Signalnoise Broadcast #3

Another interesting talk by James White, great to see the development of his work throughout the last couple of years.

I have found these broadcasts a great opportunity to get to know the designer himself, which is just as important as the work itself, you can really see where his thought processes and inspiration arise from, and the interesting part is that this process is different for everyone.

Werkplaats Typografie

Interesting approach for displaying a portfolio of works, making it more interactive to the user, allowing them to move bits around the webpage and viewing the different works.

werkplaatstypografie.org

Alistair Webb

Love the use of just two colours and overlapping of the type over the colours and images on these.

Simple method of a portfolio site also, just laying out everything in small thumbnails for everything to see and also clicking for a closer look.

Website: http://alistairwebb.com/
Found over at: http://www.bitique.co.uk/

Made By Heath Killen

Wide range of experimental collages, relations made between objects that normally would be seperate. Interesting stuff.

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/illuminationink/
Website: http://madebyhk.com/categories/32/search_type/and/

Tom Deininger - Recycled Art

I love the hand crafted style to these sorts of works.. each bit placed by hand. Videos on his website show some being made.

Link: tomdeiningerart.com

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?

Studios

Looking through this series of photos of people's studios, it's amazing how clean and almost blank some places are, I see a studio to be something where a place for inspiration is.

I suppose there would be little distractions in a clean studio, and being surrounded by the same stuff all the time (unless you change it) could possibly become uninspiring after some time.

http://www.uniteditions.com/archives/your-studio-1-10/
http://www.uniteditions.com/archives/your-studio-11-20/
http://www.uniteditions.com/archives/your-studio-21-30/
http://www.uniteditions.com/archives/your-studio-31-40/
http://www.uniteditions.com/archives/your-studio-41-50/

Florian Nicolle

Nice illustrations of big names.. the trailing colours bring it to life along with the emergence of the faces from the background.

Source: neo-innov.deviantart.com/gallery/

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

almostModern

A nice collection of work at almostModern.com, consistent style in a variety of forms.

Serial Cut

Quite a popular choice of designing style now, some of these are some of the better combination of techniques I've seen. The effects of actually creating and then photographing the elements produces results that look natural.

Serial Cut

Inspiration: Jason Munn

Extremely simple yet effective illustrations by Jason Munn. His website The Small Stakes, contains many examples of his work, which all keep their own originality and simplicity that makes his work inspiring.

Inspiration: Invisible Creature

A wide spectrum of styles and themes by Invisible Creature still manage to fit their house style. Merging of different elements, colours and textures all add fine detail to the designs.

Their work can be seen in the 'Selected Work' category on their website.