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• Halcyon days

  Posted 23 January 2012

  To keep my creative juices flowing I fancied popping to see the Hockey exhibition at the The Royal Academy of Arts. Attempting this on a Saturday proved foolish, the queue resembled a Selfridges Boxing Day sale massacre – Hockney was aborted. Happily I then stumbled upon the Halcyon Gallery while strolling down Bond Street. This fantastic gallery, spread across three beautiful venues on Bond Street and Berkeley Square had a rich mix of artists from Matisse and Warhol to the fantasy worlds created by Chihuly.

  

  The best room in any of the spaces belonged to the Bruton Street venue. Roped off from public view, the room was even more enchanting. Whilst teetering over the barrier I was politely asked to wind my neck in and then informed by very friendly staff that I could enter the room — maybe she thought I was going to purchase a piece..? The room was the office of the galleries director and inside were two Monet's, a Picasso, a Lowry and a Mauro Perucchetti sculpture.

  

  Windows are so 2011.

  Posted by Daniel Holmes

  

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• Bisqit go Dutch

  Posted 1 June 2011

  A lucky few from Bisqit managed to pop out of the studio on a lovely sunny morning to check out the fantastic 'Wim Crouwel — A Graphic Odyssey' exhibition at the Design Museum. Crouwel is arguably most famous for the space age designs he created in the 60's, with his typography making a comeback in the late 80's and 90's, seen on album covers and club posters galore.

  I personally found great delight in some of his later work, the first corporate identities created by Crouwel and his colleagues at Total Design. Identity systems for companies such as Makro and Randstad that Total Design created nearly 40 years ago still remain untouched today. Loving this shot of the members of the Total Design group, 1982, you know these guys mean business. 

  Strictly no snaps allowed inside the exhibition so you can't see any exciting pictures of Bisqit purring over Crouwel's and Total Design's awesome back catalogue. We did still need evidence that we had left the studio so we got a shot of these ancient coke guidelines at the small coke promo pop up outside the gallery!  

   

  Posted by Daniel Holmes

  

  Filed under // Branding   Culture   Exhibitions   Type  

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• Talkin’ about my generation

  Posted 9 May 2011

  We’ve just created the event branding for the annual Hill & Knowlton Charity Day. This year’s Charity Day takes place this Friday 13th May, with over 200 H&K’ers leaving their desks to support Age UK London.

  The teams will spend the day facilitating messaging and communications workshops as well as kick-starting a new campaign drawing attention to how elderly people are treated on public transport. The team at Bisqit are also mucking-in by running a brand workshop for one of Age UK’s new initiatives.

  This year’s event theme celebrates the coming together of generations, expressed via typefaces reminiscent of decades past.

  The event theme will stretch beyond the day and will help inform the dressing for the obligatory after party!

  Posted by Daniel Holmes

  

  Filed under // Culture   Hill & Knowlton   Miscellaneous   Type  

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• Barney Bubbles and the Jets

  Posted 21 October 2010

  The Bisqits have been on another lunchtime outing. This time to see the Barney Bubbles exhibition and, just a short stumble across the courtyard, the Fiona Banner, Harrier and Jaguar jets exhibit at the Tate Britain.

  A step inside the Barney Bubbles exhibition was a step back in time, musically, artistically and practically. It’s amazing to be reminded how differently graphics and print were produced in Bubble’s hay day. Back when every piece was handcrafted before being photographed and when final copy really did mean final copy!

  Bubbles died two months before the Apple Mac came along to change the way designers work. Looking at his collection I’m not entirely convinced it would have changed the way he created art – if it had he probably would have made it his own.

  Moving on from small scale craftsmanship we went to see something a bit bigger. The jets!

  Seeing real jets up close was pretty cool but what really made an impact was seeing them in a completely unexpected space. Standing in the middle, looking to the left or right, each jet was beautifully framed by the impressive archways of the Duveens gallery.

  From every perspective these birds were pretty imposing, but if you ask Dan there’s nothing quite as scary as being on the pointy end of a Harrier jet!

  Posted by Nuria McGlinchey

  

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