Drawn & Quarterly / Book Giveaway!
My friends at Drawn & Quarterly have just released a fabulous book called “Constructive Abandonment” by Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber (the founding members of the Royal Art Lodge). I have 5 copies to giveaway! Who wants one?





More info about the book, here.
If you’d like the book tell me the name of your artist collective in the comments below. If you aren’t a part of one, make one up (even if you are a part of one it might be more fun to make one up).
I’ll pick 5 winners on Friday!
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me, please!
This Bombardment Society
cut collar collective
I’m not in one but If I were it would be called “We Make Stuff” or “Bamboozled”
the limping squirrels shoe-mending and finger-painting crew
FRYKIDZ
kuš!
ARTsyfARTsy
or LICK
DOPEDESIGN DD
“Sons of Sammy Davis”
{the ginger collective} would <3 a D&Q book, s'il vous plaît.
‘GIRLBIKE’
Team Weltretter!
‘Sons of Sammy Davis’
memfizz
Oh yes, please!
Brunette Studios ( all six of us are Brunettes….seriously…kind of culty but less Manson more Partridge family)
writer’s republic
the collective that do not wear pants
If I were in a collective, we’d call it Flying Tigers Incorporated.
Mine is “Le Club des gens bizarres”.
Number IX
word around town
The Daily Undertaker Art Collective would Love to have a copy of this book!
Our work focuses on the intersection of Art, Ritual and Death
I hope you art is more creative then your collective names…
“Call Lick Thieves” or “Call, Lick Theaves” to make sense… does that make sense?
I will love to have a copy!
- Kasper
Brthr!
L’allumeur Collective – dédié à la création d’art déconcertant et le placant, en haut, dans des lieux tout aussi déconcertante. Nous faisons aussi chauves-oirs (nichoirs à chauves-souris).
The Lamplighter Collective – dedicated to the creation of baffling art and its placement, up high, in equally baffling places. We also make bathouses (birdhouses for bats).
Collect Coins Collective
Stray Kitties Empire
Carbon&Wire
CAN I HAVE ONEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, it’d just be great!
Salon 23
OH.WOW.COLLECTIVE
Or
THEREALLYFUCKINGGOOD Collective
me me me! please.
colabo fingers
William Beckford’s Follies
It’s a collective of two, art inspired by follies
Just Knives, Serrated and Un
C3Pa: Cartoonist Collective of Central Pennsylvania
Grow Op
liberty cap captains!
the collective is currently me, more will be added and it will still be called FRIENDSHIP AND HAPPINESS.
Hot Little Cut !!!
X-Men Lunchbox
I’d love a copy of the book!
I’m in the “We want a Constructive Abandonment book Collective”. No, seriously, I just cannot not have that book, it’s too amazingly beautiful.
Imponderables
Stray Dog
Non-photo blue crew
Choppingtools Collective!
cabin fever collective. We’d meet weekly on hillsides, and build Lincoln Log Mansions, and then ink doodles of monsters would populate their rooms
Before It’s Too Late Collective
Can’t we just draw?
Kettle Collective
Half Full collective.
The don’t throw that away collective!
“Good” Art Collective
Oedipus Wrecks
fartist collective
My Name is Url
Frednula Grain Silo
Now Trending: #Nonsense Collective
wondercollective -tys
shit hot!
Long Lost is my collective’s name
Mainly a record label right now, but me and my fellow art college buddies want to start an art movement soon
the lonely pizza eaters
Dysfunctional Beurocracy.
I would love to be the lucky one to have one.
GOLDRUSH
Cave Mountain Mystery
Pandora Complexa
Oh, I, pls. My hand is raised up high.
“Closet collective overseen By AdorkyHipster”.
: )
Either way thanks for the generosity.
Loves it !!!
Me please.
Mockturtles
Young & Dumb
Take Care, Little Bird
-not quite quiet-
collective of one… for now
Pó e Cotão
(dust and dust ball)
Triangle. Cross. Square. Circle. (TCSC)
real life still life
Mexicans for the advancement of latino crafts!
Young Professionals
No Sir RE: Bob
Amusing Youngster’s
I want one!
arts n farts n crafts
“Vioresa Viol Setar”-
!!
