Jill Ashley Art & Design Blog: 2011

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.

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 Geffrye, http://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk/

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/