Type for you. » Sculpture http://www.typeforyou.org A blog on typography. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:29:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Blackpool Comedy Carpet http://www.typeforyou.org/2012/01/29/blackpool-comedy-carpet/ http://www.typeforyou.org/2012/01/29/blackpool-comedy-carpet/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:45:02 +0000 Tiago Campea making comedy carpet blackpool entertainment 200m2 work granite making comedy carpet blackpool entertainment 200m2 work granite http://www.typeforyou.org/?p=912 Created by artist Gordon Young, and designed in collaboration with Why Not Associates, the Comedy Carpet is a celebration of comedy on an extraordinary scale. Referring to the work of more than 1,000 comedians and comedy writers, the carpet gives visual form to jokes, songs and catchphrases dating from the early days of variety to the present. Sited in front of Blackpool Tower, the 2,200m2 work of art contains over 160,000 granite letters embedded into concrete, pushing the boundaries of public art and typography to their limits.

 

The Making of:

A remarkable homage to those who have made the nation laugh, it’s also a stage for popular entertainment that celebrates entertainment itself.

Watch the full project here.

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Stephanie DeArmond makes beautifull ceramics.
(Thanks to Valdemar for finding it.)

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Text as fallingwater.
A short documentary about German artist Julius Popp while setting up his work Bit.Fall in St Louis.

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