UC Fine Arts alumni Claudia Long, is curating the first exhibition of the year for CoCA. CHOMP: The Paste-ups of Earwig Magazine, features original paste-up artwork from Earwig (1969-1973), an underground magazine created by John Milne.
CHOMP: The Paste-ups of Earwig Magazine
21 February – 29 March
‘Prior to the introduction of the desktop computer, paste-ups were created by graphic designers to place typography and imagery into multi-layer compositions that would be combined in print to form a final page design. The evidence of the human hands behind the design of Earwig communicates care and effort that is uncommon in many design practices today. To physically plan and construct a paste-up design exercises a level of thought, craft and complexity that is at odds with the resources, space, and time available in our contemporary world.’ – Claudia Long.
In revisiting this past practice through the lens of a designer in the current age of computer automation and AI, this exhibition aims to highlight the slow manual craft of analogue design and how it could be used to subvert the digital mainstream of mass generation, producing work with real meaning and agency.
With thanks to the Heather Knowles Collection, Macmillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury.
Join us at 5.30pm on Friday 20 February for a mihi whakatau to welcome Ōtautahi graphic designer Claudia Long and CHOMP: The Paste-ups of Earwig Magazine.
On behalf of the CoCA Board, we are delighted to invite you to our first exhibition of the year. CHOMP: The Paste-ups of Earwig Magazine, features original paste-up artwork from Earwig (1969-1973), an underground magazine created by John Milne. Curated by Claudia Long.
