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Treatments

2010-01-07T14:17:00.000-08:00

Typography is something i am going to push hard to learn in detail this year. Peter Saville's design for Always Now the first album Section 25 released on Factory Records is an example of how the use of words can be artwork as well as information. I need to get my hands on this record

Bold

2010-01-07T14:06:00.000-08:00

The Paul Smith LA store, this didn't seem real at first glance. The simplicity combined with the 'paul smith' logo. I remember seeing a small house in Dungeness that had a strip for a window, very voyeuristic.

Habitat

2009-11-12T16:43:00.000-08:00

Powers Of Ten

2009-10-22T07:18:00.000-07:00

I watched this for the first time at the beginning of my first term and have forgotten about it till now. It shows to an extent (and pretty unfathomable one) how everything is connected. Keeping in mind the brief that Christian Kusters has set us. I am going to explore connections through a journey, i have been heavily inspired my the work of walking artist Richard Long, i want to see how i can develop a journey into something that can be communicated.

Poster For Print

2009-06-07T17:02:00.000-07:00

This is the PNG of the image file type that actually works for this blog after days of trying. It show the colour and how the dictionary should be used.

Mark Wallinger The Russian Linesman & Sentence

2009-06-07T15:14:00.002-07:00

Annoyingly i cannot find the photos i took at this exhibition they are lost somewhere in the depths of my hard drive, however this image taken from http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/making-links-the-russian-linesman-1623695.html?action=Popup, shows the russian linesman at the 1966 world cup final. Victory or not.

In this exhibition at the Hayward Gallery i found the juxtaposition of image and language quite compelling, to extent that their was no relationship. I would be listening to a piece of writing by James Joyce and be looking at scientific photographs of heads from the 19th century. The idea that i am looking at is the juxtaposition of language. The power of two different sets of thoughts placed together as one. In this case i have used a 'The Ballad Of Persse O'Reilly' by James Joyce and an article from this saturdays guardian about 'OMG: Kirstie Allsop Caught on Twitter'. I have used the first four words of each alternate line and placed them together. This can also allude to the surrealist automatic writing technique, but i am interested how dfferent sets of languages from completely different context and times read together. I want to explore this for the exhibition on the theme 'Sentence'.

Timeless Toy

2009-06-07T15:14:00.001-07:00

Grand Day Out

2009-06-07T15:13:00.002-07:00

Pop Machine

2009-06-07T15:13:00.001-07:00

40 Paper Dimensions

2009-06-04T07:24:00.000-07:00

The project at hand was to design a dictionary. The dictionary had to contain forty words, in whatever way i chose to represent. I wanted to keep literal and in focus upon something that can be used and is useful. Paper and paper sizes are something that have always been of a concern in terms of what size i want to work with and what would be best for the printed outcome. I wanted to represent paper dimensions physically. Within this poster i have taken an image of the installation an represented it as a piece of information. The information follows the same system as the installation itself. I have also used the typeface DIN Mittelschrift for its clarity.

Poster held by Alexandra Victoria Connor

Dandyism

2009-06-03T17:17:00.000-07:00

Project by my friend Rokas Rach which i was asked to model as a modern day dandy. Check out his other very impressive fashion Photography at http://www.flickr.com/photos/rokasrach.

Photographer: Rokas Rach
Models: Symara & Alexander Martin Hough
Hair & Makeup: Kenny Leung & Joana Espargo
Styling: Hannah Louise Murphy
Assistant: Alexandra Victoria Connor
Courtesy of http://www.flickr.com/photos/rokasrach.

Mothers Day Card

2009-06-02T07:51:00.000-07:00

I found this image of the card i made my mum for mothers day. After a large amount of vector based work it felt good to get out the inks again. I did an ink drawing of the south downs that has been occupying the desk in my room, its just one of those photos that are always just there.

Scale Models

2009-05-29T13:33:00.000-07:00

These were the drawings and the scale models i made that were the basis of the composition i designed from the plot. The drawing shows ten drawings in ten different compositions.

Mapping Dungeness

2009-05-29T12:38:00.000-07:00

Each poster is responding too (from top left to bottom right): Degradation, Colour, Weather, Dimension, Geology, Sound and Objects. They are all a personal response to what each person in the group was investigating. By taking the dimensions of the shacks i decided i couldnt represent the plot in anyway realistically, so i made scale models of the shacks at 1:40 and drew studies of them in different positions. What i wanted to communicate is the idea of scale, taking drawings directly from proportionally correct models showed what the area could be.

