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To the Central Saint Martin's Fine Art show at Charing Cross Road, AND to the Ceramics, Jewellery, Textiles, Industrial Design and Product Design shows at the Southampton Row site.
A smaller show this year at Charing Cross Road, with far fewer artists having rather more space to strut their stuff. On average, the standard seemed higher. Photos to follow.
The most interesting part of the Southampton Row exhibition was the MA in Industrial Design. This was top pro stuff that you could easily imagine being put into (commercial) profitable use. The Product Design show had a few "client-funded" projects, with Ariel (the washing powder), clearly looking for ideas to extend its "clean" brand image. Brightly coloured Ariel socks with in-built frangrandizer, anyone?
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The Goldman Sachs restructuring of collapsed hedge fund Cheyne Capital has one all-important aspect — the auctioning of Cheyne assets by the receivers. This will give transparency to pricing, which in turn will give eeryone a much clearer idea of what these things are "worth" today.
This will not necessarily be good news, and I expect that there are a few operations out there dreading it, because the price established will blow a hole in their own fantasy island self-valuation. That in turn could triger downgrades and further defaults. However, all of this stuff had to be done eventually. When the prices are established, I think that we could justifiably call it "the end of the beginning".
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A smaller show this year at Charing Cross Road, with far fewer artists having rather more space to strut their stuff. On average, the standard seemed higher. Photos to follow.
The most interesting part of the Southampton Row exhibition was the MA in Industrial Design. This was top pro stuff that you could easily imagine being put into (commercial) profitable use. The Product Design show had a few "client-funded" projects, with Ariel (the washing powder), clearly looking for ideas to extend its "clean" brand image. Brightly coloured Ariel socks with in-built frangrandizer, anyone?
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The Goldman Sachs restructuring of collapsed hedge fund Cheyne Capital has one all-important aspect — the auctioning of Cheyne assets by the receivers. This will give transparency to pricing, which in turn will give eeryone a much clearer idea of what these things are "worth" today.
This will not necessarily be good news, and I expect that there are a few operations out there dreading it, because the price established will blow a hole in their own fantasy island self-valuation. That in turn could triger downgrades and further defaults. However, all of this stuff had to be done eventually. When the prices are established, I think that we could justifiably call it "the end of the beginning".
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