“Kvindestemmer” er et årligt tilbagevendende københavnsk kulturarrangement, hvor musikere, digtere, forfattere og billedkunstnere – alle kvinder, forstås – i løbet af en eftermiddag underholder med eksempler på deres kunnen. I år foregår det søndag den 14. april – og bl.a. Band Ane, Mette Holm, Band Mizgin og Janina Katz på er programmet.
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Mar 13
Kvindestemmer 2013 – 14. april
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Mar 13
VG’s great children’s drawing cover
Five years ago, at the SNDS Copenhagen Crash seminar, the Norwegian newspaper VG‘s editor-in-chief Torry Pedersen told the audience that at VG they didn’t really care much about design, with a cacophony of different typefaces in the paper as a result.
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Mar 13
Hedy Lamarr x 3 (NO)
The Austrian-American actress Hedy Lamarr (1913-2000) has been an inspiration to me for many years. In this painting from 2003 I have placed her aristocratic, cool, proud face in three copies beside one another – in the middle of the canvas. The yellowish background with the red transparent strokes of paint gives her room to be in – interrupted only by a dark rectangle to the left and a red one to the right – and a torn piece of a Polish box of cigarettes and the word “NO” – perhaps a hint to the fact that Hedy herself was a strong yet sensitive person who dared say “No” more than once in her extraordinary life.
Lars Pryds: “Hedy Lamarr x 3 (NO)”, 2003.
Acrylic/collage on canvas, 80 x 60 cm. DKK 7.000,-
This is the first post in a series labeled “Artwork of the week” where I will post a painting, drawing, collage or graphic with a short commentary. The intention is to post one every week. The posts are tagged Artwork of the week
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Den østrigsk-amerikanske skuespiller Hedy Lamarr (1913-2003) har været en inspiration for mig i årevis. I dette maleri fra 2003 har jeg placeret tre ens kopier af hendes aristokratiske, kølige, og stolte ansigt side om side centreret på lærredet. Den gullige bundfarve med de røde gennemsigtige penselstrøg giver hende plads og rum, kun forstyrret af en mørk rektangulær form til venstre og en rødmalet til højre – samt en afrevet stump af en polsk cigaretæske og ordet “NO” – måske som en hentydning til den omstændighed, at Hedy Lamarr selv var en stærk, men følsom personlighed, der havde modet til at sige “NEJ” mere end én gang i hendes ekstraordinære tilværelse.
Lars Pryds: “Hedy Lamarr x 3 (NO)”, 2003.
Acryl/collage på lærred, 80 x 60 cm. DKK 7.000,-
Dette er det første indlæg i en serie kaldet “Artwork of the week” hvor jeg vil publicere et maleri, en tegning, collage eller et grafisk arbejde fulgt af en kort kommentar. Ambitionen er ét indlæg om ugen. Indlæggene er tagget Artwork of the week
Læs også: Hedy Lamarr (1913-2000)
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Feb 13
News Design jury at work in Billund
I’m in Billund, at Hotel Legoland, where the jury for the “Best of Scandinavian News Design 2013″ competition is meeting to find this years winners. 763 entries in the print categories and 65 in online will be judged by the hard working jury. The winners will be announced at the “WRONG…” seminar and workshop to be held in Copenhagen later in the year. See more on snds.org
Here are a few glimpses from the work of the jury, and a comment from Olli Nurminen, who is the chairman of the “Overall Design” category for print.
Rickard Frank, Cilla Nilsson, Olli Nurminen, Tone Gilje.
Rickard Frank, Stefani Urmas, Søren Nyeland, Cilla Nilsson.
Walter Jensen and Tone Gilje.
Stefani Urmas’ hand, Politiken’s pages. Photos by Lars Pryds.
Olli Nurminen about SNDS judging from Lars Pryds on Vimeo. Interviewed and filmed by Søren S. Nielsen.
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Feb 13
Get your funny fonts!
Quite a few years have passed since I created this animated advertisement for the first edition of the TolleOne font. TolleOne has been updated (with a couple of new styles and OpenType format) and a handful of other fonts added to the collection – see for yourself at pryds.com/type or click the “FONTS” link in the menu above.
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Feb 13
“Opbrud” – “Break-up”, 1987
(Scroll down for English text)
Nu sælges: “Opbrud”, en serie på 24 blyantstegninger af Lars Pryds. Tegningerne er alle blevet til i slutningen af 1987 i Kolding og Sønderjylland. Selv om det er længe siden, har tegningerne aldrig været udstillet offentligt før for ganske nylig, da 18 af dem vistes på den sidste “Fifty/Fifty” udstilling i anledning af min 50 års fødselsdag og udgivelsen af bogen “Pages of a Non-Existent Diary“.
