LALANDE DIGITAL ART PRESS PARIS

Rubens Rounding Third

2009-12-13T23:57:00.000+01:00

Matthew Rose takes a swing at the art of baseball in his prize-winning art stamp sheet, Rubens Rounding Third. Printed on gummed paper and perforated, the stamp sheet is the artist's ode to baseball, art, Rubens, stamps in a sexy twist on turning the corner, in this case third base.

This collector's piece is headed for Cooperstown, the Baseball Hall of Fame in Upstate New York, as well as a permanent place at the Philatelic Museum of Oaxaca (MUFI), which awarded the artist first prize in their world wide competition for 'Baseball Philately + The Art Inspired by Philately'.

"My guess is that Americans of all sizes will be interested in this work, not only those who love baseball and art," said Matthew, "but also those who grew up playing the game and found themselves distracted by some attractive fan in the crowd."

Printed on gummed stamp sheets
Signed and numbered by the artist
Limited edition of 1000
296mm by 407mm (11½ by 16 inches)

Available from KEEP CALM GALLERY. CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE FROM KEEP CALM GALLERY (LONDON).

A BOOK ABOUT DEATH : THE MOVIE

2009-11-18T03:17:00.000+01:00

Angela Ferrara, an artist based in São Paulo, Brazil, created this film
for the exhibition A Book About Death. Angela, contributor to
A Book About Death – see her art here – worked tirelessly to not
only learn new software applications but to curate the original
show into themes and sync it all to the beautiful music of
Garry Schyman – his piece, Praan.
Visit The Music Of Garry Schyman

Praan
Bhulbona ar shohojete
Shei praan e mon uthbe mete
Mrittu majhe dhaka ache
je ontohin praan
Bojre tomar baje bashi
She ki shohoj gaan
Shei shurete jagbo ami
(Repeat 3X)
Shei jhor jeno shoi anonde
Chittobinar taare
Shotto-shundu dosh digonto
Nachao je jhonkare!
Bojre tomar baje bashi
She ki shohoj gaan
Shei shurete jagbo am

Praan (English Translation)

The same stream of life
that runs through my veins night and day
runs through the world
and dances in rhythmic measures.

It is the same life
that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth
in numberless blades of grass
and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.

It is the same life
that is rocked in the ocean-cradle
of birth and of death,
in ebb and in flow.

I feel my limbs are made glorious
by the touch of this world of life.
And my pride is from the life-throb of ages
dancing in my blood this moment.

Use of Garry Schyman's music for Praan – originally written for Where The Hell Is Matt? – has been generously granted by the composer.

Lyrics adapted from the poem "Stream Of Life" from Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore.

Music Credits: Music By Garry Schyman. Drums and Engineering Dan Blessinger. Vocals Palbasha Siddique. Guitars and bass Kevin Dukes. Concertmaster Belinda Broughton. Orchestral contractor Ross DeRoche (DeRoche Music Inc.). Vocal Contractor Melissa Nixon.

Caterina Verde Poster : A Book About Death

2009-08-09T18:39:00.000+02:00

Caterina Verde, French-American artist, designed this poster for the project A Book About Death. Verde also designed the "wall" website for the project. Download the poster now (free).

See Caterina Verde's Website.

Julia Hoffmann Poster

2009-08-07T16:19:00.000+02:00

Lalande Digital Art Press Paris produced a series of posters for the exhibition A Book About Death to take place at The Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery in New York City, NY on September 10, 2009. This work is by Julia Hoffmann, creative director for The Museum of Modern Art and independent, freelance graphic designer. Julia Hoffmann is based in New York City, NY. You can download this poster from site: A Book About Death.

Apsara Song : Affiche Par Cuakor

2009-07-10T19:37:00.002+02:00

Apsara Song : Affiche Par Cuakor. Affiche imprimée, edition limitée par Lalande Art Press Paris.

La Librarie Apsara ferme le rideau et remote les voiles le 21 juillet 2009. Bon voyage...

Cuakor est aussi l'auteur/editeur de L'Oeil de La Brouse. Edition limitée disponible pour 7 euros. Il n'y a pas beaucoup... Contact: contact at graines-idee dot fr.

La Librarie Apsara: 44 rue Daguerre 75014 Paris

UN LIVRE SUR LA MORT

2009-07-05T12:56:00.001+02:00

UN LIVRE SUR LA MORT

CONTACT
Email: matthew.rose.paris@gmail.com
Site web: http://abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com/

TELECHARGEZ: http://matthew.rose.paris.googlepages.com/unlivresurlamort

SPILL PRESENTS 03 - WALL PAPER BY JB MAROT & LIZ STIRLING + PORTRAITS BY ANNABELLE BRIENS

2009-06-18T22:43:00.002+02:00

Amazing wallpaper designs by Jean-Baptiste Marot and Liz Stirling and new portraits by Annabelle Briens are the featured works in Spill Presents 03, the monthly art salon put on by Spill Paris, our friends and clients.

Spill is one of the world's leading web design firms, and one of France's top Clic d'Or winners. Run by Nicholas Mir Chaikin and Liz Stirling, the design firm is located in the heart of Paris in a palatial office with room for 500 or so.

Wonderful cocktails great art awaits you all on June 24... Click the invite poster to get the details. Should be great fun... save the date.

Caroline Secq : îLE DE SAINT-CADO

2009-06-15T21:36:00.000+02:00

Caroline Secq artiste d'assemblage, sort les oeuvres nouveaux. Voir sont site: CAROLINE SECQ. Lalande vient d'imprimer ses cartes postales.

Ari Rossner : Vernissage Offset

2009-06-02T00:58:00.000+02:00

La première exposition grand-public de mes œuvres "Off-Set," par Ari Rossner se tiendra le 2, 3 et 4 juin à l'occasion de la deuxième édition de La Nuit Des Arts Et Des Mondes.

Vernissage / Cocktail / Concert le mardi 2 juin 2009 à 19h.

Grandes Halles Art Nouveau du Parc Georges Brassens, 104, rue Brancion 75015 Paris. Ouverture au public le 2 - 4 juin, de 14h à 2h du matin.

Lalande Digital Art Press Paris a imprimés les cartons d'invitations (ici).

LE KIT CRISE : PROMOTION CONTRE CRISE - JUIN

2009-05-25T22:47:00.002+02:00

Promotion contre la crise: On lutte avec vous pour vos impressions publicitaires. Bon entre 1er Juin - 30 Juin. CONTACT : LE KIT CRISE.

<–– Click pour agrandir l'image.

Ricardo Bloch Launches Amphibious Andromeda

2009-05-20T16:26:00.001+02:00

Amphibious Andromeda is not your ordinary book. It's like taking a walk through the artist's mind as he walks through Paris. Think of it as an Accidental Tourist Guide to Paris... and what could be more gorgeous than that?

What he calls a "journal of everyday life," kept between July 24 and October 20th of 2007, Amphibious Andromeda is Ricardo Bloch's way of disassembling and reconfiguring a unique daily walk through his Paris world. Visually stunning, the photos are intimate and telling, funny and revealing; combinations on the page in spreads add another layer to meaning, making volume from the artist something of a beachhead in a brave new world.

The full color book (printed by Lalande Digital Press Paris) consists of 200 photographs "made under the pressure of feeding a daily image/sound blog called Amphibious Andromeda," says Ricardo. "This is the first in a series of four or five books, which will end with photographs made in March of this year when I stopped posting on my blog. The 589-day archive of Amphibious Andromeda’s images and sounds is still online at:

http://ricardobloch.blogspot.com/ ... "

Amphibious Andromeda Book 1 is "a free-flowing record of what the my eye encountered during that period of time," adds Ricardo, "and the photographs are presented here in the strict chronological order in which they were made. Compared to the blog, where the determinant factor in the choice of an image was the success of its juxtaposition with a sound, here, it is the successful construction of a double-page spread. Consequently, there are many photographs that appeared in Amphibious Andromeda which are absent here and vice versa."

You can flip through a number of the pages of the book, by logging on to:

http://ricardobloch.com/docs/shandybooks.htm

Amphibious Andromeda Book 1 has been printed in a limited edition of 100 copies. It is soft-cover, 24.5 x 16.5 cm, 102 pages.

PRICE: Only 24€ plus shipping, via PayPal (or check). (Contact the artist directly to purchase).

Ricardo Bloch's work has been exhibited in Europe and the United States and is collected publically and privately throughout the world. The artist most recently exhibited his Happy Days photographs of Denver, Colorado circa 1973 at the School House Gallery in Paris. When visiting Ricardo's web site, you may also enjoy a web-specific work: Sharon’s Wars. Oh and while you're there, ask Ricardo where the name Amphibious Andromeda comes from...

Tom J. Byrne At The Irish Embassy Paris

2009-05-13T15:29:00.001+02:00

Tom J. Byrne, the Irish ex-pat living and working in Paris, paints the French landscape, women and a graphic surrealism in ways that perhaps only an Irishman can. His exhibition bringing all these influences together in oil on canvas, tempera and drawings on paper opens this weekend in the refurbished building of the Irish Embassy at 12 Avenue Foch, 75116 Paris. (The entrance is on rue Rude.)

Tom's work brings him all over France where he immerses himself in the rich tradition of landscape painting. His canvases are large and rich distillations of the natural beauty of the countryside, aching with a particular longing (if such a thing is possible in landscape works) that ex-pats seem to recognize and realize more than the native-born set. See Tom's Maubec Field series here.

Yet, the artist travels to new more internal spots in newer, graphic and mysterious works such as Nature's Eye (left, above), combining a handful of influences and interests in the same clear style. His range is astonishing, moving easily from contemporary collage styles to precise graphite nude drawings to abstract canvases that sometimes have a photorealistic bent.

Lalande Digital Art Press is happy to count Tom Byrne as a client and friend (we produced a number of post cards for him for this exhibition), and add him to the cadre of interesting artists we work with here in Paris. Visit Tom's website and see more of his works here: Tom J. Byrne.

The exhibition at the Irish Embassy opens on May 16 and runs through mid-June. If you can't make the Irish Embassy exhibition, Tom Byrne shows his work at Saint Germain Les-Corbeil for one week, May 23 through May 30; and on June 2 the artist exhibits his work at the Goal Ball in Paris.

UNICEF et PlaNet Finance: Gala Hindira

2009-05-08T15:06:00.000+02:00

La première édition du Gala Hindira nous a permis de récolter 102 200€ au bénéfice des enfants en Inde pour les programmes d’éducation de l’UNICEF et PlaNet Finance, selon Maryam Ingar, Chief Executive Officer, Spark Services. Elle nous a écrit parmi d'autre patenaires dans ce projet en remerciement: "Vous avez contribué à la réalisation d’un beau projet qui nous tenait à cœur et nous vous en sommes très reconnaissants."

Voir les photos de la soirée ici.

Polyflash et Lalande a fabriqué les cartons d'invitation pour l'evenement. (Image).

Spill Presents: Spring Art Showcase

2009-05-03T13:59:00.003+02:00

Spill, the award-winning Paris-based web design firm, is throwing an art party on May 6 at their palatial digs on Rue Faubourg Poissoniere 75010 Paris. Led by tech and design geniuses Nicholas Mir Chaikin and Liz Stirling, longtime friends and clients of Lalande Digital Art Press, Spill has won more Clic d'Or awards than just about anyone.

The exhibition includes Paris-based artists Sarah de Teliga, Roubiou + Toft Anderson AKA Moto 777, Jean-Pierre Valette, Matthew Rose. Click the image at left to enlarge to see all details.

Is Your Business Card Crap?

2009-04-21T01:27:00.000+02:00

Votre carte de visite, est-t-elle crap? Here's a man with a $4 business card. Hmmm. Thoughts? Que pensez vous?

Vitrines Miniatures : Virginie Ruscoe

2009-04-07T22:07:00.008+02:00

Virginie Ruscoe, grande amie de Lalande Digital Art Press est en plein production. Ses vitrines minatures se lance cette semaine avec un nouveau site web et l'idée de mettre le monde en minature.

"La reproduction en miniature de scènes de la vie quotidienne évoque chez nous beaucoup de souvenirs," elle explique. "Elle suscite dʼautant plus dʼémotion lorsque la scène représente un lieu qui nous est familier : une boutique de notre enfance, une pièce de la maison de nos ancêtres ou de nos vacances ou encore le métier ou la passion dʼun de nos proches." [Clickez pour aggrandir les images].

Porquoi la vie petite? "La confection de vitrines miniatures est devenue un art pour ceux qui sʼadonnent à cette passion," continue Virginie. "Elle réveille la magie de lʼenfance. Cʼest pourquoi le moindre détail ou objet qui capte notre regard a son importance."

Virginie peut réaliser sur demande des vitrines miniatures et reproduire les scènes de la vie quotidienne que vous souhaitez. Nʼhésitez pas à contacter direct. Ou par téléphone: 06 87 10 55 04. Visitez le site web.

Le Sélect : Portraits Of The French by Rick Tulka

2009-04-06T13:12:00.002+02:00

"A tribute so pleasant and persuasive that swarming tourists may make it difficult for Fitch and Tulka to find a table," says the Kirkus Review about Paris artist Rick Tulka's new book of portraits produced at Le Sélect, one of the most famous cafés in Paris, and a beacon for Americans on the Left Bank. Tulka, a longtime friend of Lalande Digital Art Press, can be found almost every day drawing at Le Sélect on Boulevard Montparnasse. Take a look at what Rick's been up to all these years: Order Paris Café The Sélect Crowd from Amazon.

