Posts Tagged ‘random objects’
Music Sales Rug
I am stupid -jealous of this rug Jon designed for Music Sales. The whimsical floor covering matches nicely with the muradoodle he did there this summer. More practical textiles, please! Shower curtains?
House of Cards
Jon was recently invited to contribute to an interesting charity art project. The House of Cards exhibition uses playing cards–that bastion of gambling and money–as the canvas. More directly, the metaphor “house of cards” applies to Britain’s current housing crisis: “fragile and in danger of collapse.” Jon’s card is among a great array of British designers, including Damien Hirst and Vivienne Westwood. The cards were on exhibit at Haunch of Venison last week. If you didn’t make it, you can pick up a limited edition set of playing cards featuring the art from the show at Shelter’s online shop. If you don’t have £70 or hate card games, there are a bunch of other ways to help (starting at £10 here).
Rogue Audio Jigsaw Puzzle
Not quite quick enough on this one, I’m afraid. Oki-ni just put up for sale an edition of 24 wooden jigsaw puzzles based on Jon’s art for the 2008 Rogue Audio album, Haphazard.
This is a specially created Rogue Audio Jigsaw for oki-ni.com in conjunction with the artist Jon Burgerman and record label Global Underground, to celebrate the release of Rogue Audio’s new album “Haphazard”.
There are only 24 of these in existence so we don’t expect them to last too long!!! An amazing collectors piece and executed to the highest spec, these really are amazing. Get one fast.
Somehow I didn’t know these existed, but when Oki-ni dropped them to just £8.00, they promptly sold out.
Cappuccino Doodles
Immediately after ogling the handiwork of the Unknown Barista Doodler over at Doodlers Anonymous, I got a tip from re:Store’s JP directing me to some of Jon’s coffee doodles from his recent gig in Munich. See, no surface is safe. Today: turning cookie crumbs into smiles. Tomorrow: world peace. Lots more photos here. Thanks JP!
Deadgood Doodle Chair
Deadgood has revealed a sneak preview of an exciting furniture design project with Jon that will officially launch at 100% Design this September:
Defined by a dynamic use of colour and a unique graphic energy, Burgerman’s distinctive doodle scrawls have been screen printed and encapsulated within a resin imrpegnated craft core, overlaid with melamine and subsequently pressed at high temperatures to create a highly durable surfacing material.
Deadgood “strives to create objects that are both beautiful and unique” and from the looks of it, they have succeeded with this. I can’t wait to see more.
Broadway Cinema Beermats
Broadway Cinema launched its own ale, called Reel Ale, and to celebrate, they asked Jon to design some special beermats. One beermat (aka coaster) was available each week for four weeks. When bar patrons collect all four, they combine “to create an insight into [Jon’s] Broadway Cinema-going experience.”
Writes Jon:
For the last ten years I’ve been a regular at the great independent cinema, in the centre of Nottingham. I can’t even remember all the films I’ve seen there, but notable visits included viewing Cube, Funny Games, Cache, The Blair Witch Project, Rushmore, Pi, Dogville, Shortbus and a documentary about birds. I’ve consumed a fair amount of sweet popcorn, the odd ice-cream and since they’ve officially allowed it, many pints of beer in there.
If you were a coaster-completist, you’d also have Jon’s set of beermats for Propaganda.
Blank Canvas Skatedeck
I wish I’d been clever enough to do stuff like this in college:
Over the past few months, students Megan Riera, Joe Phillips, Sarah Franco Alves, Christian Carlsson and James Kay from the BA (hons) Design for Moving Image and Graphic Design courses at Ravensbourne College of Design have been sending their favourite designers and illustrators packages containing random objects scoured from London charity shops and car boot sales. 50 designers and illustrators including Milton Glaser, Jonathan Barnbrook, Michael Bierut, Paula Scher, Kate Moross, Jon Burgerman and Si Scott have agreed to take part. The final items were placed in a silent auction at the Vibe Bar on Brick Lane on April 30th.
Jon contributed a mug and a skatedeck. For more info visit www.blankcanvasevent.co.uk.
Lossy Data Lab
In March of 2009, Jon teamed up with the heliumcowboy crew for the SCOPE Art Fair. Jointly, they set up the “Lossy Data Lab,” a special program art laboratory at the fair. Jon created art “involving the visitors in interactive experiments that result in drawn analyses and reports.” This looked like tons of fun. It seems as though Jon is wearing a colander helmet in the photo below to keep the aliens from reading his mind.
Anserine Apparitions
Entitled Anserine Apparitions, Jon’s exhibition in Hamburg, Germany “offer[ed] viewers the chance to devise and enjoy their own modern day pareidolia and non-religious apparitions.” Pareidolia (says Wikipedia) describes a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant. Common examples include images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon and hidden messages on records played in reverse. Anserine (says the Dictionary) is an adjective indicating stupidity or a marked lack of intellectual activity. Finally, Apparitions are things that appear, often suddenly and unusually, sometimes linked to ghosts or specters. Anserine apparitions have become a part of popular culture. In fact, anserine Internet casino Golden Palace kicked off a firestorm of pareidolia when they purchased a $28,000 grilled cheese sandwich on which there was an apparition of The Virgin Mary. In a bizarre yet intriguing PR move, Golden Palace has continued to grow their collection. Read about that here. Now that you have a bit of context for the vocabulary, back to Burgerman! Here’s how he described the show:
The psychological phenomenon of pareidolia and related apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns and connections in seemingly meaningless data or forms. Apparitions are a form of this, people often seeing religious forms in their tea-leaves or statues crying. The show will feature drawings, paintings and mini-idols, in the hope that visitors may have their own invented experiences. The audience are also invited to contribute an object to a shrine of anserine apparitions:
Custom Sofa
Jon customized sofas as part of Tiger Translate in Beijing. The sofas were used on stage that Saturday, and also feature the doodles of Jeremyville, Luke Bennett, Ben Frost, Li Qiu Qiu, Song Yang and Nie Jun.
Custom