Notion of Trust

"A word so loaded with complexities and textures but so simple at the same time."

"We live in a society that treats an unattended bag as a very dangerous item as opposed to an innocuous object someone might have left behind."

80 artists around the world got involved to show their idea of 'Trust', and through their work was the aim to learn more about the theme and inspire viewers to make their own decisions about what 'Trust' means to them.

"..demonstrate the power of images as a communicative device to overcome language barriers and avoid established pre-conceptions."

How have we as a society developed from being open to judging everything so skeptically, what has lead us to this position? what influences are on us to think this way? (heavily governed? technology? tv? surveillance? laws?)

Are we infact just trying to achieve the perfect society, in which case, who has the right to give us such an aim and to know what the perfect society is?

www.trustmuseum.com
www.emmi.co.uk/work/illustration/trust

Block Stories

40 x 40 cm blocks that have been painted on each side.

The idea behind this is so that people can move the blocks around and re-order them to build their own story, therefore every story is going to be unique considering everyone will interpret every image in their own way in the first place, and then also interpret a entirely different story with them.

www.behance.net/Gallery/block-stories/418734

Basurama

"Basurama is an organization which aims to study the inherent phenomenon of the massive production of real and virtual rubbish in the today’s consumer society providing new visions which operate as generators of thinking and attitude."

"..researched in the mistakes, horrors, and forgetfulness of the Madrid’s rubbish from the urban, perceptive, graphic, typographical and politic point of view.."

A typeface produced from the signs of shops in the centre of Madrid. The concept is of interest, which is focused on today's consumer society to produce new meanings by reproducing the already established meanings.

www.hereigo.co.uk/index.php?/project/basurama/

Wordless Book

''Wordless picture stories have a unique and specially intimate relationship to their reader. In order to follow the narrative, these works ask the viewer to decipher what has taken place, then connect the dots from one image to the next.''
-David A. Berona

A wordless book about a meaningful life.. based on a visual exploration on storytelling of 24 moments of his day over 7 days.

It's interesting to see which subjects he has decided to focus on, where he could of chosen anything, he chose to use abstract images that could mean something different to everyone, but used in this story we can almost see the journey he has gone on.

He has also shown us his own emotions within these, such as the third image where the words "bla bla" are seen, the words are confined within tight spaces, showing tension and an uncomfortable feeling towards this.

www.hereigo.co.uk/index.php?/project/247/

Quarry Workers: onlab

"The order and direction of the sheets within the 6 different issues are placed in varied sequences. Therefore, the documentary portraits of the quarry workers are always positionned differently. It creates diverses picture compositions."

"Photographs of quarry workers, published in 6 different editions, assembled in 6 variable configurations and serially numbered."

Sometimes black is all that is needed.

Quarry Workers on onlab | www.onlab.ch

Signalnoise Broadcast #2

''to me I never think of my art as a destination, i never think of it as something that's gonna be finite, because if you think that way and then you achieve that goal your gonna be left with what do I do now''
-James White


Another broadcast from James White at Signalnoise.com, this time I wanted to ask a few questions and join in for a change rather than just view, this way you can get to hear what ever interests you the most, turned out really well.


(20:47) Where do you believe you gain your most valuable inspiration?
comes from everywhere, start everyday flickr, bookshelf stacked with art and design books, online, design resource, big great world of inspiration


(37:31) Did you start out hoping to produce work one day for magazines such as ComputerArts, or was it more of a personal adventure and see where it takes you?
just starting doing a blog, just started making art and uploading it

"to me I never think of my art as a destination, i never think of it as something that's gonna be finite, because if you think that way and then you achieve that goal your gonna be left with what do I do now, so I always, to this day I still see art as a journey, your gonna do this thing and your gonna learn from it"

something that happens as a snowball effect to art that I created to hang on my wall, it would be nice/amazing, "looking at art as a king of path, as a journey, is kind of the only way to go, as it eliviates all this pressure of the goal of getting published, make art for you, do it because you love doing it, never see anything as a conclusion, try to do things as if I would be doing it forever


(54:14) How have you met some of your fellow designers, such as Joshua Davis & nickalexander?
intimidating at first conference, met Josh Davis in April, talked about what working on and inspirations


(01:11:43) Alot of people say mistakes play a big part in gaining experience, is there any you have learnt from? (if any)
you have to screw up alot to know how things work

"never ever stop, the more hours you put in the more powerful you will become"

never ever stop, never get discouraged by a mistake, "watch what other people do", still learning stuff everyday, never have a one rigid process you go through


Other interesting stuff talked about:
How did you first start to get into design?
Do you give out your source files to your client?
What's the hardest part for you in designing a poster?
Getting contacted to create a Google Chrome theme?
Where did your unique style orginate from?
Is the sketch book more important than a computer?

tv.designcollector.net

Found while looking through http://tv.designcollector.net.