Some reviews:

"In this droll, delicious little volume, Fitch and Tulka provide an affectionate portrait of the Select Cafe, one of those famous Paris eateries that have served as candles to intellectual moths--French, American, and otherwise--for nearly a century. As Fitch reels off anecdotes about those who spent time writing, chatting, caffeinating, and dreaming in the Montparnasse spot, the book reads like a Who's Who of twentieth-century arts circles with cameo appearances by Hemingway, Bunuel, Brassaï, Giacometti, Beckett, Picasso, Noguchi, de Beauvoir, Satie, Poulenc, Baldwin, and Godard. The text, by the author of several books on American expatriates in Paris, is slender and sketchy, but that leaves more room for Tulka's marvelous line drawings, which capture the essences not only of the café's celebrity patrons but also its proprietors and waiters, along with numerous guests whose names are not known, but who are blithely immortalized." -- Booklist

From the Publisher:

Acclaimed author Noël Riley Fitch, abetted by noted artist Rick Tulka, serves the dish on Select, the famous Montparnasse café that for nearly nine decades has been so vital to Paris and its intellectual denizens: from Hemingway, Beauvoir, Picasso, James Baldwin, and George Plimpton to the writers and artists who continue to work quietly there in the back room or heatedly debate every topic imaginable into the night. The artists have their work on the walls; the novelists include the café setting in their fiction. The quiet and drama of the Sélect world illustrates the centrality of cafés — particularly this one — to Parisian social, cultural, and intellectual life. Blending pithy profiles and witty drawings of clientele and staff, the book is organized around a history of the café, its daily and seasonal rhythms, particular colorful patrons, and even its typical café/brasserie food (including a few recipes). Click for Rick's website.

CONFESSIONS POSTER (FREE!)

2009-04-04T15:47:00.005+02:00

DOWNLOAD POSTER FREE : MATTHEW ROSE

Visit SOMA GALLERY for 9 May Exhibition, Cape May, NJ.

MAKE A3 FULL COLOR POSTERS/AFFICHES AT LALANDE DIGITAL ART PRESS. CLICK ICI : for a free estimate/devis

Paix à Gaza

2009-03-30T17:05:00.001+02:00

LALANDE DIGITAL ART PRESS PARIS a imprimé des stickers pour Marek Halter, dessinés par Clara Halter (sa femme), l'artiste qui en l'an 2000 le Mur pour la Paix, sur l'esplanade du Champ de Mars.

Ces stickers était destinés à un Convoi Pour La Paix organisé par Marek Halter à Gaza qui etait prévu pour le 17 mars.

Bathtub IV

2009-03-27T22:49:00.001+01:00

Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

See: Keith Loutit.

Keith Loutit is a Sydney based photographer. "These photographs and short films were made in ordinary places, probably not too unlike where you live. Combining a variety of techniques including tilt-shift and time-lapse photography, I aim to help people take a second look at places that are familiar to them."

France Not France By David Rager

2009-03-27T19:58:00.002+01:00

David Rager, of the America's top art directors and graphic designers, is on his way to Paris. What better way to pave his way to France than with this new poster he designed for Colette, the chic-chic boutique on Rue St. Honoré. David who asked Lalande to print this work for him, has been working in the art world for years, designing a full range of objects and bags and branding imagery for the likes of The New Museum, The Ecology Center, MoCA and tons of other high end visual arts organizations.

FRANCE/NOT FRANCE is a limited edition print created for The Selby Shop and exhibition at Colette in Paris. Prints can be purchased at Colette during the month of April along with other goods created by the subjects of Todd Selby's photographs. E-mail info(at)davidrager(dot)org for availability.

You can also visit David's ESTY shop, click here.

David can be seen on his bicycle in New York, Los Angeles, and now Paris. Check his website and you'll see what he did for California!

POP CULTURE DIGITAL HEROS

2009-03-25T21:13:00.000+01:00

Every day it's a new battle against over-pixelated files, unprintable type fonts and uncorrected colors! Not to mention the economic crisis...but your friends at Lalande Digital Art Press Paris are there (that is here, in Paris) to save the day, with better prices, excellent printing and the best customer service in French and English (français et anglais) in all of France Land. A dynamic duo ready to do business, no matter the weather. Let us help you save the day chez vous!

Above: Robert Ruscoe and Matthew Rose.

The End of the World: New Print For Keep Calm

2009-03-24T00:35:00.002+01:00

THE END OF THE WORLD (REALLY BUILT TO LAST) is Paris-based artist Matthew Rose's latest surreal fantasy about the fragility of world we live in and the end of the world we've built.

Based on an original collage from 2008, THE END OF THE WORLD, reports from the frontiers of the real and dream worlds, where foods and animals, naughty little boys and errant little girls enter into the visual field and run, jump, hang and float in and around an assortment of human narratives that are veering dangerously out of control. Like in life.

This work, and others in the series, will appear in Masters of Collage (Lark Publishing, USA) in May 2010 along with 40 other contemporary artists.

This full color print measures 25 x 25 cm, and also has a border for framing. Signed and numbered in an edition of 85, the print, produced by Lalande Digital Art Press Paris costs 38 UK Pounds exclusively from Keep Calm Gallery. Click here to go to Keep Calm Gallery to see detailed images and order.

K-TYPE : Font Of Genius

2009-03-23T15:54:00.002+01:00

UK Font designer Keith Bates and his K-Type is something of a genius in the typography world. And a legend already. His "Norton" type face is used on Jon Stewart's THE DAILY SHOW and he has created niche fonts as homages for artists and friends as well.

Keith writes: "K-Type Norton is the choice of typeface for “Old Man Stewart” on the current series of top US satire, The Daily Show. The font which is based on the four characters in the old Norton motorcycles logo, has been updated for contemporary use and expanded to include a lower case and our usual full compliment of accented characters."

Keith's Ray Johnson font (HOW TO DRAW RAY JOHNSON) is being used for A BOOK ABOUT DEATH, a global mail art project. (A Mail Art font exists as well). And fonts for Roy Lichtenstein and others are total winners. The typography artist creates fonts for both commercial and personal use. Check him out.

Laurence Esnol Gallery Expose H. Craig Hanna Pour Art Paris Du 18 au 23 Mars

2009-03-18T15:13:00.002+01:00

Nouveau client, Laurence Esnol Gallery, sera présent au Grand Palais du 18 au 23 mars dans le cadre de la foire de l’art contemporain ArtParis 2009. (Stand P26).

La galerie exposera le peintre et mannequin, H. Craig Hanna. Connu pour un réalism touchant et fort, l'artiste est également connu dans le monde de la mode chez Calvin Klein et Marc Jacobs. Drew Barrymore adore ses huiles sur toiles.

Installé depuis trois ans au Grand Palais, ArtParis est devenu en 10 ans l’un des principaux rendez-vous parisiens pour les acteurs de la scène artistique internationale.

Du 19 au 23 mars 2009, ArtParis rassemble une centaine des galeries les plus dynamiques sur le marché international de l’art moderne et contemporain : une vingtaine de pays seront représentés.

D’ici et d’ailleurs, la création artistique du XXème siècle rencontre alors celle du XXIeme siècle à travers ses divers moyens d’expression : peinture, sculpture, dessin, photographie, vidéo, installations, performances.

Photographe Thierry Chomel exposera bientôt a la galerie Laurence Esnol. Ses photos de la mode en noir et blancs sont des bijoux de rêves.

Printing in Paris

2009-03-10T15:43:00.012+01:00

The economic situation is not getting any better, but marketers are getting smarter. American, German, British, Canadian, Australian, Chinese and Japanese marketers on their way to Paris should stop and think before they load up a plane with 50 kilos of printed paper materials. Why? Because they can easily save money and time and effort by e mailing LALANDE your graphically-rich PDF and letting us do the proofing, printing and delivery of brochures, cards, flyers, catalogs and posters for you. Need to talk or e mail for an estimate? No problem because we speak your language. Save money, save time and work smarter by working with us. We speak your language.

MISTER ROSE'S ABC CHEZ ARTAZART PARIS 75010

2009-02-21T11:21:00.006+01:00

MISTER ROSE'S ABC, un petit abcdaire, est maintenant chez ARTAZART, librarie design, hip and 100 percent cool. Au bord du canal St Martin, Paris 75010, ce magasin offre des titres sur tous ce qui est design, art, des éditions rare et livres d'artistes. Alors, Lalande Digital Art Press est là...

Apparue tout d'abord sur le web, la librairie ARTAZART répond depuis 1999 aux attentes des graphistes, web designers, typographes, étudiants... et tous les passionnés de la création, en proposant une sélection des meilleures sources d'inspiration et références internationales en matière de design graphique.

En septembre 2000, les fondateurs d' A R T A Z A R T, Jérome Fournel et Carl Huguenin, inaugurent la librairie du 83 quai de Valmy, dans le X° arrondissement de Paris, au bord du Canal St Martin.

Un espace d'exposition spécifique y est réservé aux artistes, français ou étrangers: graphistes, illustrateurs, photographes... [Ici, Adèle, stagiere Lalande, avec le nouveau édition de MISTER ROSE'S ABC BOOK].

Organisant près de 10 événements à l'année (rencontres, signatures, concours...) et s'associant régulièrement à des initiatives d'acteurs majeurs du champ culturel, A R T A Z A R T contribue à révéler et promouvoir une créativité pluri-disciplinaire insatiable.

Sur le site comme en librairie, l'offre d'ouvrages, de revues et de produits créatifs est le résultat d'une sélection minutieuse, mise à jour au rythme des nouveautés internationales en graphisme, design, photo, mode, art urbain...

Aujourd'hui, vous trouvez MISTER ROSE'S ABC chez ARTAZART. 10 Euros. Allez-y! plongez dans les ABCs, ou prendre le metro ou vélib et visiter le magasin et après, promenez sur le canal. C'est beau, c'est Paris!

INTERESTED TO BUY THE ABC BOOK VIA THE NET? CLICK HERE (ENGLISH).

JE N'AIME QUE TOI

2009-02-18T20:16:00.002+01:00

JE N'AIME QUE TOI. TELECHARGEZ L'AFFICHE/POSTER.

Benoît Delhaye : Un Portrait Numérique

2009-02-18T02:36:00.004+01:00

Nouveau chez Lalande/Polyflash : Benoît Delhaye, 20 ans d'éxperience dans la numérique. "Je suis content d'être admis au sein de 'l'équipe de rêve' de Polyflash."

Transfuge de la photographie, il s'est retrouvé de fil en aiguille avec du cyan sur les mains et, dit-il "C'est le cœur en fête que numériquement j'imprime tout ce que je peux chez Bob 'Polyflash' Ruscoe!"

Ben travaille avec l'image et la musique, ses deux passions, la photo, il explique fait bouger son imagination: "La photo car dans un univers surexcité en expansion (il a du mérite actuellement), j'aime la méditation induite dans l'image fixe, ainsi que la relative liberté du spectateur d'y mettre le contenu qu'il choisit.

Ben joue la musique avec son group de jazz, TRIOGUS, partout à Paris. Ça fait partie du son univers creatif: "La musique...c'est une merveilleuse communion entre amis, que de 'faire des pains' sur la même grille!"

MAI 68 AFFICHES

2009-02-10T12:21:00.022+01:00

Keep Calm Gallery is celebrating revolution with a range of silk-screened street posters from May 1968. Each poster is available for about 30 euros each. But hurry if you want one, many are already sold out.

To commemorate the revolutionary spirit of 1968 the Hayward Gallery is presenting the first major display in the UK of posters produced by students and workers in Paris during strikes of May 1968.

Produced anonymously by art students and striking workers, the posters were distributed for free. The bold graphic messages appeared on the barricades, were carried in demonstrations and plastered on walls across France. The exhibition at the Hayward Gallery will include 46 posters taken from the collection of the American writer and curator Johan Kugelberg.

The year of 1968 was one of great political and social upheaval in France. Anger and frustration over issues such as poverty and unemployment gave rise to a mass movement for social change. A wave of strikes, walkouts and demonstrations by students followed by a general strike, paralysed the French capital.

In the middle of May 1968 students and faculty took over the Ecole des Beaux Arts to form the Atelier Populaire (popular workshop), producing hundreds of silkscreen posters in an extraordinary outpouring of politically graphic art. Described as ‘weapons in the service of the struggle’ the purpose and intended locations for the posters were the streets and factories where the struggles were taking place. (Text from www.parismai68.net)

To coincide with the exhibition and to commemorate the 40 year anniversary of the Paris riots of 1968 a limited edition book has been produced by The Orange Dot. Each book contains hand screen printed reproductions of 40 original Mai 68 posters. Keep Calm Gallery are pleased to have been given the opportunity to offer a very limited number of printers proofs of these reproductions. Unlike the posters collated in the limited edition Mai 68 books, these printers proofs are available individually at Keep Calm Gallery for a short time only.

Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford Address

2009-02-09T16:59:00.004+01:00

LALANDE : WE DELIVER

2009-01-27T13:26:00.013+01:00

Lalande Digital Art Press Wizard, Robert Ruscoe, ready to deliver printed materials on our new totally green, human-powered distribution system. A bicycling fanatic, Robert has long held the idea that if we print ecologically sound posters, cards, books and digital prints, we should also deliver them that way, too. "Plus, it allows me to visit all of Paris," he says. "And I get to wear these cool duds."

It's cold out there, Robert.

Democrats Abroad : Obama Postcard

2009-01-26T17:59:00.002+01:00

Democrats Abroad France produced and distributed some 3000 postcards celebrating the inauguration of President Barack Obama here in Paris. Lalande Digital Press Paris was happy to work with this innovative group of Americans in Paris to spread the word about democracy and the new president.

A note from Tony Frank Paschall, one of the Democrats Abroad was very welcome: "Just a quick word, Robert, to say that everyone was totally delighted with the Obama Inauguration postcard. We handed out almost a thousand in just a couple hours... comme des petits pains!

A très bientôt,

Tony"

Lalande is happy to work with folks of all political stripes. Have a project? Get in touch. Click the images to enlarge.

