archives of the most influential graphic design and communication agencies on the planet. TDR™ will be showcasing work dating all the way back to 1986, from Warp Records and Pulp to Wipeout and Gatecrasher. Rare t-shirts, records, flyers, posters, books and other hidden treasures will be found at ‘a Month of Sundays Gallery’ from Saturday 6 Oct
ober 2012.

In the years since 2009's fall and rise of The Designers Republic™, founder Ian Anderson has concentrated his team's valuable time in the fertile creative space between high profile commercial design, branding and strategy, invisible consultancy for global brands and noble causes at home and in far-off lands, and increasingly inventive, self-directed personal projects exploring and deconstructing the philosophies that have driven the studio's work for over 25 years.

These auteurist activities are the playgrounds for the ideas which keep TDR™'s work fresh and in-demand, and they manifest themselves, according to the prime-directive of 'communication by any means necessary', across a growing series of printed collateral, oblique events, tees and seemingly random neuwerk exhibitions such as this year's Atoms Vectors Pixels Ghosts™.

But despite this fervent TDR™ activity moving forward, and their phoenix rebirth notwithstanding, the steady pilgrimage of collectors ransacking the TDR™ archives (by appointment) is proof we love our cultural Elvises more dead, than alive. As much as anything, The TDR™ Car Booty Affair is a response to the growing demand for their fame-fatale ephemera and fairytale finds — so expect a very different kind of Designers Republic™ show — a sale of artifacts rather than a display of art. This is rediscovered treasure found buried deep in their archives, rather than a visual communication of ideas, altered perceptions and guided experience. The subversion TDR™'s Car Booty Affair brings is a mashing of commercial art and the commercial art gallery — selling off rather than selling out.

On show and off the shelves, rummaged and rooted out of The Church of What's Happening Now by Pete McKee and his gallery ‘a Month of Sundays’, will be large format battle-scarred pieces from previous shows from 1986 to now, and from Barcelona, New York, Tokyo, Philadelphia, Paris and Croydon to right here, North of Nowhere. Rare tees and twelves and formats for PWEI, The Orb, Warp, Wipeout, Pulp plus flyposters, promo, flyers from Club Superman and Jive Turkey to NY Sushi and Gatecrasher, for the discerning culture collector, philanthropist and general nosey-parker. Nothing is forever, everything must go…

As well as a concise history of what dance music, electronica, post Wipeout gaming and Sheffield have looked like over the last 25 years, there'll be a TDR™ jukebox Pho-Ku selected from releases drenched in TDR™ art, looped screenings of historic TV interviews with Ian Anderson, and people just like you.

TDR™ Car Booty Affair, will be on display at ‘a Month of Sundays Gallery’ in Sheffield from Saturday 6 October till Saturday 3 November. Entry to the exhibition is free and the gallery is open Tuesday - Saturday 10am till 5pm.


a Month of Sundays Gallery
365 Sharrow Vale Road
Sheffield
S11 8ZG
T: 0114 263 1000
w: www.petemckee.com/amonthofsundays

[def con juan]

just noticed the other thread.

sorry i have a new smart phone which only shows stuff on a small screen



can't find how to delete it, help mods?

[VMNP]

Ah don't worry about it.