Dungeness: Mapping A Bleak Landscape

2009-05-29T10:14:00.000-07:00

A graphics trip to Dungeness earlier on in May, we were given the brief to explore a 10 X 10 m spot among the huge expanse. All the information had to be recorded, sound, dimensions, colour, structure, terrain, objects, relationships, geology and the effects of weathering. Individually we investigated a different subject where i was recording the dimensions of the structures in the space. The shacks and the winch that can be seen in the photographs. What was interesting about investigating such a small plot in such a huge area was that it was an attempt to understand something about Dungeness. Its completely bleak landscape, with only an ominous power station in the back drop and the few houses to line the road.

Destruction and Use Of The Dictionary

2009-05-29T09:53:00.000-07:00

Charlie was considering how my dictionary could be used in the wider context. The wider context being how the viewer can interact and play with the dictionary. We discussed how if a fan was used how the paper would react with one another and if this were filmed for however long, would communicate the relationship more physically. Shame i didnt get round to trying this out, but it would have produced a comparison between the paper sizes, moving in between one another that the viewer could have engaged with more interest.

Dictionary Of Paper Sizes

2009-05-29T08:43:00.000-07:00

The brief was to design a dictionary of 40 words on any theme that i wanted to choose. I began by considering the functionality and the purpose of the standard dictionary, the fact that it is plainly useful. What i wanted to explore was how to create a dictionary that can actually be used and be of use to someone. Secondly it was important to consider how it would communicate visually. The idea of paper sizes is general and obvious and choice, but i felt that i hadnt ever seen a true comparison between the various paper sizes that are available to us. There is true physicality about paper and the way it feels, prints and responds a huge amount of tasks.

By creating an installation i felt i could compare the paper sizes i had collected, ranging from 458 X 648 mm (C2) to 31 X 44 mm (B10). What needs to be developed is an actual system for this piece and how it can be used.

A Book That List Words

2009-04-25T12:14:00.000-07:00

Peter Saville created this colour coded alphabet taken from 19th century Fantin-Latour flower painting he had spotted as a postcard in the National Gallery shop. The colours where taken directly from that of the flower.

A dictionary is a a book that list words of a language in alphabetical order and gives their meaning. These words can be perceived as images as well as typographically. What Saville has created is away of seeing these words. Words: a single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing, used with others (or sometimes alone) to form a sentence and typically shown with a space on either side when written or printed.

A means of showing these words, describing these words. What do the words relate to and link to?

Goldfinger

2009-03-18T17:57:00.000-07:00

This is nothing other than brilliance by the incredible Robert Brown-john for the title sequence of the James Bond Film Goldfinger. Its a combination of such a simple idea involving projecting the film on top of the models body with the heart warming sound of Shirley Bassey's voice over the top make this 2 minutes 50 seconds the best. The gold colours and the juxtaposition of the models body are all just purely sexy which also add to the allure. Also the san serif which is quite possible Helvetica is clear and legible through out.

One Minute Of You Time

2009-03-18T17:44:00.000-07:00

Alex Reuben a film maker based in Brazil has a set a 4 day film project 'One minute of your time'. The idea of creating something precious. We have been considering how perspective in terms of scale and depth can be used how it will be perceived. How you can use perspective has just a means of expression. Have a projection on top of a projection with no level of depth what so ever. This is one of his short films, i will be researching moving image alot more from now on and how it can communicate different ideas and on what sort of scale.

Watching Graham Norton being filmed earlier at the South-bank Studios (also the home of Loose Women and GMTv) it was interesting to experience a live set and how cameras, lighting and movement all fit into one space to form a program. It is clear that a hell of a lot more prior preparation went into creating the set and post production then the filming of the show itself. To see a system that work efficiently and productively. Inspiration for some work experience i hope this summer.

Glimpses Of The USA

2009-02-05T06:45:00.000-08:00

Set in the Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome Charles and Ray Eames produced a film over seven screens exhibiting North America as a humane,productive and socially inclusive place. They didnt focus upon the american supremacy but more as an utopian world. A country as an idea, providing an alternate view not right or wrong about society (their society). How does it relate to the rest of the world?

Charles Meecham, Joy Division Atmosphere

2009-02-02T12:23:00.000-08:00

Saw this cover for the original 12" release of Atmosphere by Joy Division. The photograph that looks like it is taken at the edge of motorway is expressed in two halves. I find this photography that focuses on these peripheral subjects extremely engaging as a part of the everyday.

