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140 HITS & VELVET
At the Velvet, Oude Binnenweg 121, one of the best record stores in Rotterdam, we will show a selection of tribute record sleeves made by numerous artists as homage to their favorite song or album. Later this year the prestigious book project ‘140 Hits in Art’ of Klaas Wijnberg will be published. As a prequel to this book of 140 artists who pictured their favored music piece we selected our darlings and will be displaying them at the Velvet.
As you might know the record sleeve is on its way back, who wants a cd sleeve if you can have the full size version? Artists like Zeptonn, Wouter Tulp, Hedof, Shamrock, Ottograph, Sauerkids and Johan Weggis have contributed to this coffee table book of 31×31 cm, the real size of the original record sleeve. So check out our website these coming months for the release date. But in the meantime go and see the window display at the Velvet music store.
(image by sauerkids)
VELVET
OUDE BINNENWEG 121
25 > 31 OCT
10:00 _ 18:00 HRS
TAPES & BEATBURGERS
During the Image Festival, Roodkapje will be the place to be as a hangout for the visitors of the ‘Around Town’ programme. Not only will we show several expositions at Roodkapje but we also present Martin Roelofs latest project; the Tape Lounge.
Martin will have his design tapedeck table, playing music from old original cassette tapes, sreen his visuals and invite several dj friends who will be mixing from their own home made tapes. Bring your old cassette tapes and join the mix! Have a beer and a magazine and enjoy the best Veggi Burgers in town.
ROODKAPJE
MEENT 119-133
28 > 30 OCT
12:00 _ 20:00 HRS
MICHAEL CASARRAMONA KEYNOTE
We invited the Swiss graphic designer Michel Casarramona to show his posters and artwork he did for music clubs and bands. Casaramona is known for his fantastic use of caricature, custom typography and color in his silkscreen posters. Casarramona will be one of the guest speakers and show his sketches and his personal inspirations at the festival.
Michel Casarramona is a Swiss graphic designer who grew up in Unterkulm.After graduating from the Zürich art school and working at different studios, he started working as a self-employed graphic designer and illustrator. All of his illustrations are handdrawn with pencil and/or brush. Casarramona’s influences are the art and graphic design of the last century, which explains the retro-inspired look and feel of his work. He makes fantastic use of caricature, custom typography and colour. Casarramona works on commission for The New Yorker, Blue Q and Albin snowboards. He has designed posters for several bands, music clubs and also does movie posters.
CINERAMA
WESTBLAAK 18
THURSDAY 28 OCTOBER
14:50 > 15:10 HRS
THE FANTASTIC FOUR
In café Rotown we will show, thanks to the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, aka Fonds BKVB, The Fantastic Four of the Dutch comic scene: Peter Pontiac, Typex, Erik kriek & Pieter M. Dorrenboom. Each one of them has a mile long track record doing music related art, a small selection of their gigantic oeuvre can be found during the festival at Rotown, our most popular bar and music club on the Nieuwe Binnenweg.