Kingston Uni Show

My exhibition area for my Loss in London newspaper and my Dingbat typeface WorDing. Both can be seen further down my blog

here's a few other pieces that were displayed. The photos don't do them justice hence why a lot of other things didn't get put on here.


Dan Prettejohn
Portraits of champions of weird things. On the left we have the 6 time cheese rolling champ, and on the right the world champion Egg Roulette'r.

cheese rolling is this btw, as depicted in the awesome video/song Can You Give It by the Maccabees



Joe Provis
A quite beautiful drawing about something that i can't remember, aesthetically seductive though


Jess Harvey
Looking at making herself look like certain typefaces, based on when, where and who designed them. It's amazing what you can do with a couple of hairpieces and some make-up


Tom Digby
Proposing to repackage some of our best known products. I just like how amazingly pretty they are...quality screen prints


Mark Rogerson
A map of the world's economy - love a good map

To be Found

Loss In London Newspaper

caption on cover
Loss of human life is always tragic, and it is often the manner in which death occurs that resonates with us most, especially if we didn't know the deceased personally

Nike: Write the Future - Full Length

Awesome

Nike: Write the Future

If Carlsberg did Teamtalks

Not sure how much I like this really, just had to post it because its World Cup related. Phil Taylor's cheeky dart is a bit naff...i'm assuming they did it so everyone knows know he is, and Tevor Brooking's little quip just sounds forced. o well.

My World Cup 23

Barry in for Parker if he's fit

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

Four Letter Words

Four Letter Words from Rob Seward on Vimeo.

it's nice when you come across something that's relevant to work your doing.
Word association is something i'm exploring to further 'Words of Numbers'

"Four Letter Words is an installation made by Rob Seward. It consists of four units, each capable of displaying all 26 letters of the alphabet with an arrangement of fluorescent lights. The piece displays an algorithmically generated word sequence, derived from a word association database developed by the University of South Florida between 1976 and 1998. The algorithms take into account word meaning, rhyme, letter sequencing, and association."

taken from: http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/

HG Wells book covers

Brief:
Design a stunning and contemporary cover look for one of the 20th Century’s most acclaimed authors, HG Wells
Creative Challenge:
Known mostly for his Science Fiction writing, HG Wells also wrote incredible social novels that are still relevant today, covering topics such as the mid-life crisis, class, feminism, materialism, consumerism and love.

Description:
I wanted to strip the books down to their bare bones and effectively re-title them. The new ‘titles’ are well known sayings that give a prospective buyer a very basic idea of what the main plot is about. As HG Wells is predominantly known for his science fiction writing, I felt that this would be an appropriate method to clearly show they were not from this genre. It also aims encourage a new reader base for Wells’ novels.

The dust jackets are double sided, the front being treated typographically in relation to what the book has been ‘re-titled’ to. The back is more illustrative, reflecting another element of the story the main character has to deal with or is involved in.

JR - Women Are Heros - Paris

from: http://blog.vandalog.com/2010/03/jr-women-are-heroes/