The Flatpack flyer is in Design Week this week. Swish – and we never knew it was called ‘collateral’. Much-deserved recognition for Mr Dave Gaskarth, who is once again pulling out all the stops – and probably driving himself to an early grave – in order to make this festival look good. He’s also been learning how to use AfterEffects, so these flyers may start to move soon.
Here are a few trailers/clips for things you can find at Flatpack…
…And last but not least, Let The Right One In.
One of the first physical signs of Flatpack this year will be a series of interventions in shop-windows around the city. It’s an idea we pinched from our friends at Aurora in Norwich, and seems tailor-made for Birmingham; what with it being ’shopping capital of Europe’. A string of shops from the city-centre down into Digbeth have agreed to give over their windows to students and alumni from Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, who’ll be making work loosely inspired by the festival and early cinema. Ideas include a tribute to legendary Canadian vaudevillian Rob Ring, an SMS reworking of Psycho, and a romantic encounter in a graveyard. One group of students have put some of their proposal sketches in a blog.
Here are Goldie (Metalheadz) and 3D (Massive Attack) in fresh-faced younger days, painting a mural in the Bull Ring, Birmingham. It’s a clip from Bombin’, Dick Fontaine’s 1987 doc for channel 4, which we hope to track down in screenable form in time for March.
Look out for a nice big spread which we wrote on Waller Jeffs, near the back of this month’s Little White Lies magazine. (Che issue)
