Kai and Sunny

Diverse Elements - Pertwee Anderson and Gold Thanks to all who...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:04:00 -0400

Diverse Elements - Pertwee Anderson and Gold

Thanks to all who made it on Thursday night for the opening. The night was a huge success.

Special thanks to @PAandG @DaydreamingProj and @JBPR_

For those who couldn’t make the opening the show’s open until April 6th

The opeing was attended by many including: Leigh Message, Sean Pertwee, James Lavelle, Nick Leslau, Maxine Leslau.

Please email for more info on the show and a buyers guide:info@pertweeandersongold.com

Pertwee Anderson and Gold, 15 Bateman Street, Soho W1D 3AQ

http://www.pertweeandersongold.com/artists/44/works/

Photography by Paul Wesley Griggs and Jo Brooks PR

Creative Education Academies - Talk and Programme 06 | 11 |...

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 10:17:00 -0500

Creative Education Academies - Talk and Programme

06 | 11 | 2012

Sunny and I were asked by Emily Campbell (Creative Education Academies Director of Programmes) to help write and present a course on patterns for eleven year old students at Abbeyfield School in Northampton. The school is one of seven Academies Emily is working with on their design programme.

Sunny and I had a great day working with 250 students. We gave a talk on our own work and a talk on the relationship between maths and pattern. Throughout the day we set them exercises based around maths and pattern. The course will be implemented throughout the other schools and into its programme moving forward.

We would like to say thanks to Emily for inviting us and all the course teachers who helped make the day a great success. Sunny and I had a fantastic day and the students came up with some great work.

Infomation on Creative Education Academies:

http://www.creativeeducationacademies.org.uk

http://www.abbeyfieldschool.org.uk

Just an Illusion by Kai and Sunny for Oki-ni 30 | 10 | 2012 This...

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:55:00 -0400

Just an Illusion by Kai and Sunny for Oki-ni

30 | 10 | 2012

This exclusive mini t-shirt collection for Oki-ni is entitled ‘Just An Illusion’. The T-shirts are limited to 100 t-shirts over the 4 styles.

Crafted from soft premium cotton, the t-shirt is a regular-fitting crewneck design. It is silkscreen printed and comes paired with a CD.

As part of the collection there will be a mix CD ‘Just An Illusion’. The mix has been created by Pablo Clements (Unkle) and the Evangelist. The mix CD will be free with each T-shirt.

Evangelist: Pablo Clements, James Griffith and Gavin Clark are also known as three members of Unkle.

You can buy the t-shirts here:

http://www.oki-ni.com/tops/br:kai-and-sunny-x-oki-ni/

Listen the the mix here:

http://www.oki-ni.com/mix-series/pablo-clements

Kai and Sunny - RIP Terry Callier 29 | 10 | 2012 RIP Terry...

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:44:00 -0400

Kai and Sunny - RIP Terry Callier

29 | 10 | 2012

RIP Terry Callier. It was a huge privilege to design a couple of his record sleeves. He was a special and talented man.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20124594

Kai and Sunny - Guardian Master Classes Just received our new...

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 06:26:00 -0400

Kai and Sunny - Guardian Master Classes

Just received our new prints. We’ll be giving them away on the 17th October as part of our talk for ‘Guardian Master Classes’.

The prints will be an edition of 50 and will be signed and numbered.

The event is curated by Paul Willougby of Little White Lies.

Whether hard-drawn or computer-crafted, illustration is thriving in the UK. Running over four evenings this masterclass will feature talks and Q&A sessions, Paul Willoughby will welcome some of the leading figures in illustration today, working in a range of different disciplines

Speakers: Adrian Johnson, Paul Davis, David Downton, Kai and Sunny, Malika Favre, Noma Bar, Yulia Brodskaya.

71a Leonard Street, London EC2A

More info here;

www.guardian.co.uk/guardian-masterclasses

Kai and Sunny - Guardian Master Classes On the 17th October...

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 05:57:00 -0400

Kai and Sunny - Guardian Master Classes

On the 17th October Sunny and I have been asked by ‘The Guardian’ to give a talk on our work, curated by Paul Willougby of Little White Lies.

Sunny and I will be giving away 2 A5 print editions of 50 on the night.

Speakers: Adrian Johnson, Paul Davis, David Downton, Kai and Sunny, Malika Favre, Noma Bar, Yulia Brodskaya.

71a Leonard Street, London EC2A

More info here;

http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian-masterclasses/illustration-course

Sunny and I have been asked by The Future Tense to be part of...

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 06:57:00 -0400

Sunny and I have been asked by The Future Tense to be part of RE:DEFINE 2012. The MTV staying alive foundation’s Aids benefit art exhibition and auction in Dallas. Hosted at The Goss-Michael Foundation. The show brings together a selection of the world’s most exciting contempoary artists, including Mat Collishaw, Ralf Kaspers, Ryan McGinness, Michael Craig Martin, Jen Stark and Kai and Sunny.

