Thursday, 29 May 2008

Sommer i Galleri Lisse Bruun


Galleri Lisse Bruuns sommerudstilling med et bredt udvalg af galleriets kunstnere og gæster åbner i dag, torsdag den 29. maj. Der er fernisering kl. 17-19, og alle er velkomne. Sidste dag er den 5. juli, og Pryds er med. På gensyn!

Galleri Lisse Bruun, Store Kongensgade 99, 1264 København K
www.gallerilissebruun.dk
Åbent: Torsdag-fredag kl. 12-18, lørdag kl. 11-14

Plakaten for sommerudstillingen er lavet af Svend Bruun.

Saturday, 24 May 2008

SNDS: Winners Announced: 35 Gold/Silver/Bronze Winners



The winners in the "Best of Scandinavian News Design 2008" competition have been announced. Only two Gold medals were given – to the Danish newspaper Politiken in the category "Overall Design". Politiken was redesigned last year nad was rewarded "Best of Show" in the 2007 edition of this competition, and was also named "World's Best Designed" by the international branch of SND – the highest recognition worldwide a newspaper can get in the business.

Another gold medal was won by Finnish newspaper Aamulehti, for a page 2 design using 90 words to form the blue cross in the Finnish flag, on the day Finland celebrated the 90th anniversary for Finnish independance. The words charcterise Finland and the Finnish: Saune, ski jumping, Nokia etc. "This is the only perfect page we have seen so far," was one of the spontaneous comments made by the jury. Ari Kinnari did the design for this page, awarded in the "Open Class" category.

A total of 80 awards were given in the competition – apart from the two gold, 13 Silver Awards, 20 Bronze, and 32 Awards of Excellence. The "AHA Prize" – a special reward that the jury have the choice to give out to a page that hold an unusual design detail, went to Helsingin Sanomat (Finland) for a series of articles about identical twins in the Magazine category (below). Mirka Kolehminen designed the pages that show – in straightforward photography – how identical identical twins actually are.

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The redesign of weekly engineering newspaper Ingeniøren won a Silver award. The redesign was made by inhouse staff, graphic designers Ann-Britt Broström (Head of Design), Connie Jønsson and Lars Pryds, with the help from design consultant Koos Staal of Staal & Duiker graphic designers from the Netherlands. The new clean look of the high profiled technical newspaper was launched September 14th, 2007, with great success and massive positive feedback from the readers. Read the extensive "portayal" of Ingeniøren in SNDS Magazine 2008|1 (pdf) and in this blog post.

More info on the SNDS website: www.snds.org

All photos by Lars Aarø

SNDS: Oulo 2009 - logo by Pryds


The next SNDS annual conference and workshop will be held in Oulu, Finland, on May 14-16, 2009. The organizers presented their city and their concept for the conference Friday night at this year's gala dinner – by showing a short video introducing the legendary "Men's Choir The Shouters" (see below), originating from and still based in Oulu.

The film also introduced the logo for the Oulu conference – designed by me. That makes it three in a row, as I also did the Stockholm 2007 and Copenhagen Crash 2008 logo designs. This is what the logo looks like – the title is "24".

»The idea is of course that the news production happens 24 hours a day, and the Nordic long day might provide some means of looking at things in new light. We try to focus quite a number of presentations around future, that is the technological and mental future. We especially liked the idea of playing around with numbers in the marketing: 2+4: 6 reasons to come to Oulu; 12 months, 60 days, and so on before the event,« says Leena Kosonen from the Finnish oragnizing committee.

See you in Oulu next year!

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MIESKUORO HUUTAJAT (Men's Choir The Shouters) was formed in 1987 in Oulu, Finland, by a group of young men who clearly had nothing better to do. The idea was to dress ca. 20 men in black suits, white shirts and black rubber ties, and train them to shout some of the most beloved songs in the Finnish song heritage. On the 6th of December (the Finnish Independence Day), the choir were ready for their first performance. The choir shouted several patriotic songs and marches, the national anthem included.
Website: www.huutajat.org

Tuesday, 20 May 2008

SNDS: Winners' Catalogue Ready to Ship


The catalogue of winners in the "Best of Scandinavian News Design Competition 2008" is now back from the printers and ready to send to members of the organization. Additional copies of the 72 page, A4 size, fully illustrated book will be for sale from Friday night, May 23rd, 2008, after the 80 winners have been announced at the Copenhagen Crash design conference. A special edition includes a CD-Rom with images of all the winning pages in high resolution for print, as well as a low res pdf version of the catalogue.