Keep Calm: House & Home Ireland

2009-01-18T17:00:00.002+01:00

Keep Calm Gallery was featured this month in House And Home (an Irish interiors magazine). A selection of prints, some produced by Lalande Digital Art Press, appeared as part of a four page photo shoot. Check out what's new at the Gallery.

Lalande has been working with Keep Calm Gallery in the London for more than a year and a half printing fine art digital prints for a number of artists including Amy Ross, Alysson Fox and soon, Wilhelm Staehle.

Badaude's Christmas Phase II

2009-01-12T03:21:00.000+01:00

Christmas isn't over yet at Badaude. She's one of our English friens: Check out her digital print.

Impossible Possibilities: 2009 Calendar (Free!)

2008-12-20T17:35:00.011+01:00

Lalande Digital Art Press Paris is looking forward to another interesting year, and so we thought we'd offer you an interesting digital gift : Impossible Possibilities, a free, downloadable calendar you can print out at home – wherever that may be in the world.

The calendar comes with a cover and back page, and 12 surreal months (in French) illustrated with the surreal art work of Matthew Rose. Simply download the file (it's only 6 mb), print out on your home printer, cut the pages using the crop mark guides, staple up on top and tack to the wall. Interested? Hey, it's free. C'est gratuit!

TELECHARGEZ / DOWNLOAD IMPOSSIBILE POSSIBILITIES 2009 CALENDAR NOW.

Lalande Digital Art Press will print these calendars to order. Each is printed on 300 gram true card, in quadri-color, shrink-wrapped and signed by the artist. For one: 12 euros. For 10, 10 euros each. For orders of 50 or more contact us for prices. We are happy to work with retailers, boutiques and businesses anywhere on the planet. We can produce custom designed calendars, or customize Impossible Possibilities for your company. We will print your company logo on the cover. Or if you'd like to make a dozen or so using your own photographs or art work, we can help you with that, as well.

If you are interested in producing your own calendars, or you're a designer working on calendar projects for your client, we are very happy to work with you to print the best looking calendar possible. We can print up to A3-plus sizes, or as small as post card sizes. Use your imagination and we'll help you put your ideas into print. Contact us for quantities and prices. In the meantime, many thanks to our existing and future clients...and enjoy Impossible Possibilities 2009 – sure to make for a very happy and surreal New Year.

Max Mulhern : American in London

2008-12-18T11:44:00.000+01:00

London-based American artist Max Mulhern (and Lalande Digital Art Press client) is busy making pedestals these days when he is not writing for the formidable ART BLOG, Roberta Fallon and Libby Rossof's amazing art world net. Max has produced a Duchampian boxed set of his pedestals (the Swiss pedestal unfolds like the famous army knife), with which he walks around London Town showing dealers. He unveiled them in Philadelphia to Libby and Roberta (click here to read).

"I've also made hundreds of drawings that reinvent the idea of sailing, floating and moving over water," says Mulhern. "It's the narrative arc of my life as I become a boat." In his studio there are text pieces like "FLOAT," and others of wood bits and people floating.

The current project is to decapitate sculpture in a friendly and compelling way by pushing forward with the full range of possible pedestals, perhaps producing a functioning chess set or offering boxed sets. The idea behind the pedestals is a thrilling mixed metaphor about art and what keeps it afloat.

Ricardo Bloch : Maison Française

2008-12-18T00:59:00.000+01:00

Ricardo's Lifescape books are featured in the January issue of Maison Française magazine. Please click on the image to enlarge it. Lalande Digital Art Press works very closely with Ricardo for his custom made portraits of homes. The books are full color, perfect bound and printed in quantities from 2 to 200.

Want to give a gift that will be unforgettable? A complete portrait of your house from the point of view of an artist-photographer. Get in contact with Ricardo.

Dog Art For The Holidays

2008-12-16T19:35:00.000+01:00

Moira McLaughlin digs her dogs, and she's put together a range of dog art works for the holidays on her site, Dog Art Today. Here you will find a playful doggy bag, if you will, filled with delightful dauchshunds, dalmations and more of her dream dog art favorites. Like what? Like this sculpture, above, made entirely out of crayolas. It's not digital but we love it. "The Yellow Lab Crayon Dog sculpture by Herb Williams made of Crayolas," writes Moira. "OK, it's $18,000, but it's brilliant and it smells like your childhood. From Vivre."

Check out Moira's online catalog and blog : Dream Dogs Art.

Lait de Lune : Lancement A Paris

2008-12-11T12:43:00.004+01:00

Un cabinet de generosités, Lait de Lune, boutique nouvelle à Paris, lance samedi, le 13 décembre au 48 rue Chapon, 75003. Vernissage: 15H00 - 19H00!

"C'est une galerie d'art qui melange les objets de jeunes artistes et les objets on a trouvé partout," explique Deborah Zafman, galerieste. Zafman qui vient d'ouvrir une autre galerie d'art – Galerie Deborah Zafman - le laboratoire des suppositions, à coté au 3-5 passage des gravilliers – voulait donner quelque chose nouveau à ce quartier dans le Marais. "On a rencontré tellement d'artistes qui font des oeuvres on peut pas mettre dans la grande galerie – des éditions, des livres, les petits collages à des prix également interessants – et Lait de Lune nous permet de faire un vrai cabinet de generosités."

Dirigé par Alexandra Conn, de Los Angeles, (à gauche, en bas) propose une programme de performances, leçons en sushi, et lectures. Venez samedi le 13 pour "tea time" vernissage vers 15h00.

Lalande Digital Art Press a – depuis longtemps – travaillé avec Deborah Zafman en fabricant ses cartons d'invitations, cartes de visites, brochures, catalogs et tirages numériques, éditions limitées. Pour Lait de Lune, on a imprimé les cartes postales et contribué son logo – A Perfect Friend – pour le branding.

LAIT DE LUNE Cabinet de Generosités. 48, Rue Chapon 75003 Paris, France Tél: 01.42.77.03.74.

Johanna Halford : Christmas Card Design 2009

2008-12-10T23:11:00.002+01:00

Put a partridge in your pear tree if you have one. Or get one. But in the meantime, enjoy this new Christmas - New Year's 2009 card design by Paris-based artist, Johanna Halford.

The card is a folded A4, color throughout. A simple elegant design that will travel throughout Europe and the US to the artist's friends and family.

And while you're here, take a look at Johanna's web site and see her current projects and exhibitions.

Le Chien : A Perfect Friend & A Perfect Gift

2008-12-09T18:28:00.008+01:00

Seule exemplaire, epreuve d'artiste, de serie A Perfect Friend par Matthew Rose. Ce chien en habits du 17eme siècle, impression numèrique, signé et daté 2003 a été expose en France et partout aux Etats-Unis. Taille: 76 x 56 cm. Papier genre Canson/Arches, ph neutre (archival). A vendre : 250 euros. PayPal accepté. Parfait pour un cadeau de noël. Contactez LALANDE DIGITAL ART PRESS maintenant. Commandez en cliquant ici: A PERFECT FRIEND PRINT.

New Year, New Friends! Les Zigomaticks sont de retour!

2008-12-09T14:20:00.001+01:00

Pour les fêtes ou la nouvelle année.... Une nouvelle idée… ? Vous pouvez, vous même, inventer le thème de votre Zigo à adopter. Pirate, fée, Albinos….Il suffit de demander. A venir : la nouvelle Collec' de la rentrée.

Le Zigomaticks par Deborah Katz, artiste et grand ami de Lalande Digital Art Press Paris, sont faites pour vous, par commande. Visitez le site Zigomaticks.

Cartes de Voeux 2009

2008-12-07T20:09:00.004+01:00

Cherchez vous des images pour vos cartes de voeux 2009? Quelques designs de cartes de voeux à votre choix pour 2009. Les designs et images sont à votre disposition pour vos cartes! [Click sur l'image pour l'agrandir. CLICK ON THE IMAGES TO ENLARGE]. Lalande Digital Art Press peut vous faire vos cartes pour 2008 avec votre message. Choisir parmi ces designs-ci, ou nous envoyer le votre (soit photo, dessin, texte, etc.) en PDF. L'image de votre choix sur la couverture, carte fermé, taille A5, ou bien comme carte postale, couleur recto, noir et blanc verso; papier 250 grammes ou bien recyclé, ou d'autres. Contactez-nous pour toutes informations : CARTES DE VOEUX 2009.

Lalande Digital Art Press Paris is happy to work with you on custom-designed New Year's cards. Or personalized calendars! Choose among these images, or send us yours and your texts. Questions? Give us a shout... oh, and PayPal accepted!

Art & Design © Matthew Rose 2008

Encore Les Cartes de Noel, New Years 2009

2008-12-04T14:22:00.010+01:00

Cherchez les images pour vos cartes de Noel? Voici une gamme des images de Matthew Rose si vous imprimez avec Lalande Digital Art Press Paris. Regardez les autres dans la serie A Perfect Friend... C'est simple. Faites vous-même votre propre carte ou indiquez l'image, la taille, message, quantité et passez nous un e mail: matthew.rose.paris at gmail dot com. Facile.

Un cadeau extraordinare? Les cartes de visites ou cartes postales avec l'image de vos amis! Cartes de visites: 1000 pour 90 euros (ht); cartes postales 500 pour 100 euros (ht).

Candles & Confiture : Made in France

2008-11-30T12:29:00.003+01:00

Holiday artisanal candles from the Respire Collection are not only a hot gift, but they are also a cool one. These hand-poured, highly scented organic soy wax candles, are perfectly green. Scents range from Vanilla Whisper, Ginger Fig, Coco-Manago to Cucumber & Melon and holiday favorites like Jack Frost and Chestnusts & Brown Sugar. Lalande Digital Art Press Paris printed up several hundred lables for Respire for the holiday season. Visit this innovative Paris-based company on the Internet here.

Feeling spicy? Try another Lalande client's holiday fare: Paulette's confiture. Melon, mango, lemon and kiwi are just a few among the offerings of Paulette's jams. Artisanal jams, made in France, are direct from Paulette's pantry. Check them out. E mail: paulettespantry at yahoo dot fr.

Lalande produces customized labels – etiquettes en français – for a range of clients. Cost-effective, lables are printed in full color on "sticky paper," cut to size and always made to order. If you're thinking of putting your name on something, think about making colorful, eye catching labels. Send us a simple PDF with the image, indicate the crop marks and we print and cut and deliver in no time. Get in touch. We're always happy to talk with you about your projects, no matter how big or small.

Cartes de Noël! Christmas & Holiday Cards 2009

2008-11-28T16:11:00.002+01:00

Cartes de Noël. Christmas Cards. Votre choix. Your choice. Envoyez-nous vos designs en PDF. Send us your designs as a PDF. Faites vous-mêmes vos cartes de saison et cartes de voeux. Make your own holiday and New Year's cards.

Contactez nous: Holiday Cards 2009!

The Bestest Christmas Gift: The ABC Book For Kids

2008-11-25T19:28:00.010+01:00

MISTER ROSE'S ABC BOOK is back! The hit book and video has been republished with a new cover for Christmas 2008. Full color, saddled stitched, the ABC Book is for kids of all ages and replete with the funny stories of Karl the curious kitten, Nero the most nervous nail and Romney's rain among other wonderfully nutty and deliriously delightful characters. Each book is meticulously printed on thick recycled paper (keep our world green) and signed by MISTER ROSE himself.

Well A...it's AMAZING and not expensive at ALL! And B the BOOK is only 10 euros, plus postage. And C... MISTER ROSE'S ABC BOOK is ready for CHRISTMAS. We will send your ABC anywhere in the world. (Pay with PayPal. It's EASY).

LALANDE DIGITAL ART PRESS PARIS is taking orders now! So avoid the Christmas rush and save a buck. Teach your kids to read even if your kids are Chinese or Russian or French or German or Italian or Brazilian or from Spain! And once you have MISTER ROSE'S ABC BOOK, you can read along with MISTER ROSE on his YouTube Video.

CLICK HERE : TO ORDER YOUR OWN SIGNED COPY (or your own many copies) of MISTER ROSE'S ABC BOOK. Get 10 of them and spread them around to all your friends and your friends' kids and your kid's friends.

Want to offer MISTER ROSE'S ABC BOOK in your boutique or bookstore? Well, we do that too!

Deborah Katz : French Design

2008-11-25T12:55:00.015+01:00

Graphiste/illustratrice (spécialisée print) depuis 6 ans, Deborah Katz est actuellement responsable artistique au sein d'Arumtec, une société de conseil. Parallèlement, Déborah exécute des missions en tant que freelance depuis 1 an. Lalande Digital Press Paris a travaillé depuis trois ans avec Deborah pour une gamme de projets, y compris livres, affiches, cartes et plusiers supports graphiques et publicitaires.

Son travail s'articule autour de plusieurs techniques de conception graphique (dessin, peinture, photographie et outils informatiques) pour la réalisation de chartes graphiques, de supports de communication, ou bien encore pour la création de visuels événementiels.

Quelques références :Arumtec, 45 Babylone, Jironimo, La Cave des Papilles, (voir en bas l'affiche pour le Beaujolais Nouveau). Book en ligne ici.

Polyvalente, Déborah à récemment lancé une ligne d'ArtToyz et de Peluches réalisés à la main, en éditions limitées : les "ZigoMaticks." Vous pouvez les découvrir ici.

Lalande Digital Press Paris is happy to work with all designers in making their projects not only beautiful but cost-effective. We love working with creatives like Deborah, it keeps us both interesting and fascinated by the evolution of print and digital offset printing. Get in touch.

Looking For An English Language Printer in Paris?

2008-11-24T01:19:00.007+01:00

Get in touch with Lalande Digital Art Press Paris. CLICK HERE : to discover our prices and how we can help you with your printing projects. We're happy to work with you.

