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Inside Playful Minds
PUBLISHED 16 Sep 2011 - 9:18pm
AUTHOR: Ben Morgan
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The official start of the London Design Festival may not be until this Saturday 17 September, but there are already loads of events, exhibitions and installations to see across the city. At the first full day of the Inside Playful Minds exhibition at The Arts Gallery we were lucky enough to get a guided tour from Artist and Designer, Damon Millar. Damon, whose background is in both Art and designing “bits of racing cars for formula one teams”, explains the motivation behind the exhibition. “A lot of technology is selfish,” he says. “Although mobile phones, for example, bring people virtually... More
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PA/PER VIEW Art Book Fair

PUBLISHED 27 Jan 2011 - 1:05pm
AUTHOR: Katharina Hetzeneder
Last weekend the Zabludowicz Collection accommodated the first London edition of PA/PER VIEW, an art book fair, organised in association with the Belgian book investigation platform MER. Paper Kunsthalle. An international selection of about 30 independent art book publishers and shops gathered in the back room of the building from Saturday 22 to Sunday 23 January 2011. The representatives, sitting behind their bookstalls, were eager to provide information about their precious objects. Visitors were received with a friendly hello and welcome to have a look at and read of the diverse... More
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