So we (Lizzy and me), started the allotment project this weekend- we just went round some allotments and a local archive- was good- I'm excited about this bad boy- I'm not going to post everything here I don't think. I've made a separate and purely functional blog for it- over here: Allotment Project Blog- I'm hoping to put all and everything that comes to us up there- but I'll probably post the highlights here. Mostly images and bullet thoughts I guess. Allotment Project Blog.
Advert Textured Club Wallpaper
Hey so the other day when I was in a horrible club feeling kinda like I wanted to not be there at all I had an idea which could be sa-weet. When you get real close to a massive billboard they are all printed with these layers of dots- obv, but they make up this weird pattern which looks kind of like circles- if you squint you can see them in the image below- my idea is for a wallpaper that looks like these dots/texture/pattern, larger than on the advert of course and in grayscale (perhaps lighter than shown here) for a club so in the day time- it could not look and feel like a fucking shit hole, and be a bar or function room or whatever, and then night time decends and the ravers come out and the crazy lights hit it up and trip that shit out. uns uns uns.
Northern Lights in Iceland
Climate Camp 09
Deptford Door
Getting into the groove again
Been taking a break for a while but now getting frustrated with not producing or creating so hopefully a new lease of life as of today- got me a scanner, an sd card reader so I can get all the bits and pieces that I want online- no excuses. Starting with all the camera phone pictures that will be lost to the world if not posted up.
Camberwell Show
Honestly, I thought this show was in general crap. Graphic design had some great talent in it but was entirely let down by a crap exhibition style- one long table where everyone got one book or piece of printed matter to show- that's not graphics- it's boring after like five people. 3D Design...... just not good and as Lou said, "why do they get to show at the Tate and we don't?"- University of the Arts though innit.... Having said that i did really like the illsutration work and in particular Simon Memel's stuff (which i've just hunted down but found posted on it's nice that- dammit) This poster for their external show is amazing- just love everything about it-
Out and About
After the interview yesterday I went to the Wellcome Collection again to take some pictures for my project, and it kicked my ass again with how brilliant it was. The content and the design were astounding, i also went to the exhibition that they've got on the ground floor about madness and modernity (and other stuff), but Bobby Baker's drawings (a drawing a day of her experience wit mental illness) read like the saddest, most beautiful and interesting comic ever- everyone go now is ace. I also went to a place called the Crypt, underneath St Pancras Church which had a good little exhibition in it- about mapping and places and atlases and all the stuff surrounding it. Interesting space and a shame the work didn't have some better labelling and descriptions but the more sculptural stuff really worked out for me. They also give you quite a nice poster guide that has some essays in it- well wrth a visit to the two places (go to Euston).