In issue 47

Last October the artvehicle editorial traipsed deep into the soul of Moonpig.com looking for opportunities for self-expression. It was a journey of discovery, out of the safety zone and away, like Apocalypse Now meets Finding Nemo. It is a world cloaked in secrecy, a worthy setting for the next Dan Brown epic that links Roswell and The Knights Templar by discovering secret messages in Hallmark greetings cards.

We re-enter this murky world through the portal that is Greetings Today Magazine - specifically January 2010, issue 4, volume 11, which contains an article by Jack Ratcliffe and three fascinating pages of company thinking on the subject of Male Cards. 'It's time to man up' is the very greetings-cardy title that persuades artvehicle to grab its whip and beige hat, finds its exciting theme tune on the iPod, and head off again to analyse the greeting card market. Read on...

Video and audio

Adrian Lee
Disclaimers
2009
More video and audio
Harold Offeh
Arabesque (After Grace Jones, 1978)
2007
boyleANDshaw
GAZZA!
2008
Phil Harris
From Pemberton Gardens to Bush Industrial Estate,
a perambulation.
(Musical accompaniment by Mr Fred Elliot, 1913)
2008
Siôn Parkinson
187.96cm
2008
Paul Lawrence
Polyvinyl Chloride
2008
Lee Campbell
Break My Heart. Make My Art
2008
Eric Fong
Red Chicken
Extract
2007
Charlie Tweed
We Are the Above
2007
Alex Heim
Gloucestershire
2007
Rummana Naqvi
Birdsong
2007
Laura Wilson
Grandfather Clock
2007
Archive
Sarah Morris, Robert Towne

From Artvehicle 23

Sarah Morris, Robert Towne

 

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