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Swifty Pop Up Shop – extended!

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

For those of you who haven’t yet managed to see the fantastic Swifty Pop Up Shop at The Custard Factory in Birmingham there is some great news.

The exhibition has been extended until the end of February. The exhibition is open Monday – Saturday from 10am – 6pm at the Sauce Gallery on Gibb Street, Custard Factory.

For more information click here.

Swifty – photos of the artist at work

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Ahead of  his exhibition Swifty’s Pop Shop the artist was captured on camera creating some amazing signage at The Custard Factory last week.

Below are the photos of Swifty creating his innovative and unique artwork. For more information on the exhibition click here.

Swifty pops up in Birmingham

Monday, November 16th, 2009

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Punch in partnership with the Sauce Gallery, Custard Factory Birmingham present Swifty’s Pop Shop.

Pioneering typographer, sleeve designer and artist Swifty will be setting up shop at the Sauce Gallery in Birmingham’s Custard Factory from Saturday 12 December. Everything from originals and one off prints to T-shirts, skateboards and stickers will be for sale in The Swifty Pop Shop.

The Pop Shop,will feature Swifty’s Newsagents installation.This life size shop front was partly inspired by Peter Blake’s ‘Toy Shop’ and the artist’s fond memories of a local village newsagent in Lancashire .

The Shop will also be home to the A-Z of Swifty Show, including pieces based around everything from Action Man to Zebedee from the Magic Roundabout.

The Pop Shop will be open to the public at the Sauce Gallery, 5 The Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Digbeth and has been extended to run until the end of March 2010!

Listen to a great interview UK vibe did with Swifty and check out some more of his images by clicking here.

Check out photos from the fantastic launch night and the final preperations below:

Below are photographs of Swifty at work putting together the billboard for the exhibition.

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