Vintage Esquire Covers 1955-1972

I tend to find vintage design much more interesting than some of the modern design around nowadays. Whether it's the colours used or the actual images that are appealing I'm not sure.

Alot more covers from the past and present at esquire.com/cover-archive.

Source:
http://abduzeedo.com/best-week-84
http://grainedit.com/2009/09/23/vintage-esquire-covers-1953-1961/
http://www.esquire.com/cover-archive

Design Chat

After watching James White on the Signalnoise broadcast his website lead me to what seems to be a great source of design related chats at http://designchat.info/.

Worth watching to get into the mind of designers.

James White - Signalnoise Broadcast

''don't ever think you need a client to do something''
-James White

I've always followed James White on Signalnoise.com and he has just finished a live broadcast on ustream.tv where he has been answering live questions from viewers.

He gives his opinions to many different design related questions from viewers watching the broadcast, most of which is very much related to what I want to gain in experience.


Some interesting points picked up while watching:

Pricing and time, client satisfaction & working with others.

Inspiration - Although he lives in quite a small area and workplace this does not limit his ability find inspiration, power of the internet, loves retro, things that were awesome when he was a kid, in the morning a cup of coffee and flickr, inspiration is everywhere.

Advice to designers who want to break into the industry - consider the type of work, type of clients, don't limit yourself 9-5, normal priorities after education is generally #1 job in design agency #2 freelance, do your own stuff, don't stop, don't ever think you need a client to do something, you be your own boss/specification, grow portfolio + your only going to get better at what you do

You can't count on a client to teach you new things, unique touch doing your own stuff, if you paint show them your paintings etc, show them what you love doing, never limit your portfolio

Design process - sketch 40 little thumbnails, 30 secs to do each thumbnail which include type logos flare etc, then onto illustrator to produce little colour studies.

Do employers look at education experience rather than quality of work - Ultimately you might have the best diploma in the world but the work speaks for itself - portfolios bark louder than paper, depends on agency.

Marshall Rake: Calendar

Nice concept for a calendar, I would prefer this to the traditional one month for every page then having to turn it over everytime. Saves having to hang it on a nail aswell.

Link:
Marshall Rake - Calendar

Coffee Cups

Would loved to of come up with something like this, just the endless amount of subjects you could draw about.

Links:
Flickr Coffee Cups Set
iamboey.com

Similar work at Paul Westcombe on the same concept.

Mark Andrew Webber

Some great carvings/linocuts created for various uses, maps, posters, prints etc. Flickr set has loads of various that he has used for these, nice collection of work.

Links:
http://www.markandrewwebber.com/
Flickr linocuts collection

Ink Blots 2

(original ink blot)

(developed)

continued...

An example of how completely opposite objects show relations. Tree's, innocent, peaceful, harmless etc. Explosion, loud, dangerous, harmful etc.

Burnt World

Found at Kate MccGwire. Brilliant use of burning paper. Maybe showing where the world is going, the world will eventually be to hot to live on. The 50 layers of paper give it depth, each burn decreases as it gets deeper.

Door Hangers

Collection of different door hangers from around the world. Interesting designs all for one purpose, simple yet effective.

hotel door hangers

Piece Together For Peace

The idea behind this Graflex Directions project was that all countries in the world should help and cooperate with each other.

As it is customary in Japan to send New Year's greeting cards with an animal sign of the zodiac for the upcoming year printed on them, they chose this as the motif with the hope that the whole world would be blessed with peace.

The use of the countries to create the shape of animals links it well with the concept behind it. In the movie you can see how each country fit's in with the next animal.

View the movie
Graflex Directions