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HUH. Magazine SUBMISSION SUNDAY // Dale Lawrence

My work featured on HUH. Magazine's Submission Sundays. Check it and their other art related articles out here: http://www.huhmagazine.co.uk/index.php?s=art&t=art, or click the post header to go straight to the feature!

Vredehoek and Athlone Towers 2010

Storms River Mouth, 2009

Schoenies 2009

Dave

Fermanagh, Northern Ireland

c.1910

Scope Magazine – Convention of Cranks

http://www.scope-mag.com/issues/spring-2011/convention-of-cranks/

If you're in Cape Town on Friday at 6 o'clock, drop past Haas Gallery in Bo-Kaap and have a look

Midtown

White lines of snow melting off the rooftops under bright winter morning sun.

A Coy Black Swan in Perth

a rare bird in the lands, and very like a black swan

A Chair with Pedersen+Lennard

This is a collaboration I did recently with industrial designers Luke Pedersen and James Lennard (of Pedersen+Lennard: www.pedersenlennard.co.za).

They were giving a talk at Toffie design festival in Cape Town (toffiepop.blogspot.com), and asked me to make a design for them to laser etch into the wood of a chair of theirs that was partially the subject of the talk.

The talk was centred around the issues with green companies. They are said to be a green company, but realise that the practicalities surrounding the term are not as simple and clearcut as it the label suggests.

Pedersen+Lennard is a furniture company specialising in flat-pack furniture, a style of furniture design that saves significant amounts in transport costs. They have also recently started importing Finnish birch to make their chairs, replacing the local but vastly inferior South African pine. This means the raw materials must travel thousands of kilometres to get to the place manufacture. On the positive side, the birch lasts far longer than our local pine, meaning fewer chairs need be made, and therefore fewer trees felled and transported; and birch grows is far more abundantly in Finland than the native hard wood trees do here, which are in short supply and struggling.

So we decided to embrace this confusion and lack of clarity, and the misleading nature of absolute terms, and to present a brown chair at the festival (not a green one).

of the Goos

Of the Goos

another in the series, four more to follow

of the Wesule

The Finished Weasel

(the proof drawn onto the paper, a print series to follow)

See it at Haas Collective tonight (11 March) in Rose Street, BoKaap

A preparatory sketch of something I'm making for the Haas Collective coffee shop opening, hoping it's going to be done in time (with a few friends for the weasel).

I think the opening is around the 12th/13th/14th of March, I'm not sure, they haven't advertised the event yet. Hopefully they will soon so I can correct this post and avoid looking like too much of a pillock. Anyway, it's in the BoKaap (Cape Town) and it should be cool.

Click on the weasel to have a closer look.

New page with Winnie the Opera designs, the link is above

The Ever-flowing Tide on VISI – http://visi.co.za/content/blog/402/the-ever-flowing-tide

The Ever-flowing Tide

• THE EVER-FLOWING TIDE

• This body of work comprises type and line drawings made digitally

  with vectors, as well as pen drawings made by hand. Some of the handmade

  drawings have been scanned into a computer and printed out, while others

  have been made directly on the paper in accordance with vector grids.

  The prints are produced through a digital lithography process a primarily

  analogue method of printmaking for digital work.

  
  

  In these works I attempt to challenge the values and motivations involved

  in creative and productive process. I have used the language of information

  architecture to express these concerns, highlighting the vanity of this

  excessive production through seemingly nonsensical graphs and diagrams.

  These concerns grew predominantly out of my study and work as a graphic

  designer, where considerable worth is placed on productivity and work rate,

  and quantitative values appear to prevail over the qualitative.