Press Release: Events
The Silver Linings Playbook Bookshop Window Installation Project
Posted at 8:16AM Thursday 18 Mar 2010
RUNNING FROM 22nd – 28TH/29TH MARCH 2010 Picador, publishers behind the MORE 4/Channel 4 TV Book Club selected The Silver Linings Playbook recently launched a competition to find 8 groups of young creatives tasked with bringing The Silver Linings Playbook to life. Their canvas: independent bookshop windows based in London and the South East. We advertised the opportunity through the Young Creative Network (www.ycnonline.com) asking designers and illustrators to submit their ideas and concepts in a bid to win a bookshop window commission. From over 100 fantastic entries we whittled it down to 8 of the strongest designs and matched them up with 7 independent booksellers and the Picador HQ. Designers visited the bookshops and met the owners to talk through their plans working around problems like lattice windows, TO LET signs (sadly) and listed building regulations. With the plans now signed off work to install the windows commences 22nd March and will be up for one week (with one interactive one going up the week after) leading up to the televised discussion of the Silver Linings Playbook. The windows will be photographed and placed online for people to discuss their favourites. The project grew out of Picador's commitment to supporting independent bookshops in a tough economic climate along with giving new creative talent a canvas to show case their work and obviously make a bit of money out of it. Booksellers involved include: Bartons Bookshop in Surrey, Steyning Bookshop in West Sussex, Clerkenwell Tales, Prospero's Books, Foyles Charing Cross, Foyles Southbank branches all in London, plus Picador HQ reception Artists involved include: Gala Slater, Stephanie Ireland, Bob Jones & Isobel Scott, Josephine Shepherd, Ian Caukett, James Nicholls, Mark Whittle, Ralph Hawkins, Martin Wollerstam
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