For the third time in three years, both book and CD-rom was designed by yours truely – Lars Pryds. All pages were photographed by Lars Aarø www.fokus-foto.dk, and the book was printed by Svendborg Tryk www.svt.dk

If you want to buy your personal copy, please contact Head of the SNDS Secretariat, Lone Jürgensen, c/o Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten, Grøndalsvej 3, DK-8260 Viby J, Denmark.
Email. lone.jurgensen@jp.dk

Prices:
Book only: DKK 150,- / Euro 20,-
CD-Rom only: DKK 100,- / Euro 15,-
Book+CD-Rom: DKK 220,- / Euro 30,-

More info about SNDS at www.snds.org

Saturday, 17 May 2008

Sally Mann og satire i København

Den Sorte Diamant i København viser i øjeblikket - og heldigvis flere måneder frem - to meget forskellige og meget seværdige udstillinger.

Sally Mann - fotografier
Det Nationale Fotomuseum på Det Kongelige Bibliotek viser en stor retrospektiv udstilling af den amerikanske fotograf Sally Mann. Hendes store gennembrud kom med fotoserien Immediate Family, hvor særligt billederne af hendes tre børn og deres udstillede nøgne uskyld skabte debat. Visse steder i USA blev billederne opfattet som pornografiske.

Sally Manns tre seneste fotoserier skaber tilsammen helheden What Remains, hvor temaet er døden og forgængeligheden. Til en af serierne har Sally Mann fået adgang til et forskningsområde i Tennessee, hvor lig testamenteret til videnskaben formuldes i det fri. De døde lægges bogstaveligt talt på den bare jord, så forskerne kan studere deres opløsning.

En anden billedserie, Matter Lent, blev påbegyndt da en af familiens elskede mynder døde. Mynden blev begravet, men 12 måneder senere gravet op, alle knoglerne renset, arrangeret og fotograferet.

Den nyeste serie fotos består af store, enkle portrætter af Sally Mann's nu voksne børn - ansigter fotograferet på helt tæt hold med lange lukketider, så hvert enkelt portræt får et uskarpt og levende udtryk. Det forstærkes af Sally Mann's insisteren på at benytte oprindelige fotografiske processer fra 1850erne, frem for at benytte moderne digitale teknikker. Alle hendes værker får dermed et unikt og stofligt præg.

Endelig vises billeder fra serien Deep South, landskabsfotografier fra de amerikanske sydstater Virginia, Georgia og Mississippi. Sally Mann indrettede et laboratorium bag i bilen for at kunne fremkalde disse billeder på stedet, som teknikken kræver.

Udstillingen, der er produceret af Kulturhuset i Stockholm, ledsages af en fin lille (ca. 15 minutter) svensk produceret film om Sally Mann's arbejde og tanker.

Danske statsministre - i bladtegnernes satiriske streg
Den anden udstilling i Diamantens kælder er en lang stribe satiretegninger af danske statsministre fra de seneste 150 år. Udstillingen er iscenesat som en dagligstue, hvor lænestole, lamper, kaffeborde og fjernsyn sætter rammen. Her kan man læne sig tilbage, genopleve nogle af den politiske satires bedste tegninger og få et stille grin. Tegnerne serverer pointerne i sofabordshøjde, og lader tegningene belyse samspillet mellem demokrati, satire og ytringsfrihed i mere end 150 år.

Udover de seks små fjernsyn, der viser folketingsdebatter og politiske udsendelser, ledsages tegningerne af lange tekster, der fortæller om de enkelte statsministre. Der er rigtig mange tegninger og meget tekst - næsten for meget - så sørg for at have god tid.