Dessau

2009-01-20T12:54:00.000-08:00

Gropius drove a Ford / The car park at Dessau

I wonder if Walter

Design Process

2009-01-19T16:14:00.001-08:00

I should have put this up a while ago, but never the less this is the example of my design process. I have designed it so i can use it myself as it provides me with some clear guidelines to how I should approach each new problem. By linking up the points that i feel are most important they provide a more accessible reference. I have used Orator Standard italic which only comprises of uppercase letters, initially used on IBM typewriters, it is used for technical documentation. I just think it is brilliantly legible almost 80's with its tabulation.

Ferro fluid

2009-01-18T10:06:00.001-08:00

Rand

2009-01-18T09:56:00.000-08:00

Influences

2009-01-06T08:15:00.000-08:00

Space, systems, structure

Bernd and Hilla Becher

2009-01-06T06:56:00.000-08:00

They wanted to reject the post war subjective, sentimental aesthetic returning back to the industrial, scientific representation of systems established within the 1920's and 30's. It is an exploration into a world built by humans and run by them, they look like futuristic cities. Quite desolate though, empty and unused reflecting a bygone time where these machines would have had use. Im not interested in their original but their anatomy. Not as illustrations either but as an idea of form. I cant help but remember how i felt when i drove past one of these structures on the journey to Amsterdam, i just stayed within view for about half an hour as we drove through Belgium. Like in the photos they were still lifeless objects. Shame i cant find my original photographs

Pitheads 1974
Subjective photography, based on personal feeling or prejudices? There is nothing much here but objectivity, what both Bernd and Hilla .

Image And Paper

2009-01-06T04:54:00.001-08:00

I found this whilst in the old Griffin of Fletching, I always knew that all the best sources are found in pubs. In europe there are places that i dream of living this is one of them. This photograph for the Financial Times is printed CMYK straight onto their beautiful pink stock, making the whites a salmon pink and purple (wish i knew the pantone mixtures) combined with the use of the Miller Display Light typeface really does wonders for this article.

i could dream

Application

2008-11-20T20:52:00.000-08:00

Im realising and discovering more and more about the idea of application. It is one of the most important aspects when considering the context of certain elements.I have considered a quick application for X Marks The Spot within the idea of advertisement, focusing on the Playstation.

The advert is placed within the box on the shop wall. The grayscale image shows the triangle, circle, square and cross all together. Above i have inputed the Playstation logo four times to the colours found on the shapes on the Playstation controller. It is taking both elements out of context firstly by placing an image of the components of the controller and then repeating the logo four times instead of being singular depicting the four different colours. The composition has the photo on the base this is because it emphasises the actual components of the Playstation being the four colours on the controller. This really is just a quick idea but it shows how different elements can be used to fit in with a certain application.

X Marks The Spot

2008-11-20T20:23:00.000-08:00

Taking a visit round the Barbican Centre, i photographed Squares, Circles, Crosses and Triangles wherever i could find them. In hindsight i realised how many more examples i could have captured. I will keep my eyes open wider more often.

Here are a few examples.

Maybe not all the shapes are visible at first glance but they are there.

A Picture Tells A Thousand Words

2008-11-20T20:10:00.001-08:00

This photograph taken in East Street market describes to me a thousand words. The opportunistic moment of a stranger jumping into the frame of my camera whilst laughing uncontrollably. Sometimes you get these incredible moments that will remind you of a place for a very long time.

Guardian Layout

2008-11-20T04:27:00.000-08:00

The project: The Digital City , where i explored the signifance of market places situated around the south east of London. What i wanted to focus on is the structure, demographic and the initial impact these markets have on the surrounding area. The exploration took me around East Gate, Brixton, Borough, Greenwich, Deptford and Bermondsey Antiques Market. At each different market the merchants had entirely different attitudes to me documenting them. Some were incredibly enthusiastic some were not. However, my aim was not to antagonise but to encapsulate a sense of what these markets are about.

This was then placed into the context of The Guardian newspaper to give the final documentation a cohesive conclusion.

A New Phase

2008-11-20T03:06:00.000-08:00

Good morning, this blog is the beginning of a new phase. It is really to help me understand what on earth the term Graphic Design might mean and to show things that i am currently working on. Somehow i will try and make sense of it all. Bear with me whilst i learn how to organise myself properly.