The works commissioned for this project will be displayed to the public from Friday 14th September, with a gala reception and auction event taking place on the evening of Saturday September 22nd, 2012. The auction will be hosted by Simon de Pury, Chairman of Phillips de Pury & Company.

All proceeds from sales will benefit the MTV Staying Alive Foundation.

The MTV Staying Alive Foundation is a global HIV prevention and awarenss charity that is 100% donor funded. The Foundation operates with a simple vision - to stop the spread of HIV before it starts. By funding young people running grassroots prevention projects, and producing content that raises awarenss to global youth, the Foundation fights HIV the smart way..

More to follow….

www.mtvredefine.com

www.mtvredefine.com/artists

www.mtvredefine.com/media

Space//Form Sunny and I are really pleased to be part of a show...

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:05:00 -0400

Space//Form

Sunny and I are really pleased to be part of a show curated by Sven Davis of Arrested Motion next month in Portland, Oregon. The show is called Space//Form and will be shown at the Breeze Block Gallery from Sept 6th - 29th.

Artists include: @einesigns @chloeearly @garytaxali @mcfetridge @dalek2012 @kaiandsunny etc.

More to follow….

www.breezeblockgallery.com

www.arrestedmotion.com

Kai and Sunny - Gerald Dog Sculpture - Lazerian Paper Dog...

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:17:00 -0400

Kai and Sunny - Gerald Dog Sculpture - Lazerian

Paper Dog sculpture by Lazerian using our ‘Flower Print’ silkscreen.

The sculpture is a work in progress and we are very happy with the results. Thanks Liam!

Little White Lies - Issue38 - D&AD Award Sunny and I just...

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 06:44:00 -0400

Little White Lies - Issue38 - D&AD Award

Sunny and I just found out we’ve won a D&AD award for our cover illustration for ‘Little White Lies’. Along with Designer: Angus MacPherson, Creative Director: Paul Willoughby, Editor: Matt Bochenski and Illustrator: Lauren Gentry.

We were commissioned to create Issue 38 for the ‘Little White Lies’ cover ‘Another Earth’. The cover was a duel cover, black on white or white on black.

The release focuses on Mike Cahill’s existential sci-fi drama Another Earth – in which newcomer Brit Marling faces the prospect of meeting her intergallactic twin upon discovery of a duplicate Earth.

http://www.dandad.org/awards/professional/2012/categories/mags/magazine-newspaper-design/12347/little-white-lies-38-the-another-earth-issue

Daydreaming with… The Hong Kong Edition A few more images from...

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:56:00 -0400

Daydreaming with… The Hong Kong Edition

A few more images from the Daydreaming with… show that finished earlier this month in Hong Kong. The show received a fantastic response with nearly 17,000 visitors.

The show brought together over 30 local and international award-winning artists with Music by UNKLE including Nathan Coley, Polly Borland, Jamie Shovlin, Warren Du Preez & Nick Thorton-Jones, Futura, Simon Birch, 3D and Kai and Sunny.

More info on the show: http://daydreamingwith.com/index.php/the-hong-kong-edition/

1800 Tequila Event Wednesday night Sunny and I were in New York...

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 05:56:00 -0400

1800 Tequila Event

Wednesday night Sunny and I were in New York to celebrate the fourth 1800 Essential Artists series along with other artists, Stephen Bliss, Tara McPherson, Nathan Fox, Ilovedust and Misk 1 / Sandro Tchikovani. Fantastic event and we are thrilled with the results. Much thanks to Greg at Proximo Spirits @SPINmagazine and @bareps

St Brides Illustration Conference The St Brides Illustration...

Mon, 14 May 2012 13:54:00 -0400

St Brides Illustration Conference

The St Brides Illustration conference Sunny and I will be speaking at has been postponed until September.

Speakers: Kai and Sunny, Ben Flynn (Eine), John Lawrence, Linzie Hunter, Nic Rawling, Peter Schrank, Helen Stephens, Martin O’Neill.

Curated by Becky Chilcott. The event will take place on Tuesday 19 June at Bridewell Hall, St Bride Library, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London EC4Y.

For more info on the event please go to links below:

http://stbride.org/events?show=illustration

http://www.designweek.co.uk/whats-on/st-brides-illustration-conference/3034533.article

hypebeast: Kai & Sunny

Tue, 08 May 2012 07:18:43 -0400

hypebeast:

Kai & Sunny

Daydreaming with… The Hong Kong Edition A few images from...

Sun, 06 May 2012 12:00:00 -0400

Daydreaming with… The Hong Kong Edition

A few images from the Daydreaming with… show that opened last night in Hong Kong. Last image left to right shows our pieces: Wild Flower, Dandy and Sycamore Seed, Ian Monroe, 3D and Futura.

The show brings together over 30 local and international award-winning artists with Music by UNKLE including Nathan Coley, Polly Borland, Jamie Shovlin, Warren Du Preez & Nick Thorton-Jones, Futura, Simon Birch, 3D and Kai and Sunny.

