How Deep Is Your Love?

Now we have started the first large project for this course. We got the final brief by using a dice and my group ended up with a client who is a cultural organisation who wants 30-50 year old working class men to become greener. Really hard but a great challenge - I'm very excited to get started. We all work individually and we get to decide the format and outcome by ourselves. Deadline is end of this term and yesterday was all about research and trying to come up with questions on the brief; what, where, who, why, how and when?

Kling - KLANG - Klong

We have finally decided our Letterpress design for the magazine page we are supposed to do. We got the typeface Klang, made by Will Carter in 1955. The whole magazine will be made by both FdA and BA students. Each group of 6 people has been given one typeface each to work with and our design is now finished so what we have left are the 200 prints which we will do next week.

Creative Review November issue

Silver, texture and pattern. Love the new issue of Creative Review. Both front and back. And the inside has a lot of interesting stuff as well.

'Typography' with Paul

A Pile of Empty Postcards

I have to do a hundred postcards with different collages on. No sorry, 97. The pile looks so big. And empty. And I did it WRONG. I think?

A collage (From the French: coller, to glue) is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. A collage may include newspaper clippings, ribbons, bits of colored or hand-made papers, portions of other artwork, photographs and other found objects, glued to a piece of paper or canvas.

I built a box. The postcard looked so empty and flat so I wanted it to stand out a bit. But then when I had built the box it didn't feel like a collage. So I put the word Wrong in it. To save myself. And then I made two flat boring ones. 97 to go.

View from kitchen window saturday evening

The Museum of Everything

The Museum of Everything is a pop-up museum and this third exhibition is located in Primrose Hill and is running until christmas.

First of all I was very excited about going back to Camden and Primrose Hill. I haven't been there since before summer when I used to live in that area. The exhibition contains a lot of different things from different artists, like Sir Peter Blake and Walter Potter and collectors like Arthur Windley. It's mainly about entertainment from the 19th century; posters for fairgrounds, stuffed animals, puppets and images of 'freaks' (woman with beard, dwarfs, tall people, fat people etc) who toured around as circus attractions. It was a lot of things in there but you couldn't take any photos inside (penalty=death).

What I found most interesting was probably the photos and posters of the 'freaks'. It's very strange that they were an attraction in those days just because of their looks. These days that would definitely not be ok. The exhibition was interesting but after a while I felt like it was a bit too much weird stuff at the same time.



Check out the BBC video from the mini fairground collector Arthur Windley.

Top image from Taxidermy Articles and bottom image from Wikipedia.

Cut and Paste

Today at VCT we discussed 'cut and paste' in different design work. We watched a few videos which are good examples of this technique, like Michael and Janet Jackson's music video 'Scream'. And Fischli & Weiss' 'The way things go' which Honda has borrowed a lot from for one of their adverts.

We also had to read the first chapter of the graphic novel 'Woman's world' by Graham Rawle. The book has got 450 pages and is unique for having been created entirely from fragments of text clipped from 1960s women's magazines.

Sad - Happy - WTF?

Visions of Trees at Cargo

I posted a video with Visions of Trees only I few days ago. Since then I've been addicted to their tunes on Myspace. Last night they played at Cargo in Shoreditch and it was amazing. Can't wait for an album to be released. If you didn't listen to the songs before, do it.

Ideas Generation

Yesterday we had a workshop called 'Ideas' with Darren. It was a very interesting and instructive day. It's definitely something I have to learn because I'm the expert of liking my first idea too much and then stick to that one instead of having loads of them in the beginning and then go for the right one.

A Sunny and fArty Day

Me and my friend Casper were supposed to go to Frieze Art Fair today but when we got there it was such a loong queue and it was 25 pounds to get in so we changed our minds. Instead we went back to Shoreditch for a long walk in the sun and to have a look at some of the galleries in the area. The second and third photo below are from the exhibition 'Blind By Stardom' by Word To Mother at StolenSpace Gallery. I liked that one a lot because of the artists work on old wood and use of different media. Definitely worth going to.

A Wicked Music Video

The song (starts 00:48) is a very catchy tune as well. Don't really understand what he's singing but the video is amazing. Cred to my friend Casper.

A Busy Thursday

Yesterday was a busy but still a great day. I had a meeting in the morning with a friend who's an artist and a stage designer who wants me to design two different websites for him. This includes designing two logotypes for them as well. I do very much look forward to that.

Then we had VCT and presented our chosen image. It went well and now I have to do some more research for the essay I'm going to write about it. After VCT we had the first introduction to Letterpress. It feels like I will enjoy it a lot and I'm very excited about it. I think it seems a lot more fun than screen printing to be honest. Apparently LCC is one of the few places in UK that has got all those old machines as well so I guess now is the time to use them.

My VCT Image

I ended up choosing an image for VCT from a magazine even though I thought I shouldn't. But I couldn't help myself. Found this amazing, huge (345mmx420mm) magazine called Volt and had to buy it. I chose a whole spread from the magazine with the text 'Olfactory' (the sense of smell) on the left side and a collage image of the classic Chanel no5 perfume bottle with different butterfly wings behind it. I like how the text relates to the image because they're both centered. Also the minimalistic and modern (?) typeface with the old Chanel bottle first launched in 1921. I like the butterfly wings in the background because they make me think about summer and the smell of summer which ads an extra feeling to the perfume. It also reminds me of a cover for POP magazine made by the famous artist Damien Hirst.

My London street. Northwold Rd.

Camera: Canon G10