Designer violence is a submission based group seeking work from creative people for exhibitions, events and design driven projects.
The Designer Violence Zine is an outlet for anyone with work they wish to showcase. We're looking for design, art, photography, whatever.
If it's good, ambitious and doesn't belong anywhere else, we'll take it.
Designer violence is not for profit and aims to promote interaction and collaboration within communities of creative people.
Godmachine & Mr.Gauky & Drew Millward will be drawing on August the 14th at Milgi Lounge on city road.
We'll also be giving away some free stuff from our sponsors Disturbia Clothing.
There will be an after show party till 4am at the Cardiff Art Institute. All who attend the event get discounted entry to the party. cheap booze, loads of prizes- a proper DJ playing good music for once.
Brought to you by Cardiff Art Club & Designer Violence
We have been busy bee's for the last few weeks, one project has been painting a huge canopy for Milgi lounge here in Cardiff. Also an update on the zine....we are going to print some time in the next two weeks! so we'll keep you posted.
...does exactly what it says on the tin. A great article on a great blog. This is getting more relevent especially to the CAC crew as we gear up to do more and more things this year- so join us in our research and discovery:
"Like many artists, you may be tired of waiting for a gallery to sweep you off your feet. You’ve sent your slide packets, you’ve written artist your statements, and you’ve received only discouraging silence in return. At this point, like many artists, you decide to grab fate by the balls. Why wait for a gallery to notice you when there’s wall space in the local café or club, practically begging to be filled. So, with courage and a portfolio, you approach the proprietor. And, unlike those galleries, he’s overjoyed. Of course you can have a show! You go home, head buzzing with visions of selling your artwork, and telling that gallery to go jump in a lake. But why is it that for all their promise, shows in non-traditional venues so often end in failure?...."
Here is DV Cpt Ed Violence. We went to see the 2nd years end of year show at UWIC for the Graphic Communication course. On the way back we spotted this in the thicket. All I remember is cheering when the head of the year was telling us a driver 'shot up fast behind her'.
We are fast approaching the deadline for issue 7! For this issue we are looking for your most shocking, sick and smutty work! The dictionary defines smut as - Any form of media that is considered profane or offensive. Particularly with regards to sexual content.
Here's a little video that should give you an idea of what we are talking about: http://vimeo.com/11147761
Our Featured artist is Matt Joyce check his work out here http://www.themeekshall.co.uk/
This issue will also be available with limited edition screen prints and postcards produced by CAC members Godmachine, The Meekshall & The Violence Boys.
Remember: you can submit anything you want - old work, new work, work for clients, work for yourself - anything at all. Thats it - get sending!
Deadline 23rd of May.
Submissions Details are as follows: A5 portrait, High Res Black and White, saved as PDF or JPG (300 dpi) Please supply an e-mail address and/or website. email:designerviolence@yahoo.com
It's with heavy hearts and empty pockets that we announce that Kruger Magazine is dead, and will no longer be produced. The magazine may have been brilliant, but our business model was rubbish, so without any sign of long- or short-term financial improvement, we are unable to continue bearing the burden.
It's been six and a half years since we first launched the magazine, and in that time it's changed beyond recognition into one of the best written, most beautifully designed and lovingly crafted magazines in the UK, and that's all down to the people who have helped us by giving up their time and lending their talent as much as they could along the way.
We'd like to thank everyone who supported us at the beginning, helped us struggle on to the end, and especially the people who saw the whole thing through with us. It was awesome fun.
Kruger as a business is not dead, so keep in touch to find out about our new ideas and projects. In the meantime we'll be re-launching our website as an archive and tribute to everything we achieved with Kruger magazine, so come and say hello.
Thanks again to everyone who made it all possible. The fact we kept on going for so long is a testament to what you can do when enough people believe in the same thing.
And that's it. What The Martini Henry Rifles said in four words, we said in 259. Typical.
Designer Violence are taking over the front windows of Milgis on City road this Sunday for the Big fuss Festival. Expect CAC artists going mental with pens. We'll be there from 3pm until late. See you there!
"The yurt at Milgi Lounge is a lovely environment to be in while sketching.
Tonight we are running a drop in life drawing session with two models, Matt and Sally.
These sessions will run until the end of June and then we will close for the summer and re-start the sessions in September. That gives us ten drop in life model sessions planned.
Do come along and bring a friend - Entry is free but we do expect a donation for the models time of about £5pp
Art materials are available, paper, pencils, charcoal, putty rubber, for £0.50p
All attending will get a voucher that they can use at Inkspot in Splott. It's a 10% discount off art supplies.
Join the facebook page to be kept up to date with one off events such as our beach life art day in June.
All models at www.a-muse.me are available for private bookings - see the site for rates.
So turn up, get a coffee or cocktail or whatever and sketch away..."
Godmachine will be there in a smock and his tongue hanging out- hopefully CAC will bethere too in force- come along and see winky live!!!
The new Designer violence T-shirt is being launched on Sunday the 11th at Cardiff Arts institute! We're tieing the launch night in with our All-time top 100 slot and have a few things in store for the night. The new tees are extremely limited edition and next Sunday will be the first chance to get your hands on them. See you there!
The latest issue of the Designer violence zine has been printed and will be hitting the streets of Cardiff this week! It's the biggest issue we've done and features a huge range of awesome artwork. Copies are very limited so to ensure you get your hands on one visit our online store where you can get a copy from Thursday the 25nd.
Thanks to everyone who submitted entries for the latest issue of Designer Violence! We received an amazing amount of awesome work from really exciting and varied artists. Narrowing down the entries for the zine was hard enough, but choosing the overall winner took us forever, so apologies for the delay in announcing this! The winning artist, Pearpicker, has sent us work before and always sends us loads of high quality stuff on time and we think it's about time we gave credit where it's due and did a feature on him. Watch this space for more info!