Le Beaujolais Nouveau A La Cave Des Papilles

2008-11-19T21:20:00.012+01:00

Vous aimez le Beaujolais Nouveau? Ou bien la fête autour du vin? Voilà! Le 20 novembre venez à La Cave Des Papilles 35 Rue Daguerre 75014 pour les deux!

Belle affiche, design Deborah Katz (imprimée par Lalande Digital Art Press) pour notre cave preferée. La Cave Des Papilles est specialiste du vin au naturel.

Clickez sur l'image pour l'agrandir.

Perdu? Allez: Metro Denfert Rochereau. (Lignes 6 ou 4) et marchezvers l'ouest sur la Rue Daguerre.

Steve Wells Takes On 2009 With Limited Edition Polaroid Calendar

2008-11-18T11:54:00.015+01:00

"I was looking for an original way to say thank you and happy Christmas to my clients," said Paris-based New Zealand photographer, Steve Wells. "So I created a limited edition 'polaroid' calendar."

Wells has curated years of his work for striking effect. April is a pile up of mannequins, July is an intimate kiss, while other months are exquisite fashion (semi) nudes and sleek architecture. The polaroid design, a salut to the "good old days" of analog photography in today's modern digital world. The calendar is perforated at the top so each month is peeled off and the image ready to post. April is called 'instinct' and represents a moment when instinct prevailed; taking a certain path through the streets of Paris, Steve stumbled upon this collection of headless mannequins, and creating one of his most talked about images.

The project represents a broad spectrum of Steve's photographic work, from fashion and beauty to film stills, product shots and art pieces, with each photo a significant moment in Steve's photographic journey. While the calendars are destined for his clients, Steve is offering a limited number to the public. Each calendar is only 10 euros (plus 2 euros for postage). Contact him via his web site. See his VRV Gallery Page and Interview here.

Lalande Digital Art Press Paris helped Steve with the format and execution. Interested in producing a 2009 calendar for your clients or friends? Get in touch for a free estimate.

Real Time TV SIS LIVE

2008-11-17T22:12:00.003+01:00

This afternoon at 2 PM I received a call from Jean-Louis Cléret, the business director at SIS LIVE, a high-end UK-based tech company with the largest satellite uplink and Outside Broadcast provider in Europe. A trade fair at Longschamps in Paris meant putting up their signature image in the booth. Men jumping from airplanes. These days, that's pretty much the picture of the global business environment. But Jean-Louis didn't have one in Paris.

"How big?" I asked. "One by two meters? Oh, yeah. I need it by 7 PM." Working with a PDF e-mailed from London, Lalande Wizard Robert Ruscoe rapidly printed out the enormous banner on fire-proof Tyvek, punched holes into the edges of the banner, added grummets and sent it over. By 6 PM. Not real time but with a little time to spare.

Yao Lu Wins 2008 BMW - Paris Photo Prize

2008-11-14T13:36:00.008+01:00

Image: © Yao Lu. "New Landscape Part I – Ancient Spring Time Fey," 2006.

Courtesy of 798 Photo Gallery, Beijing.

Chinese photographer, Yao Lu has won the 2008 BMW - Paris Photo Prize for contemporary photography. The award was announced at Paris Photo, which just launched at the Carrousel du Louvre, in Paris. Paris Photo 2008 runs from 13 - 16 November.

Yao Lu's prize is worth 12,000 EUR ($15,000).

Born in 1967 in Beijing, the Chinese artist Yao Lu, represented by 798 Photo Gallery in Beijing, is the fifth winner of this major international award, after Czech artist Jitka Hanzlova in 2007, French artist Mathieu Bernard-Reymond in 2006, American artist Anthony Goicolea in 2005 and the Switzerland's Jules Spinatsch in 2004.

The winning work "Yao Lu's landscape part I – Ancient Spring Time Fey, 2006" is part of a series of digitally manipulated images of landscapes. The artist photographs mounds of garbage covered in green protective nets which he assembles and reworks by computer to create bucolic images of mountain landscapes shrouded in the mist inspired by traditional Chinese paintings. Lying somewhere between painting and photography, between the past and the present, Yao Lu's work speaks of the radical mutations affecting nature in China as is it subjected to rampant urbanization and the ecological threats that endanger the environment. The theme for BMW's 2008 photo prize was "Never Stand Still" in relation with the new BMW 7 Series.

Yao Lu is an emerging Chinese artist and teacher at the photography of department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. His work has been shown in numerous festivals and collective exhibitions around China (Lianzhou International Photo Festival 2007, New China Occidentalism – China Contemporary Art in Beijing in 2006, Pingyao International Photography Festival in 2004). But his work has rarely been shown in the West, except at the Fotofest International Houston in 2008, and at the "Space and Transportation" exhibition in Graz, Austria, in 1997.

Short-listed artists exhibited at Paris Photo: Jeff Brouws (Robert Klein Gallery), Andrew Bush (Rose Gallery), Clark & Pougnaud (Galerie Baudoin Lebon), Gerardo Custance (Polaris), J.H. Engström (VU' la Galerie), Martine Fougeron (Esther Woerdehoff Galerie), Nobuhiro Fukui (Tomio Koyama Gallery), Jim Goldberg (Magnum Gallery), Dionisio Gonzalez (Max Estrella), Miyako Ishiuchi (Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo), Syoin Kajii (Foil Gallery), Atta Kim (Keumsan Gallery), Ken Kitano (MEM Gallery), Janne Lehtinen (Taik Gallery), Yao Lu (798 Photo Gallery), Akira Mitamura (The Third Gallery Aya), Keisuke Shirota (Base Gallery), Yuki Tawada, (Taro Nasu), Nao Tsuda (Hiromi Yoshii), Ofer Wolberger (Michael Hoppen Gallery).

Fran Bull Etchings & Ink Drawings

2008-11-11T09:04:00.010+01:00

Fran Bull, an American artist with an arsenal of talents, regularly produces intriguing prints in Barcelona. A lot of them, like this gem, an etching in red produced in 2007. (Click to enlarge). This work, entitled "The Keys Have Bled Their Rust," is one of a series from "Season of Bones."

A longtime friend of Lalande Digital Art Press Paris, Fran Bull is one of those artists who is always producing great art whether works on paper, paintings, sculpture, drawings or helping others put their art into the world – whether in film, books or in her sumptuous gallery in Vermont. (I was lucky enough to exhibit there in the summer of 2007).

If you happen to be in or around Vermont this weekend, take a look at Fran Bull's current exhibition: Ink on Paper at Liza Meyers Gallery in Brandon, Vermont. (Click image to enlarge).

In the 1970s, Fran was known for her photorealist works, exhibiting widely throughout the United States and Europe. She's since left realism for an art that to her is truer and more challenging. You'll be amazed at the virtuosity of this American great. Visit Fran Bull's art on the internet. Also, see her Vermont gallery, Gallery In The Field online.

President Barack Obama

2008-11-06T09:23:00.005+01:00

Lalande Digital Art Press Paris congratulates Barack Obama on his successful presidential run. We salute America's 44th president, and hope his leadership ushers in a true global coming together. We note with interest: No candidate at anytime has made better use of photons (over atoms) than Barack Obama. Image here from the victory speech at Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois. More images from around the world: Time Magazine.

Rock Poet Duo At Librairie Apsara

2008-11-01T13:13:00.025+01:00

Steve Dalachinsky jouent le rock n roll de poesie à Librairie Apsara. Quand? Mercredi, le 12 novembre à 20h30 (entrée 5 euros). Où? 44 rue Daguerre 75014 Paris.

Diriger par Stephane Guyader, La Librarie Apsara, bonne ami de Lalande Digital Art Press Paris et bookstore très cool, offre le public une programmation de concerts très peu connues à Paris. C'est à dire: exceptionelle.

The poems of Steve Dalachinsky will take you on a wild ride of meaning and symbol, Steve dalachinsky is a piece of abstract art showing you the author's mastery with every stroke.

Steve's poems are visually fascinating and lyrically intense, and his subjects veer madly and fearlessly between the political and the personal, in a way that allows us to see that there is no difference between the arenas. Steven Dalachinsky was born in Brooklyn, New York sometime after the last Big War and before lots of useless little wars...he has been writing poetry since before then and has always...he is basically self-taught...his great loves and influences are the Beats, Blake, Kafka, Camus, Harpo, surreal and abstract painting and music......especially jazz and so-called "Avant Guarde" or "FREE" jazz.

Né en 1946 dans le quartier de Brooklyn, à New York, Steve vit toujours à New York City. Co-organisateur du Festival Vision, toujours à New-York, c’est un poète de la scène downtown new-yorkaise, activement acteur de la scène free jazz et de la creative music. Poète jetant des mots dans la musique jazz (on parle de « spoken words »), parce qu’il se dit aspiré par l’inconnu, aimant tisser les rythmes pour qu’émerge une littérature, héritier des poèmes bop de Jack Kerouac. « Je veux être considéré comme un poète de jazz… », clamait celui-ci dans Mexico City Blues.

Né à Bordeaux en 1971, Didier Lasserre débute l’instrument à l'âge de seize ans, pour tenter de vivre "autre chose." Travaille essentiellement en autodidacte afin de trouver sa propre voix; enseigne la batterie (Centre d’Improvisation Libre, Bordeaux, 2003); dirige des ateliers d'improvisation et des master-classes (AsproJazz / Jazz en Franche-Comté); et travaille avec la peinture, la poésie, la danse, le super8, la photographie. Outre ses projets actuels, il a joué aussi en concert avec entre autres Paul Rogers, Frédéric Blondy, Barre Phillips, Ernest Dawkins, Jean-François Pauvros, Kent Carter, Bertrand Denzler, Bertrand Gauguet, Assif Tsahar, Ronnie Lynn Patterson, Bobby Few, Steve Beresford, Urs Leimgruber, Phil Wachsmann, Roy Campbell et Benjamin Duboc. Don't miss it!

Librairie Apsara 44, rue Daguerre 75014 Paris. Métro: Denfert-Rochereau (lignes 4 & 6). Tél : 01 42 79 96 16

Restons Cool : Le One Page Book de mamaNANA

2008-10-30T16:07:00.007+01:00

mamaNANA, catalogue et boutique pour les jeunes mamams, était fondée avec une idée très simple: Aider femmes françaises allaitent de plus en plus, en leur proposant les vêtements, les coussins, et les accessoires qui existent déjà dans bien d’autres pays. La phrase qui révèle la philosophie : Pour allaiter en beauté!

Vert en marketing, co-fondatrice, Ségolène Finet, nous a raconté : "Nous étions à la recherche d’une idée innovante pour un mini-catalogue, mais sans les coûts élevés de pliage et d’agraphage d’une brochure classique."

Lalande Digital Press Paris a crée le "one-page-book," et designer Boo Louis (aussi jeune maman) l'a pris en concept pour sortir un mini-catalogue. Ségolène Finet continue: "Et surtout nous voulions quelque chose de très léger afin de limiter les coûts d’affranchissement (car nous expédions les brochures à des professionnels de santé, associations, dans toute la France.) Avec ce système d’impression sur une seule page, qui est ensuite pliée façon « origami » pour obtenir un mini-catalogue de 8 pages, nous sommes parvenus à remplir tous ces objectifs – et en plus c’est super joli !" Téléchargez vous-même le one-page-book de mamaNANA ici.

Design par Boo Louis.

Avez envie de visiter mamaNana sur let net? Voir mamaNANA et commander sur le net, en cliquant ici. Et : Visitez le blog de mamaNANA.

mamaNANA 1 bis rue du Val Joyeux 78100 Saint-Germain-en-Laye T/F: +33 (0)1 34 51 05 82

Snow In Paris : Cartes De Noel, Cartes De Voeux

2008-10-29T12:02:00.002+01:00

Noël à Paris, cartes de voeux. Faites vos cartes pour la saison 2008 chez nous. Vos images en cartes en quantités vous voulez!

Christmas in Paris! Let Lalande Digital Art Press Paris help you make beautiful Christmas and Season's Greeting cards for your friends and family.

Voulez vous faire vos cartes aujourd'hui? CLICK ICI : for a free estimate/devis et on peut commencer toute de suite! [e-mail: MATTHEW.ROSE.PARIS AT GMAIL.COM]

Nugent Koscielny : Stylepixie Gallery

2008-10-24T13:21:00.003+02:00

Long time Lalande Digital Art Press client and painter Nugent Koscielny, opens her exhibition of paintings and collage works at Stylepixie Gallery in Ivry-sur-Seine, just outside of Paris. It's also the gallery's One Year Anniversary. The Salon mixes hair styling with contemporary art in an English and French language environment. Cool stuff: See Stylepixie Gallery and Salon here.

Cartes de Visites - Business Cards

2008-10-22T09:46:00.000+02:00

Serendipity : Kim Powell At Mona Bismarck In Paris

2008-10-21T15:40:00.002+02:00

When Kim Powell traveled to Sri Lanka in 2007 on a professional photo shoot, she never imagined she would begin her own artistic and philosophical journey. Her exhibition of photos at the Mona Bismarck Foundation which opens today in Paris touches upon the five senses, and offers the visitor a chance to absorb the visual and sensual richness of Sri Lanka.

Powell has captured the soul of a country and people who, historically, have faced many challenges from terrorism and civil war to natural disasters like the tsunami in December 2005. One would not expect the serenity in the faces, the peacefulness in the landscape. "Sri Lanka was not at all what I imagined," she says.

The American photographer who has lived and worked in Paris for the past 15 years, studied photography at SPEOS, Parsons School of Design and the International School of Photography, New York. In France, her work has been exhibited at UNESCO, the Logis Royal in Loches and Paris Photographique. Kim Powell’s commercial photography includes the publication Bit by Fleas, a guide to the Paris flea markets.

Kim Powell has already been involved in other Mona Bismarck Foundation exhibitions photographing the Marianne North Gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and providing the catalogue photography for Hubert de Givenchy’s Perfection Partagée: Mona Bismarck, Cristóbal Balenciaga. In 2008 Kim Powell was featured in My-Linh Kunst’s, Beyond Borders: Portraits of American Women from around the World.

