DP Review have posted a review of the Medium Format DSLR here.
Monthly Archive for March, 2010
A while back David Coyle sent me a link to some footage of American composer Robert Ashley, performing excerpts from his early 1980’s ‘TV opera’s’. I was quite amazed by them. You can find out more about Ashley here.
Joshua Davis interview by Hillman Curtis posted here. For more of Joshua Davis’s work you can visit his site here. Josh has also been working on Hype with Brendan Dawes, a means to make experimenting with code in Actionscript a little more accessible. You can dowload the Hype plugin from the HYPE site here. If you really want to get into this you can also attend a day workshop in Paris in June where Joshua Davis will be presenting at OFFF conference and a 2 day workshop a few days later in Barcelona.
I was initially, when given the opportunity to post on this website, going to write an extensive and decently written post about the symbiotic relationship between design and music, and how, the deeper I get into my work and the industry my work is situated in, I find that designers, in particular, graphic designers, straddle an interesting position when it comes to music.
This well-written, well-resourced and well-documented post will now be clumsily written and hastily posted in response to the news that the club night, Optimo (Espacio) will be soon to finish.
Now, whether or not Optimo will continue in any real fashion is beyond my attention at the moment, because what I want to firmly establish is that, I believe Optimo is the best night club in the world, for the essential reason that it is a club night that has run every Sunday, for the last 12.5 years, in Glasgow.
What makes this even more incredible, is the sheer determination and talent of it’s two creators, JG Wilkes and JD Twitch.
What may or may not be known, is that Jonnie Wilkes (JG Wilkes) designs 99% of all the flyers and posters for Optimo.
Now thats a poster and accompanying flyer, every one different, every week, for 12.5 years.
I find it hard to think of any other working designer that creates that amount of output, of that standard every week.
I still find it mindblowing that Jonnie Wilkes designs the poster and flyer for every Optimo.
There are exactly 7 more Optimo (Espacio) nights at the Sub Club, before it ceases to exist as a Sunday night club night.
I urge everyone to go to at least one.
I find this terribly sad, if only because it means there will be no more posters scattered around Glasgow, which absolutely beat any other poster design I think I have ever seen, anywhere.
The perfect relationship between music and design, and I doubt anyone really noticed.
If you’re doing any projects about identity design or logos or branding, would highly recommend the current edition of (the almost always excellent) Graphic Magazine. If I had more time right now I’d try to kick off a discussion about what Identity Design and Branding might actually be, but time is short.
Just putting this, very much under construction, project out there to hopefully get some more invitations to other archives. If you have lots of videos, or suggestions of collections, please let me know.
Synth Pop version coming soon…
Article about the future of the Communication Art and Design course, with a nod to all the thinking and that we’re doing here at Glasgow.
From CR Blog here
(image ©: Melanie Bonajo)
Some recent trips, rounded up:
Berlin, hosted by baxpax kreuzberg:
The moral of the story is don’t take pictures at 5 in the morning. The motto of the story is a very good bookshop, making an exhibition of itself, and Yale. Do you read me ?! You might now be too late to visit the kiosk, but we also visited Node, Berlin Haushoch and Carolin Kurz. Many thanks to them for their generous hospitality. The Bauhaus isn’t open on tuesdays it transpires, (but it is on wednesdays).
The thing linking Rotterdam and Berlin is that they’re both full of Kunst.
A compelling if slightly strange city, permanently grey and very modern/corporate/industrial. The biggest port in Europe by a long stretch, Portscapes was an exhibition at museum boijmans van beuningen, reflecting on this expansion, featuring Glasgow artist Ilana Halperin amongst others. Fucking Good Art. Another great exhibition and venue: Quickscan at the Dutch National Photographic Museum. Diverse and exhilarating. Included Melanie Bonajo (image above), Club Donny and many more. Track down the accompanying publication if you can (or lend it from me).
And Max, this is because I feel bad about putting that video up, even though you do rock the shop:
Visual Communication, Class of ‘03, Rotterdam 2010 (biker names, left to right: Joomla, Dreamweaver, Firefox, Drupal, Flash)
Following the discussion last week in the ‘creative research’ review, about ways of using the web for smarter searches (beyond google and google images), I came across this Daguerreobase database of Daguerreotypes. Its a good example of some of the things we were talking about, such as searching out archives and collections. I imagine this type of digital archiving will only increase over time, and with the development of ideas around the Semantic web (”…an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.” Tim Berners-Lee), the depth and richness of resources we can locate online will expand.
Happy Birthday to Ronald Searle illustrator!
A message from LongLunch…
April sees the first in a series of free events we’re running at the Apple Store in Glasgow (see you do get some things for nothing in a recession).
These free talks will follow a similar format to normal LongLunch events but will start a lot earlier (6-6:30pm), only last for about 45mins and feature only Scottish based design talent. Makes a change eh!
First up is the excellent:
GRAPHICAL HOUSE
http://www.graphicalhouse.co.uk/
Thursday 15th April 2010
Apple Store, Buchanan Street
Glasgow G1 2JX
PLEASE BOOK A SEAT BY EMAILING:
neely@longlunch.com
We’re asking you to email and let us know you’re coming to make sure we hire-in the right A/V equipment etc – we don’t want 100 folk all crowded round a MacBook!
More information will be available soon on our website and FaceBook page.
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