After the success of the Random Project in 2006, it seems very timely to launch a new 2012 version to coincide with the Olympics coming to London.

The Random Project 2012 will showcase a growing collection of postcards which are created by everybody. These will celebrate the spirit of London 2012 and enable us to visually document the shared cultural experience as the year unfolds – we will all become the artists-in-residence for a historic year.

The project is open to everybody to take part in; from artists to school children to athletes. Each postcard is designed in response to a randomly assigned word relating to either 2012, London or the Olympics.

To take part please email word@random-project.co.uk with a number between 1 and 100. You will be sent your word along with full instructions.

The postcards will be on view in the Random Project 2012 virtual gallery which will open on February 1st 2012. A physical exhibition will be planned later in the year.

Contributors to the 2006 project included Ed Fella, Stefan Sagmeister, Ralph Steadman, Alan Kitching, Alan Rickman and Isabelle aged 7, to name just a few.

Background information
The Random Project 2012 is a not for profit art project initiated by graphic designer Sarah Hyndman. It will launch publicly on 1st February and run until September 2012. It is open to everybody to participate in.

The Random Project first ran in 2006 as part of the London Design Festival. The project was featured in Design Week, listed in Time Out in 10 things to see at the LDF, we sold fundraising Goody Bags on Brick Lane, Dave Gorman featured Random in his blog, we held a second exhibition in Clerkenwell, a lively typography pub quiz at The Foundry, were invited to exhibit at St Bride Type Library, organised two more type quizzes at St Brides and have an online presence which has continued to get contributions from around the globe.

Organiser Sarah Hyndman is the creative director of With Relish, a design and marketing company that she set up eight years ago. Sarah studied an MA in Typo/graphics at the London College of Communication. She was subsequently invited back to set up and run the part time Experimental Typography course. The Random Project 2006 was an idea that started whilst teaching this course.

See the growing gallery: random-project-2012.co.uk
News and updates on Twitter: @randomproject
Join in: email a word between 1 and 100 to word@random-project.co.uk

Press coverage of the project launch:

Postcards shown:
British: Ralph Steadman
Disappear: Stefan Sagmeister
City: Ursula Horton
Neighbourhood: Alan Kitching
London: Jeff Pyrah
British: Sarah Hyndman
True: Louise Weir
(Courtesy of the Random Project)

In addition, since it would be created for the purpose, the equipment could be designed to incorporate human dynamo technology. This would enable the kinetic energy you produce as you work out to either charge up your phone, or be stored and converted into points and donated to charity.

1. The trains would not need extra platform space as the gym carriage would be membership only, entered through a door in the adjacent carriage.

2. The equipment would be designed to be all-in-one to maximise space.

3. Gym carriages could be attached to any train.

4. We could make use of the kinetic energy we produce.

In summary, we could get fit on the train, raise awareness of renewable power, and raise money for charity.

So, Mr. Branson, what do you think?

www.sarahhyndman.com

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The Dog Bingo Online Pup-up Gallery is now open for 2 weeks only. New prints will be uploaded every day, each print features a unique combination of dogs – no two are the sameTo purchase one of the prints in the gallery please email us with the reference number of the print you would like. We’ll put a ‘reserved’ sticker on the print and send you a Paypal link.

Limited edition lino prints, size A3, printed on 300gsm art card, embossed and signed by the artist. Cost: £22 + £5 P&P in the UK. Unframed.

£10 from each print is donated to The Mayhew Animal Home, registered charity, no 1077588. 

My colleague Lucy has adopted a rescued eight-year-old Yorkshire terrier called Pip. It’s fair to say that things have been a bit dog-crazy in the studio over the last few weeks and Lucy has been very impressed by the dog home who rescued and fostered Pip whist finding him a new, permanent home.

As part of The Chocolate Factory N16’s Winter Open Studio’s, With Relish will be raising money for The Mayhew Animal Home to say thank you for all their work and to raise awareness for animal rescue centres. We’ll be playing Dog Bingo and selling limited edition lino prints. £10 from the sale of each print will go to The Mayhew as well as all the proceeds from Dog Bingo.

We’ve created a range of materials to promote the event. These include teaser postcards, Youtube movies, event signage and an online gallery.

And the spoof movie:

My personal Olympic Logo a Day project started in July 2011, the day we began the one-year countdown to London 2012. Each day I’ve been publishing a photo of an alternative Olympic rings logo made from everyday objects.

On the day that the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic posters were unveiled I thought it would be an appropriate moment to put some of my Olympic logo a day images together as light-hearted alternative Olympic posters.

The unofficial posters were featured in blogs around the world, appeared as ‘Top news’ stories on Twitter and were the subject of 250+ tweets in the first week of being released.

Read more about the official posters.