The Mona Bismarck Foundation, created in the 1980s by the American philanthropist, the Countess Mona Bismarck, is an American foundation with a Paris Cultural Center located opposite the Eiffel Tower. The Foundation’s eclectic exhibition program, always free of charge, has mounted over 70 exhibitions in the past 20 years, many introducing emerging American artists to a European public.

Lalande Digital Art Press Paris technical wizard Robert Ruscoe worked closely with the Mona Bismarck Foundation in producing a gorgeous catalog (20 euros) and the digital prints for Kim Powell.

Mona Bismarck Foundation : 34 avenue de New York, 75116 Paris. Free Admission. Days and opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday from 10:30 a.m. – 18:30 p.m. – Closed on holidays. Tel : 01 47 23 38 88 Metro: Alma-Marceau, Iena, Trocadéro. Bus: 72 – 63 – 94.

Tito Honegger : Au Salon Artist Book Centre Pompidou Paris, Le 24 - 26 Octobre

2008-10-19T13:36:00.011+02:00

Un ami de Lalande Digital Art Press Paris, Tito Honneger, artiste basé à Genève, Suisse présente son dernier livre "UN ENORME EXERCICE" au salon Artistbook international à Beaubourg/Edition Art & Fiction le 24, 25 et 26 et le signe le 25 de 14 à 15h.

Un artiste qui travail sur le paysage, objets trouvés, les impressions (monotypes) et les livres precieuses, Tito Honnegger a crée des très beau livres en éditions limitées, signées. Haut qualité, impression numérique, des bijoux à sasir.

UN ENORME EXERCICE
Les monotypes que ce livre rassemble et reproduit ont été réalisés en 2005 et 2006 dans l’atelier de Tito Honegger à Genève. Leur objet est d’inclure à leur technique et à leurs motifs des poèmes (ou morceaux de poèmes) que Jacques Jouet a composés in situ, dans l’atelier, au vu et au su du travail pictural. Ce sont des œuvres de collaboration. Au fur et à mesure, l’une réagit aux poèmes et se les approprie, l’autre a le loisir de commenter en direct les images qui deviennent visibles et le relancent pour de nouveaux poèmes.

Monotype : Mode de dessin ou de peinture exécuté sur une plaque de verre ou de plexiglas enduite d’une couche d’encre d’imprimerie. Le transfert sur papier est une impression à tirage unique.

Ces monotypes ont été exposés à Genève (Villa Bernasconi, Grand-Lancy) en mars et avril 2008. Edition Un Enorme Excercise: 128 pages; 178 x 255 mm: CHF 54 / € 37.

Édition de tête; accompagnée d’un monotype original de Tito Honegger relié par sofi eicher; edition de 10 exemplaires numérotés et signés. Images en haut à gauche: Un Enorme Excercise, couverture. Copies disponible: 200. En haut à droite : Optitoh; copies disponibles 75, signés. Achetez direct de l'artiste: Voir le site de Tito Honnegger en clicquant ici.

The Paris Years : Trish Nickell

2008-10-14T00:44:00.003+02:00

Trish Nickell is leaving Paris with a retrospective exhibition of her gorgeous landscapes. More than a dozen oil on canvas views of France and Paris will be on exhibit through 25 October at Grace Teshima's gallery, in Montmarte. "The Paris Years" includes this gem, Pear Trees, Cordes-Sur-Ciel (above). Nickell, a Texas transplant who has lived nearly a dozen years in Paris, will be moving to the United States to continue painting and pointing her paintbrushes towards the Pacific from her new home in Portland, Oregon. We've long worked with Trish and her husband Dave (also a painter) in producing posters and postcards and have enjoyed the shared appreciation for what Paris and France offers artists. Do see this very well produced exhibition. Visit Trish Nickell's website here. See a video of the opening here.

Grace Teshima, 46, Rue des Abbesses 75018 Paris. Call for door code: Tél : 01 42 62 45 98 / 06 98 42 69 69

Linda McCluskey : Paris en Rêvant

2008-10-13T15:08:00.009+02:00

"I'm a bit like a film director," says Linda McCluskey about her sometimes dizzying architecturally-inspired paintings. Using a concave mirror-like perspective the viewer's eyes climb and descend the buildings she's painted on large canvases, oftentimes in diptychs and triptychs. Her aim is to seize the atmosphere that only someone who was actually standing in front of these street scenes could feel. "Seize the instant, the light, the movement, the warmth, the people a little bit blurry like our memories," she says. "Whether it's the rooftops of Paris or the music in a jazz café, my idea is to share my view – literally and figurative – of the world, a protected world, warm and moving."

Linda McCluskey's Paris en Rêvant, will take place at Cosi, 54 Rue de Seine 75006 Paris. Opening: 15 October.

Lalande Digital Art Press helped Linda in producing a number of posters for the exhibition. You'll see them around town.

Linda McCluskey se sens comme un metteur en scène. Son but est de saisir l'atmosphère et de restituer sur la toile cette sensation que seul quelqu'un ayant assisté réellement à la scène peut éprouver. Saisirl'instant, la lumière, le mouvement, les couleurs chaudes, les gens unpeu flous comme nos souvenirs. S’ils représentent des toits de Paris oudes cafés de jazz, elle essaie de faire partager sa propre réalité avec cemonde et vous offre l'image d'un monde protecteur, chaleureux maisaussi mouvant.

Vernissage: Linda McCluskey Paris en Rêvant, 15 October. Cosi, 54 Rue de Seine 75006 Paris.

Lalande Digital Art Press a aidé Linda en imprimant des affiches pour son expo. Vous allez les voir autour du 6ème.

Cartes de Voeux 2008 - 2009

2008-10-12T15:50:00.004+02:00

Toi - Moi. Cartes de voeux, Christmas cards, Seasonal Cards... LALANDE DIGITAL PRESS PARIS can help you spread the word to the ones you love (or like) this holiday season. Pour tous nos prix: E mail: matthew.rose.paris at gmail dot com.

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Cecil Touchon On Preserving Works on Paper

2008-10-04T17:21:00.020+02:00

Artist Cecil Touchon gives a how-to for preserving works on paper and ensuring the longevity of artworks produced on all sorts of paper supports.

Preserving Works on Paper
I think the natural processes of what papers do should be accepted, even cherished and considered part of the process of the work. A little dignified fading is just fine in my book. As a collage artist I have a great love of very old papers. Many of the papers I have used over the years are as much as a couple of hundred years old. I am happy no one slathered some sort of preservative all over them. The pure wood pulp papers are something of a problem of course because they actually just turn to dust. If you look at early wood pulp papers from the 1880s and 90's, many of them you can hardly even touch any more. They are just crumbling. These types of papers definitely need the acrylic barrier. The internal acids are so strong that the paper is destroying itself regardless of preservation techniques short of putting the material in a deacidification liquid (which you can also use) However, I would like to stress that the look of many papers which will last a very long time - several hundred years - will be compromised by these techniques of layers of acrylic medium. So I would urge you not to use that technique indiscriminately. Additionally, consider the application. If possible thin your medium down quite a bit so as not to leave brush marks and unwanted texture on the papers. possibly even use a spray application. The papers that we use should be given the utmost respect and consideration as they are the very basis of what our work as collage artists is all about. The deterioration of the papers and inks is part of what we love about them.

Mounting Works
One thing that can be done - and is what I do without exception - is to mount your works on heavy watercolor paper (or museum board). I prefer 300 lb paper and leave several inches between the image and the outer border of the base sheet. This will help prevent waves or warping of the paper. I usually leave about a 4-5 inch 'dead space' so, an 8 x 10 inch collage is mounted on an 18 x 20 inch base sheet of 300 lb watercolor paper. This allows the image to be isolated from the environment by having a 5 inch barrier allowing the work to be seen without interference from the surroundings which can effect the perception of the work. It also, when handled, prevents anyone's hand from ever touching the image in the middle of the paper, it also leaves plenty of room for the base paper to absorb all the bumps and tears and stains that never make it to the image in the center.

The other problem with works on paper is the surface getting scratched, rubbed or stuck to other surfaces from having other works stacked on top or stick to it. Therefore it is good to have some plastic bags to keep works in individually so they don't hurt each other. This kind of thing probably creates more damage in the artist's studio than natural deterioration.

Framing and Storage
Then there are two other aspects of preservation. Framing and Storage. If you use a UV sheet of glass or Plexiglas that will take care of the ultraviolet issue as well as the exposure to air or touch issue. Enemies that proper storage and framing will help with are: light, atmosphere, dust, moisture and insects (some of whom have a great love of paper too!) One of the biggest enemies of paper is direct sunlight. Keeping works out of the sun is one of the best things you can do for your art papers so invest in containers and drawer units that will store your papers and finished works in the dark. Also, keeping works in a dry, cool place helps a great deal too. Proper atmospheric conditions go a long way to ensure the longevity of your papers. Be sure also to keep the area where your papers are stored free of any kind of insects or vermin such as mice or rats. Many artists have lost vast amounts of work from putting their art in deep storage only to return years later to find that mice decided to set up house in the flat files. Imagine the horror of finding your life's work in this condition. Even framed work can suffer from moisture, mildew and insects so if you keep works framed be sure to inspect them carefully at least every six months. Works hanging on walls should be taken down now and again for cleaning and to check the backs of frames for any of these problems.

Remember, paper has always been intended as an ephemeral product and for indoor use only. Paper by its very nature is not something designed last for eternity and indeed, that is one of the things we love about it. But still with proper care most papers will last indefinitely into the future.

And if we happen to get our works into well-funded art museum collections and the works go up and up in value, we'll have a whole staff of people looking after the work long after we are gone. On the other hand, if our work is not destined for this kind of glorification, no matter what you do, it will suffer the fate of negligence and probable destruction. Some experts say, 90% of all art created will be destroyed within a generation. Here, the artist needs to intercede.

Adhesives : A Sticky Issue

After all of this preservation the other possible problem is the adhesive used. I personally use acrylic gel medium but you can use wheat paste, rice paste, wallpaper paste, billboard paste, Elmer's Glue, etc. But what you have to avoid are glue sticks and spray adhesives and rubber cement. These things yellow badly or loose their adhesive quality. After a number of years, the papers will become unattached. However, they are good for creating temporary paste-ups which are collages that you make strictly for the purpose of creating reproductions from them either by photographing them or scanning them so that the final work is not the collage or photo montage paste-up but the photographic image of it. In which case you would destroy the paste-up when finished with it and you would not care if it falls apart or yellows over time.

Cecil Touchon is an artist living and working in Dallas, Texas. His most recent solo exhibition was at BSG Modern, in Atlanta, Georgia. Touchon exhibits widely in the US and his work is collected privately and publicly. Touchon also curates the Collage Museum, which he has also founded. [Images above: Fusion Series #2282 - 13 x 10 inches - collage on paper; Cecil Touchon in his studio, Dallas, Texas; Fusion Series #1872 Collage on Paper, 12 x 9 inches; Fusion Series #2389, 2008, Collage on Paper, 9 x 6 inches]. Contact him via his website: Cecil Touchon.

Photos de seins : un crime, en France ?

2008-10-02T20:33:00.005+02:00

Pour avoir osé envoyer quatre cartes postales représentant des seins nus, l'artiste de mail-art Philippe Pissier est aujourd'hui passible de trois ans d'emprisonnement. Il est accusé de trouble à l'ordre public.

Le mail-art est une forme d'art qui consiste à envoyer des oeuvres d'art par la Poste. En juin 2008, l'artiste Philippe Pissier est invité à participer à une exposition de mail-art érotique en Allemagne. Il envoie donc, dûment timbrées, quatre cartes postales représentant - attention, attention - le buste d'une jolie femme. Détail fatal : elle porte sur chaque sein non pas des piercings mais des pinces à linge... Saisi d'une vertueuse indignation, le centre de tri postal porte immédiatement plainte.

Estimant, sans doute elle aussi, que des images de poitrine féminine sont pornographiques, Isabelle Ardeef, substitut du procureur de la République de Cahors, ordonne une enquête préliminaire. Convoqué à la gendarmerie, Philippe Pissier apprend qu'il est passible de trois ans d'emprisonnement et de 175.000 euros d'amende, en vertu de l'article 227-24 du code pénal. Motif : trouble à l'ordre public et mise en danger du psychisme des enfants par une oeuvre pornographique.

Philippe Pissier proteste: "Je suis majeur, les employés du centre de tri postal sont majeurs, le facteur est majeur et le destinataire est majeur. Je ne vois pas où est le problème." Le voilà pourtant perquisitionné à son domicile. Le 3 juillet, la brigade de recherche de Cahors emporte son ordinateur et quelques dizaines de ses oeuvres. Depuis... rien. Philippe Pissier, privé de son outil de travail, attend de savoir ce que la justice française lui réserve.

Le 11 septembre, un journal local - L'Echo - titre ironiquement : "Un dangereux artiste démasqué dans le Lot": "Si une telle image mobilise à ce point les forces de l'ordre, à quoi doivent s'attendre les maisons de la presse, kiosques à journaux, galeries de peinture et musées, où la nudité dépasse souvent abondamment la mise en image d'une paire de seins, même ornée de pinces à linge." Le journaliste rappelle avec justesse qu'à une certaine époque les papes faisaient mettre des slips aux statues et aux anges des fresques.

Dans la Dépêche du Midi, un confrère, Florian Moutafian, s'interroge avec angoisse : "Va-t-on fermer les musées, les maisons de la presse et arrêter les pubs pour le gel douche (avec poitrines apparentes bien plus accessibles aux mineurs)?". Maître Baduel, l'avocat de Philippe Pissier, trouve la plaisanterie moins drôle : "Il faut se demander si la shariah est applicable à Cahors, dit-il. Je peux comprendre qu'à Dubai on conseille aux touristes d'éviter le monokini, mais en France? Sommes-nous donc maintenant en terre d'islam?"

