Hiya, we make Art, Zines, Design Books & Tell Stories.
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Book Cover Design & Illustration
LATEST STORIES
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Why Human-Led Art, Design and Ethical Creativity Matter More Than Ever. Artists, designers rise up and say NO to AI
We recently talked about creating our own LLM (Living Language Memory) at a talk for Norwich Book Festival. As Artists and Designers, this is what we do. We create our own nexus of data points that we experienced, saw, felt, heard, tasted and thought.
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Let’s Zine is a powerful workshop tool for shaping new stories about our lives
It’s important to us to provide a robust critical methodology of how young (newly forming) creatives can develop their own insurance policy against AI SLOP by starting their own LLM – we have reframed this as a LIVING LANGUAGE MEMORY that AI training data cannot penetrate or steal from us because it is not shared or uploaded.
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We talk with Fredrik Öst founder of the world renowned Snask about turning up the volume, conservatism, fuckups, saying yes to life, love and getting back to nature
The new world order really is Snask. We met Freddie at Art School, Rebecca was a student and I was a tutor teaching the course Freddie was attending. Our collision happened in the weirdest of locations (CARLISLE) a place that was alien to Freddie and us.
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3 ideas for making fearless art and design you believe in
Making fearless art and Design is a confluence of your experience and interests. That’s why this story is about discovering your own voice. Not someone else’s but your own innate ability to connect to the soul of the universe.
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Graffiti scrawls dance to the sound of the city, transforming surfaces into a beautiful opera of tagging, drips, daubs, overspray and movement
Stop following and you too might find stunning pinks, reds, purples, blues, oranges, silvers, yellows, greens and black scrawls, defined as irregular, possibly illegible handwriting.
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I heard you making patterns rhyme like some new romantic looking for the TV sound
We were seven years old when 1980 arrived. The currency of music in the playground was without doubt the compact cassette tape and the beloved 80s mix-tape.
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Seven Stars Yard drips with ripped colour and painted layers in a living street art collaboration of accidental narratives
Stumbling out the dark cave of Liverpool Street Station on to a windswept Bishopgate we head toward Hanover to replenish our ‘Plant Based Food System’.
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Following is a tasteless position to find yourself in, pets follow … & bad acts follow
Terrence McKenna argues for a dissolution of boundaries and release from phony beliefs systems. In doing so he reaveals 4 secrets for modern living: Don’t Believe, Don’t Follow, Don’t Consume, Don’t Watch.
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ABOUT STUDIO GRRR
Hiya, we are Glen & Rebecca mischievously-led married couple with a shared love of books, drawing, colour, pattern and stories.
We make Art, Zines, Design Book Covers and Tell Stories.
For thirty years we have been Artists, Designers, Educators, Public Speakers, Creative Nomads and Heritage Crafts People.
Nice to meet you.
We believe creativity has an important role in our society and stories in the form of art, design and writing provide a vital gateway to our continued education and open doors to the imagination of others. At their best stories can challenge the way we view world and creativity gives these crucial ideas form and permanence. For thirty years we have found and lost, read, watched and listened to many fairy tales, folk-stories, discovered ancient symbols and thought about the reality of things (we believe stories are the orienting structures of our lives and language shapes reality).
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ART, BOOKS & ZINES
Our artists books, paintings, journals, street art, pamphlets and zines have been exhibited at Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), Leeds City Art Gallery, Hotel Maria Kapel (NL), The Enschede Academy of Visual Arts (NL), East Gallery (Norwich), Ruskin Gallery (Cambridge), Permanent Gallery (Brighton) Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Mexico), Manchester Craft and Design Centre, K Gallery (California) SHOWROOM (Austria), Bureau Gallery (Manchester), PrintROOM’s AmsterdamZineJam and The Anti Design Festival (London)
DESIGN & COMMERCIAL WORK
We currently focus on book cover design and editorial based projects for independent and commercial publishers, research departments, universities, cultural organisations, academics and artisan makers. We have recently completed projects funded by The National Centre for Writing, University of East Anglia, Norwich University of the Arts, The Lithuanian Culture Institute, Ministry of Culture Taiwan, Pro Helvetia, LTI Korea and The Nippon Foundation.
CREATIVE LEADERSHIP IN ARTS EDUCATION
Glen has been working in the Creative Industry for over thirty years and has been a Leading Design Educator for over twenty years. He has been an Educator to some of the most influential Graphic Designers and Notorious Creative Leaders around today and has taught students from all over the world. He has developed a deep understanding for mentoring designers which empowers and celebrates individuality and fosters a critical approach to creativity through curiosity, play and discovery. He is course leader for a unique rabble-rousing bunch of story-tellers on the BA (Hons) Design for Publishing and BA (Hons) Graphic Design Programmes at Norwich University of the Arts.
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BLOG AND STORIES
Our Blog is a curated collection of articles, stories, reprints, photographic essays, conversations and inspriation written for the curious minds of analogue people living in a digital world. Through our life’s journey we stumble through layered narratives found in naturally occurring intersections between the metaphysical realm, and terrestrial landscape, collecting spell fragments from a cast of unlikely collaborators.
Angels, demons, gods, ancestors, aliens tell of a bizarre world brimming with legacy broadcast media, music, philosophy, literature, fictional characters, and the simple truth of everyday life and death.
From this confused debris we conjure and construe interconnecting polychromic stories (we think stories and light are the orienting structures of our lives) about art, creative practice, communication theory, how language shapes our reality, mental and physical health, comedy, music, the politics of bullshit and lashings of esoteric flim-flam.