Details here. Entries close 7/7/7. I'll post my entry here as soon as the paint dries.
24.6.07
Drawing in Green
Details here. Entries close 7/7/7. I'll post my entry here as soon as the paint dries.
17.6.07
Postcard (1)
With everyone emailing friends and family there seem to be less postcards being sent around. In this first of a series I have illustrated a postcard based on an email I received the other day. This one is called: "I feel like a princess in her castle…"©Smoothfluid 2007
Repetition Repetition Repetition
"the work of Artist Mike Nourse in the 4th Law learn as an example of how repetition can be a powerful tool for learning. Nourse took video footage from a press conference by President George Bush before the Iraq war and did a simple thing. He removed all references of “terror,” “weapons of mass destruction,” and “Iraq,” and simply edited all those parts into a single piece of video. The result embodies the kind of strength that is achieved through the power of repeating oneself."
Borrowed from The Laws of Simplicity which is worth a look at.
Borrowed from The Laws of Simplicity which is worth a look at.
4.6.07
2012. A Gut reaction?
This is the real thing. Come on, don't be shy. Media release here.Comments from The Guardian make an interesting read. The consensus isn't pretty.
3.6.07
St Brides (2)
Work by the talented Kerr|Noble presented projects for Liberty’s food (see previous link) as well as their exterior sign for the V&A Museum of Childhood, and Melrose and Morgan (typeface here.) Flawless presentation, despite being heavily on the 'we also did this'. Very nice bit of typography achieved by dropping a cup out of a window but I can't find a link to it as yet.
Morag Myerscough has some fantastic signage up her sleeve (but you won't see any of on her website, I've just looked), notably for the Barbican, and the Westminster Academy.
Max Gadney, responsible for the BBC news website did his best to explain how the site caters for the type of news their 5 million readers a day may want, and the manner in which it should be delivered.
Things turned a little heated when Suw Charman began to point out that there is a large hole in the functionality of most social networking sites like myspace and facebook resulting in some horrific layouts/colours/overlay/non-design, and wouldn't it be better for everyone concerned if one was able to make it all ‘nicer’ given the right tools. After all, the majority of people don't get taught design, so aids that lead them into choosing harmonous/complementary colours (a la Abobe's Kuler) would be a good place to start. Some of the audience felt that it would hinder free expression, and their choice to have their space looking how they wanted it, but I think they missed the point completely although I kept it to myself for fear of a wedgey. I would put a fiver on the fact that they havent seen how IllustratorCS3's live colour can actually make colour choice better and more advanced (and quicker) than previously
Morag Myerscough has some fantastic signage up her sleeve (but you won't see any of on her website, I've just looked), notably for the Barbican, and the Westminster Academy.
Max Gadney, responsible for the BBC news website did his best to explain how the site caters for the type of news their 5 million readers a day may want, and the manner in which it should be delivered.
Things turned a little heated when Suw Charman began to point out that there is a large hole in the functionality of most social networking sites like myspace and facebook resulting in some horrific layouts/colours/overlay/non-design, and wouldn't it be better for everyone concerned if one was able to make it all ‘nicer’ given the right tools. After all, the majority of people don't get taught design, so aids that lead them into choosing harmonous/complementary colours (a la Abobe's Kuler) would be a good place to start. Some of the audience felt that it would hinder free expression, and their choice to have their space looking how they wanted it, but I think they missed the point completely although I kept it to myself for fear of a wedgey. I would put a fiver on the fact that they havent seen how IllustratorCS3's live colour can actually make colour choice better and more advanced (and quicker) than previously
St Brides (1)
Highlights of the St Brides Great British Design conference:
Ken Garland presented work of 5 graphic designers he felt were largely unrecognised by todays standards:
The work of William Slack, designer for the Architectural Press, and later Architectural Review enjoying the freedom of designing for subscribers and throwing conventions of mastheads and cover design out of the window. // Jerry Cinnamon's work for Penguin (The Penguin Book of Decorative Art with it's double title page, 50 Years of Penguin) and Integrated Books. // Ken Briggs' posters for the National Theatre with their hand rendering and expressive illustrated posters before falling into the Swiss design trend of a 3 column grid of Helvetica. // Ken "Graphic design is not cake icing and fancy wrapping" Cambell's Fathers Hook book of letterpress poems, printed on the most fragile of papers and illustrated with some wonderful fold out letterpress artworks, that Ken generously shared with the audience, and Broken Rules and Double Crosses. // The very topical Alfred Wainwright and his Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells. It takes a certain type of person to produce a series of books over so many years entirely by hand, the level of attention to detail and concentration for such a long period is outstanding (OCD?) and it was interesting to consider the idea that, without knowing it, he was in fact a graphic designer, and publisher and an artist.
Ken Garland presented work of 5 graphic designers he felt were largely unrecognised by todays standards:
The work of William Slack, designer for the Architectural Press, and later Architectural Review enjoying the freedom of designing for subscribers and throwing conventions of mastheads and cover design out of the window. // Jerry Cinnamon's work for Penguin (The Penguin Book of Decorative Art with it's double title page, 50 Years of Penguin) and Integrated Books. // Ken Briggs' posters for the National Theatre with their hand rendering and expressive illustrated posters before falling into the Swiss design trend of a 3 column grid of Helvetica. // Ken "Graphic design is not cake icing and fancy wrapping" Cambell's Fathers Hook book of letterpress poems, printed on the most fragile of papers and illustrated with some wonderful fold out letterpress artworks, that Ken generously shared with the audience, and Broken Rules and Double Crosses. // The very topical Alfred Wainwright and his Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells. It takes a certain type of person to produce a series of books over so many years entirely by hand, the level of attention to detail and concentration for such a long period is outstanding (OCD?) and it was interesting to consider the idea that, without knowing it, he was in fact a graphic designer, and publisher and an artist.
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