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Big Blog Update!

ARGH! Have been so busy I have been incredibly blog-neglectful- interesting things that have happened... I've been to talks by Hamish Muir, Alex from YCN came in, I've been to the special collections, I've learnt to Book-bind (sort of), Silence and The Ted Baker Project are just about finished, and I'm just about to set myself a new personal project... YEY! So… Hamish Muir… ...began designing in the 1980s, pre-computer, using collage and photography to create his designs. In 1985 Hamish met Mark Holt and Simon Johnston, and formed 8V0, and together they did work for Factory Records, and for Flux festival, as well as designing things like credit card statements.

8V0 also produced Octavo Magazine, which was a project intended to be published every six months for four years (8 issues).

They worked communally, all on the same project on the same time, which I found interesting. 8V0 used type primarily, as image, and wanted to change the pre-conception that type was just the bit that got stuck on the bottom of the poster, which I liked. But type isn’t really my thing. Because of the way they worked, they had no idea what their designs would look like when they came back from the printers, which added an element of surprise and uncertainty. Very interesting. I really liked the collage-y elements of their early work, like the The Durutti Column albums.

Later 8V0 got a computer and I liked this work less, it became very ‘graphicky’. Hamish also talked about his current type designs. Ex-D&A student Helen Murgatroyd also came to talk to us about her work, she is currently studying at the Royal College doing an MA in printmaking. I really like Helen’s work, she was very interesting about why she uses pencils, and that she can then always be in contact with what they do. She has made maps of cookery and of human movement. I actually found it really interesting, I think because I have started to think about where my work is starting to go and how I want my work to be. And because of this, Helen was a really useful person to listen to, as, while she was on the course, she stayed true to her own working practices and produced work that was, I assume, very different to what other people were doing. I need to work out how to be this confident in what I am doing. And also work out what I am doing.

Also Alex Ostrowski from YCN came in to talk to us about YCN and the YCN book...

(sorry for the terrible photos, my camera is slowly dying of old age...)

YCN started as a youth awards programme, but had recently expanded to include awards programme for recent graduates, and a small agency which develops young talent (this came about as companies kept asking YCN to solve briefs personally, and YCn had no facilities to do this- so now some briefs are solved in house, and others are given to creative talents that are on YCN's books).

The youth awards now has a shiney new website.. www.aisforawards.org.

Awesome.

Also here are some of the things My eyes have been collecitng in the street (AKA my graffitti addiction)

Pretty cool- made even better by this repost...

And some ads I like...