Last night Varvara and myself went to the Illustrators Killed My Family and Burned My House Down exhibition, curated by the Illustration pathway at the LCC. The venue was amazing and the show really well put together. Below are just a few pictures of some of the work.
Mara Bueno
Induced Warmth
Mixed Media
Lauren Necati
ABC
Hand cut 220gsm card
Sergi Diaz
Klang
Letterpress
Illustration Exhibition from LCC Illustration students.
Private View 15th January
Love the flyer.
(via SGD Blog)
I want this in my house. Check out the website for more images from the Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective. A collaboration between Yale University Art Gallery, MASS MoCA, and the Williams College Museum of Art.
“Wall Drawing 51
All architectural points connected by straight lines.
June 1970
Blue snap lines
LeWitt Collection, Chester, Connecticut
First InstallationSperone Gallery, Turin, Italy and Museo di Torino, Turin, Italy
First Drawn ByP. Giacchi, A. Giamasco, G. Mosca”
“Wall Drawing 51 was first installed in 1970 in Turin at both the Museo di Torino and the Sperone Gallery. Although on display simultaneously, the site-specific nature of this drawing means that each installation is a unique version of the work. The content of the work rests entirely on the pre-existing space and was an indication of Sol LeWitt’s interest in more directly engaging the architectural context of his work.
LeWitt’s instructions for Wall Drawing 51 dictate “All architectural points connected by straight lines.” Using the simplest and most technically precise means available, Wall Drawing 51 comprises hundreds of blue lines of varying length stretching from one architectural detail to another, including door frames, columns, fire alarms, etc. Employing a chalk snap line, a contractor’s tool that is used to create straight lines on flat surfaces, this drawing focuses the viewer’s attention on the architecture of the space. Each corner on the wall is connected to any and all surrounding points with a straight chalk line. These lines make a complex web of marks that move the eye back and forth across the wall, highlighting, for instance an electrical socket’s relationship to a door frame, an air duct’s relationship to an outlet.”
I love spirograph! Great work, as always from Company.
“We were invited to collaborate with ‘g’ (graphic design studio), at the Design Walk 2008 in Athens, Greece. The idea for our project was taking Co. and g, to make Cog; the tooth of a gear and a symbol of collaboration.
We designed a cog tool and invited the public to create their own ‘spirograph’ posters, thus extending the collaboration further into an interactive workshop.”
Really love this project Beaux-Arts De St-Brieuc from Benoit Lemoine
“A poster and presentation flyer for the preparatory class for the entrance exams to applied art and architecture schools. The typography is created from superimposed colored paper sheets. This play on superimposition stems from notions of repetition, of preparatory sketches, of exercises… inherent to learning, and that will punctuate the life of these future students of arts. The sheets of paper, laid on the ground, present a sort of landscape, alluding to the school’s geographical location.”
Varvara, myself and Elliot went to a One Dot Zero workshop a few weeks ago. When leaving we saw this installation. Amazing.
“Multi-media art and design studio troika have been commissioned by onedotzero to create an installation as part of a live multi-sensory identity representing ‘onedotzero adventures in motion’, and the theme ‘citystates’.
it will draw on the layers that form a city, playing with typography and abstract poetry. this hybrid art / communications / design project will take the form of a modern digital zoetrope: a cylindrical tower displaying a multitude of audio-visual outputs to stunning effect.
audio by autobam”
Yesterday, me and James visited a place we both love – Barbican Centre – to see an amazing interactive installation by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, who I have mentioned not so long ago. It is free and definitely worth checking out.
On entering the space, participants’ shadows are cast on the wall. Monitored by a video tracking system, each shadow tunes in to a radio frequency, changing channels as it moves around the gallery. The outline of a projected shadow affects the tuning, while its size controls the volume, thus the human body becomes an antenna able to tune into different frequencies. The resulting sound environment is a continuously evolving composition created by multiple contributors.
Everything Duncan Wilson does is amazing.
“Inspired by an encounter with a snow covered park bench; the experience of disturbing the surface, leavings ones mark or discovering the trace of a previous presence. The Snowbench uses visco-elastic memory foam and diaphragm valves to retain the imprint of the user, documenting the physical interaction.
The bench becomes an icon of the object and situation that inspired it, evoking memories of an experience that contrasts with the present environment and context.”
“Six Students from Design Products, Industrial Design Engineering and Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art designed a landscape of concept furniture derived from the statue-like forms of people sitting, standing or leaning against walls engaged in playing the PlayStation Portable (PSP). Visitors to the exhibition are able to enter these forms and play on the console while exposed to an audio installation echoing player activity.
The cocoon-like nature of the furniture is related to the experience of playing games on the PSP. Initial inspiration came from observing group play at a barbecue: when still light in the early evening, a group of players put their coats over their heads to create shade and see the PSP’s screen better. Despite not being able to see each other at all, they continued to happily taunt, insult and otherwise interact with each other as is the norm throughout the course of a game. Later on, the students observed people huddled together during play, adopting statue-like poses and postures – some sitting, some standing, some leaning – largely unaware of the party going on around them.
This everyday re-appropriation and simple, utilitarian acts on the part of the players became useful metaphors for what the students found most interesting about the PSP, as well as other devices like it: that they are simultaneously public and private objects, that they encourage shared experience but require a degree of isolation and immersion, and that proximity is as much a factor as mobility. We aimed to question and address the immateriality and relatively new language of use of these devices. What impact will they have on future patterns of living?”
Saw this a while back, but cant remember what blog i saw it on, so im sorry for not linking back through to you. Really like this poster, very interesting way of using letterpress by Studio Sport.
“Poster for the information event of the visual communications departement of the Zurich University of arts. The images were pre-printed on an inkjet-printer and over-printed on a letter-press machine. In collaboration with Andrea Koch.”
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