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It was Student Week over on Newspaper Club last week. Loads of useful advice, articles and links that will be of interest to all Vis Commers (Com Desers), especially those about to graduate. Nice little guest appearance from 2010 GSA graduate Michael Bow in there too.
*Nothing to do with Fresher’s Week
Tuesday 24th January
11.00am
APFEL (A Practice for Everyday Life)
Contact / Emma Thomas t 020 7739 9975
Former RCA students producing intelligent graphic design from a small but perfectly formed studio in Bethnal Green. Best quote of the week “We would never want to get too big that we wouldn’t be able to sit around one table”. Check out an article about them in Elephant Magazine Issue 9 (available from Analogue Books ).
APFEL can be found HERE
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1.00pm
GAIL ARMSTRONG Illustrator
Contact / Gail Armstrong t 020 8291 9153
Busy former GSA student producing intricate paper illustrations for a varied London and American client base. A great example of how to maintain a thriving creative life, be a mother and a Photoshop guru.
Check out Gail’s work HERE
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4.30pm
BIG ORANGE ILLUSTRATION STUDIO
Contact / Ulla t 020 7739 7765
Great to catch up with Dan Williams and a few old friends at this vibrant illustration studio. Great advice and insight from Paul Davis who let us see a sample of his published work. Former GSA student Emma Houlston was also generous with her advice for shaping a career after graduating.
See Emma’s work HERE
Check out Paul Davis HERE
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Wednesday 25th January
10.00am
OPX
Contact / David Bennett t 020 7729 6295
Multi award winning design agency welcomed GSA for an hour of shared thoughts and ideas. Pleased to see that they fill a wall in their board room with inspiration (Post-it notes, ephemera, colour printouts, drawings and scribbles) to assist idea generation for each project. Their philosophy is to involve the client as early as possible in the design process – a blend of inspiring and interrogating them – asking who, what, why and when.
Check out some of their studio work HERE
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1.00pm
THE PARTNERS
Contact / Alex Woolley or Jess Harvey t 020 7689 4625
Alex and Jess are younger designers at The Partners and took us on a creative journey through their favourite projects. Each team works with an ideas book or sketchbook before any refinement of a concept on the Mac. This approach means that the designers are less precious about the work and allows them to reflect on the qualities of communication and meaning.
Check out the award winning work HERE
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4.30pm
THE CHURCH OF LONDON
Little White Lies Magazine
Contact / Matt Bochenski t 020 7729 3675
Thanks to Matt, Willo and Adam who gave us a unique insight into the ‘architecture’ of LWLies covering every aspect of its production. For students in the first year of a four year progression, this was invaluable. It was useful to see how they constructed their typefaces, the programmes used and where the inspiration comes from. Read some more HERE
GSA students might be interested in a LWLies creative brief HERE – great opportunity to work on a ‘real’ project.
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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.
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.
Foam in Amsterdam are staging The Future of the Photography Museum.
“The point is that fashion is the armour to deal with the reality of everyday life.”
We’ve mentioned Daguerreotypes before, but factor tumblr in to that equation, and of course, its obvious, you get My Daguerreotype Boyfriend… Where early photography meets extreme hotness.
To those of you studying at (or former students of) GSA, it’ll be self-evident that degree show opens this week, and runs for the next week, till Sat. Opening times here. For any external audience, please feel free to come and have a look round this final degree show in the Foulis building.
Looking forward to Friday’s opening, the forecast looks bleak, but viewers may be relieved to know that the relative humidity is down to 61%, from today’s 92%, and visibility will be very good.
The vis com degree show site is here.
Image top: Newbery building.
Last year I participated in an artist residency programme called And’art in Marrakech. As part of the residency artists were given the opportunity to help facilitate workshops at a Blind School.
Here’s a quick summary of what happened in the workshops written by the organisers of the residency.
