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Black Convoy Design Workshop Series
17th, 18th, 19th, 20th November 2005
Daily 10 am – 5pm
The workshops live off the streets, find inspiration in the streets and will
happen in them. The priority is to complete a circuit where nothing is ever
finished. All work feeds into the next through a 360 degree process with no
start and no end. The participants will never feel that they have missed out
- they will learn as they go along and add more to their design experience each
day. The end-product will be a street space ‘teased’ with wall-graphics
evolved over the course of four days through interactive learning. It will be
a fluid, engaging and experiential Street Tease.
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17th November 2005, 10am - 5pm
Key Features:
Extensive Audio-Visual Presentation
Round-table Discussion
Audience Interaction & Participation
The first workshop will touch on the establishment and goals of Black Convoy
as an art collective. The artists will draw on their experiences with the creative
industry and share with participants the challenges they have faced and insights
they gained in their interactions. Black Convoy will also discuss the state
and future of Illustration in today’s evolving world, and present participants
with an audio visual slide-show of its recently concluded London Show.
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18th November 2005, 10am - 5pm
Key features:
Extensive Audio-Visual Presentation
Round-table Discussion
Audience Interaction & Participation
Interactive Tutorial
Black Convoy will use their London show as a case study for the benefit of the
participants. Design, curation and planning aspects for the show will be touched
on in efforts to educate participants on the entire process. Participants will
then proceed to create art with objects they have found in the streets with
directions from the members of Black Convoy. Discussion on the Aesthetic and
Value of 'Lo-Fi' in Contemporary Illustration will also take place.
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19th November 2005, 10am - 5pm
Key features:
Extensive Audio-Visual Presentation
Character Design Demonstrations
Guided Design Tutorials
Digital Art Creation (2D Character Design)
Analysis of Design End-products
The workshop will center on the practical knowledge & application of character
design. With guidance from Black Convoy, participants will create digital 2D
characters and combine it with work produced in Workshop 02. Participants will
be supplied with a DVD of Black Convoy Graphics & Artwork and are encouraged
to bring digital samples of their own artwork to incorporate into the Street
Tease project. With the help of imagination, participants will then remix and
recreate all existing work to construct a huge wall –graphic for the finale!
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20th November 2005, 10am - 5pm
Key features:
Display, Organization & Curation of Wall-graphics as Exhibit
Live Interactive Design with Wall-graphics
Black Convoy will demonstrate the specifics of organizing an art show as discussed
in Workshop 02. A practical experience, participants will learn how to curate
and display works within a designated space. To make things more interesting,
Black Convoy and participants will work hand in hand to develop the wall-graphic
further with 3D Found-Object Design and additional materials. When that is done,
the Street Tease @ Bugis is perfected.
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17th - 23rd November 2005, 10am - 5pm
Black Convoy is a UK based illustration and
art collective formed in 2004 to facilitate collaboration with artists and designers,
from every conceivable creative discipline, worldwide; and to promote and make
publicly accessible UK visual arts and design. The exhibition showcases the
best of May/Mcfaul, the founders of this eclectic and vibrant collective.
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17th - 23rd November 2005, 10am - 5pm
Together with You is a Club consisting of a number of designers from China.
The name is meant to represent a family - one that means audacity vividness
and colour. This exhibition is the effort of these 15 artists in various locations
across the globe. Unique in its construction, the project is posted from one
artist to another until the finished work is posted back to the originating
city. The work has since traveled far and wide, to places like Guangzhou, Paris
and Toronto. Finally here in Singapore, we at TAXI are proud to present "Together
with You".
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17th - 23rd November 2005, 10am - 5pm
The VisualArts Gallery, an ongoing exhibition by TAXI Design Network, is a showcase
that gathers some of the most acclaimed designers on the contemporary creative
scene. The exhibition showcases 12 original masterpieces from all major creative
disciplines from Graphic Design to Fashion Design, Industrial Design to Commercial
Advertising.
The objective of this gallery is to raise design awareness by promoting more
dynamic collaborations between diverse creative disciplines in an environment
of creative harmony. The exhibition will feature celebrated artists whose artistic
talents have made significant contributions to the lifestyles of contemporary
mainstream societies.
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9th - 23rd November 2005, 10am - 5pm
Watch as members of Black Convoy, alongside local artists from Singapore, tackle
the massive wall with a sloshing of paint, loads of imagination and whatever
else they’ve got up their sleeve.
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Date to be confirmed
Together with You will be getting down and dirty to create funky fashion out
of plain, boring white shirts. Using fabric markers and whatever on hand, they
will come up with original designs off-the-cuff and do it live in the street
itself.