Collage session by Filippo de Ferrari and Stefano Zaborra
November 13, 2010
THOMAS NEULINGER's experimental Posters
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Thomas Neulinger on Behance >> LINK
Beautiful experimental posters.
Thomas Neulinger on Behance >> LINK
Beautiful experimental posters.
A mix of illustrationsand graphic design workthat captures my attention
Because of its space approach and boldness.
Student protests against cuts to education
Last week in central London students from all around Uk met to protest against the education cuts beign imposed by the government.
Despite vandalisms, the manifestation saw students marching in the streets in a colourful procession.
It was a nice occasion to meet lots of people and make a point on the situation.
An interesting thing was that students of different nationalities and backgrounds were together exchanging opinions and informations on their respective points of view about what's happening not only in Uk.
What has emerged from this views exchange, is that lots of students are seriously concerned with the actual situation in the world.
Here is a link to the Guardian with a video from the most °lively° actions from the protest.
This kind of actions aren't completely useless because they rise the attention of the media and audience too.
But let's remember that we need to take concrete actions, {which have nothing to do with breaking windows} to ensure ourself and our new generations a better future instead of a newer version of the old story.
Teaganwhite web-portfolio
The web site offers a number of projects mainly illustration based.
Very nice usage of colours and a lovely retro touch !
Impressive illustrated fonts which I am sure will capture your attention.
http://www.teaganwhite.com/index.html
November 08, 2010
November 06, 2010
Bad news from the AI WEIWEI front !!!
Photo : Tate Modern AIiweiwei signboard.
Couple of weeks ago I went to see the Unilever Series at Tate Modern. A 100.000.000 hand made sunflower seeds, placed in the turbine hall of the museum.The singularly hand made seeds, are very much a metaphor which the artist uses to show us the importance of the singular individual into his own cultural background. Sunflower seeds were in China one of the symbols of the revolution.They are part of the chinese history and represents here the chinese people. I have really enjoyed the work and the documentary which is shown next to the
massive installation and I support the intelligence of this artist, which work is forbidden in his own country
( China).
I first thought I wasn't going to to a post about it, just coz I knew it was going to be publish anyway in planty of blogs. Anyhow a few minutes ago I discovered that the artist was today arrested and beaten up by the chinese local authorities.The reason for being forced to house arrest' is an exhibition space
which the artist built within his studio space. If you want to know more here is the link to BBC news > LINK
November 04, 2010
Working Class Hero-John Lennon
During last Friday session, the first real brief of the academic year has been given to students / how exiting !!
We were divided by groups and we were asked to select our brief from a set of options.
CLIENT: 6 options
TARGET AUDIENCE: 6 options
MESSAGE: 6 options
In order to the select our brief options we had to use a dice ...
The destiny of our group picked by the dice is :
CLIENT: Non governmental organization
TARGET AUDIENCE: working class 30s to 50s
MESSAGE: become greener
I will update you as my research progresses ...
Comments, suggestions and criticisms are always welcome ...
good luck guys !
November 03, 2010
PPD is cool...
What is PPD session ?
Last week we attended the PPD group workshop.
The aim of a PPD session is to allow students to become more familiar with methods for projects evaluation adopted by tutors in our college. We all know it isn't an easy task that of evaluating a graphic design work, as it requires a wide range of skills and knowledges that allows tutors to be objective. To start with, we were provided with a "contents sheet", listing the undergraduates marking criteria. This document is referential to both students and tutors.
During the first part of this group activity we tried to grasp the essence of the university evaluation criteria and we discussed upon each of the listed sections for about ten minutes.
The second part of the session was guided by two colleagues from the second year of college.
It was a good occasion to take a look to both final pieces and notebooks, from these young designers and to ask few questions about our course in a confidential environment .
The morning activity ended with a task that required students to mark some of the final projects from the previous academic year. This task was to me quite a difficult one, because it
is always complicated to judge somebody's work and it is even harder to share yor opinion with others whose opinions maybe quite differents from yours.
I found that the exercise was very helpful and quite far from the idea of college I had in my mind. To take the tutors place it can help us to understand couple of thing about our approach to projects, especially when after the session the tutor provids you with the real marks the students got for the work.
What did make this session so good ?
In the session all we were required to do, was to look at the marking criteria, from a different
prospective.... what I loved about the session was the " shift in consciousness...."
something so simple ...
something so simple ...
something to teach ..not only to designers ...
November 02, 2010
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