Friday 30 December 2011

Linda Marie Young


Linda Maria Young's designer boxes are luxuriously made for special occasions such as weddings etc
I like how it closes.


 Protype made out of paper

 I then enlarged my net by 100% and cut it out of card, laid strips of collaged typography down and sealed with PVA.
Final box, colourful and fun.


Stylist's front cover

Issue 104, front cover features illustrator Helen Musselwhite's 3D paper model. Assembled without gluing it down.

Creative Review

December 2011

In which Gavin Lucas writes ' with the next generation of designer toys all you have to do is cut, fold, glue and play.' There was a template for a paper toy, which could be customised into different characters.

Completed Character

Launch Issue

Rankin has launched his new magasine Hunger (http://www.hungertv.com/) 'for the culturally and visually hungry'



The fashion spread reads 'I am never letting go, until we are one' I liked the playful illustration and colourful imagery.

Wednesday 28 December 2011

Visit to Manchester


A = The Whitworth Art Gallery, http://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/
Dark Matters


Air Pressure


Typography Hand Lettering

Johnny Hannah

Bob and Roberta Smith

Dottie Angel

Stefan Sagmeister- Austrian born graphic designer who has a design agency based in New York. He is renowned for his innovative typography. Often created using everyday objects and places.


Marian Bantjes- Canadian graphic artist, who works in many disciplines but much of her output is for magasines and books. creates lettering out of unusual materials.

Visit to London

A = Whitechapel Gallery
B = The Geffrye
C = British Museum

Whitechapel Gallery, http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/home
Wilhem Sasnal,
Kacper and Anka, 2009

Wilhelm Sasnal,
Kacper, 2009

Mark Titchner, 2010
A point suspended in nothingness
Digital Giclee print on Somerset Satin


John Latham
Based on Review of a Dictionary, Tadpole- Taffrail', 2004
Photo etching printed on Minger paper

Roni Horn
Double, 2011
Pigment print on hahnemuhle matt paper

Government Art Collection, selected by Cornelia Parker
'Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain'
Displayed in a rainbow around the room
Richard Wentworth,
Red Eight
1987

Patrick Caulfield
Crying to the Walls: My God! My God! Will she relent?, 1973

Adam Dant
Come on England, 2000

Barrie Cook
No. 2 Untitled, 1976
Andy Warhol
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, 1985
Jenny Holzer
Protect me from what I want, 1991

Jeff Koons
Amore, 1988



The British Museum, http://www.britishmuseum.org/ 
Q & A with Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry with the Kenilworth AM1
Pilgrimage to the British Museum
Grayson Perry, 2011
Poster to the exhibition, shows the BM to be a place of enlightenment and wonder.


The Rosetta Vase
Grayson Perry, 2011
Glazed Ceramic


 Hold your Beliefs Lightly
Grayson Perry, 2011
Computerised embroidery on silk

Tomb Guardian
Grayson Perry, 2011


Cardon Copy

'Cardon Copy takes the vernacular of self -distributed fliers and tear offs we have all seen in our neighbourhoods. It involves hijacking these unconsidered fliers and redesigning them overpowering their message with a new visual language. I then replace the original with the redesign in its authentic enviroment.' http://cardoncopy.com/




Shut the Door!! Please ...
 Photocopier code 8770
 Souped up Poster:

Script Typeface

American Advertising Script- gives illusions of grandure, more formal


French Advertising Script


Italian Advertising Script




Modern Magasine Typography


Will Miller
Chicago Illinois
Influenced by city life, so modular. Work has architectural qualities