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

Letters

Letter A,
Alphabet
Peter Blake, 2007
demonstrates his passion for collecting letters and imagery.

Shutters
Ben Eine, 2002- 2007
Made transition from guerilla graffitti to commissioned compositions


Alphabet for Alphaville
Scott Tepin, 2008
One storey urban dwellings which are animated with futuristic fantasy.

The Bastard Word
Fiona Banner, 2006-7
Images of fighter planes

Mapplethorpe Alphabet II
Amandine Alessandra, 2009
Vinyl gloves, a scanner and key means of communication, her hands

Alphabet of caught fish
Joanne Young, 2009
Forlorn fish which have been skewered by peculiarly shaped fish hooks. Grotesque tone as fish not hooked conventiallu through the lip.


Exclamation Point, from Exclamation Point, Comma and Question Mark
Andrea D'Aquine
Explores the imagined personalities and neurosis of various punctuation marks. Surreal images which maintain a darkly comic tone. Similar to David Shrigley and Edward Gorey.

Happiness is a Warm Gun
Matthias Ernstberger, 2005
Poster was part of a series documenting punctuation symbols, where each symbols was celebrated on a poster created by a different designer. Ernstberger was given the apostrophe, whose job it is to eliminate letters. Hence he chose to represent this with a revolver.

My collage of imagery of the letter 'o', never ending and constant