Siggi Eggertsson at Pick Me Up

Went to Pick Me Up the other day at Somerset house, and I thought it was quite good, it was a really interesting exhibition...if you can even call it that, because it was a little bit more.
Screen printing workshops from Print Club and the ‘It’s Nice That’ cinema, nicely broke up the work on display, all of which was available to purchase. It was also nice to see an exhibition that was purely graphic ART, no major concept, no problem solving; just pretty things, and sometimes that’s all you need.
This piece above was my highlight though, a huge 2x2.5m quilt by Icelandic Siggi Eggertsson, made out of a massive 10,000 pieces.
Somerset House was also a very nice setting, Pick Me Up is on until 3 May.

Opposites Attract

WorDing

A dingbat typeface based on word association. The dingbats are based on the most commonly occurring words during word association experiments undertaken by the University of South Florida in 1973.
More than 6,000 participants produced nearly three-quarters of a million responses to 5,019 stimulus words. Participants were asked to write the first word that came to mind that was meaningfully related or strongly associated to the presented word.
For example, if given BOOK _________, they might write READ on the blank next to it. This procedure is called a discrete association task because each participant produces only a single associate to each word.

See if you can get what they are, R is probably the hardest, but they are very common words. Probably need to redo 'i', don't think its quite bright enough, if you catch my drift.

The Election Debate

why so blue?

So the first ever live election debate was on last night, and overall I thought it was quite good, I didn't feel the need to switch channels at least. No idea who i'm voting for, to quote Victoria Coren on Have I Got News For You last week; "you know those really great tennis matches where you think it's a shame that any player has to lose? Well it's the exact opposite of that."
Also was it just me or did the blue team visually stand out over the others? And thought it was quite interesting that in the edit of the closing statements put on ITV's YouTube channel (below), they've edited it so Nick Clegg speaks last, when on the Live broadcast he spoke first...why would they do that?

2012 Logo 1972

I've always really liked the London Olympic logo, I think it's the most original since Munich 1972. And these new badges posted on It's Nice That today are also very cool.
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/2609-london-2012-logo