The workshops were part of And’Art Marrakech held by Terre Sans Frontière and were based at the University of Law in Marrakech. The idea of doing this project stemmed from trying to break the boundaries between the visually impaired and the sighted. This was realised by bringing the sighted and the visually impaired together in the same space to share their experience of the surrounding environment.
Photography Workshop
Four visually impaired students were given disposable cameras to document twenty four hours of their everyday life. They were to take a picture by their senses, for example when they heard or smelt something that triggered a memory or idea.
The students made a description of the reasoning behind each photograph by Dictaphone or Braille.
After processing the pictures, a textual annotation was added in Arabic, English and Braille near each picture.Atika -
“I felt the warmth coming from a lamp and I am stood under the light while taking a picture of it.”“I was lost on an empty pave then I took the picture so you can tell me where I was.”
“Picture of five fountains that I used to take pictures of when I was not blind, and now I’m taking a picture of them and I’m blind.”
Mostapha -
“I take a picture of the sky because when I’m thinking I look up.”“I heard a sound that only comes from something that seems to be over the wall but I don’t know what it is.”
“What you can see in my pictures is that I am an introverted person because all the places I took in my pictures are closed.”
Fatima Ezzahra -
“This picture was taken at 11am because I was hearing a lot of noise that showed me that the place was full of tourists and Moroccan people, I heard voices and chants and storytellers and then I felt like if I was drawing a picture in my head of everything I was hearing.”“This picture was taken at 11.15 am near the jewels shop, I touched some jewels with my hands to see them.”
Badr -
“I remember, we watched a soccer match and I am sad because my team its losing (Real Madrid).”
Their work was exhibited in Remp’Art Gallery, Gueliz, Marrakech 24 September – 5 October 2010. The Photography workshops for the visually impaired were led and facilitated by Amy Smyth, Saad-Eddine Said and Thea Panter, with much appreciated help from Fouad Said and Salah Bekri in collaboration with the visually impaired students who are members of IDMAJ at Qadi Ayad University (Marrakesh).
Video Vortex is a really interesting conference run by the Institute of Network Cultures, and which focusses on the messy but interesting world of online video, the most recent one looking at Online Video Aesthetics, Platforms, Standards and the Trouble with Translation, Civil Rights, Online Video Art and Online Video as a Political Tool. It has much to say about how images are created and transmitted, and what’s really great is that the Readers which accompany each conference are free to download from their website.
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.
VC Photography Students, or indeed any student interested in photography, might be interested in contributing to the following: Developing the Librarys Photography Collections.
Gallery 4 at The Lighthouse hosts the Visual Communications Work In Progress show, incorporating Illustration, Photography and Graphic Design.
Come along to the opening night – Wednesday 26th January from 4.30pm - Free Admission throughout the exhibition.
Lighthouse opening times:
Mon, Wed – Sat 10.30am – 5pm
Tues 11am – 5pm
Closed Sundays
On Central Station, I found this nice collection from the GSA Archives, photographed by David Harding, former head of Environmental Art. He’s now working with Sam Ainsley and Sandy Moffat on AHM, and recently produced this interesting event around art and culture in Scotland today.
Couple of interesting posts via manystuff.org. Firstly a new exhibition by M/M of Paris, the favoured graphic designers of any altermodernist. Secondly, an intriguing looking publication on ‘Image Aggregation‘. I haven’t read it yet, but it looks interesting, and (i think, probably) ties to an interest in the ‘semantic web‘, ‘aggregation’ (in general) and new approaches to tagging and indexing.
I am really excited about the Shadow Catchers Exhibition at the V&A from 13 October 2010 – 20 February 2011.
At Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire, England, Floris Neusüss reveals his preparations to make a picture without a camera – a ‘photogram’ – of the window that formed the subject of William Henry Fox Talbot’s first photographic negative, made there in 1835. In the Abbey’s grounds Neusüss also demonstrates the creation of ‘cyanotype’ photograms using fern leaves, recreating the methods of the very first photographs.
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