Au tribunal de Cahors, ni le président ni le procureur de la République ne semblent au courant de l'affaire. Le substitut, Isabelle Ardeef, refuse de communiquer. Officiellement, "l'enquête suit son cours." Une enquête qui, probablement, amènera les autorités à interdire non seulement les cartes postales grivoises (en vente partout sur notre territoire) mais l'allaitement au sein (une forme sournoise et rampante de pédophilie, à coup sûr). Les mères ne sont-elles pas coupables de montrer leurs seins nus à de si jeunes âmes? Scandale épouvantable, elles se font même titiller les tétons par leur propre progéniture, dans le but - soyons-en certains - de se procurer d'inavouables sensations.

Si vous aussi vous voulez participer de cette grande oeuvre de restauration morale, je vous suggère d'encourager les autorités à combattre les seins nus. Envoyez vos encouragements au TGI de Cahors sous la forme d'une carte postale. Une suggestion au hasard : envoyez la reproduction de ce chef d'oeuvre de l'école de Fontainebleau - Gabrielle d'Estrées - montrant la belle Gaby se faire pincer un téton par sa soeur. Ce tableau est en libre accès au Louvre où tous les enfants peuvent le voir. La Poste portera-t-elle plainte contre vous? Les gendarmes viendront-ils perquisitionner à votre domicile? L'enquête prendra-t-elle un an? ou deux? Récupérerez-vous votre ordinateur en état de marche après avoir purgé votre peine? Cela peut sembler ahurissant - de la science fiction - et pourtant... Cela se passe en France en ce moment.

Voir: Philippe Pissier chez cARTed

Réagir: Vous pouvez réagir à l'article dans Liberation

The 7th Annual Dormouse Conference Paris!

2008-09-30T12:39:00.003+02:00

We wager you've never really considered where the Woodland Dormouse sleeps. Yes, the Graphiurus Murinus, does like his/her nestbox as illustrated here in this 100 x 70 cm poster we printed for Emmanuel Dolinhsan for the 7th Annual Conference on the... you guessed it, the incredibly adorable and extremely industrious Dormouse. The job, a rush rush production for a presentation at the Paris Conference was delivered at the client's hotel in Paris. How did Emmanuel find us? He Googled: English-language Printer in Paris.

A nice note from Emmanuel followed delivery: "Dear Robert and Matthew... Thanks a lot! We received the poster and are very satisfied. The service you provide is so convenient ! Keep up the good work. For once it feels good to be a client !

Kind regards, Emmanuel"

It is a pleasure to work with people who want to work with you. Giving a presentation in Paris this Fall? Get in touch!

THE END OF THE WORLD : Matthew Rose

2008-09-24T15:15:00.001+02:00

THE END OF THE WORLD, A3-plus sized poster, produced for Matthew Rose's exhibition at Wm Turner Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, is available for free, high resolution download (PDF). Lalande Digital Art Press Paris produced 100 posters that were offered signed and dated for the exhibition that opened on 18 September and runs through 15 October in David Turner's new museum-sized art space at The Stove Works in Atlanta.

Matthew Rose's THE END OF THE WORLD includes prints, drawings, collages on canvas and paper as well as terribly unusual objects, like the signed, dated and numbered edition of 39 "trap souris" in red, white and blue and a smaller edition in gold. Each is only $99 (US). Visit Wm Turner Gallery on the web.

If you'd like your own signed and dated poster, you can order one for only 15 euros, plus 3 euros postage (PayPal). E mail: MATTHEW.ROSE.PARIS at gmail dot com.

Fred Grirot: La Voix Vivace

2008-09-21T17:43:00.000+02:00

Fred Griot, projet nouveau, fabriqué par Lalande Digital Art Press: "En quelques mots...une recherche littéraire menée depuis long, peu à peu associée au web, au graphisme, et puis cette découverte explosive du corps sonore de la lang... Parl # : lecture-performance, concert de text... associe l’écriture de Fred Griot à la musique de Yann Féry... où l’énergie et l’intensité rock croisent en complicité, en écoute, le travail de bouche...résonne alors l’organicité, la matière, la mandication, l’énergie primaire de la parole...la voix vivace résonne dans le « tâté pâte lang »... ça vibre, râcle, enfle, creuse... la parole émerge. Appuie. La parole sonne."

Sparkasse : New Print For Keep Calm Gallery

2008-09-14T00:24:00.000+02:00

Sparkasse, a new print by Matthew Rose from LALANDE DIGITAL ART PRESS PARIS for Keep Calm Gallery, (UK), is now available. The print, in an edition of 50, signed and numbered by the artist, measures 38 x 27 cm, with a border of 4 cm on 300 gram acid-free archival paper. Printed on the Epson 9600 by master printer Robert Ruscoe, Sparkasse is the seventh print the artist has produced for Keep Calm, three of which have sold out.

Sparkasse, "savings bank" in German, was originally exhibited at Galerie Rossella Junck in Berlin. The piece is part of the suite from the exhibition entitled A KICK IN THE KUNST. The artist's next exhibition is THE END OF THE WORLD, the inaugural exhibition at Wm Turner Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia, opening 18 September.

Ricardo Bloch: Huckleberry Dick

2008-09-11T13:34:00.005+02:00

Huckleberry Dick began as a collage work by Ricardo Bloch in 1995, and has now been published as a facsimile of the original, in a limited-edition of 250 copies, printed by Lalande Digital Art Press.

Copies are available directly from the author for only 15€ plus shipping.

Using the classic glue and scissors technique, during an obsessive spell in a cabin by Lake Superior in the summer of 1995, Ricardo blended Classics Illustrated adaptations of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Moby Dick. Starting with page one, and using two copies of each comic book, Ricardo advanced page by page until the climactic page 48. Images and/or fragments of text were cut and pasted to create a seemingly seamless hybrid story. The task was facilitated, or in fact made possible, because both Huckleberry Finn and Moby Dick are first person narratives that recount tales of personal discovery, of boats and water, and of a friendship with a man of color.

It may not completely surprise those that have read the books, that the coupling of the two stories has brought to light the subliminal homoerotic themes underlying their narratives.

Click here now to purchase your copy of the very collectible Huckleberry Dick.

Zasha : Romanian Fashion Design

2008-09-09T12:11:00.008+02:00

New client Zasha, in for the Pret-à-Porter salon in Paris, hails from Romania. Lalande produced a large print for the Romanian design pair Adelina Ivan and Antonela Badita, below, right., While the fashion fair at the Porte de Versailles is now over, another is heading to Paris in February. Are you attending? Why not send us your documents in PDF format to print here. Books, catalogs, cards, flyers, large format posters and high quality prints can be produced easily and quickly and delivered right to your stand or hotel. Let us know what you're planning. Free estimates and expert assistance. Call us or e mail. We speak English, French and now, Chinese!

PRET A PORTER PARIS : PRETTY BOX

2008-09-03T20:05:00.010+02:00

It happens every autumn in Paris. And it's truly astonishing, if not for the clothes, than the incredibly beautiful women prowling about: Pret-à-Porter Paris opened Friday 5 September and runs through 8 September. This year, it's called SALON THE BOX. Lalande Digital Paris Paris produced a 1 meter by 2 meter print on durable tyvek for PRETTY BOX in Paris, a boutique at 46, rue de Saintonge 75003 Paris, specializing in high-end vintage clothes and accessories. This year, Pretty Box will be showing gorgeous vintage women's bags in ostrich, lizard and crocodile from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. In addition, rare finds in belts, shoes and knock out années folles dresses will also be presented for what will likely be rivers of fashionistas now winging their way to Paris from New York, LA, London, Moscow, Tokyo and Beijing. It's a great salon and Lalande is happy to be working with PRETTY BOX. We designed a 53-page A3 catalog for the boutique – sexy product photos shot by Paris-based photographer Steve Wells. Look for our very cool cards (above) on their stand. And click on the giant poster above for a closer look. Need one? Click here to get in contact!

Details: Salon The Box Paris Expo - Porte de Versailles - 75015 Paris
PRÊT À PORTER PARIS® - Pavillon 7 Niveau 1 L'accès se ferra par la porte D - Porte de la Plaine.

IMAGE (FROM A PERFECT FRIEND): MATTHEW ROSE

NEW BOOKS FROM LALANDE DIGITAL ART PRESS

2008-08-30T13:42:00.009+02:00

Some new books recently published by LALANDE DIGITAL ART PRESS PARIS. Interested in producing a book of your own? 10 copies? 500 copies? Need a book for your upcoming tech conference in Paris? Perhaps you are a fashion designer winging into Paris from LA. Why carry 50 kilos of look-books? Send us a PDF and we'll print your books here, deliver them right to your hotel or conference center. The money you save in transport – and the hassle of dragging your printed materials through airports and train stations will be well worth it. Possibly the cost of printing itself. Contact us about your project. We're happy to give you advice, prices, technical specs – Free. CONTACT : LALANDE FOR A FREE ESTIMATE/DEVIS.

COLLAGE BY BLACK DOG PUBLISHING

2008-08-29T16:03:00.009+02:00

Collage has been at the forefront of the digital revolution, if not for the final results, then for the method, a way of mixing images and texts via computer manipulation. Like music sampling (hip hop and rap), multiple sources can be "glued" together to create something extremely new and strange. The dadaists seized on the methods employed by Picasso and Braque, and the surrealists made a living out of collage to great and what appears to be everlasting effect. It can be argued that collage is perhaps the preeminent art method of the 20th and 21st centuries. Modern masters like Joseph Cornell and Ray Johnson created some of the most memorable collages, with the later extending his signature methods into pretty much all aspects of his life and art.

Just out is the new fat volume on the subject by Black Dog Publishing / UK : Collage Assembling Contemporary Art. With known experts Sally O’Reilly, Ian Monroe, David Lillington and John Stezaker among the contributors, the hardcover 240 page color book retails for £35.00.

According to Black Dog Publishing: "Collage: Assembling Contemporary Art is a striking and authoritative survey of the history of collage, from its origins through to the work being produced by artists today. (Image, THE PEOPLE, Matthew Rose, right).

With contemporary artists reclaiming the form, collage is flourishing. From the traditional ‘cut and paste’ method through to digital, three dimensional and installation work, and in the incorporation of contemporary concerns such as environment and commercialism, collage is experiencing an exciting renaissance.

First gaining popularity in the early 1900s, with such pieces as Picasso’s The Dream in 1908 and Still Life with Chair Caning in 1912, collage has proliferated though the ages. From figures such as Kurt Schwitters, to works by the Constructivists, Dadaists, and Surrealists, to 1960s and 70s Pop Art, the form has branched out into a myriad of fine art practice that encompasses assemblage, montage, and décolage. Collage draws together the work of influential artists to contextualize the art being produced today.

Collage features the art of such internationally acclaimed artists as Picasso, Schwitters and Ernst, Hannah Hoch, Marta Rosler, John Stezaker, Richard Hamilton, Layla Curtis, David Salle, Eduardo Poalozzi, Javier Rodriguez, Robert Rauschenberg, David Thorpe, Fred Tomaselli, Matthew Rose and many more.

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2008-08-27T18:34:00.004+02:00

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On Appropriation

2008-08-26T02:50:00.006+02:00

Peter Friedman, a law professor at Case Western, in Ohio, writes a fascinating piece about appropriation, a subject digital artists, collage artists, film makers, musicians and most creatives are involved with. His piece on his legal blog, What Is Fair Use, touches on, among other issues, an "appropriation" of John Cage's 4:33, silent concert as well as the law suit that came from it.

Friedman writes: This attitude [about Fair Use] has led to some remarkable lawsuits. Mike Batt is a British classical composer who put together a group called "The Planets" in 2001. Their first album was called Classical Graffiti. In it Batt included a track with one full minute of silence. He said it was a tongue-in-cheek dig at a John Cage piece called 4 minutes 33 seconds which was similarly a track of total silence, albeit somewhat longer. Batt, credited himself as well as Cage with writing the piece. There would be precious few other ways to identify who the dig was directed at. Unfortunately, Batt soon found himself on the receiving end of a lawsuit from the estate of John Cage, who had died several years previous. In the trustees' view "We do feel that the concept of a silent piece - particularly as it was credited by Mr Batt as being co-written by 'Cage' - is a valuable artistic concept in which there is a copyright."

What Is Fair Use is "an ongoing exploration of issues related to copyright and fair use in our contemporary digital culture." Read Peter's piece on Appropriation. Comments here or there are welcome.

Chinois? Print in Paris! Impression à Paris!

2008-08-20T19:27:00.009+02:00

Vous parlez chinois? Do you speak Chinese? Maintenant Lalande & Polyflash parlent aussi! Now Lalande & Polyflash also speak Chinese! Contactez-nous! Contact us! Demandez Jacky! Ask for Jacky. CLICK FOR CHINESE WEB SITE.

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James Startt : Guilty Pleasures

2008-08-16T13:10:00.021+02:00

"Je parle donc je suis," exposition de photographe James Startt, et livre publié par l'artiste et notre affilié, Polyflash/Paris, fait connaissance de la puissance de message et mode. Le livre, une edition limitée est offert for 20 euros. Contactez Startt direct pour une copie signée. [English readers, click here for a review in The Paris Voice.]

Le photographe, connu pour ses livres sur Le Tour de France et son dernier "Uniforms," explique sa demarche et l'historique de l'expo chez Agathe Gaillard:

Après plus de huit ans et demi, je me suis trouvé dans une impasse (comme le film d’un certain réalisateur italien). Après être resté tout ce temps focalisé sur un premier travail documentaire «Uniforme(s)» (les Editions du Seuil 2002 et l’expo photo de même année pendant le mois de la photo chez Agathe Gaillard) sans penser au lendemain, je me suis trouvé au bord d'un vide créatif effrayant, mais à la juste mesure, après tout, des efforts laissés derrière moi.

