Sketchbook STUDIO

Sketchbook STUDIO is moving base to an incredible space in Kingly Court, where they will be creating a hub for 25 artists and holding a record number of photoshoots all whilst compiling their third issue.

http://www.artlicks.com

Modern British Posters Exhibition now open!

To celebrate the release of Modern British Posters: Art, Design & Communication, Black Dog Space is pleased to present this colourful new exhibition, drawn exclusively from the extensive private collection of Paul Rennie. Featuring work by Abram Games, Paul Nash and Edward McKnight Kauffer.

11th June–13 August

Black Dog Space
10a Acton Street
London WC1X 9NG
t: + 44 (0) 207 713 5097

Monday–Friday
12–5pm

Free entry

ANYONE FANCY IT? MEBS WE COULD HEAD OVER NEXT WEEK? THURS/FRI?

http://www.timeout.com/london/around-town/event/188099/808135/modern-british-posters#details

Check this out!

Found this magazine in the LCC library and it is pretty amazing.
Have you seen it before? It's worth it to have a look.

http://www.idea-mag.com/en/

Super Mundane

Some nice work here!

Hila Bennavat

Here's a link to some of the work from the star graduate from the St Martin's MA show.

The one who did the boooootiful book and info graphics on genocide.
Follow this link and weep...I am soooooo jealous!

http://www.behance.net/hilulimb

Anyone into mapping??

Just found this..might be useful if anyone is doing anything
with mapping.

http://www.artlicks.com/events/688/panel-discussion-1?utm_medium=email&utm_source=CampaignMonitor&utm_content=421866351&utm_campaign=ArtLicksthisweek-07062010&utm_term=ReadMore

The girl behind the Stella Ads!

cristianacouceiro

Relax

Felling stressed (like the rest of us...)? I found these very good small meditations: http://www.chamomileclinic.co.uk/Chamomile_Clinic/Podcast/Archive.html

Free Range

Might be worth a visit.
http://www.free-range.org.uk/

Lovely stuff

I have just discovered Mikey Burton. Loads of lovely stuff here!
http://mikeyburton.com/

Playing with BP

Hey Gemma, this is quite relevant to your earlier ideas eh!
Might be god ref for your visual summary!
http://www.draplin.com/2010/05/our_redesign_for_the_bp_corporation.html

WOW

Great design : http://www.visual-journal.net/

New Plenty Commercial

I don't know about you Gem but I think this is pretty funny, take a look at the commercial!

http://www.plenty.co.uk/

Exposed

Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera
Tate Modern 28 May – 3 October 2010

If anyone wants to borrow my membership card
just ask, it's for 2 people and you can go up to
the lovely member's only bar afterwards,
has AMAZING views across London!

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/exposure/default.shtm

Old Blood makes way for New Blood

After the reaction to last year's campaign for its New Blood event,
D&AD has taken a different tack with its latest promotional work.
The posters still feature prominent members of the creative
community, but each is depicted at the point of ending it all: the
quality of the New Blood on the horizon proving too much to bear...

http://creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/may/dad-new-blood-posters

North London Cemetery

I went up to the biggest cemetery in London today.
Thought it would be really gloomy, bleak, depressing
but actually I had an interesting and peaceful time
(apart from cycling up the biggest hills in the world,
my bike hasn't been into those gears EVER!!)

Look at this photo..can you believe it, there was loads
of stuff like this, amazing! Quite sad actually as this
was for a little boy.

Some inspiration please?

I'm trying to finish up my word and image elective which is about the banality of celebrity, however my magazine spreads are looking awful!

If you guys have any good references for posters/magazines/whatever that have this sort of bold typography please point me in their direction I will be very grateful.

Branding and ethics anyone?

Take a look at Marlboros sneaky advertising at formula 1!
http://www.graphicology.com/blog/2010/4/28/292-the-sneakiest-design-ever.html

Fot those who worked in ad agencies

Final project from Leon De Korte



More pics and stop motion: http://www.behance.net/Gallery/All-That-Glitters-Aint-Gold/492549

MALCOLM MCLAREN FUNERAL CORTEGE

Now I'm really confused, just received this email from Paul:
"You really must look at images of Malcolm Maclaren's funeral
and burial -- a truly post-religigious tribute with appropriately
inappropriate iconography."

