IdN V16N2 Illustration Special

Contents:The joys of being hands-on

Animate this!

A different kind of ‘Ideal Homes’ exhibition

I want my MTV!

More a curatorial collective than an old-fashioned agency

Paper, Scissors, Garment

A hard rain’s a-gonna fall

Animate this!Nexus Productions / Studio akaWhatever happened to the old-fashioned kids’ cartoon story told in a simple but engaging style? Have we all become overwhelmed and exhausted by the wizardry of animation in the 21st century? And is the use of animation to appeal to adult audiences a contradiction in terms, or a simple case of attempting to expand the target market? Two London-based studios – Nexus Productions and Studio aka – tell us where they think today’s animation is headed.

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Most of us started out, as kids, with a love of drawing – remember that feeling of excitement when the teacher or your mum placed a piece of pristine paper in front of you and a box of coloured crayons? Despite the incredible advances in digital technology, enabling even those who are incapable of drawing a straight line or a recognisable human figure to be “artists”, this is a sensation that has stayed with some who have gone on to become professional designers, but still love to draw by hand, even if they continue to use the computer for some aspects of their work. We talk to 10 of them about the attraction of being hands-on: Scott Barry /Jeffrey Bowman /Mike Harrison /Bernardo Henning “Maybe” /Good Wives & Warriors /Lily Lin /Mike Perry /Danny Sangra /Supermundane

Anna Taratiel aka OVNI

A different kind of “Ideal Homes” exhibitionThe Corderie in the Arsenale / Roma Interrotta and Uneternal City / Padiglione ItaliaAaron Betsky is the director of both the Netherlands Architecture Institute and the Cincinnati Art Museum and he believes that “most buildings are ugly, useless and wasteful – yet architecture is beautiful”. Given the gap between what architects aspire to and how things actually are in the real world, he decided to turn the 11th Architecture Exhibition at last year’s Venice Biennale into an examination of the central issues militating against perfection, called Out There: Architecture Beyond Building. It presented installations, manifestos and Utopian visions from some of today’s leading practitioners, experimenting with forms that could renew the space we live in.

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