Sally Mann - fotografier.
Til 20. september 2008.
Danske statsministre - i bladtegnernes satiriske streg.
Til 25. oktober 2008.
Åbent: Mandag-fredag 10-19, lørdag 10-17

Se mere om begge udstillinger på Det Kongelige Biblioteks hjemmeside www.kb.dk

Wednesday, 14 May 2008

Cards for the Crash


1250 postcards are packed and ready to go into the welcome goody bags for the participants in the SNDS Copenhagen Crash conference, with greetings from my studio. I hope you will use them as an alternative to the sometimes horrible tourist postcards on sale on every corner in Copenhagen. Stamps are available at any kiosk – on the same corners :-)

Sunday, 11 May 2008

Copenhagen Crash closing in


We're getting closer and closer to the start of the Copenhagen Crash seminar - in less than two weeks the show will begin! A lot of people have already signed up, but there is still room for more! Especially the Swedish people have yet to sign up in large numbers – and the latest email newsletter from the organizers was targeted directly at the Swedes. Read it here (it's in Swedish, of course!)

One of the main reasons to go to Copenhagen is picking up a reward in the "Best of Scandinavian News Design" competition. A total of 80 awards will be given out on the 23rd of May. The Award Show is the climax of the conference. Prior to this, 34 speakers or moderators have shown up on stage; 12 heavily, but beautifully, built Danish freestyle wrestlers have thrown each other to the floor; eight design doctors have given first aid to newspapers in need, and 250 news people have met again or made new contacts.

So there are plenty good reasons to sign up now – even if you're Swedish! See you in Copenhagen.

Personally, I'm involved in putting together the programme – which is almost in place – and in producing all the printed materials for the conference. My own typeface "KATALOG" which is still in beta is used in combination with Myriad Pro Condensed from the SNDS design manual – and of course the warm yellow and the SNDS heavy red are the colours in the graphic identity of Copenhagen Crash.

The programme, signage, posters and banners, website, name tags, even the screen saver for the intervals between speakers, and not to mention the catalogue of winning pages, CDs, diplomas for the award winners, and labels for the packaging of the diplomas – all this will have passed through my little trusty Macbook Black before entering the world of designers in the middle of Copenhagen ...

See the final programme and sign up at www.snds.org/crash2008
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Sunday, 4 May 2008

Raku-workshop i Fredensborg



Lørdag den 19. april etablerede keramiker Nanna Skibsted og kollegaen Ida Bjørn en improviseret raku-workshop på parkeringspladsen foran Ting- og Arresthuset i Fredensborg. Workshoppen var del af programmet i forbindelse med ni kunstneres udstilling i Tinghuset, og fandt (heldigvis) sted i et fantastisk forårssolskinsvejr.

Her er en lille film der viser hvordan rakubrændingens proces er skruet sammen: Først varmes den glaserede keramik op til knap 1000 grader i den gasfyrede ovn (det er den der larmer); når glasuren er smeltet, tages emnerne ud af ovnen og lægges i savsmuld, der bryder i brand pga den kraftige varme fra keramikken. Emnerne tildækkes med savsmuld, og glasuren undergår en svært forudsigelig forandring (reduktionsbrænding) - og får dermed sit karakteristiske udtryk. til sidst afkøles kermikken i en spand med vand og vaskes ren for fastbrændt savsmuld. Nannas smukke raku-skåle (og meget andet keramik) kan ses og bestilles på www.skibsted-keramik.dk

Mere information om udstillingen på www.pryds.com/tinghuset
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Thursday, 1 May 2008

Tuse Næs-udstillingen er åbnet!



Endnu en udstilling med mine malerier er åbnet – i Tuse Næs Kunsthåndværk hænger der nu en lang række malerier og collager. 40 i alt, faktisk, så der er masser at se på i det pragtfuldt beliggende galleri lige for enden af Holbæk-motorvejen. Midt i fredet natur og med nyistandsatte lokaler byder den kombinerede café, galleri og kunsthåndværkerbutik velkommen. Herover et par billeder fra udstillingen.
Der er åbent torsdag til søndag kl. 11–17 til og med den 29. juni 2008.
I pinsen er der desuden åbent mandag 2. pinsedag, også kl. 11-17.

Mere info på www.pryds.com/tusenaes