Entertaining Signs, Beijing...

Luxurious Soy-Sauce Flavor Collection...

Drunk...

A place probably affiliated with the above venue...

Interesting combination...

A place where Babes can be found...

Blue collars need not apply...

Just next to 'Area 51' Street...

And what a reasonable way for sort garbage it is..!

F - For Faculty Exhibition at VCUQ, Qatar...

 Benjamin Jurgensen's Walking Scan, 2011 (MDF, linen, acrylic, ABS, printed vinyl)

A few images, shown in no particular order, from the, still ongoing, F for Faculty exhibition here at VCUQ... 

I'm also showing some work in the exhibition, but which I'll talk/ show more about in a future blog submission... 

The exhibition ends on January 21, 2012... 

Jordan Gushwa's Untitled, 2011 (Photography, large scale inkjet print) 

Jesse Paine's Ismil Azzam, 2011 (Graphite & varnish on paper, mounted on panel) 

Donald Early's Ask, 2010 (Oil on canvas) 

Don Crow's Chair Six/ Chair Seven, 2011 (Laser engraved acrylic on board) 

Ruth Bolduan's Lanscape with Red Bush, 2009/ Sealine, 2011/ Abandoned Village, 2011/ Monterey Bay, 2011 (Oil on canvas) 

Roman Turczyn's Ochre Wall, Blue Door, 2011 (Watercolor) 

 Leland Hill's Six and Six, 2011 (Gouache and stencil on canvas)

Michael Hersrud's Space Ship: Earth One, 2011 (Digital print and giclee paint) 

Simone Muscolino's Moving Postcards 2004-2011 (Multimedia). Here one has to insert one of the cardboard postcard into the slot in the pedestal to initiate a short film about the images featured on the cards... 

 Sarah Lauck's Untitled, 2011 (Video). See it by clicking here... 

Muneera Umedaly-Spence's Small Simple Drawings, 2010-2011 (Graphite and permanent marker on wood) 

River Montijo's Genetic Enhancement No. 1 Monkey Hatrack, 2011 (Papier mache) 

 Rhys Himsworth's Avatar 2, 2001 (Duotoned lithograph)

Della Reams' (Arabic monograph by Maryam Althani, table by Johan Granberg), Maryam Dress, 2011 (Digital surface design machine knitted and sewn) 

Peter Martin's Inquire of Me, 2011 (Lego bricks) 

Maja Kinnemark's Hi, I'm UFO. would you like to take me home? Work in progress (MDF, fabric, upholstery)

The outside view of the gallery

Book-Corner-Seat...

A while back we moved to a new, slightly bigger, residence here in Qatar. We decided to rent it unfurnished as, quite frankly, the furniture the landlord was proposing to give us looked like something from Liberace's SM chamber... Consequently we decided to (along with buying some of the more necessary pieces such as mattresses, living room sofas, etc. immediately) design a number of bespoke pieces ourselves... After extensive searching for a decent carpentry shop, we finally found one in the old industrial area which seemed to be both willing and able to produce something from the materials we defined, and according to the standards and level of detail we expected... After a number of false starts and prototypes we finally received our first set of furniture a short while back... We're very happy with the results...

This initial piece featured is the Book-Corner-Seat, which was designed for the landing on our top floor. It, as its name suggest, sits in the corner of the landing which is flanked by entrances to our bedrooms, and provides a focal point, as well as a casual, bit more private, 'hang-out' place where to read, chat or daydream... We're in the process of getting a thin cushion made for the square seating area... 

Included below are some additional images of the design, as well as its buildware prototype, in action...  

More related furniture submissions to come in the future... 

Design Details No. 3 - Slightly Surreal Shop Names, Korea...

Cigar Soiree Invites...

As an occasional cigar smoker, I've arranged a number of Cigar Soirees of which the included illustrations provide a few examples of the bespoke invites prepared for some of these occasions...

Most of these soirees took place whilst we were living in London, so perhaps the, somewhat macabre, graphics are reflective of such metropolitan-gothic peculiarities... Go figure..?!