Fall like dominoes

  

Capturing a moment in time is one of Art’s greatest feats, like some of the best split-second photography. For our latest art installation it was this aim we had in mind for a leading real estate developer.

Investream commissioned us to create an installation representing the importance of connections between people and cause and effect, to act as a centrepiece for their impressive West London offices.

Using around 4,000 dominoes, we lined one piece after another in a spiral layout and started the domino effect, with the first few toppling over. 

We were really keen to play with the scale of the building for this project and the sky really was the limit in the firm’s 20m high atrium. The spiral of dominoes takes the eye along the wall and makes its way up the high atrium, reaching for the sky.

Heinz Innovation Centre Grand Opening

We headed to Nijmegen in The Netherlands to celebrate the official opening of the Heinz European Innovation Centre, where our Wall 57 project stands tall.

The impressive new facility will be dedicated to driving innovation and new products for consumers across Europe.

We were in good company with H.R.H. Willem-Alexander, the newly crowned King of Orange, and it was an honour to see Wall 57 receiving praise from royalty, dignitaries and Heinz employees.

To celebrate the opening of the centre, Heinz have released a video revealing the night before before they opened the doors, with Henry John Heinz himself surveying the new wall feature in the building’s atrium.

Watch the video here.

See the wall in full, plus exclusive video footage at www.heinz57wall.com.

All the news from The Other Art Fair

We set up shop at The Other Art Fair over at Ambika P3 last weekend, along with our long-term collaborators The Office Group.

We were there to celebrate our seven-year partnership and took the opportunity to showcase a series of artworks commissioned specially for The Office Group’s portfolio of inspiring workspaces across London.

Our latest artwork ‘Tickets Please’ made an appearance before taking permanent residence at The Office Group’s new location within Euston Station.

Comprised of 29,000 train ticket chads, meticulously laid onto canvas, the piece takes the form of the iconic Monopoly station card. All tickets used during the making of the piece were collected in one afternoon at Euston station, particularly relevant as The Office Group’s latest location.

Check out the piece along with shots of our limited edition run of prints. More on those in the next few weeks…

Generator Urban Design Hostel Graffiti

Progressive global design hostel chain Generator is undergoing a restyle this year at its London digs, with a fresh look, new cosy rooms and hangout spaces perfect for the intrepid traveller.

James and Jerome, aka Shesh and Zics under their graffiti monikers, went into the London outpost for a graffiti session to give the walls a makeover with more than just a lick of paint...

Check out the results of their session, celebrating all things LDN - the first of several phases of this exciting project.

Acrylicize at The Other Art Fair this weekend

This week in the studio we’re prepping an artwork that we’re unveiling at this weekend’s The Other Art Fair.

Made from 29,000 ticket chads collected from Euston Station, the piece will soon take pride of place in The Office Group’s latest building in Euston.

We’re co-hosting an exhibition space with long-term collaborators The Office Group, inviting visitors to explore the concept of inspiring workspaces.

Visit our stand at the show at Ambika P3, Marylebone Road, NW1, London. 25-28 April.
Full details at www.theotherartfair.com.

Stay tuned for the full project details… Hope to see you at The Other Art Fair.

Collaboration Nation - Acrylicize x Alex Fowkes

One thing we’re proud of at Acrylicize is our collective spirit and our collaborative approach to projects, working with talents in the industry beyond the team based at Acrylicize HQ.

On a recent project for long-term collaborators The Office Group, we teamed up with graphic designer Alex Fowkes.

We had been admiring his work, especially his renowned Sony Music Timeline, a graphic installation documenting the company's 125-year musical history, at their Derry Street offices.

We loved his work so dropped him a line and asked him to join us for The Office Group project at 7 Stratford Place, a Georgian townhouse that is now home to newest selection of The Office Group’s impressive serviced offices.

The finished result was ‘IT’S OFF TO WORK WE GO’ (Acrylicize X Alex Fowkes, Screen Print on Mirror, 2013).

The building resides on two streets, Stratford Place and Marylebone Lane, and on both, the house number is 7 – lucky, some might say.

We saw it as a trigger and worked with it throughout the building, tying it in with the Magnificent Seven and, of course, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.

For this particular piece of art in the reception area, we worked with Alex to celebrate the much-missed traditional craft of pub mirrors, the kind you would see lining the walls of your favourite local.

In this spirit, we created a mirror overlaid with screen print, referencing everyone’s favourite Disney workers (gotta love their work ethic!), the Seven Dwarves.

As well as a text-based print of the iconic ‘It’s off to work we go’ song lyric, we also incorporated iconic pictorial elements of The Office Group, including their mopeds and anglepoise lamp, as well as the dwarves’ mining tools and oil lamps.

The reference was perfect for the office-oriented space and it gave us ample opportunity to tie in the building’s numeric heritage.

OK?

Proudly hanging on the wall of a Georgian townhouse is what looks like a classic 19^th Century antique oil painting.

The painting is of a regal looking gentleman; it sits above a traditional fireplace, surrounded by an ornately decorated gold frame - hardly an unfamiliar site in a Grade II listed building in central London.

Look again, however, and you’ll see there’s a little more going on…

The man in question is Martin Van Buren, former resident of this Georgian house, eighth President of the United States of America, and for those that don’t know, reportedly the originator of the term “OK”.

In a cheeky twist to the normal pose for a painting of this stature, Mr Van Buren adopts the well-known “okay” hand gesture.

This is just one of the installations in the latest of a series of commissions for The Office Group that include a large 3D typography piece and a collaboration with super talented designer Alex Fowkes  - more on this to follow…

We just love working with clients that so fully embrace the cheeky potentials of art in the workplace.

Long may it continue to engage and inspire…