Communication Design Department Blog / Glasgow School of Art
The last in the current series of Critical Applause at the CCA is Event 6: Will Holder. It’s happening on the 13th August, is a credit-crunch-beating free ticket, and should be quite interesting. I went to the last one with Ryan Gander which was good, and they’re loosely meant to be ‘performance-lectures’ so should offer something slightly different to a straight lecture about someone’s work
Activities!
Opening tonight (well..now, Friday 24th), and continuing tomorrow is the V&A’s annual village fete
A traditional English summer fete, set on V&A grounds, but features up and coming British designers hosting their own stalls and games with a designy touch. It’s nice that have a ‘Pork Snatchings’ game, and i want to play Fibre’s TypeCase tiddlywinks.
So if anyone is in smokeytown come along. I’m off on Friday night but it’s on Saturday too until 5pm. See you there
If you’re in London on the 26th July, and would like to swap stuff, the inaugural Barterama at the Barbican might be worth a visit.
Graphics look-a-like: (after Private Eye)
Left: Underworld record sleeve by Tomato / Right: Gordon Browns ‘redacted‘ expense claims.
Just finished reading this really good, really short book told through a correspondence of letters between two men pre-WW2. I won’t say much more, just highly recommend it and also that you have a Special Brew, or other suitably strong drink, nearby for after. There is also a great radio 4 dramatisation which I can’t find online but have a copy on CD if anyone wants me to send it.
I’d be up for more sharing of good fiction on the blog as I find it hard to find books I really like and perhaps others feel the same?
The BBC World Service is running a project called Save Our Sounds, a place to archive the disappearing sounds of the world, such as the call of the kookaburra, or the call of the olivetti typewriter, either dying out or obsolesced by new technologies.
If you love hate, then you might be interested to know that this week is national Art Hate week. Seemingly non-organised by British Art Resistance involving Art Punk Musician Writer Billy Childish, and designer of amongst other things Sex Pistol record sleeves, Jamie Reid.
While my second career as a headline writer might need to be put on hold for a little longer, I still thought I’d post up this (creative) review of the Brighton Graphics and Illustration degree show. And here’s their round up of the Ravensbourne show.
What would it take to get CR up here next year? An offer of a place to kip at Michael Bow’s flat? But would you want them?
P.S. The floor they keep raving about in the Brighton show is that way because it is made from reclaimed wood from the floor of a sports hall, relaid in a random order. You can see the same thing in the Boilerhouse of the Hidden Gardens at Tramway, on Glasgows sunny southside.
On a drive back from the wonderful Kingdom of Fife yesterday I became enraged by the dribble on Weekend Woman’s Hour on Radio 4. It’s bad enough that ALL women’s magazines are full of CRAP. Most of Woman’s Hour was taken up by anthropomorphic dog stories from Battersea Dogs home, my favourite quote being “Border Collies are probably more intelligent than human beings” Hmmm, yes probably. Ok, so it wasn’t all this bad but it did get me started on a hunt for some better magazines and found KnockBack which I ordered, Subtext, which is always looking for contibutors in art direction and writing.
This article in G2 last week by Hadley Freeman also raises some interesting points about female journalism in daily newspapers.
Not necessarily the most seductive thing you’ll look at this year, but the OECD Factbook Explorer is a significant advance in the visualisation of a vast amount of data under the durestiction of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, (as blogged at Doors of Perception).
Right, the internet, a big topic, but would recommend Here Comes Everybody by the improbably named Clay Shirky as essential reading for, well, everybody. Even if, like certain mystery members of the Vis Com faculty, you regard the internet as a ‘slagheap of information’ (tongue in cheek i’m sure…), then this book covers most of the activities currently emerging online and more importantly gives some historical context regarding ‘collective action’.
In a similar vein, the film Us Now (above) by Ivo Gormley was flagged up to us by Sarah Drummond from PD, and is well worth a watch.
(As an interesting aside, when searching for the URL for HCE, I came across this, which is a webibliography — a nice idea to provide a wealth of extra information to readers of good old fashioned paperback books, and surely the first step towards my dream of real hypertexts in actual books that click and link. With camera and web enabled devices like the iphone, and Googles ongoing attempts to digitize all books, this wouldn’t be impossible).
In the first of a few round ups of other degree shows, Creative Review review London College of Communications degree show, entitled 5:1.
Was down at Central Saint Martins show the other week, so overview of that to follow, plus ECA if I can find a website.
Parody and/or pastiche I know, but Loose Tweets Sink Fleets appeals for its topicality (real word?) in light of the facebook going-ons of the soon-to-be new head of MI6 .
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