Here is the latest activity pack that I have designed for the Community Engagement team at Edinburgh Art Festival, this time with Nadia Rossi. Nadia is an artist based in Glasgow, and she collaborates with artist Ruby Pester under the collaborative artist name Pester & Rossi. As Pester & Rossi, their practice derives from visual art, and leads to creating live art, sculpture, installation and public interventions, in response to people and places. DIY Art is a series of activity packs from EAF and selected artists, inviting people to get creative at home. The instructional creativity kits give insights into an artist’s practice, showing how to use their processes and techniques to create unique artworks. The other packs that I have designed were created by artist Alexa Hare, artist and illustrator Sofia Niazi, artist and educator Naomi Garriock, and artist Peter Liversidge. The packs can be downloaded
here.
For this edition of DIY art, I have designed an envelope to house and protect the activity pack, printed with the DIY Art logo. Printed by the Edinburgh Copyshop, I had originally specified a white envelope but I was surprised and delighted to see that the finished packs were returned with a buff manilla envelope which somehow feels far more appropriate, carrying stronger connotations of the DIY office printing technologies that I love.
