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Craig Ward / Subvisual Subway / Photography / 2015

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Our Hospitality (1923) John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton

May 17th 2025

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#MovieMonday The Canfields give Willie McKay their particular feud-driven brand of welcome in “Our Hospitality,” 1923. Buster Keaton’s second feature, it shows a leap in both technical & story-telling ability from the more fractured funny froth of “Three Ages.”

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Craig Ward

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Craig Ward

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Type as image lecture

Here are my notes from the lecture: 

noun: Typography - style and appearance of printed matter, and the art of arranging type. 

noun: Lettering - the act, art, or technique of inscribing letters on to something. 

Herb Lubalin - is an American graphic designer, 50s / 60s, avant garde, logo design magazine, playful type, best known for his stark, bold layout, word pictures or conceptual typography. 

Craig Ward - is an British born designer, words are pictures, uses materials to add another layer of meaning to his typographic creations e.g. bacteria on the letters.

Alison Carmicheal - is an London based artist known for hand - crafted typography, fancy type, cadburys advert, using cream and chocolate to write with. 

Ji Lee - video on moving type, I really like this artist because it was entertaining. Has a book called ‘words as image’. 

Paula Scher - I have researched this artist before and I really like her work. There is a show about her on Netflix and she talks about her company and her work. 

Sarah Hyndman - talks, books ‘Fonts form a kind of language of their own, and we are all unconsciously fluent in it’. Hyndman uses the psychology of type and how typefaces affect us subconsciously. 

What did I learn from this lecture? 

I have learnt the meaning of typography and lettering. 

Understood that typography can have a powerful impact on the viewer and can become an image. 

How artist use different mediums and even science to create typography. 

I liked this lecture because I am interested in typography and it made me think how I can use typography in a different way. The most interesting thing in the lecture was the work of Craig Ward. 

I haven’t seen anything like this before and I like how the artist has used science and art together. This is really smart! 

Second half of the lecture

The second half of the lecture  was hard to follow and there was a lot of new terminology that I didn’t understand. BUT, what I did gather from the talk was that sometimes text is needed along with a image so that the viewer can understand what is going on. 

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Craig Ward

Craig Ward is a British born Designer and Creative Director, currently based in New York. Occasional artist, sometime author and contributor to several industry journals, he is known primarily for his pioneering typographic works. Ward has worked for many brands and made may brand identity. But the work I want to talk about is his physical type. It revolves around the juxtaposition of clean, classic type with several organic or uncontrolled processes, one such as bacteria.

This body of work ward has created is about him and his interest in is seeing word as image, he is continually exploring new ways to create type and to bring words to life. Ward has many examples of him playing and exploring different process within his work. For example, his piece “you blow me away,” was an experiment conducted in collaboration with photographer Jason Tozer. He used 20 sheets of glass, which were screen printed and captured in various states of destruction by Tozer.

I really like this piece and other pieces like this because he is showing the physical motion of the words, which I think is amazing and a clever way to express the word in a different way. which I will be thinking about for this module and how i can incorporate that someway in my work as well.