More info on the show: http://daydreamingwith.com/index.php/the-hong-kong-edition/

Daydreaming with… The Hong Kong Edition Sunny and I would...

Wed, 02 May 2012 06:03:00 -0400

Daydreaming with… The Hong Kong Edition

Sunny and I would like to invite you to Daydreaming with… The Hong Kong Edition.

The show brings together over 30 local and international award-winning artists including Nathan Coley, Polly Borland, Jamie Shovlin, Warren Du Preez & Nick Thorton-Jones, Futura 2000, Simon Birch, 3D and Kai and Sunny.

If you happen to be in Hong Kong on Friday, 4May 6:30pm - 10.30pm we would be very happy if you could make it. rsvp@thefutureindustries.com

More info on the show: http://daydreamingwith.com/index.php/the-hong-kong-edition/

Dandy - Print Release Sunny and I will be releasing a print...

Tue, 01 May 2012 07:04:00 -0400

Dandy - Print Release

Sunny and I will be releasing a print edition of our Dandy print later this week direct from our website. www.kaiandsunny.com

Hand pulled 2 colour screen print - light gray and black.

On 100% cotton somerset satin white 300gsm paper.

Size: 76cm x 57cmm. Edition 100. Price £60.

Our print will be released at the same time as the large original goes on show at Daydreaming with… The Hong Kong Edition. Opens 4 MAY - 7 JUNE 2012. Artistree, Taikoo Place, Hong Kong.

More info on the show here: www.daydreamingwith.com

Daydreaming with… The Hong Kong Edition Thanks to SCMP,...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:49:00 -0400

Daydreaming with… The Hong Kong Edition

Thanks to SCMP, Hong Kong’s leading English language newspaper for featuring our Dandy print which is part of Daydreaming with… The Hong Kong Edition show which opens on 4 MAY - 7 JUNE 2012. ARTISTREE, TAIKOO PLACE, HONG KONG

The article features artwork by Daydreaming artists Oswaldo Macia, Cang Xin, Futura, Kai & Sunny, Wing Shya, and Warren du Preez & Nick Thornton Jones, as well as an in-depth interview with curators James Lavelle and Simon Birch..

More info on the show here: www.daydreamingwith.com

CREATIVE REVIEW - March 2012 Issue Thanks to Creative Review...

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:05:00 -0500

CREATIVE REVIEW - March 2012 Issue

Thanks to Creative Review for the article on our book covers in this months issue - page 48.

Thanks to David Mitchell for his contribution and his comments. Please see article below.

These days, the designer’s relationship with the author is usually more distanced; the work produced is often the result of an art director’s brief, or direct engagement with the text, rather than the writer. In 2004 designers Kai & Sunny were commissioned by Alasdair Oliver at Hodder to design and illustrate the cover of David Mitchell’s novel, Cloud Atlas. The idea, says Kai Clements, was to create a cover that “attempts to circle the globe and reaches from the 19th century to the future”. No mean feat. But Mitchell recalls “inwardly glowing with unearned gratification at how a single design could somehow evoke Victoriana, 70’s prog-rock and a post-apocalyptic future. That was the moment when I understood that brilliant designers don’t merely make artwork like the rest of us, only to a more-practised and higher level,” he says, ” rather, brilliant designers are brilliant because their brains are wired differently.”

According to Mitchell, Kai & Sunny’s approach (carried to a further three of his books) was to evoke the “structure of a text on which the content is hung”, rather than picking up on an element of the plot, or referencing a character or motif from the story. ” A competent but average designer might read a novel called Chekhov’s Cat, notice there’s a lot of cats in it, and knock up a decent cover with a cat looking inscrutable,” says Mitchell. But in reflecting the “symmetry” of Cloud Atlas; and the “interconnected narratives” within Ghostwritten in a single image, Kai & Sunny could then unite the books by employing a similar aesthetic and approach to decorative typography across all three. A more straight forward symbolic approach was used for Mitchell’s Black Swan Green - the heads of wheat echoing the cycle of life that animates the story.

SHELTER - Up My Street Auction Sunny and I have donated a...

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:20:00 -0500

SHELTER - Up My Street Auction

Sunny and I have donated a piece of work in support of Shelter.

Up My Street brings together 40 celebrated artists, photographers and designers, who have each created a piece of art portraying an element of a street they have an emotional connection to.

Featured artists include Jake and Dinos Chapman, Eine, Antony Gormley, Patrick Hughes, Grayson Perry and Kai and Sunny.

Every item from Up My Street will be sold through auction, with all proceeds going to Shelter’s vital work to support those who are homeless or in desperate housing need.

The Up My Street exhibition will take place at The Coningsby Gallery in London from Monday 5 to Thursday 8 March 2012. It is open to the general public and entry is free.

Bid now on the Online Auction: www.england.shelter.org.uk