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CRIT: The (extra) ordinary

Feedback: -Block colour works best -Could have used just the people instead of merging them with letters -Explore font and colour -What makes a passenger -Development of idea is shown

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Adobe After Effects Workshop 2

-Using the Motion graph -New composition -Drag items onto the timeline -Click arrow next to item and press transform -Click the stopwatch to create key frame -Move curser on timeline and move footage item, another key frame should be automatically created

Interpolation, putting unknown data between two known values

Temporal interpolation, interpretation of values in time

Spatial interpolation, interpolation of values in space

Render settings: Full Resolution, best settings.

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Type in space introduction

The spatial

Audra Hubbel, Letters at Large

Sagmeister and Walsh, plays with idea of making an illusion

Shannon Etner, about context and narrative behind type, looking at scale

Axel Peemoeller, what is illegible and functional, applying type to objects in a space, interruption within urban environment

The Sculptural

Rob Lorenson, contrast between materiality and form, uses heavyweight material

Jack Featherstone, looks at individual letterforms, key shapes within text, becomes something abstract

Andrew Bryon, furniture became letterforms, letters in the sky (suspended) something interactive and playful

Aldo Van Eyck, letters from playground

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Seminar

Group A

Debrod: As much as a demonstrations of situationist ideas and an explanation of it. Form and content is dielectable. “Plagarism is necessary” The way the images change/alter/mediate social relationships

Image as Spectacle vs Image as Situation: The potential -Society of surveillance, Under the surface of images one invests bodies in depth -Neither in amphitheater nor on the stage. but in the pan optic machine

Michael Foucault (1977) Discipline and Punish p.306

The Spectacle, are we being watched or are we doing the watching?

Panopticon, prisoners think there might be a chance they are being watched even if they’re not, but would never know.

‘Making ourselves available for surveillance’ 

Gilles Deluze, cited in Harold (2007) Ourspace p.xxvii

Idea of the ‘Social Turn’ (Claire Bishop, Artificial Hells) Rejecting ‘lone genious artist’ Protest movements Detournement ‘purposeful remixing’ Brandalism, critique of urbanism Psychogeography (Larissa Fassler)  Charting your own responce to the city Recuperation: An idea or a project regarded as irredeemably revolutionary or subversive... it is not normalised,reintergrated into the existing order, and even revives it. (Henri Lefebvre, 1981)

Consumerism is no longer about ‘conformity’ but about ‘difference’

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The (extra) ordinary briefing

Type as image; Communicate an alternative view of the language we hear and see everyday

Willem Sandberg A museum curator who is a director, client designer. His work is simple and bold, and uses the process of removal to create form.

MM Paris Creative duo from Paris, creating music, art and fashion. They produce inventive typefaces

Frith Kerr Graphic Designer and art director in London who creates typography informed by research. She pays a lot of attention to detail and her work is described to be ‘raw and beautiful’

Exhibition: Quick Quick Slow

Wolfgang Weingart Creates Swiss punk typography and interrogates letter form

Marian Bantjes A calligrapher who sits between design and illustration, who uses more personal phrases and statements

Stefan Sagmaister Uses the environment and using depth of field to creat illusions within typography

“Typography need to be audible, felt, and experienced” - Helmut Schmud

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