Band of Thieves
ME PLEASEEE
poppycock collective
the butlers of belvedere
Starting a production company with my boyfriend and it’s called “Talk Like Robots”
The taco puerco collective!
Format Collective
The Flash Gallery Collective.
Flash Gallery is a Windsor, Ontario artist collective geared towards re-appropriating gallery spaces as a site for active participation and creativity with the audience.
the Triceratroops
the Alligator Plum Plus Three collective
Burnouts
“Iron-fisted Goldfish Society”
I must be Icarus (collective); flew too high, building up from the ground
Non-Traditional
huge fan ! i’d love to get one !
potato head posse !
Pêche Together.
the grind and roll colourama
“The New Chicago School”
-5 and the dancing sensation
The Forward Guard for the Advancement of Today’s Beauty
PICK ME PLEASE! I LOVE THIS BOOK!
WE ARE CALLED ” LET IT GROW” We all go to NSCAD University in Halifax N.S. -CHeck us out!
mooooooob
Our artist duo is (the highly inappropriately) named ‘Cabbage Snatch Kids’. We draw, we paint, we play ukuleles.
The Bee’s Knees
Cheganomics: trickle down communism
The Caffeine Revery Collective
You may call us “tertiary tourniquet”. We substitute sense for alliteration.
adolf hipster
MOI MOI MOI, S’il vous plait:)
Cold Water Flats
Freeways Collide
“Quackstar the Difference”.
BANG BANG CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG!
BANG BANG CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG!
BANG BANG CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG!
bologna and lunch meat ; all up in the front seat
it looks awesome. i like the mustard one XD. gimme a book pls.
Me, please!
I’m part of The Bakery, a group of artists based in Calgary, AB. We print a publication called Fresh Bread.
WE RIDE AT NIGHT/ BEEZ KNEEZ COLLECTIVES RESPECTIVELY….
“ctrl ALTernative dlt collective”
Big Heads United.
We are a boyfriend/girlfriend duo and we both have (literally) large heads.
animal collective..
heheh..
The League of Awesome
The Social Know-How Collective
Church of the Frozen Heavens
(Yes, we snowboard, and every powder day is a Sabbath day; hooray for religious freedom! Take that, 9-5 job!)
Whoops, sorry- I just caught heck for that last one-
CORRECTION: “Church of the Frozen Heathens”
PRISM index: People Really Into Scientific Melancholy (the index of)
El culo ronca
(The ass snores, referring to a saying that when somebody does as he wants he is doing what his ass snores, make sense?)
my collective: Grenade O’connor (formerly Password Dog)
The Audacity of Dope Design
Learning by feel, artist collective for the visually impaired
K.I.D. :KIDS IN THE DARK.
I Left My Bra In A Tree Collective
BILHA ZILPAH REUNION
twould be called Lemons!
I would love a copy.
There’s a comic book shop next to a magic the gathering/dnd type store that I go to. The comic book place runs a little publishing company and puts out a local artists comics. I was talking to the owner tonight, and he said every couple of weeks some people meet up and do a drink and draw night at the store. I’m planning on going next week, I’d probably be fucking lousy if I tried to draw drunk, I’d rather smoke some weed.
Oh, yeah, so the name would be, “Philly Drunkards Collective”
▼ Let’s make wonderful things
Hey there, great looking book!
‘Home Ground, Found Wanting’.
Slackk Hand Gang/ DanaKunzeClub
Give book.
WHALES – Big and Great design and a cup of tea.
or
Hedgehog Ties in the mail.
la_fille_danse_@hotmail.com
I’m part of artist collective Le Grand Crew and the Camouflage Club.
Collective = /Megaton Festoons/
dollarish collective
me me!
The Association for the Artistic Advancement of Boys & Girls & Bowlegged Squirrels
Really want that book.
love the part with the bowlegged squirrels
I belong to the “Famous International Playboys” of which I am the last.
Really want that book.
“bestkip”
building things for satisfaction and knocking them down for pleasure.
Raw Wine & Cheese
Our collective is:
OoO – Out of Order
Fresh Perspective Collective
I love paper… bound into books. (I also gave the wrong email address above -I’m not double posting, honestly.)
Paper Before Lunch
“Tumbleweed & The Refrigerators”
The name of my collective is The Genteel Yeti Defense Collective, or the GYDC.
