Communication Design Department Blog / Glasgow School of Art
Beautiful Losers started as an exhibition in San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Arts Centre on Street Art & Culture about 4 years ago, then came the book and now the film. From the same Film House ‘Art House Films’ also comes Wendy Keys’ film on Milton Glaser ‘To Inform and Delight’, which among it’s cast includes GSA viscom graduate, Katja Maas, who for the last decade has worked as Milton’s assistant.
Beautiful Losers film trailer from beautifullosersfilm on Vimeo.
Currently top of my personal summer hate-list* is the fusing of the word ‘twitter’ with other words to create new twitter words – ‘twestival’ etc… (I’m with Cameron on this one).
But kudos has to go to West Port Book Festival’s literary twestival for the most audacious yet: Project Twutenberg.
Edwin—any thoughts?
* I don’t really do a summer hate-list.
As part of London Design Festival, The Wapping project has curated an installation of live studios installed in the Boiler House and Coal Store of the Wapping Hydraulic Power Station and a series of talks about the process of design. It’s named ‘Design is Simply Complex’, featuring Ally Capellino, Blue Print magazine, Tracey Neuls and Van Der Meersch & Weston. Click the image above for the details or visit www.thewappingproject.com
It’s on from the private view on September 3rd until the 27th at Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, Wapping Wall, London, E1W 3SG.
There’s something toe-curlingly geeky about this presentation of some of the latest augmented reality technology heading for a mobile device near you. But this technology in particular seems to be ripe for some imaginative and creative applications—see artvertiser project below.
The Artvertiser: Augmented Billboards. from Julian Oliver on Vimeo.
Another advertising use can be found here and the source code and flash toolkit, should you want to start tampering with it, can be found here
On August 31st, the exhibition Milton Glaser’s SVA: A Legacy of Graphic Design opens at the Visual Arts Gallery, and runs through September 26th. Curated by Steven Heller, co-chair of the MFA Design Department, and Mirko Ilic, faculty member in the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Department, the retrospective presents graphic works created by the legendary designer since he joined the faculty in 1960. Visual Arts Gallery, 601 West 26 Street, 15th floor, New York, NY 10001
Ever wondered how to make everything/anything?
Instructables is a useful resource, and open-source approach to ideas and inventions, (in stark contrast to the Dragons Den patent-and-protect model.)
(a kind of more DIY version of this, and linked to similar ideas around this kind of thing).
If anyone is heading up/through/down for the Fringe in Edinburgh, here is a listing of free shows. Free Fringe is trying to bring the festival back to it’s roots and away from the big money, fewer acts format of recent years. They are pretty much all in pubs, the only way to get free venues I suppose, can’t say it’s a huge problem for me though.
PARK(ing) Day 2009 is September 18th, and there are events planned for Leeds and Brighton, should you be in either. The original idea was started by Rebar, a San Francisco Art and Design Collective.
As a student or staff member of GSA, you can view and comment on the proposal for the GSA Campus Redevelopment submitted by the 7 shortlisted architectural practises.
An experimental project about the meaning and significance which objects hold, and ways of constructing this.
Above is a video commissioned by Central Station, filmed to accompany the ‘Now I Know My ABCs’ exhibition of recent Scottish fine art graduates at SWG3, and provocatively edited to deny the artists a chance to explain their work. Poster for the event was designed by Rosemary Ferrier.
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More last minute smokey city activities from me. If you’re about later lovely old pals Slinky Pictures are showcasing some Vis Com animation and music at Cafe Kick in Shoreditch, and there’s table football too so you can’t complain, ok?
“Kick favourites, Slinky Pictures are back by popular demand with their free short film night, Kicking and Screening.
This cocktail of live action and animated shorts features the work of Johnny Barrington, Esther May Campbell, Gregor Dashuber and Joseph Mann. Plus musical guest Crazy Girl and a special screening of Joseph Mann’s new short ‘The Chimney Sweep’ with live musical accompaniment by composer Jonathan Smith.
Curated and hosted by Chris Shepherd.”
You may have heard about the recent funding problems at The Lighthouse. The Lighthouse—Renewed is a place for constructive ideas for a renewed centre of Architecture + Design.
There’s a new-look over at Design Observer, one of the best design blogs on the internet. Changes are not just visual – they include a new section: Change Observer – a journal of design for positive social change, and an expanded roster of writers.
The picture above is of an unlikely new romance, Sagmeister and Brown, featured in their write-up of the annual smart-person schmooze-fest that is TEDGlobal.
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