Girls+Zines will be running throughout August at Tatty Devine Brick Lane. Curated by the great Barbara Ryan it showcases and celebrates zines made by girls and I’m very excited that my zine How to Wow a Woman will be part of it!
See you at the private view Wednesday August 3rd, open all month.
Like I did last year, I was in the curation team for The Reading Room, our end of year show in one of the containers outside LCC.
We had less submissions than last year but the standard of the work of 1st and 2nd year students was very high.
You can see all the books, zines, prints and posters on our tumblr and twitter. This was my display:
The pop-up shop for the summer shows, open until late August I believe. Can you spot the Lolita poster and How to WOW a woman zine?
The shop adds their fee and VAT to the work they sell so the prices are a bit higher. I hope to open an online shop soon to make it easier. I’ve also recently found a great place for Giclee prints so watch this space!
All photos by Jade Ellis, more from the private view on LCC’s flickr.
☞ Read MoreIt’s been a crazy couple weeks, I’m having a lot of fun in my internship at Beautiful Books everyone is so nice to me and the atmosphere in the studio is perfect: very hard work and very friendly. I’m currently working on the July-December Catalogue and my first real book cover, exciting stuff. Will definitely show the designs as soon as I can, I couldn’t be happier.
In between juggling my internship and uni I’ve been to the ‘Archive Live’ V&A Friday late which was a bit disappointing (they used to be amazing and inspiring events and seem to have taken a turn for the worse since the summer for some reason), a Russian avant-garde talk at the British Library, the Sapphires at the Barbican that was a lot of fun and really recommend to anyone into girl groups from the 1960s, been to a lovely Restaurant where we dined in the same room as Gilbert & George (!), took a day trip to Brighton, attended the mind blowing Open Books exhibition at the RCA about ‘books about books’ and marvelled at their publication/catalogue by Hato Press, went to a couple gigs and finally finally made it to the Norwegian Wood poster exhibition at the Curzon Cinema in Soho.
I had never been to their gallery space before and was surprised to find it so busy on a tuesday night, the bar was buzzing and it was completely packed. Seeing my poster up there full size with the rest was the greatest feeling in the world, thank you to everyone who took the time to vote for it, really really appreciate it. And thanks to my friend Vivi who helped take these pictures:
I’m in the curation team that took over the Red Container exhibition and events during the Summer Degree show at LCC. We took submissions from BA Book Arts & Design students and filled the container with over a hundred books, zines and prints.
Here’s Antonella reading Sans Soleil:
Zines and self-published little books by the window:
We had many many events, talks and workshops during the week, it was mental. These are some figures and samples from the Origami workshop:
I designed the poster to promote the show, one portrait A3 side (left) with the main title and image and one landscape A4 side (right) with information about the events and contact details so they can be used for different promotion purposes either together or each on their own. I’m quite happy with the result considering I had less than 24h to design and print the whole thing!.
A few more from the Private View, it was crazy busy:
Check out Theresa’s much more eloquent post about the exhibition on her beautiful blog.
☞ Read MoreI made it to London in one piece and we finally have internet in the flat, yay. To celebrate I wanted to share a few pictures from the private view in Barcelona that CaiJia and Las Coleccionistas have just sent me, I hear it went very well and so many people showed up!
I was helping out with the private view preparations (I spied quite a few bottles of bubbly, Bach* no less! haha) and I took a second to make this video of one of my pieces, the Vacancies Book.
A photo collection of Vacancy/No Vacancy signs that I took in Blackpool back in June.
Vacancies Book from Mina Bach on Vimeo.
I’m heartbroken that I won’t be able to attend myself as I’m taking a plane at the crack of dawn back to London tomorrow. Oh well! Good luck to everyone involved, I’m sure it will be grrreat!
* no relation sadly
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I’m part of ‘Ciutat: Exposició Col·lectiva’ a group exhibition in La Sastreria, Barcelona. I’ve been busy busy getting everything ready for the private view next friday. I made 4 pieces all based around my experience of moving to the biggest city in Europe. I’ll be posting pictures soon.
Las Coleccionistas have made a wonderful job curating it, thank you for inviting me ladies!. The colourful posters are the work of design mastermind Maria de Gibert.
If you happen to be in Barcelona this friday, don’t miss it!
Until October 3th.
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