PERFECT PUNK AND NO CHAMPAGNE

"Maurice Einhard Neu Gallery. A fine-sounding name for a gallery. In Paris, perhaps. One of those places where you're offered a glass of champagne the minute you walk in. Not the dirty little screen printing workshop I found. But that's what Maurice Einhard Neu Gallery is, at least as long as it's part of the London Design Festival. Correction: part of the Anti Design Festival. The ADF introduces this under the heading of events / shows as "daily poster print and installation". To me, it's just a workshop. But I mean that in a good way.

I've just been to the London Newcastle Project Space, the ADF's main venue located right next door. So I've had quite a lot of so-called "Anti Design" already. The term defies me. Is it supposed to mean something like non-commercial spur-of-the-moment-design? Rebellious, unpredictable? Free? Chaos is a must - This much I know, after all those messy installations and cluttered walls at the London Newcastle Project Space. It feels forced and disorganised in a studious way, though, at least at the main venue. At the Maurice Einhard Neu Gallery, it makes perfect sense. (...)"