Anja sent in this following link, from the Mobile Museum, calling for submission on the theme of money. If you a) did the currency project, b) did the banking project, or c) are the head of the Royal Bank of Scotland, you might be interested in submitting some work. Thanks to Anja for the link.
Monthly Archive for January, 2012
You’ve read about the exhibition, now consider the possibility of perhaps coming to the after-party.
The arrow and the frame on Click Opera manages to touch on a whole range of topics relevant to current projects; Banking, currency, wild knowledge, art archive, not to mention an interesting reflection on Google adwords. And not only does it contain some very interesting thoughts in the continued thread of good and useful arguments against ternary or binary thinking, but it is also awash with great hyperlinks.
While on the topic, big thanks to Anja and Chris for their currency workshop earlier in the week. There are some pictures below, and a link to Anja and Chris’s bookmarks on the topic here.
12 hours til our flight back home, just chillin’
— see you on monday 
GSA Pecha Kucha VIII. Follow that link there for tickets.
With; Sarah Smith, Lucie Potter, Simon Chadwick, Tony Dunworth, Donald Barr, David Reat, Edward Alexander, Fi Scott, Dress for the Weather, Kate V Robertson and Nathalie De Brie.
Wed 1st Feb. Students Union. 6pm.
Recent work by Chris Kohler.
Friday 27th January
Downstairs Space
Skypark Gallery
5 – 8pm
Announcing Glasgow School of Art’s 4th Year Visual Communication Work in Progress show!
Preview
Thurs 2 Feb. 7-9pm
The Glue Factory
22 Farnell Street
G4 9SE
Exhibition Week Opening Times:
3-9 Feb. 12-6pm
Sponsored by Williams Brothers Brewery.
More info here.
Folk might be interested in this forthcoming event: I personally have some questions about the idea of ‘occupy design’ but undoubtedly the event will be a melting pot of ideas and proposals and one which could lead to some interesting outcomes.
‘This Space Is Not For Hire’ will take place at the Bank of Ideas, an occupied former bank near Liverpool Street Station.
Running across the afternoons of Saturday the 28 and Sunday 29 January 2012, will be a range of talks on topics such as: radical forms of communication and design activism; the precariousness of design employment; and exposing and reflecting upon the ways design is used to give a friendly veneer to the worst kinds of Corporate behaviour.
via Eye blog » Higher ground. Occupy Design is an opportunity to change design, and design for change..
According to the students at NID, Seb is really Bill Gates in disguise. And Ross, obviously, is Tom Cruise. The boys seem to have survived their stomach bug and are back in school, hopeful they will be well enough for the eight hour bus ride to the desert tonight
highlights so far:
beth – cheap fags
lydia – her cheese sandwich
callum – photographing EVERYTHING
seb – becoming recognized as the worlds richest man
ross – becoming recognized as a worldwide heart-throb / scientologist
yours truly,
bill (seb) and tom (ross)
Thats right – a typographic synthesizer. Custom built by Rob Meek and Frank Müller, it manipulates preloaded vectors like a synthesizer would to sound. Real time graphics in a cheeky little package. Would love to see it hooked up with a mixer/effects box somehow so that it could manipulate sound and image simultaneously. Or if an input sound could affect the outcome…
Interesting stuff though with some real potential… I want to play!
Meek FM Typographic Synthesizer from lettersaremyfriends on Vimeo.
Obama Says So Long to SOPA, the Controversial Internet Piracy Legislation, as reported by Forbes, and here by the BBC. The question still remains though; in what form might this ‘type’ of legislation next re-appear?
Here’s Clay Shirky talking about the topic at TED. To read more, try Lawrence Lessig, or this piece on copyleft, as a starting point.
“It is clear that copyright is being misdirected from its original intention to that of meeting the needs of corporations desperate to safeguard existing profits and create new markets artificially.” From: Copyleft and copyright / Eye 55
“All the boys are feeling a bit wobbly today, just left Ross hugging a bucket in the hotel room, the intrepid Lydia and Beth are off filming somewhere and me and Callum are just catching up on emails. (Having a good time for the most part, but being a voyeur on slum life can be a bit unsettling). Here is a video of one of our many chauffeurs.”
Includes a free screening of How to Start a Revolution and Discussion with the Director.
6pm, Friday 20th January,
Andrew Stewart Cinema, G12, University Avenue
Free entry, open to all
Stone, Paper, Scissors – Drawing Glasgow
11am – 1pm
Saturday 21st January
Pearce Institute Govan
Free
Drawing and talking for all ages and abilities. The theme is Glasgow – what its like now, how it used to be and what’s going to happen to it. You might want to draw buildings, people, streets, parks, parties, weather, memories, stories, anything and everything. Bring pictures, photos, objects, ideas or anything else that you think should be recorded in drawings about Glasgow.
Pens, pencils, scissors, paper provided
Any questions, speak to Bob, Village Square.
Another excellent article on the Design Altruism blog. This time an interview with Daniel Drenan about his work with the Jamaa Al-Yad collective. Here’s a short quote as a taster:
The academic design realm separates “designer” work from cultural manifestations that are just as much of merit, or it tries to recategorize former historical works as “graphic design,” which is wrongful in approach as well as being a tautological deceit. We need to give credit where credit is due, period. Most of the “big-name” designers/illustrators I’ve worked for in my lifetime have never had one minute of university design training; they are the first to recognize that “design” as we know it in terms of its underlying crafts and trades has very proletarian and commercial roots.
The Students for a Democratic Society Conference has been organised to bring students from across Scotland together who want to transform student politics and our student unions. The conference aims to come to an agreed set of policies for education that student activists across Scotland can support and participate in.
Students from Aberdeen, Glasgow, Paisley, Dundee and Edinburgh will be joining the conference, we would encourage you to put forward suggestions here and join the conference on the 21st.
WHEN
January 21, 2012 at 11:00 AM
WHERE
Art School
Glasgow School of Art Student Union,
Glasgow School of Art Student Union,
468 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow
G2 3LW
Glasgow
G2 3LW
A small group of students and staff are currently visiting the NID in India. This is the first in an occasional series of digital postcards.
We’ve had constant sunshine since we got here,
hope all is well back up north.
(Film by Lydia)
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