tate.

A couple of weeks back I went to look around the Tate Modern for a few hours as it's free and I'm a design student. It was the first time I'd been and it was pretty good. There was some proper weird shit in there too mind, but some of the stuff was impressive.

There was an exhibition on called No Ghost Just a Shell which was a collaborative exhibition centred around the manga character Ann Lee. I'm not exactly into manga but there was some posters in the exhibition which caught my eye as good pieces of design. Unfortunately I only found one of them on the internet and it's probably the weakest one but you'll get the general idea and it's still pretty decent. I like the black and white of it contrasting with the Shell logo, it works well. There were 3 poster style pieces in the exhibition and they fitted nicely together on the same wall.






















There was a Futurist painting by David Bomberg which I thought was really nice called The Mud Bath. I love the shapes and how they look 3D and create human like figures. The colours on the painting work well together and are commonly used in Futurist's work.
















There was also a whole room dedicated to Russian propaganda work by people such as Rodchenko and Popova which looked fairly epic and created a sense of scale when the entire room was covered in these posters. It would be interesting to see if I could get pieces to make collages which look similar to this work because some of them looked collaged.