Talks from two great designers, Roy Mohan Shearer and Emlyn Firth, this Friday (5th March), 4pm 2nd year vis com studio. Come one, come all.
Monthly Archive for February, 2010
Vis Com alumni and illustrator Emily Chappell has an exhibition entitled ‘he sleeps with the fishes’ opening at the Tron Glasgow on Monday 1st March.
image above: © emily chappell
This post highlights a few events coming up. Of particular note are the Polyark II events at Strathclyde, continuing the work of Cedric Price, (work pictured), operating in his preferred conditions of ‘calculated uncertainty’. Which we like.
The Untamed Tiger: the illustrator and the self initiated project
MA Illustration: Authorial Practice at University College Falmouth hosts its 8th annual illustration forum
Friday 12 March 2010, 9.30am – 4.30pm
Woodlane Lecture Theatre, Woodlane Campus, Falmouth
Tickets: £15 external visitors, £5 UCF staff and students
A day of presentations and debate on the theme of enterprising illustrators who generate their own projects, creating their own employment and work on their own terms. The Forum will explore the development of new autonomies and enterprising initiatives in illustration.
The picture says it all really. A much more detailed link-laden post to follow based on recent travels. This post is just a mental note to do it. More on EasyJet here. A few more pictures here.
Rethink Scholarship at Langara 2010 Call for Entries from Rory O’Sullivan and Simon Bruyn on Vimeo.
If you are interested there is a scholarship competition to study for 2 years at Langara college in Vancouver. It also includes a placement at Rethink Studio in Vancouver as well.
If you like the pop up book format of the video you might like this video by shit disco produced a few years ago by illustration grad Jan Lun Lee.
Newspaper Club, if you want short-runs of newspapers printed. Still in Beta, so be kind.
I promise I’m not a Radio 4 spokeswoman, but an intreguing new manifesto was discussed on Material World yesterday (if you don’t want to listen to the whole thing it starts at 19mins). Techo-internet-computer-genius/theorist/inventor Jaron Lanier discusses his new writing on how we might have allowed the Internet to play too much of a role in our lives. He calls it ‘a Humanist manifesto, and hopes it will create a new form of humanism that puts computers in a subservient role.
He is quite critical of ‘open culture’ which he believes has not resulted in the collaborative dream once imagined. This could be quite controversial.
Also it seems he doesn’t want us just to read little bits of his manifesto, so all or nothing I guess!
Glasgow Film Festival is fast approaching. Great chance to see some amazing films, and also network with the people in Glasgow (and beyond) producing and making moving image work.
So we’re off to Berlin in a week or so, (and then 3rd/4th graphics next month), and coincidentally, the current issue of eye magazine has several special features on the city.
As an aside, the last few editions of eye magazine (72 and 73) have been full of interesting and useful stuff about illustration, graphics, graphic designers as illustrators, the changing world of photography, and generally stuff that asks lots of useful and interesting questions about these ‘distinctions’, their validity, and their place in the shifting world of visual communications. Strongly recommended.
(image by HORT).
I got this book recently and anyone is welcome to borrow it once I’m done. Futurist Alvin Toffler wrote it in the 70′s speculating on how society would cope with the acceleration of change as a result of technology and growth of population.
He defines Futureshock as like culture shock, where one is taken out of their comfort zone and they no longer understand customs/formalities/environment. With culture shock you can experience unknown territories then return to what you know. Futureshock is used by Toffler to express how we might not cope with the rapid changes in our culture. Basically imagine you went to a foreign country where everything was different, but the place you came from ceased to exist… wouldn’t that be A BIT SCARY.
Perhaps a clunky explanation but an intriguing concept I promise.
Apparently, writing about music is like dancing about architecture. I did google to check this long-held-dear quote, that I thought had been coined by Lester Bangs, but it turns out it might have been first muttered by Elvis Costello. Or Zappa. Or it possibly might have been Laurie Anderson and she actually said “writing about art…”.
Thankfully, this thing I’m making a pigs-ear of introducing is neither specifically about music or architecture, though they both come in to it. I’m hoping there might be some dancing, but it’s probably more dominated by ‘art’. With plenty of film and design thrown in too.
We’ve got 28 blogs coming up on Central Station – one each day in February, under the slightly dumb banner of ‘MIX-BLOG’ – which are dedicated to SOUND, and where it intersects with creativity.
We’ve asked our expert, passionate, insightful members to explore a panoply of good vibrations – from Sonic Art to Synaesthesia via the complex aesthetic codes of Subcultural Style. There are projects, podcasts and plenty of personal perspectives, hopefully with less alliteration and a lot more inspiration. Look out too for a few ex-vis com graduates in the mix…
Just one last thing: we want you to get involved too. Our 28 members are bravely taking the floor and putting this brand new material out there, just for you. We’d like you to comment, contribute, collaborate, corroborate. Sound-off, or show your appreciation. Just make some noise. [+ We're hoping that the most interesting discussions and collaboration will form the basis of a project. ]
Mix-blog#1 is by brian at Two Open Ears – he’s challenging designers to consider sound and how it shapes the everyday experience.
(and apologies for more Central Station ‘spam’… I will post something else unrelated to censta soon, promise )
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