Pedro Pires is a Portuguese artist, Central Saint Martin’s graduate, living in London. When I first met him, I had no idea of what he was capable of. After taking a voyage de plaisir in Lisbon, his hometown and randomly getting hold of a tube ticket that was exhibiting his work as well as seeing his work at Parque das Nações it became apparent to me that Pedro possibly did not just think that art was meant just for galleries and private collections. I recently stumbled upon some of his work at the Old Street tube station.
Not being technically qualified to criticise art myself, but massively interested in the use of public space and of course forms of promotion, I thought I’d ask Pedro a couple of questions that I thought would be relevant.
It is often dangerous drawing analogies between political parties of different countries, but let’s just say that Nea Dimokratia is the Greek equivalent of the Torries, or a less crazy Greek version of the GOP. It theoritically is placed on the center right of the political spectrum. Nea Dimokratia as all Greek parties has a political youth; their name is ONNED.
ONNED launched a competition last week, in a bid to crowdsource their new logo. The competition took a tragic turn as the internet massively voted for gruesome logo 31, which can be admired above as well as other tragic submissions. ONNED responded by withdrawing Logo 31 and extending the voting period, highlighting their strategic and communication weaknesses and turning the competition into a complete fiasco. To get the story as it happened search for #logo31 on Twitter ( it is in Greek).
Saying that Panagiotis Thomoglou is one of the best interactive designers around is like saying that bears do actually shit in woods. It crosses into captain obvious territory.
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This promo video, for Riz MC’s latest single: ‘Get On It” directed by Sam Pilling has recently caught my eye. (more…)
