Manifesto
Constructing the modern man
Manifesto is a chain of men's hair salons. We wanted to avoid the conventions of the traditional barber shop and create an identity that was both elegant and overtly masculine. Inspired by the Constructivist movement, we created a strong geometric mark that is completely flexible, enabling it to adjust to the space it inhabits.
In September 2017, GQ Magazine voted Manifesto one of the top 10 coolest things to do in London. In 2018 Manifesto expanded and opened a new store in Coal Drops Yard, Kings Cross.
Process
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"Manifestation Dada" in Dada n° 7 Dadaphone - March 1920
Reminiscent of 391 and with a strong Parisian bias along Littérature lines (like Dada 6), Dadaphone's visual interest is mostly in its insistent typographic density, rather than its illustration--though it does include a beautiful abstract Schadograph, purporting to show Arp and Serner in the Royal Crocodarium in London, as well as the spiralingly zany.
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The Monument to the Third International was a grand un-built monumental building. It was planned to be erected in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, as the headquarters and monument of the Comintern (the third international).
Nikolay Punin, a contemporary critic of Tatlin, provides an excellent description of the Monument:
“The monument consists of three great rooms of glass, erected with the help of a complicated system of vertical pillars and spirals. These rooms are placed on top of each other and have different, harmonically corresponding forms..."
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Proun_Vrashchenia by El Lissitzky, ca. 1919
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Fluxus manifesto, by george maciunas, 1963
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Popova Lyubov 1922 Magnanimous Cuckold poster with model of stage set
