On at the moment at Market Gallery, Telling Stories is an exhibition featuring the work of David Shrigley, Frank Quitely, Gary Erskine, Jamie Grant, Sorcha Edward, Stuart Murray, Anna Tanner, Mitch Miller and many others. Runs to the 6th March.
“Scotland is world renowned for its story telling. This exhibition aims to celebrate this legacy whilst examining the relationship between illustration, film and fine art and encourage discussion about how these seemingly autonomous media share common themes and motivations.”
Throughout the show there will be a program of talks and events.
My favourite observation from the VisCom London Study Trip
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Tags: Browns Design, Build, Company, Field, Pentagram, The Association of Illustrators, Tomato.
1st Year Department of Visual Communication
London Study Trip
24-27 January 2011
25.1.11
DAY 1
VISIT / 10.00am
- Company / Alex Swain
http://www.company-london.com/
- An informal insight into business acumen combined with how to take a client on a creative journey.
VISIT / 11.30am
- The Association of Illustrators / Paul Ryding
http://www.theaoi.com/
- There is very little former graduate Paul Ryding does not know about contemporary illustration.
VISIT / 1.00pm
- Tomato / Michael Horsham
http://www.tomato.co.uk/
- An intimate sharing of large and small projects from one of the most influential agencies. There portfolio goes back to 1991 and are continuing to work with Underworld.
VISIT / 4.00pm
- Pentagram / Jane Pluer
http://pentagram.com/en/portfolio/
- One of the most impressive offices in the creative industries with a workshop to match. Imperious work delivered with style and elegance.
26.1.11
DAY 2
VISIT / 11.00am
- Browns Design / Jonathan Ellery
http://brownsdesign.com/
- Jonathan engaged with the students immediately by asking how they defined art compared to design. Award winning work from a man who applauds the students form outside London including The Glasgow School of Art.
VISIT / 1.30pm
- Field / Vera-Maria Glahn
http://www.field.io/
- A German duo working with all the latest programming software and code to produce really beautiful ‘cross-media’ work. Cool rooftop garden with views over to the City of London.
VISIT / 4.30pm
- Build / Nicky and Michael Place with former graduate Lynne Devine
http://wearebuild.com/
- Michael allowed us to touch, feel and sniff the quality of his best design for print. Designers Republic guru happy to be working in a small agency with one of our best graduates.
Former (and hopefully future) speaker and Vis Com graduate Paul Ryding, working on www.thehoxtonwindowproject.com. Click through for work-in-progress video.
People are often asking me ‘what is zeitgeisty right now?’ And I generally respond “glitchy gif animated posters”. See:
and;
and;
A vote of thanks is due to Lizzie, Thomas, Dimitri and all at Lust, and Susana and Kai at Atelier Carvalho Bernau for being such welcoming and informative hosts when we descended in (possibly greater than expected) numbers last week during a field trip to the Netherlands. By friday, and back in Glasgow, thanks were also due to Momus for delivering a fantastic lecture called 27 Lies about the Mackintosh Building, a ‘delirious’ and distinctly non-pragmatic detour of the mind into many parallel worlds.
A more detailed post to follow about the Amsterdam trip.
Passing through witte de withstraat yesterday saw this exhibition, but unfortunately didn’t have time to go in. However, via retweet from v2, see that they’re putting their publication online:
Also in the ‘doing is thinking’ vein: http://www.dexigner.com/news/16225
So he’s not the Messiah?
Related documentary here (narration in Dutch but interviews in English, I hope you don’t have to do any proxy disguising to watch it…)
I’ve been trying to find out who created this Big Society graphic. Is it new, made to look old (like a battered paperback book)? Why? Is it old, the cover of a long lost tome from the 70′s or early 80′s, meant to bring gravitas to the much-mocked big society idea? Anyway, answers on a postcard.
Aside from these fairly superficial styling issues, there are possibly a few more complex uses of design going on at the heart of government. Also linked to the big society are the governments comically named ‘nudge unit‘, the Design Council and Baron Nat Wei, and this recent paper to come out of the Cabinet Office, entitled Mindspace, all about using various types of ‘design thinking‘ to influence (read ‘change’) behaviour.
Free Graphic Novels workshop with Metaphrog, Tues 8 March 2011, 4-6. More info by clicking that link. Just there. Organised by GSA Library.
Things to look at, things to read offers this compelling reflection on design education and the economy, as viewed through the prism of Lazlo Maholy Nagy resigning from the Bauhaus. Thanks to Keith Dodds for the original article and the link.
“For the Bauhaus begins now a time of stabilization conditioned by the length of its existence. As a consequence of the growing scarcity of money, it is demanded that it be productive, efficient – today more than ever…”
Literally feet away in the Atrium Gallery, comes the Written, Drawn, and Stapled talk and exhibition preview:
Thursday 10 February, 3.30-5pm
Talk: Design Seminar room, off Atrium Gallery, Fowlis Building: John Janssen & Les Coleman, whose collections are on show in the exhibition ‘Written, Drawn and Stapled’, with David Bellingham- followed by preview
Preview: Thursday 10 Feb, 5-7pm
Atrium Gallery
Written, Drawn, and Stapled
11 Feb – 3 March 2011
‘Written, Drawn, and Stapled’ is an exhibition of over a hundred American poetry books and periodicals covering the period 1965 -75, taken from the collections of John Janssen and Les Colman. Amongst the books on display, there are covers by Philip Guston, Larry Rivers, Helen Frankenthaler, Ed Ruscha, Alex Katz, Jim Dine, James Rosenquist, and artist/illustrator Joe Brainard. Exhibition in collaboration with RGAP (Research Group for Artists Publications)
More Info.
Friday 18th Feb: 5.30 pm Mack Lecture Theatre
Following his own maxim that “every lie creates a parallel world in which it is true”, Momus (Scottish musician and author of The Book of Scotlands and The Book of Jokes) sets out to tell twenty-seven fantastic lies about things which happen, have happened or will happen in Glasgow School of Art’s most famous building. His attempted lies will sometimes falter and fail, falling back into truths, reasonable and useful suggestions, and thoughts about lying itself.
http://imomus.com/
Hosted by GSA / State
Free but Ticketed: Momus: 27 Lies About the Mackintosh Building – Eventbrite.
D&AD are touring around the UK, bringing the best creatives, industry insight and information about the D&AD Student Awards. On Tuesday February 8th 2011, 11.00am –7.00pm they will be at Glasgow School of Art where there will be workshops and portfolio surgeries for students and they will also be talking about how to exhibit at New Blood.
It might be happening in the Mackintosh Lecture Theatre* but I can’t actually find this slightly useful piece of information. However, the timetable is as follows:
11.00am-12.30pm: D&AD Talk – Student Awards and New Blood with Franki Goodwin
12.30-1.30pm: University Network Tutors meeting and lunch
2.00-4.00pm: Industry led workshop with Navyblue
2.30pm – 4.30pm: Portfolio Surgery
5.30pm – 7.00pm: Industry Talk – Matt Jones, Creative Director at BERG
*EDIT: Looks like the BERG talk has been moved to the Deeprose Lecture Theatre at Glasgow Caledonian University. Directions and information will be supplied at GSA.
Tickets are free for network members but must be booked.
D&AD | Events | Glasgow Education Day.
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