Friday, July 13th, 2007

Jetset in Melbourne

The Narrows, a gallery in Melbourne, Australia, opened a poster exhibition from Experimental Jetset today which will run until August 4, 2007.

From The Narrows site:

“Experimental Jetset (Marieke Stolk, Erwin Brinkers and Danny van den Dungen) have shaped their identity on the grid of 60’s modernist design; text slotted into geometric columns — voiced in the ubiquitous tones of Helvetica. Smartly arranged, the unmistakable skeleton of their work has become a platform for a culturally profound visual dialogue that is affecting and conceptually rich.

This installation of over 40 posters, explores the state of mind of the ‘flaneur’, walking around the city, and the language graphic designers use to give faces to words and sentences. Arranged side by side, the gallery space is transformed into a labyrinth of typographic poetry.”

The Narrows will also play host to the afterparty following the Melbourne screening of Helvetica on July 22nd.

[del.icio.us] [Digg] [Ma.gnolia] [StumbleUpon]
Posted by Gary

5 Comments »

  1. And what a smart way to hang posters! Does everyone know about that technique, or is that strictly an Australian thing?

    Comment by Nick — Friday, July 13, 2007 @ 3:29 pm

  2. That photo is actually from the Jetset’s poster show in London, which they hung themselves… so it’s a Dutch thing?

    Comment by Gary — Friday, July 13, 2007 @ 4:06 pm

  3. That photo was actually taken on opening night in melbourne by me as is all the photography for the narrows. Also works are hung like that all the time not just a Dutch thing.

    Comment by Jonathan — Sunday, July 15, 2007 @ 9:42 pm

  4. jonathan, i switched the photo… when i first posted this i used the london pic, then warren sent me the one from opening night there afterwards. cheers!

    Comment by Gary — Monday, July 16, 2007 @ 6:48 am

  5. My mistake. cheers

    Comment by Jonathan — Monday, July 16, 2007 @ 6:04 pm

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

Leave a comment