Que faire? Je n'en savais absolument rien, il ne me restait qu'un mot en perspective: recommencer. Regarder, viser (ou pas), déclencher, libre et sans but, en quelque sorte. Sans planning et sans cahier des charges. Plus encore: sans thème directeur.

Je photographiais alors tout ce que j'aimais de façon pulsionnelle et sans discrimination d'aucune sorte. Le matériel lui-même était, sinon indifférent, du moins improvisé - je prenais ce qui me tombait alors sous la main au gré des circonstances. Je dois dire que j'ai longtemps poursuivi la pureté des grands formats (spécialement du 6x6): j'ai donc mis un certain temps à accepter que ces formats n'était pas conciliables avec ma façon impromptue et flashée d’attaquer la photographie.

Pendant des mois j'ai expérimenté le montage d'un flash sur mon vieux Mamiya, avant de voir pousser les fruits de ce travail. C'était au soir d'un week-end londonien, où j'avais vu une fille "néo-gothique" superbement affublée d'un tee-shirt "Save the planet, Kill Yourself", que le déclic m'est venu. Visionnant le résultat de mes planches, j'était sur que j'avais trouvé mon prochain sujet.

J'avais beaucoup usé du format rectangulaire, en cherchant toujours à remplir le cadre, quitte à incliner le boîtier. Le format carré me semblait alors restrictif.

Ce projet m'a réconcilié avec le déconcertant équilibre du format carré, le plus apte à centrer l'attention sur les messages arborés par les porteurs de tee-shirts, à concentrer mon regard sur les leurs, sur leur messages ironiques, tour à tour hédoniste ou absent, mais toujours plein de sens, d'humeur au sens le plus physique et donc le plus littéral du terme.

Sur l'exposition, critique d'art, Christophe Donner, a écrit:

Lorsque James Startt le rencontre, son sujet a fait la moitié du chemin qui mène à la photo. Il a jailli de la masse, il s’en est détaché pour se présenter à celui qui le guettait, mais avant ça, depuis ce matin il est là dans sa tête à se demander ce qu’il va mettre, ce qu’il va dire. La journée du manifestant sera perdue s’il ne rencontre pas le regard de l’autorité, celle qui a fait l’autre moitié du chemin vers l’instant photographique. Ce désir d’être pris, de s’offrir, là, dans la rue, il est cousin de l’excitation de dire, plus que de la nécessité. Dire est une affaire sensuelle, tactile, la parole n’est plus rien sans le support, le tissu a influencé la revendication qui ne tiendrait pas sur une pancarte et qui ne sera jamais crié, et surtout : jamais reprise par quelqu’un d’autre. En donnant à la phrase la possibilité de mouler d’énormes nichons, de dévoiler grossesses et grosseurs, le coton s’impose comme une stèle littéraire d’un genre nouveau.
Fashion writing, mais pas que ça. Body art, mais au soleil, car James Startt en appelle toujours à cette forme particulière de lumière qui vient frapper le sujet et l’objectif, un peu, plus ou moins selon la violence qu’il retient de l’instant. C’est toujours le reflet du soleil qui unit le photographe à ses modèles, il joue de son inopportunité comme avec un feu qui pourrait tout brûler. Il prend le risque et donne à voir ce risque comme l’essence du mouvement. Chez les cyclistes, ce qu’il attrape, c’est l’éclat solaire de la souffrance, et là, dans ce débraillé social, le long de la paresse urbaine des marcheurs endimanchés, c’est aussi l’éclat d’intelligence au milieu du désastre en liesse. Quand on pense aux modèles de William Klein, en voyant ceux de Startt, on est frappé par l’inconscience des premiers, et la sapience des autres : l’écriture a tout changé. Les premiers criaient, ceux-ci sont muets, comme si, entre temps, on avait abandonné au tissu, à la matière, à la manufacture et à l’actualité, abandonné l’oralité de nos plaintes. Reste cependant, chez nos anciens comme chez nous, le même bonheur d’être reconnu dans la foule.

Le livre, 80+ pages, en couleur, est disponible direct du photographe (et signé): Contactez Startt direct pour votre copie.

Mittwoch, Haushalten & Whirlaway - 3 New Prints By Matthew Rose For Keep Calm Gallery

2008-07-27T23:52:00.014+02:00

Lalande Digital Press is happy to be working with Keep Calm Gallery, the hip-online gallery for fine art prints in the UK. The newest works from Matthew Rose are from his A KICK IN THE KUNST series, exhibited at Galerie Rossella Junck Berlin.

Mittwoch, 2007, is German for "Wednesday," (literally middle of the week) and artist Matthew Rose's puppet-master/puppet collage. First exhibited in Berlin at Galerie Rossella Junck, Mittwoch (Limited signed and numbered edition of 21) plays with both silhouette and shadow, each exhibiting a presence but Mittwoch is oddly absent an actual protagonist. The artist says this is something of a self-portrait, and he is somewhere in the gap of here and there.

Haushalten is German for "keeping house," and in this piece, the house is not what it seems to be: constructed of 1950s advertising, the woman of the house shows off her newest gadget, a giant thingamajig, or if you like, a...dohickey, gizmo, gismo, or a thingamabob – on an ancient Roman pedestal. The surreal qualities of this good housekeeping moment – the blue sky blows through the gadget – points to terribly sunny days ahead from America's recent past. Haushalten, was produced in an edition of 19, is signed and number; it is also part of the A Kick in the Kunst series exhibited in Berlin at Galerie Rossella Junck.

Whirlaway, 2007, is one of the more complex of Matthew Rose's collage works from the A Kick in the Kunst series. The name, a feature from a mid-century Oldsmobile, purports a strange and perhaps violent future as a man hacks away at a tree. In the panel opposite, a girl and her shadow climb in a nether-space, a plate of prunes and cereal functioning as her head. The artist, who grew up in the American suburbs, reiterates the hidden and bizarre drama of the American middle-class dream. Whirlaway is produced in a limited edition of 12, each signed and numbered on high quality cotton paper.

Interested in these prints? Get in contact with Haley and Lucas at Keep Calm Gallery. Interested in making your own prints? Get in touch with Lalande Digital Art Press Paris. CLICK HERE : to discover our prices and how we can help you with your own print series. We're happy to work with you.

Carole: By Danielle Voirin

2008-07-07T17:48:00.014+02:00

In October a calf was born on a farm in Normandy. The French family named her Carole. Danielle Voirin, the ex-pat Paris-based photographer was visiting her friends on the farm and she began photographing Carole. She learned the calf was specially bred for veal. "I met her on day two of her life, knowing she was destined to be meat," says Danielle. Carole was tethered to a rope in a small room her entire life. She drank only milk. And from her place in the small barn she could only see one view – another little barn, some bales of hay, the sliver of sky, a tree. She would be slaughtered in the spring for meat for the family.

Danielle returned many times to the farm to see her friends and to photograph Carole. "My intention was to be her witness, follow the transformation, link a life and a face to what I see on a plate, and eliminate the disconnect," she says. Then, this past March, Carole, having reached the optimum size, she was scheduled to be killed. Danielle, who had since bonded with the calf through half a dozen photo sessions, asked the abattoir if she could be there to document Carole's death. "At first they said yes, but the morning I showed up – at 5:30 am – they turned me away, telling me it was impossible." Danielle stood her ground but the bouchers closed the door and only allowed her in once Carole had been butchered and placed in boxes.

"Carole" is Danielle's one-page-book homage to the calf. Designed in an A3-format for Danielle as she makes her way to Rencontres Arles Photographie, in Arles, France (8 juillet - 14 septembre). Lalande Digital Press's unique one-page-book format provided an excellent way to tell Carole's story in a mini-catalog. Carole is also available here for free download in A4: DOWNLOAD "CAROLE" BY DANIELLE VOIRIN.

Do you want your own one-page-book? CLICK ICI : for a free estimate/devis et on peut commencer toute de suite! [e-mail: MATTHEW.ROSE.PARIS AT GMAIL.COM]

CAROLINE SECQ : ASSEMBLAGE SUR LA PLAGE

2008-07-06T16:43:00.010+02:00

CAROLINE SECQ passe beaucoup de temps sur le bord de la mer, pour voir très loin à l’horizon et, evidement très près, à ses pieds ! C'est là où elle cultive son art, un art de l’assemblage et de l’art-cumulation, comme la petite sculpture à gauche, "Kucina.”

"Je joue de toutes les matières, mais uniquement celles que me fournit l’océan," explique-t-elle. "Bouts de bois, plastique, ficelle, choses, rêve, trucs bidules et machins… machouillés, triturés, déglutis par les flôts. J’amasse et ramasse des bouts, débris, brisures, fracas et carcasses, et j’utilise tout tel que." Mais dans l'atelier Caroline Secq transforme tout: "L’œil et la main butinent et voltigent sans préméditation. J’emboite, construis, superpose, juxtapose, compose…."

Ses constructions sont d’un autre monde, bien sûr, mais nous rappelent celui où l’on vit. Lalande Digital Art Press Paris avait le grand plaisir de travailler avec Caroline Secq pour son exposition à Saint Cado (12 juillet - 28 juillet). Nous avons eu la chance d'imprimer ses cartes d'exposition pour Saint Cado. Voir son site pour encore des bijoux d'assemblage et aussi toutes les informations sur l'artiste, son atelier et ses expositions à l'avenir.

Anonymous Drawings

2008-07-02T14:25:00.009+02:00

Blütenweiss is an association headed by the wonderful Berlin artist, Anke Becker. Several times a year, Anke puts on one of the most popular and interesting exhibitions to be held anywhere in Europe, Anonyme Zeichner, or Anonymous Drawings. The concept is simple: Artists send in drawings that are roughly A3-sized, unsigned (except on the back) and then offered for sale for 150 euros. The Anonymous Drawings exhibitions have been wildly successful with nearly 1000 entries and thousands of visitors and sales.

The next Anonyme Zeichner exhibition takes place this weekend, 4 July - 6 July at Galerie in der Stadtscheune, Sackstrasse 4, 21762 Otterndorf in Germany. Opening: July 4th, 2008 / 7pm. Hours: Saturday & Sunday, 11am - 8pm. The works are from the archive and selected by Anke.

Further information about the show and previous exhibitions click here.

See the Otterndorf site, here.

Lalande Digital Press Paris loves art...of all flavors, and we're happy to have Anke Becker and Blütenweiss as friends. Interested in hosting an Anonymous Drawing exhibition in your city? Paris? London? Barcelona? Get in touch.

Summer in Paris

2008-06-29T21:07:00.008+02:00

Paris by night? Paris by day? You are taking a thousand pictures of your vacation in Paris with your digital camera. Maybe you e-mail them back to your friends and family across the globe, or perhaps you review them every night in your hotel room. Why not print up a few and turn these vacation photos into postcards? Your own travel postcards from the top of the Eiffel Tower, looking out across Paris from Sacre Coeur, atop the Arc de Triomphe, or goofing around at a Parisian café. Instead of spending oodles on staid postcards, send your own!

It's simple: Send us your high-resolution image in .jpg format, or better, design it in a 10 x 15 cm Photoshop document, produce a PDF, add text (return address, cool graphic, your web site or e mail) and send it to LALANDE DIGITAL ART PRESS here in Paris. We will make as many cards as you like, in full-color and deliver them directly to your hotel room, or you can pick them up.

Send 50 cards to your business contacts, or organization. Make a project of it. You can even create a series of cards (we can produce 4 cards for the price of one – minimum order 500 cards). CLICK HERE: to print your Postcards from Paris and we can start right away!

Conference in Paris: English Language Printer

2008-06-24T12:50:00.004+02:00

Chris Campbell, Channel Sales Manager – North America for dotMobi (mTLD Top Level Domain Ltd.) had a conference in Paris at the Le Méridien Montparnasse and wrote Lalande Digital Press Paris in a bit of a panic: "I'm in need of additional business cards... can you help me out?" Within an hour, around midnight, a PDF was produced and was printed. By the time Chris, who works out of Oregon, arrived at his hotel he was ready to network, his cards in hand. "It was outstanding! Thanks so much for the fast reply and quick, expert service. Fantastic to find an English language printer in Paris," he wrote.

Then, Kelly Hardy, a journalist who works with Marksmen, Inc. in Glendale, California, wrote us at 1 am on Saturday night. She, too, needed cards. We e mailed back and forth (she was staying at the Le Concorde Montparnasse, next to the conference center at the Meridien), and assembled the graphic elements, produced a PDF for her approval and by 2:30 am Saturday night she knew she'd be ready to roll by Monday morning. "You saved my life," she said. Not really, but unlike many service businesses in Paris, we really do not close. We're always open.

Heading to Paris for a conference? Why bother lugging 50 kilos of books, catalogs, banners and flyers? Send us your PDFs, we'll print your material here in Paris, and deliver it all to your hotel or conference center. All you have to do is open the boxes. The savings in air transport are considerable. Plus, we speak your language: Business.

One Page Book Diagram & Collection

2008-06-24T11:39:00.004+02:00

Vous rêvez de publier un livre? Même un petit bouquin? Un catalog pour votre enterprise? C'est tout à fait simple. Le One Page Book. Regardez notre One Page Book. The full collection of one page books. En haut, la maquette pour designer votre livre. Vous avez des questions? Signalez-nous.

On a découvert que le One-Page-Book a beaucoup de fans, surtout en France. Voici un livre à imprime à une page de Fred Griot, écrivain, poète, artiste. Faites le téléchargement pour VIA. Jetez un coup d'oeil sur les autres livres de Griot, et regardez son mode d'emploi de pliage. Le poète a crée VIA avec la collaboration de petit papiers et Schmul, editeurs français avec une gammes de livres à télécharger en PDF. C'est l'avenir...on est là!