The Alla-E-Stor Collective
The Sweat Jets
I Run a international blog called WithoutG with urban art & design and this book would be perfect to blog about! (:
RAGA CLAN!!!
Carnie Queen
Kid Liquor
The Rat Pack Ressurected
evan jed memmott here, of copper palate press
The Heat Beef Jukebox Collective
In the mid-eighties I, with some other experimental video-makers in Toronto, form United Media Art Studies. UMAS!!!
The collective collective
buffago
Hollow Hands
It’s always the quiet ones.
HOT SNOT
Art is a blast collective
ORRRR MAAAAYYYYYBEEEEE
New Cool Collective!
I’d really love to have a copy of this one. Looks very nice!
we have a collective already called; Collectibles
But we think of forming another collective called; Members Only
the red cat
our collective is called strength in numbers
we are
GRAPHLETES
Cold Water Collective!
3 Gay Dads
Thee Randy Savage Collective
Fishcotheque
me please
Wuthering Dreams
Ours is called “Young Pilgrims”, we’re a bunch of art students from Auckland, New Zealand. We actually exist too, but we’re still in the process of recruiting more work and setting up our website!
Been There, Done That
Kalama Collective
I’m a part of The Pancake Bandits and Fugitives & Refugees
Modern Republic
Havent Yet Forgotten
For my photo website, I have created a mission statement behind the content based on similar understandings of perspective and nostalgia. I’ve also been influenced by the term, “Negative Capability,” coined by poet John Keats describing the “capacity for accepting uncertainty and the unresolved.” Seemingly so, in both our art forms, I at least somewhat desire for the participants to feel nostalgia for a place they’ve never been or a face they’ve never seen. The understanding one brings from his or her own perspective and history, and how emotions come into play forms a unique conclusion for each person without being told what is occuring or an exact depiction of what it happening. I think it’s neat.
Carnivore Galore!
‘WE ARE CHOOSEY’
‘Experimental Subjects’
Pick me please!
Societies Manic Depressives
makemeitch.
i do i do i do
F.V.K. (FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS)
On behalf of Andre Breton’s Secret Klitoris Kollective, winds of fate blow, blow!
The pencil posse
The Chiquitibum a la bimbom ba Collective! haha I bet it’s sticky
banana soup
Taste Test
remember on old video cameras there was a button or function for capturing images as negatives? this button was called nega/posi. so our collective is NegaPosse.
prescription hugs
Uncle Rico’s Pancake Haus
Pangea Cult
Fritz´Friet
WE’LL BE LOYAL SCOUTS (WEBELOS)
“Chillin on this I second that I just realized I love Thinking about going outside, you needed more zazz!” [via yes.thatcan.be/my/next/tweet]
Me and other buddies are artist and we have created a collective called. ‘The Privileged Few’
oups sorry if i post again but i didn’t saw the rules of the game !
KAUGUMMI BOOKS !!!!
“Konst・igt”
A few friends and I started the collective. In Swedish, konst means “art” and konstigt means “strange”.
“Straight No Chaser” Art Collective. We make art that hits you hard and fast with no cushy landing. Wake up! Its a cruel cruel beautiful world out there.
the guy who said “Kids in the Dark”…that was a good one..
Cine Maza, which roughly very translates to film club.
Ewoks Artworks
My blog is a collective of sorts,and I hope to branch out into an actual collective with the same name. A teen collective for the suburbs. abstractingabstract.tumblr.com
in trust we god
FoP (fear of plants), not real (yet)
The Knitted Pigeon Collective.
(Inspired by this wonderful creation: http://www.designformankind.com/2010/09/stuffed-pigeon/)
We now have a house full of them *sigh*
rock, paper, scissors and ghosts !
Bugs have mental powers
we create melancholy crew
The winners (picked by the gang over at Drawn & Quarterly are:
24:05:11 AARON:
My Name is Url
24:05:11 JACK:
the lonely pizza eaters
24:05:11 ASHTON IRELAND:
K.I.D. :KIDS IN THE DARK.
25:05:11 BOBBY:
I belong to the “Famous International Playboys” of which I am the last.
25:05:11 TESS:
Fishcotheque
Check your inboxes!!!
Cheers!
/jeff