Entries from February 2008
February 14th, 2008 · Adam · 2 Comments
Whilst at university in Bristol I stumbled across a little art and design shop called Soma. It had a wonderful range of books, magazine and design trinkets. But what caught my eye most was the wide selection of prints, my personal favourites were by designer Anthony Burrill.
These two are made using woodblock lettering which gives them a unique quality to each edition. The poster statements themselves are taken from conversations he has overheard. They both provoke totally different idea of the people who have said them.
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Tags: Design · Typography
February 14th, 2008 · Ash · No Comments
This is a topical blog entry for today. A project has been comminsioned in New York for February, where banners of Love have been displayed in Times Square. The public project, assigned to 12 graphic designers and illustrators, was to render 15 typographic posters of the word ‘Love’. The designers were set the open brief of interpreting the word love.
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Tags: Design
February 12th, 2008 · Ric · 1 Comment
British photographer Tim Hetherington won the top prize at the 2008 World Press Photo awards, with the image above of an unidentified US soldier resting in a bunker in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan. The valley is infamous as the site of downing of a US helicopter and has seen some of the most intense fighting in the country. Hetherington’s photograph is part of a picture story that was also awarded 2nd Prize in General News Stories.
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Tags: Photography
February 11th, 2008 · Ric · No Comments
Jersey based artist Jason Butler is currently exhibiting in Guernsey at ‘The Gallery’ in Mansell Street.
The work on show at ‘The Gallery’ comprises of portraits, both commissioned and private and the ongoing body of work, ‘Outsiders’. A number of drawings will hang along side a large number of paintings.
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Tags: Art
February 9th, 2008 · Adam · No Comments
The humble Lego brick, the toy that builds toys and the plastic seed of architects everywhere. Fifty years ago the Lego company put forward the patent for the plastic Lego brick. The interlocking pieces with their stud-and-tube system was to prove ‘Toy of the Century’. Since that day 400,000,000,000 Lego elements have been made which have been incorporated into many different Lego World genres. These include Space, Knights, Pirates, Town, Oceanic and recently film theme Lego like Batman, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Harry Potter. Personally Pirate and Space Lego were my favourite types, the Pirate ship Barracuda being the ultimate boxed Lego construction.
There is an American artist who’s medium is the nobbly brick, his name is Nathan Sawaya. He is one of only a few official Lego artists, his work is currently touring America in an show entitled ‘The Art of the Brick’.
Tags: Architecture · Art · Design
February 6th, 2008 · Ric · No Comments
A new photographic exhibition entitled ‘Eye to Eye’ opens soon at the greenhouse gallery.
Phil Sayer’s exhibition ‘Eye to Eye’ focuses on well-known artists, architects and designers of our time photographed in their studios or workspaces. This has been a recurring theme for Sayer’s work and many of the works on show have been private commissions by the artists, architects or designers themselves or by those who have commissioned work by them. The portraits include those of Vivienne Westwood, Antony Gormley, David Hockney, Paul Smith, Mary Quant and Norman Foster.
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Tags: Art · Photography
February 6th, 2008 · Adam · 1 Comment
Popstar Britney Spears, the once clean cut girl turned toxic rehab publicity mother has taken the design industry by storm. An actual storm I hear you ask, no a logo fuelled storm. Her new perfume ‘I Believe’ by Elizabeth Arden has been accused of shamlessly plundering another brand for its logo. The organization in question is Canadian charity Mondonation, at the moment they are selling t-shirts with a portion of the money going to a charity of your choice. On the t-shirt a slogan of your choice is written, this is meant to be something you believe in hence their ‘Believe’ logo.
The two logos have a striking similarity, first with the pink letter ‘i’ closely followed by the green colour, weight, and lowercase nature. These of course may all be coincidental elements, but on the other hand they may not. To have so many design aspects mirrored seems highly improbable. Will she do it again? If she does I’m sure everyone involved will want to hit her one more time.
Tags: Branding · Music · Typography