So I checked it out and it is really cool! Do you think I need to be
inspiring more people to take stop seeing death so seriously.
Mr McLaren was a bit of a one in a million huh! Wonder what
Viv will do when it comes to her turn? Guess she needs to top
this huh!

Ahhh what to do??! Maybe I should be looking at creating a new,
relevant identity for death in 21st century!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doyFssxPnzs

The London Onion

This made me laugh. It's one of Moving Brands concepts for the rebrand London pitch. I am guessing this route was just to be daft!
http://abrandforlondon.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/london-onion/

OMG moment of clarity OR insanity!!!!

Just come to realise that where I thought I was going for my MPP isn't where I want to be going at all. I still think it's a really good idea and think it is a project that I will work on in my own time. I think I just want to document loads of different types of memorials and make a book, but this will be a much longer project as I can't make people die, unless I actually start going out murdering people then documenting their memorials....oooo how very dark!!!

I think I want to focus on the area of branding and ethics and how branding gives something an identity that might not actually be true! I think I might like to try to brand London or England or the world!!! Mwahhaaahaha!! I know that they are looking at a new brand for London a the moment but how can you really brand a city and who is the audience? The people who live there or tourists? And if it's tourists then you are selling that city! A city isn't a product it's a living breathing thing! Ooooo lord, is this super risky doing a massive about turn at the 11th hour??? Ahhhhh!

Please advise guys!

Memorial

Took this a couple of months ago for word and image, the parents left a picture of the girl who died in the little plastic bag but it went missing.

Models are whack!

GEMMA, have you seen this campaign?

Danish design

Just across the North Sea is a small country called Denmark. We came to take your country some 1000 years ago. That’s where I'm from. Nowadays we're not that violent, but we do have some nice deisgn studios I would like to show you:


E-types The cool coporate studio of Copenhagen


nr2154 A small talented studio

Emperor of Antarctica A great one man show

Surplus Wonders Conceptual design (check boutique L.U.I.S)

Hvass & Hannibal My good friends and great illustrators

Kontrapunkt Denmarks biggest communication design studeio

all the way to paris Beautiful feminine design

Roadside Memorials

For my MPP I am collecting info, pictures ANYTHING
related to memorials. At this point I want to get loads
of images of these vernacular roadside memorials for
accident and murder victims. If anyone sees any on
their travels or comes across anything in any of their
research pursuits can you collect for me. I'll be
very grateful!

Also really interesting graves, plaques on benches
or stone monuments.

Not sure where this is going yet so for now just
going to collect loads of stuff!!

Humorous Branding

If anyone stumbles across some humorous branding/graphic design please let me know! Louise's link to Multistorey had a great little project on for AV festival.

My MA project...

I have a lot of difficulties about unit 2 and the MPP!!! I still really haven’t found an area I want to work with. I have tried to sort out what kind of design I want to use, and made some info graphics about. Now I “just” need to figure out which problem I want to “solve”. I find it bloody hard to define that!

How about you?

Multistorey

I'm so in love with the style of this studios work! http://www.multistorey.net/portfolio.html

Craig Ward

Just in case you haven't been exposed to the typographic brilliance of Craig Ward http://www.wordsarepictures.co.uk/

Deckchair A-Z

Here's a lovely summery font made from
deckchairs to get us in the mood.

Slyly snapped at the pick-me-up exhibition!
(I have absolutely no idea who the artist is!)

Hello and welcome

So finally we have our amazing blog!
Feel free to change the header I just quickly chucked that one together so we'd have something to start with! Also can't work out how to add contributors and labels! Marina you might be able to help out here as you did that on our design discourse one! Now we have our forum we need to start filling it with AMAZING stuff! Think we should share everything we find and are working on, get your own stuff up on here if you want any help, critique or just to bloody show off your goddamn design brilliantness!

Get blogging gals.....