It is snobby but way too much fun. Photoshop Disasters.
Monthly Archive for September, 2009
Phillipe Stark as guru in a new programme/competition ‘Design For Life’ on the BBC, Oh my oh my, too many things to say. Just watch.
The Magic Lantern is a great Film Club, more often than not showing at the CCA.
On Wed 30th September The Magic Lantern turns 3, and will be showing Rausch Films, a selection to coincide with the Poison Protocols and Other Histories exhibition currently at Stills Gallery in Edinburgh.
When you could go to a biennial somewhere almost every week, My Biennial is Better than Yours, offers a different slant.
From the statement: Internet is procrastinating and I can be considered as a living proof: I’d rather surf on the net for hours with no particular reason before getting anything done. William Gibson, the author who invented the term “cyberspace” back in 1981 had a flair for that as well: in THE NET IS A WASTE OF TIME(1) published in 1996, he compares the act of surfing online to “staring blankly into space” and he says: “[I] enjoy staring blankly into space (which is also the space where novels come from)”.
Video above from: 19: GUTHRIE LONERGAN, MYSPACE INTRO PLAYLIST, 20+ VIDEOS, 2006: http://mybiennialisbetterthanyours.com/guthrie-lonergan.html
Just notification of upcoming talks and events, the first talk is next fri, 2nd October at 4pm in the 2nd year studio, all welcome.
(all events subject to last-minute change and wild variance).
TALKS
(all in second year studio)
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Fri 2nd October: 4pm:
David Coyle (D8) and Chris Hand (Napier University)
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Fri 9th October: 4pm: (artist talk in relation to underpass project, see projects below)
Ruth Barker
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Fri 23rd October: 4pm:
(tbc)
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Fri 13th Nov: 4pm:
Emlyn Firth (iso/ava) + (tbc)
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FILMS
(all in second year studio, all roughly last between 1 hr and 1hr30mins*)
Tuesday 29th Sept: 1pm CRUMB
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Tuesday 20th Oct: 1pm BEAUTIFUL LOSERS
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Tuesday 10th Nov: 1pm OF TIME AND THE CITY: TERENCE DAVIES
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Mon 30th Nov: 1pm MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES: EDWARD BURTYNSKY
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Mon 7th Dec: 1pm HELVETICA
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PROJECTS:
Magazine Project
Project to make a Vis Com Magazine
First Meeting, Fri 25th Sept, 1pm, Second Year Studio
Underpass Project
Cross-school project to develop and implement design for public underpass at St Georges Cross (nr woodlands)
in conjunction with Glasgow City Council
First Meeting, Tues 29th Sept, 1pm, outside mack building (walking to site)
*roughly
image: david coyle
A really (quite) interesting Newspaper project from Ben Terrett, and Russell Davies and others, creating a kind of online art/design newspaper printing co-operative, presumably operating on the buy big and sell cheaper model. Worth keeping an eye on.
Thanks to David Kerr for link.
Tickets now on sale for LongLunch talk by Proud Creative, on Thursday 8th October 7pm.
As we’re hosting it at GSA there are ten free tickets. We’re dividing it up between the different year groups: 2 each for first and second year and 6 in total for 3rd and 4th year illo, graph and photo.
First two people from second year to email me with the correct name of any book plus any typeface by Jan Tschichold, win the two tickets for second year. Other year groups need to check with their tutors about how they’re being divided up.
email: n.mcguire{at}gsa.ac.uk
Coincidentally, this weeks Creative Review question of the week is ‘where do you work?‘ And here are some of the answers.
On Sunday at Glasgow Concert Hall there is a performance of Eisenstein’s groundbreaking film Battleship Potempkin with a live orchestra accompaniment. I can’t see how it can go wrong, tickets only £6 for students, get them at the box office at the top of Buchanan Street. Do it!
Causing a lot of furore over the past few weeks has been the pitching process for a new ‘brand’ for London. One of the most noticeable pitches (which didn’t get through) was A Brand for London by Moving Brands. Effectively throwing the doors of design open to the great british (and worldwide) general public, this could be seen as either a) a brave attempt to grapple with citizen design in a public project using the web, or b) a cynical attempt to appear ‘now’, ‘switched on’ and ‘web 2.0 savvy’ for a high profile public pitch. The language is suspect (“As this is a fully democratic pitch”…etc) where in reality there is little co-design or democracy happening, through debate or discussion — rather a lot of very mediocre/awful designs (see bus above) being pushed out into a big internet-shaped hole, and the ensuing single line criticism or praise that follows. A very in-depth and opinion-led analysis of the whole process can be found on the Johnson Banks blog.
The magazine already mentioned as a vis com extra curricular project — will have its inaugural meeting on friday (25th) this week, 1pm, second year couches. If you’re interested in getting involved, please come along, if you’re not interested in getting involved, come along anyway, stand in the background and talk loudly. (semi-random link). If you’re interested in getting involved but can’t make it, please email n.mcguire{at}gsa.ac.uk and i’ll add you to the mailing list and keep you posted on further updates.
Quick reminder about the talks and events as part of ‘In Search of Space’ at Streetlevel. There’s also a display of some covers of the International Times, linked to this exhibition, in the window of our studio on King St, opposite 13th Note.
Central Station, (a community for art, film and design), launches (in beta, but aren’t we all) today. Log-on, look around, sign-up, tune-out. GSA Visual Communication is on there, so you could even become friends with the course.
Just a couple of hours on the train: Design event 09. It’s also a well known neil-fact that designers from Newcastle are amongst the best in the world.
There’s obviously a long and illustrious line of art and design students who use their creativity to start their own businesses/magazines/cafeterias and anything in-between. If you’re thinking along these lines and would like more information, the Enterprise toolkit from NESTA would be a good place to start.
It appears to me either people are tip-toeing around this book in fear of seeming like a hysterical feminist, or it’s just a bit crap and no-one can be bothered. I haven’t read it so I will also remain apathetic, although “robust heterosexual” Steven Bayley is not particularly endearing in his interview on Weekend Woman’s Hour.
One blog offered this as an alternative example design inspired by the female form…
This audio slideshow looks at a new Cambridge University Exhibition: Assembling Bodies, which explores representations of the body in art, medicine, science and anthropology.
Recently we’ve added a few new bits and pieces to the site. Some new features on the side column to make it easier to link in to your other social networks, and pick up on comment threads where they exist, and a share facility under each post to make it easier to bookmark and share stuff of interest. The header has gone and will be replaced by a random rotating selection of images generated by second year. Also, the ‘ask a graduate’ page has been quietly retired as I’ve realised that I don’t have time to maintain it (or even get it sorted in the first place), but needless to say most of the people asked about this are listed in the Vis Com people links, and would be happy to receive emails and enquiries from you.
If there are additional changes you’d like to see please let us know by adding comments to this post, and where possible we’ll do our best to accomodate them.
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