Communication Design Department Blog / Glasgow School of Art
Vis Com People Sarah Fishlock (image above) and James Bettney are part of the Design and Democracy Exhibition which is currently running at the Scottish Parliament, and well worth visiting if you can.
In other exhibition news, David Kerr, fellow vis com person, is exhibiting his Tesco University work (see below) in this exhibition at the RCA, inspired by this lecture from the University of Strategic Optimism.
Interesting article in today’s Guardian about the new building for Central St Martins in London. While there’s a nice mention of the Mackintosh building, the most interesting bit (for me) is a comment from one of CSM’s current students (called Tuesday Rigby, no joke); “We’re worried that it’s lost its charm…”
Will be worth keeping an eye on how CSM’s shiny new premises affects its students and staff and understanding any issues that may be echoed in the new GSA building.
Seeing as the Rapture didn’t occur on Saturday, you might want to tune in to Adam Curtis’s new series, ‘All Watched Over by Machines of Love and Grace‘ – What I hope will be an entertaining, insightful, and probably eclectic look at the politics, culture, society and technology we’re currently immersed in. All this on the back of a weekend where Twitter has been at the centre of a legal storm over privacy, and the geographical impotence of national laws has been tested, firstly by the aforementioned micro-blogging site (or rather the users of) and secondly by a shrewd Scottish Newspaper.
Conflating the issues of ‘freedom of speech’ here with the widely reported use of Twitter and other social media sites in the Arab-Spring would devalue the latter and elevate the former, but they possibly feature somewhere on the same spectrum.
Meanwhile, closer to home, super-injunctions at GSA prevent me from telling you that the Head of ———– was recently seen ——— a ——— with a learning outcome.
This really interesting post; Tahrir Square: Social Media, Public Space (on Design Observer), looks at the parallel role of virtual and physical space in recent events in the Middle East. With #Jan25, #Bahrain and the like ’trending’ on twitter, (not to mention the implication of Wikileaks earlier in the story), there’s much talk of this being a ‘communication’ revolution, but the article contextualises this nicely alongside some analysis of shared public spaces.
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.
Parody and/or pastiche I know, but Loose Tweets Sink Fleets appeals for its topicality (real word?) in light of the facebook going-ons of the soon-to-be new head of MI6 .
Zen Bound has won several game design awards for it’s graphics for the iPhone. The game is not competitive and has no goal to achieve. It simply is wrapping virtual string around a wooden sculpture. Kind of pointless when you can play with real string. The actual activity is intended to be a contemplative act and I guess impress folks sitting next to you with the graphics on your iPhone as well. Bit of fun.
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