Next Exhibition: Ugly & Drippy – Martin Krusche vs laFraise
We are happy to announce our next exhibition, which will feature Illustrator and Graphic Designer Martin Krusche.
Born in 1982, Krusche has his roots in Graffiti and is working now as a freelance Illustrator and Designer. He is co-founder and head designer of Berlin based brand Yackfou, which is dedicated to shirts and other objects as a graphic medium.
Martin Krusche often combines digital and analogue working modes like photoshop and ink, using assumed errors and inconsistencies (like dripps, splatters and so on) in his works as an artistic feature. This very own aesthetic can be found as well in Krusche’s largescale paintings which will be shown in the exhibition.
Martin Krusche: ‘Heads’ (50×70 cm, acrylic on carton)
The topic of error and divergence will be taken up as well by the design contest ‚Ugly & Drippy’, initiated by laFraise.com in cooperation with Martin.
Contestants were asked to do a shirt design which focuses on ‚imperfect’ elements like dripps, splatters, splashes and other deviations from the aesthetic consensus. These violations of the norm are often constituting the own natural charm of a design, which brings its own type of aesthetic along with it and perhaps tells its own story. The contest starts with Krusche’s illustration ‚Gramophone Guy’.
The best submissions from the contest will be printed on canvas and exhibited alongside Krusche’s works at West Berlin Gallery from October 16th to November 6th.
West Berlin Gallery Opening
Thank you so much to everybody who came around last night to celebrate the opening with us!
We had a really good time last night with about 300 guests. Just a great evening – enjoying the designs of the laFraise 15K Contest Exhibition, having a nice chat and some tasty drinks as well. Special thanks to the whole laFraise-Team, 42below and the great barkeepers, who did a really good job serving the crowd with fresh and boozy cocktails.
See more pictures of the opening on our flickr.
Tomorrow: Opening of the laFraise 15K Contest Exhibition
Come around and celebrate with us!
laFraise 15K Exhibition
We are busy working to prepare everything for the opening of the laFraise 15K Exhibition.
Contestants were asked to do a creative shirtdesign, and it turned out to be one of the biggest online-design contests in Europe ever. laFraise received almost 4000 designs from which they chose 12 finalists and then 1 winner. You can check all the finalists here. These designs (along 40 other chosen works) got printed on canvas and we are really proud to exhibit them.
The winning design ‘Elefant Gum’ by Piu Piu will be printed on 120×120 cm. Sweet and bubbely as a candycoated Bollywood movie, what do you think?
So, we really would like to invite you to the opening on September 10th, starting at 7pm. Come around and enjoy the designs, we will have some free drinks (provided by 42below) and good music ready waiting for you :)! Please rsvp!
The exhibition runs from September 11th to October 10th, open daily from 12-7pm.
Created in 2004, laFraise is now Europe’s largest t-shirt design competition and receives over 100 daily submissions from graphic designers and illustrators all over the world.
After a design is approved, it appears on the laFraise site for a week for the community to vote and comment on it. Each week, laFraise selects new designs and prints them in limited editions of 500 t-shirts.
2011 West Berlin Gallery