Matussière : Fleurs et Nus

2008-06-22T11:41:00.008+02:00

Bernard Matussière, photographe français, a crée une atmosphère smoky, sexy et inattendue avec une série, prise en 2000, dans laquelle Elodie, Rue Froidevaux (gauche), figure de manière dramatique. Bien sûr, en noir et blanc, spécialité de ce photographe qui a lancé 1000 accidents d'auto à Paris avec ses photos pour Aubade (lingerie) il y a quelques années.

Matussière fait partie de la 1ère Nuit de la Photographie Contemporaine, Place St Sulpice de 14h à Minuit, lundi le 23 juin. Son exposition, "Fleurs Et Nus, Une Exposition Epanouisante" a le soutien de Lalande Digital Art Press Paris. On a déjà travaillé avec Matussière auparavant(voir son profile sur nos pages) et pour l'évènement de la Nuit de la Photo, Lalande a crée une édition spéciale de cartes postales pour cet artiste qui regarde les fleurs et les femmes avec un œil atypique et étonnant.

Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare

2008-06-13T14:18:00.006+02:00

Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare
Originally uploaded by Balakov

Sometimes Lego outdigs Digital, as in this recreation of Henri Cartier-Bresson's classic "Behind the Gare Saint Lazare." Well, some Photoshop work was performed to remove the cotton suspending the figure and convert the image to black and white. The photographer is Mike Stimpson (Balakov). He's produced an entire set of classic photos using Legos that are worth seeing. (Click on the image, right, to see the flickr page with the full set, along with others).

Le Carnet de Zinc

2008-05-25T14:19:00.010+02:00

Lalande Digital Art Press big brother, Polyflash, hit the zinc this week, producing a deluxe volume of ink drawings of restaurants and bistros in the 14th arrondisement, the excellent work of France Dumas.

"We printed up a book for her in record time," says Robert Ruscoe. "One hundred examples, in color, perforated and then bound with, yes zinc screws. It looks the business." The book was launched at the cool Librarie Tropiques, 63, Rue Raymond Losserand, 75014 PARIS.

LES ZINZINS DU ZINC : Guide des meilleurs bars à vins de France

Bistrots de quartier, bars urbains un brin branchés, ambiances feutrées ou portes ouvertes sur les pavés où se prolongent la dégustation, adresses d’initiés découvertes au détour d’une ruelle, d’une nationale – établissements hissant les couleurs bio, internationales ou régionales.

Parmi tous les coups de cœur d’Egmont Labadie, mis en images par Pierrick Bourgault, vous dénicherez vos bars, ces lieux en accord avec vos affinités gastronomiques ou votre humeur du jour, ces endroits où vous vous sentirez bien, où vous trouverez tout simplement votre plaisir. Les auteurs signalent également leurs moins bonnes surprises, ces lieux autoproclamés « bar à vins » et qui n’en possèdent pas les qualités. « La dynamique autour des bars à vins cristallise toutes les tendances positives aujourd’hui à l’œuvre dans le monde du vin: présence massive des jeunes, des femmes, caractère incontournable du vin au verre, absence d’œillères, découverte du bon rapport qualité-prix et de l’incroyable richesse des vins français.»

L'Oeil de la Brousse!

2008-05-24T02:14:00.007+02:00

Raphaël Dormoy, poét et écrivain et un ami de Lalande Digital Art Press, vient de sortir "L'Oeil de la Brousse!" – une revue agronomique et bien sûr, poétrique. Vous pouvez télécharger la revue gratuitement en CLIQUANT ICI.

"L'Oeil de la Brousse! est résolument tournée vers la modernité rurale des pays du sud, du monde rural en général, et fait la part belle aux initiatives rafraîchissantes," explique Raphaêl. "Elle existe en version papier. Vous pouvez la télécharger gratuitement sur le site et plus encore la commander. Si vous aimez son esprit, alors diffusez L'Oeil de la Brousse!, la revue d'avant-garde rurale."

Elle est par ailleurs en vente à la Librairie Apsara.

A KICK IN THE KUNST: 6 JUNE BERLIN

2008-05-18T19:59:00.005+02:00

A KICK IN THE KUNST, exhibition by Matthew Rose. Opening: Friday, 6 June 2008, Galerie Rossella Junck, Augustraße 28 Berlin. Catalog produced by Lalande Digital Art Press Paris. Download A KICK IN THE KUNST Catalog. Drop into Berlin if you've finished with Art Basel.

Ricardo Bloch: "HAPPY DAYS" School Gallery

2008-05-17T16:24:00.007+02:00

Ricardo Bloch takes the world back to Denver, Colorado 1978. Another time, another world. School Gallery Paris. Exhibition opening on 22 May, from 18h to 22h. 81 rue du Temple 75003 Paris. Tél: 01 42 71 78 20. Lalande Digital Art Press Paris has long worked with Bloch to produce not only his Lifescape Books and artist books, but also the first Happy Days book.

Give Cameras To Kids, Change Their World

2008-05-13T18:54:00.020+02:00

GIVE A KID A CAMERA

Dix ans après les premières photographies prises par les enfants du tristement célèbre bidonville Mathare à Nairobi, agnès b. accueille l’exposition Shootback, présentée pour la première fois en France.

La photographe américaine Lana Wong a débuté le projet Shootback en août 1997 avec Francis Kimanzi, figure clef de l’association MYSA et footballeur reconnu. Equipés de simples appareils photo en plastique, une trentaine de filles et garçons âgés de 12 à 17 ans ont photographié leur vie quotidienne, chaque semaine, durant presque deux ans. Les enfants de Mathare ont ainsi pu raconter leur histoire en s’exprimant librement à travers la photographie.

Les images et les mots des enfants de Mathare constituent un témoignage bouleversant du pouvoir qu’a la photographie de transformer le quotidien. Grâce à ce projet initié il y a plus de 10 ans, des enfants de Nairobi continuent d’être formés à la photo, et leurs travaux sont exposés aussi bien dans les bidonvilles que dans le cadre d’expositions internationales. Issu d’un des quartiers les plus pauvres d’Afrique, Shootback permet de découvrir des histoires intimes, chargées d’espoir, ainsi que des travaux récents effectués par les participants au projet, devenus pour certains photographes professionnels. L’aventure Shootback regroupe des individus exceptionnels aux histoires atypiques, l’exposition chez agnès b. activités veut rendre hommage à ces photojournalistes hors du commun.

Le projet Shootback fait écho à l’engagement d’agnès b. dans la promotion de la culture au sens large et à la mise en avant d’artistes indépendants de toutes disciplines et horizons, que ce soit via ses boutiques, la galerie du jour, Love Streams agnès b. Productions, le Point d’Ironie…

Infos: agnès b. SHOOTBACK

Ten years after the Shootback kids took their first groundbreaking pictures in Nairobi’s notorious Mathare slum, agnès b. is proud to present the original Shootback exhibition with recent work from these inspiring young photographers.

Shown for the first time in France, Shootback’s unique perspective of daily life in a country better known for its wildlife safaris takes the viewer on an unexpected journey to places where tourists rarely go. In this new show, a selection of hard-hitting images from the recent unrest in Kenya adds fresh insight into what it’s like to live in one of Africa’s toughest urban environments.

American photographer Lana Wong started the Shootback Project in August 1997 with MYSA youth leader and renown footballer Francis Kimanzi to help give young people in Nairobi’s Mathare slum a voice to tell their own stories. Equipped with 20€ plastic cameras, a group of 31 boys and girls, aged 12 to 17, photographed their lives and wrote about them every week for almost two years.

The results, from kids who had never held cameras before, were honest, raw, amusing and beautiful- these visceral images became the basis of a book called Shootback : Photos by Kids from the Nairobi Slums (Booth-Clibborn Editions, London 1999). The book was launched at the Barbican Centre, London with an exhibition that traveled to the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC ; Staff USA Gallery, New York ; Festival Mundial, Tilburg, the Netherlands Bildungszentrum der Handwerkskammer, Berlin; and Rencontres de la Photographie Africaine de Bamako, Mali.

MORE INFORMATION: agnès b. SHOOTBACK

Ricardo Bloch Chosen By Vis à Vis, "HAPPY DAYS" Exhibition At School Gallery Paris

2008-04-28T23:09:00.011+02:00

Photographer and Lalande Digital Art Press client Ricardo Bloch has been chosen to be a part of Vis A Vis’ “Online Selection” this past month. Six of Ricardo’s portraits of children, made in Denver in 1978, were selected. Ricardo will open a show of these images, entitled "Happy Days" on 20 May at School Gallery, 81, rue du Temple, 75003 Paris.

In the meantime, visit Ricardo's blog, an image and sound journal, AMPHIBIOUS ANDROMEDA.

From School Gallery: 22 mai / 30 juin Ricardo Bloch "Happy Days"

Datant de la fin des années 70, la galerie de portraits noir et blanc "Happy days" du photographe mexicain Ricardo Bloch, surprend par son côté surannée. Emprunte à la fois de nostalgie et d’une certaine modernité de la fin des 30 glorieuses, cette série montre l’avènement de la société de consommation et du confort domestique.

Au gré de ses rencontres de voisinage, le photographe a su saisir la beauté et la fraîcheur ingénue de l’enfance, le temps des jeux guerriers, des cow-boys et des indiens, des promenades en landaus, des premiers gadins à bicyclettes, des images qui rappelle l’univers de la mythique série TV « Happy days », un feed back des « jours heureux » qui a valeur de témoignage sociologique sur l’Amérique de la fin des années 70 et de l’avènement du tout pavillonnaire, symbole de réussite sociale de la middle class.

Amy Ross : Bird Heart at Keep Calm

2008-04-25T09:41:00.005+02:00

Amy Ross has birds in her heart, and her newest print, ‘Bird Heart’ a signed and numbered limited edition of 80, 10 by 10 inches, proves it. Printed by Lalande Digital Art Press Paris for Keep Calm this print is taken from an original collage of bird heads cut out of the pages of an old field guide. "

All of the material that goes into Amy’s collages is found on the shelves of used bookstores, from field guides to auction catalogues and art history books to illustrated encyclopedias. "The idea for this particular collage came to Amy while baking Valentine’s Day cookies with her daughter, when she used a cookie cutter as a guide for the heart shape," writes Lucas Lepola, director Keep Calm.

The print is available directly from Keep Calm, they ship anywhere! Prints are wrapped in acid-free tissue paper and sent in extremely durable mailing tubes.For UK orders prints are sent via next-day Special Delivery. For international orders prints are sent via International Signed-For Air Mail. PRICE FOR BIRD HEART: £25 plus postage. Contact Keep Calm.

Elam : Livres d'Amour

2008-04-25T08:48:00.013+02:00

"Les feuilles de papier intérieures sont coupées, puis cousues une à une pour former des liasses. Passées au massicot, leur dos est encollé et l'arrondi est façonné par légers coups de marteau," raconte notre ami, Nicholas, createur d'une boîte specialisée en carnets de voyages, fabriqués à la main en Egypt. Beaux papiers, couvertures en cuir, fidèle compagnon de route – Les pages sont cousues une à une à la main pour garantir longévité à ces albums de papier vergé Fabriano. (Papier garanti neutre.)

"Au Caire, j´ai redécouvert le travail ancestral de la reliure, tradition remontant à l’époque de l’expédition de Bonaparte. J’ai observé des artisans mettre l´amour dans le geste et donner une âme aux livres qu’ils reliaient. Ils offraient de leur temps pour que le fruit de leur travail y résiste."

Sketchbooks, travel and photo albums, guest books, notebooks, Elam Books are so gorgeous, you might not even want to mark them up. Nicholas, a long-time friend of Lalande Digital Press, believes in old fashioned quality. His books are a treasure. Follow the link below to see his site (in French and English).

Visitez notre ami, Nicholas et regardez ses livres, carnets du luxe. Or go directly to his online store: ELAM.

Nu

2008-04-19T18:25:00.005+02:00

Paris-based, Dutch photographer Jeremy Stigter exhibits his black and white nude portraits at 45 rue Babylone, 75007. Vernissage vendredi 25 avril à paritir de 17h.

Lalande Digital Art Press Paris has produced this announcement card for the exhibition. Need annoucement cards for your next exhibition? Get in touch.

"45" is owned and operated by Gérard Katz, who also runs our favorite cave à vin, La Cave des Papilles, 35 Rue Daguerre, 75014 Paris. Natural, vins-bios.

Wahsoh: New Print For Keep Calm UK

2008-04-13T01:27:00.023+02:00

Keep Calm and Carry On: A new print, Wahsoh (2008) by Matthew Rose for KEEP CALM GALLERY is now available exclusively through the web site.

The edition is signed, dated and numbered, edition of 50, A2-sized (18" x 25") full-color print on fine acid-free paper, printed by Lalande Digital Art Press Paris. Price: 55 UK Pounds. This print is typical of Matthew Rose's increasingly mad world. Originally a 50 x 50 cm collage exhibited in "Herzschmerz" in 2006 Berlin at Gallery Tristesse Deluxe, the piece was destroyed (and has subsequently been remade). Here, obsessive worlds of sex and language collide in a miasma of metaphor and mistaken identity. The artist takes his collage technique to not only reading and spelling, but seeing and hearing, with this unique "all-over" piece.

Click on the image above to enlarge Wahsoh.

Two exhibitions by Matthew Rose are planned for May and June. In May, The David Turner Gallery, in Atlanta, Georgia will present more than 30 large-format prints from the A Perfect Friend series as well as a series of drawings and collages for the gallery's inaugural exhibition. In June, Galerie Rosella Junck, Augustrasse 28, Berlin will feature new collage works, drawings and objects in a show entitled "A KICK IN THE KUNST."

E-mail Keep Calm's Lucas or Hayley to purchase by clicking here : KEEP CALM.