paul blow.

wow this guys illustration is amazing.

pics from apfel.

apfelsaft.

Went for a studio visit to APFEL (A Practice For Everyday Life) the other week. Their work is quite typography based and so clean and well layed out. They've done work for Tate Britain among other things. It was a good insight into how a studio works and in run as well as how to start your own design studio up. It was good to look about and see in what kind of environment they work in as well as seeing some of their work.

revolutions on paper.

A couple of weeks ago I visited the British Museum and went to see the Revolutions on Paper exhibition (among other things). There was art work, posters and illustration from the Mexican socialist revolution in the early 20th century.

I really like work like this which has more of a meaning than other stuff. I'm a fan of the illustrations of the skeletons representing the people. Don't particulary know why, I just like the art style.

Here are some pics:

think outside the box.

Quirky little animation about the idea of thinking outside the box. Made me chuckle.

www.josephpelling.co.uk

outside the box from joseph Pelling on Vimeo.

"Love pie. Hate pie-charts.”

David McCandles is a designer and writer whose website is called informationisbeautiful.net, he does information design in way which I've not really seen before.

Some of it can look quite amazing... It'd be something I would quite like a go at trying.

spaghetti.

This is the first of 3 things that I'm gonna post that I saw on itsnicethat.com. There's so much good stuff that they post on there, I keep checking it.

'Western Spaghetti' is the name of this stop frame animation. It's such a charming video, the things used in it made me laugh.

www.eatpes.com

alex bec.

More work by Alex Bec.

other handy work.

Decided to look at other designers/advertisements that have used hands in their work.

I found a TV advert and also designer Alex Bec used them in one piece of work.

I find Alex Bec's work absolutely awesome to be honest. Its so colourful and I love how he uses card to create letters. The work he did with hands is similar to mine but it obviously uses the card to make the letters and he makes them using more than one arm compared to my one or two hands for each letter.

He posts on this website: www.itsnicethat.com

spin.

'Twas the week before last and there was a lecture on at the LCC as part of the Talking Graphics thangg (series of lectures). I decided to pop along and there were two guys from Spin giving the talk. They talked about how they went about answering the brief from clients and showed some work which was great, polished professional stuff, and then they talked about and showed how their ideas and designs evolved throughout the design process. This was probably the most interesting part of the lecture as most people don't get to see this work and it was good to see how this process works in a real life situation.

The talk was a real valuable insight into real life graphic design. It made me more interested than ever to start working in a real design studio, they seemed like they had fun doing what they do and had a good team vibe to share ideas and thoughts with. Some of the work they showed is below.

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.

glug.

I recently attended a night where designers go to basically get pissed and do some networking. Although the slogan for the night is "More no working than networking". They had a bunch of street art there and 2 illustrators did a cool installation in a room there, where they put up their work and drew on the walls and stuff. I got to meet the 2 guys who did it which was cool.

John Slade Ian Stevenson

simon evans.

Found this piece by Simon Evans called Everything I Have. It's basically photos of everything he owns arranged in groups like clothing, food etc. and also arranged in colour groups. It creates an interesting piece visually and also reminds me of the research workshop I did a couple of weeks back for my course.

In the workshop we learnt about different ways of visualising and presenting our research and data we collected for it. This piece by Simon Evans looks like something like that, it is a more interesting way of showing everything he has than a list.

You can view more of his work here.

tetris with skateboards.

Thought this was pretty cool