References & Inspiration Information | Quarter 8

This blog contains visual and textual references for Quarter 8 - Graphic Design - Willem de Kooning Academy. It serves to complement the information about the assignment on mywdka.nl. - - - - - - - - - - - - TIP Use the Tags link in the menu at the top to navigate the various entries by tag. - - - - - -

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Kijk een voorbeeld van een goede infographic. Door Ruben Pater. Dus toch!

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Works by Aakash Nihalani show ways how tape can work as a temporary material to create perspective, create illusions, design typography/signage, make patterns. You can see more of his work here:  http://www.aakashnihalani.com

When does it become interesting? Or meaningful? Does it really tell a story, or is it more like a visually enjoyable one-liner? Could you use this material to design your story, transform the space, create an experience?

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Irma Boom makes mini dummies during the process of every book project. 

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leporello example 4: a visual essay, mapping on one side, and photos on the other SCRAMBLE CITY by Lada Hršak, Michiel van Iersel, Dieuwertje Komen and Neeltje ten Westenend. It presents a fragmented journey through a fragmented urban landscape filled with good intentions. http://www.dieuwertjekomen.nl/work/scramble-city-2/scramble-city-leporello-37/#

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leporello example 3 : scale > almost 8 meters long. EVERY BUILDING ON SUNSET STRIP, 1966 by Edward Ruscha Ruscha's book presents all of the structures on the mile-and-a-half stretch of Sunset Boulevard between Beverly Hills and Laurel Canyon. The artist created the twenty-four-foot-long double view by photographing both sides of the street with a 35 mm camera mounted to a slow-moving automobile and then meticulously collaging the photographs together. I

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leporello example 2 : zig-zag folds have been bound to become a book, and through cut-outs, a pop-up 3 dimensional space is created - they happen to be stairs, so that seems fitting for this particular quarter! STAIRS by Rein Jansma, 1982

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The term leporello refers to printed material folded into an accordion-pleat style. Also sometimes known as a concertina fold, it is a method of parallel folding with the folds alternating between front and back. Many leporellos are used as a way of telling a story, while others are purely visual. leporello example 1 : the zig-zag folds reveal a chronology, and the whole folds out to reveal one single poster sized image : FEBRUARY CUT-OUTS by Gerlinde Schuller and Claudia Weber The publication investigates to what extent narrative formats and methods already exist in everyday life, how they are implemented there by chance or in a targeted way. www.theworldasflatland.net/februarycutouts.htm

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BuildingExodus is a tool for engineers used for both evacuation simulation and pedestrian dynamics/circulation analysis. The software has been developed to meet the challenging demands of performance based safety codes. This clip shows a simulation of the evacuation from a highrise via the stairs. Here’s another clip analyzing the evacuation of the Twin Towers on 9/11: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Uh7xp3pYiY

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Stairs as storytelling motif in movies and theater

This article on the use of staircases the films of Alfred Hitchcock gives some insight as to how one might view the symbolism and significance of staircases:

Staircases are traditional symbols of ascent, learning, and transfiguration--or, conversely, of descent, falling, the occult, and the unconscious. Staircases are also widely used in stage design for symbolic positioning of characters relative to each other. In Hollywood films, staircases provide the setting for grand entrances, particularly by female stars.

Read further here: http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/stairs/stairs-1.html

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Super inspiring stills from various movies showing stairs and staircases in storytelling contexts : http://lazynotes.tumblr.com/tagged/staircases

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The annual race up the stairs at the Empire State Building.

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The elevators to the observatory atop 1 World Trade Center show an animated time lapse that recreates the development of New York City’s skyline, from the 1500s to today

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Trailer for the Highrise documentary

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Highrise is a series of interactive documentaries exploring vertical living in the global suburbs. It’s a It’s multi-year, many-media collaborative documentary experiment. Watch via : http://highrise.nfb.ca/

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Centraal Station Rotterdam in Google Earth (satellite), een opname genomen tijdens de verbouwing van het station. De letters van ‘Centraal Station’ waren destijds als kunstwerk bovenop het dak in een andere constellatie te zien. Kijk wat er staat! Nu is dit kunstwerk weg, maar gelukkig in Google Earth nog te zien. 

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Isotype (International System of TYpographic Picture Education) is a method of showing social, technological, biological and historical connections in pictorial form. Otto Neurath was the initiator and Gerd Arntz became an important representative. See and read more here: http://www.gerdarntz.org/isotype http://isotyperevisited.org/1975/01/the-significance-of-isotype.html

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Multidisciplinary design studio founded in 2001 by Daniel Gross and Joris Maltha. The studio, completed with Nina Bender, works on commissioned and self initiated design projects. Guiding design tactic is form = behaviour. Typography, generative graphic design and the visualization of quantitative data are daily routines.