supergroup is a creative a-team that comes together whenever they are called upon. each member has chart-topping experience in their own right — and the supergroup line-up can be remixed to match appropriate talents to new ideas and spaces
supergroup
qualifications
criteria
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all members need to be from established
groups or be established
as solo artists
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THE GROUP CANNOT HAVE 10+ MEMBERS
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the group must be formed with
the intention of recording
more than one album
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the group must perform under
a collective name
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the group cannot be a previously
existing band with a new frontman
Early that day I was told all the tickets for my talk were sold out // Typographic Circle that night, which made me more and more nervous, I get so anxious before a talk. Thankfully Luke, Vilma & Holly came to support me, we left the studio at 5.30pm and took a cab to the JWT offices in Knightsbridge. The room was full of screens and masses of chairs I was petrified! I am always so worried people will fall asleep. I spent ages editing the talk but still ended up with 300 images — I was asked to speak between 60mins — 90mins — 90mins meant 18 secs per image equivalent to 15 Pecha Kucha’s by one person!!! Then the room filled with people, the lights went down and I just started talking, I spoke for 92mins. Some of the audience came up to me at the end and just said ‘inspiring’. I had a couple of drinks and went home relieved and happy. Thank you to John Bateson and the Typographic Circle for asking me to talk and for the cute badges made for the audience in return for their tickets and thank you to Alan Dye, NB: Studio for kindly organising the printing for my poster, much appreciated. A very special thank you to the audience for coming to see me on a cold Thursday evening, listening so intently for so long and being so enthusiastic!
My poster has gone off to the printers, for my ‘No airs and graces’ talk at the Typographic Circle. I wanted to combine my obsession with stripes with my love of words.
‘No Airs and Graces’ many many moons ago (1987) I designed the book cover ‘Talking Horses’ for jeffrey Bernard (published by 4th Estate) and I attended the launch of book, on the top floor of ‘L’Escargot’. The place was full of young people and he came over to me and said ‘The thing about you Morag, you have no airs and graces’, at the time I was devastated, I thought I was a sophisticated and mysterious young woman and it was ruined in one single sentence from a person I respected. So I challenged him with a rather disappointed expression and he replied ‘It was a compliment!’
Posters will be available soon to purchase from the Typographic Circle. Printed on 120gsm Colorplan Pristine White, 120gsm from GS Smith.
Our model in all it’s Glory! We had a great evening at the Design Museum, Brit Insurance Design Awards last night. An huge collection of fascinating diverse things, really worth paying a visit. (more…)
Phew models are difficult to make, everything so tiny and detailed, and take so long to do and so slow! But Luke, Vilma and I persevered and we installed our model of the Power of Ten, LCC Summer shows 2010 at the Design Museum last night ready for the Brit Insurance PV tonight. Be interesting to see what people think of it. I really wanted to get across the layering of the work and so I hope it does the job! I am really excited by it so hope others will be to.
I just received in the post a copy of Interior Design magazine China, which had a good big feature on the Deptford Project train. I don’t know what it says so I hope it is complimentary, anyway the pics look great.
My sister Ishbel Myerscough is exhibiting in a group exhibition ‘The Figure’ at the Browse & Darby Gallery, 19 Cork Street, London W1S 3LP from 4th February — 4th March 2011, Monday — Friday 10am to 5.30pm and Saturday 11am to 2pm. The group of artists are Craigie Aitchison, Frank Auerbach, Lynn Chadwick, Robert Dukes, Anthony Eyton, Lucian Freud, Claerwen James, Diarmuid Kelley, James Lloyd, Henry Moore, Ishbel Myerscough, Andy Pankhurst, Jane Patterson, Tai-shan Schierenberg, Sophie De Stempel and Euan Uglow.
Painting above: Anna, oil on canvas, 54 x 54 inches, Ishbel Myerscough
I was kindly given a copy of the 78 winter 2010 edition of Eye magazine by the editor John L.Walters, and as I was browsing through it, I found this review of the Supergraphics book by Unit Editions and out of all the pages in the book, my LCC signage was featured and I felt very proud. This edition of Eye has some great articles, worth buying it for a good read.
Morag & Luke, The Highliners and top of the bill Bill Drummond are sharing the stage on the 5th December starting at 7pm in the STUDIO, The New Birmingham Library as part of the VOLUME Festival, Discovery Season, curated and produced by Capsule.
Morag is talking at the Curated by… Narratives
a one day conference, Saturday 26th January
10am—6pm Pennine Lecture Theatre Sheffield Hallam
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Morag is brightening up two of the wards at the Barts & The London Children’s Hospital.
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For the last year Morag has been working with Waverley School, Birmingham and AHMM architects creating work for their new school building. Nearing completion.
Over the last 9 months Morag has been collaborating with Vital Arts to create large-scale and interactive designs for Barts & The London Children’s Hospital Play Space. Plus Betty (Morag’s mum) has created a group of animals and Luke has been writing stories. Complete December 2012.
Morag & Luke, collaborating with Lemn Sissay, are working on a temporary café just outside the Greenwich DLR station for the Cathedral Group site, The Movement — opening in time for the Olympic summer
Morag has been invited by students of the University of Brighton to take part in a panel discussion ‘The Future of the Creative Industry’. 7th July, Netil House E8 3RL.
GraphicDesign& — Lucienne Roberts & Rebecca Wright are launching their first publication ‘Page 1′ at an event at the Design Museum on 10th May 7.30pm. Morag contributed to the book and is doing a 2 minute slot on the night with a whole bunch of designers.
Morag has been working with Guy Noble, the art curator at UCLH over the last couple of years on the new UCH Macmillan Cancer Centre that completes this year
Luke and Morag have been asked to make a Bed & Breakfast installation by Designersblock at the Interiors UK 2012 show from the 22nd Jan to 25th at Birmingham NEC.
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Morag & Luke’s series of 26 stools ‘Non Sense’ will be for sale in Selfridges Concept store and to try out in their Library until 1st March 2012
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Morag is doing the Central St Martin’s Christmas Typographic talk on Wednesday 7th December. Poster designed by Kate and Agostino at CSM.