Se alle 24 tegninger herunder.
Priser
1 tegning: DKK 1.500,-
2 købt sammen: DKK 1.350,- pr. stk. (10% rabat)
3 købt sammen: DKK 1.275,- pr. stk. (15% rabat)
4 købt sammen: DKK 1.200,- pr. stk. (20% rabat)
5 eller flere købt sammen: DKK 1.000,- pr. stk. (33% rabat)
Prisen er inkl. sort alu-ramme og 5% moms (førstegangssalg, billedkunst) men ekskl. forsendelse.
Størrelse, tegning: 29,7 x 21 cm. Størrelse på ramme: 40 x 30 cm.
FOR AT KØBE – klik her eller skriv til pryds@mac.com
Om “Opbrud”:
Efteråret 1987 var en opbrudstid for os – deraf naturligvis titlen. Jeg havde netop afsluttet min uddannelse til tegner/grafiker på Kunsthåndværkerskolen i Kolding; Lisbeth var flyttet til Højer til et job som seminarieforstander; men inden årets udgang var vi flyttet til Aarhus for at starte på en frisk som freelancere med eget atelier. Tegningerne forestiller de nære omgivelser og ting primært i min kombinerede lejlighed/atelier i Kolding – måske i et forsøg på at fastholde indtryk fra et sted, jeg var på vej til at forlade og aldrig ville kunne få at se igen.
De meget personlige tegninger (de burde faktisk have været med i Pages …) sættes nu til salg, skønt det er lidt vemodigt. Den enkle, mat-sorte aluminiumsramme vist på billedet øverst er inkluderet i prisen.
Now selling: “Break-up”, 24 drawings by Lars Pryds. These pencil drawings were all created in late 1987. Although this was more than 25 years ago, they were not shown to the public until recently, when 18 of the 24 drawings in the series were exhibited in the third of three “Fifty/Fifty” exhibitions, celebrating my 50th birthday and the publication of my book “Pages of a Non-Existent Diary“.
Pricing
1 drawing: DKK 1.500,-
2 together: DKK 1.350,- each (10% off)
3 together: DKK 1.275,- each (15% off)
4 together: DKK 1.200,- each (20% off)
5 or more together: DKK 1.000,- each (33% off)
Price includes black aluminum frame and 5% VAT (artists’s own work) but not shipping.
TO BUY – click this link or email to pryds@mac.com
Size of drawing: 29,7 x 21 cm. Frame: 40 x 30 cm.
About “Break-up”:
The time was a time for break-up (hence the title) – I had just graduated from design school; Lisbeth had moved to the Højer in the very south of Denmark to lead a teachers’ college; but within the month of December we had moved to Aarhus to begin a new life as freelancers from our own studio. The drawings depict my nearest surroundings and things in my old studio/apartment – maybe in an attempt to keep the memory of a place I would soon leave behind and never be able to re-visit again.
These highly personal notes (they should have been included in Pages …, perhaps, but they weren’t) are now all for sale. The simple, matt black aluminum frame shown in the image above is included in the price.
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Feb 13
World’s Best Designed Newspapers announced
“What distinguishes a World’s Best-Designed™ Newspaper? A culture of careful editing of all content that puts the reader first — through stringent attention to detail.”
“Too many designers are not driven by the content in front of them; they’re just moving elements around pages. In the best-designed publications, that connection jumps off the page.”
These were the words which SND, Society for News Design, today used to announce the winners in this year’s World’s Best Designed™ Newspapers competition. Scandinavia is – once again – among the winners: Politiken (DK) and Dagens Nyheter (S) wins the prestigious title alongside two German papers, Die Zeit and Welt am Sonntag, and The Grid from Canada.
It’s a first time for Dagens Nyheter, but Politiken also won in 2006 and 2011. Congratulations to all winners!
Read the full story on snd.org:
SND34 judges pick World’s Best-Designed™ Newspapers
Even though there were some great work shown also by runner-ups, the judges lament the absence of American papers among the winners, and see “another disturbing trend: the lack of illustration and especially information graphics in so many newspapers. These are the tools that newspapers can use to distinguish their content from the pack and add context and understanding to their report.”
In other words: Basic routine work may get the job done and the paper on to the streets, but it won’t win you any awards.
Here is what great news design looks like:
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