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/

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