This is a brilliant exhibition featuring some great visual thinkers Ken Garland, Ed Fella, Abram Games, Alan Fletcher, Saul Steinberg, Neasdon Control Centre to name but a few.
'I have discovered that it is impossible to see anything anything until you have made a deliberate attempt to draw it' milton glaser
There are endless readings despite the geographic size of the space to exhibit the sketchbooks and drawings. The real gem here is the designers/artists talking about why they draw and how it informs their practice. it really examines the transfer of thought to page to work.
'As a graphic designer who mostly works with text-based commissions, it is rare that I "draw" within my working practice context, though I do often map my thinking process visually ' catherine dixon
This is an excellent exhibition with great visuals but equally, if not better dialogue of analysis between the viewer and the artist/designer. Cant wait for the conference!
Working Drawings’ Exhibtion and Conference
Sheffield Hallam University
Conference: Friday 3rd December 2010 (11am to 4.30pm) SNOW disruption. 20 January 2011 now!
Where: Hallam Union, The Hubs, 6 Paternoster Row, Sheffield, S1 2UU
Exhibition: 4th – 23rd December 2010
Where: 153 Arundel Street, Sheffield S1 2NU
The exhibition includes drawings by Jill Calder, Roderick Mills, Ken Garland, Ed Fella, Abram Games, Alan Fletcher, Saul Steinberg, Jason Ford, Lee Ford, Frazer Hudson, Lydia Monks and Simon Spillsbury.
You can down load the two PDF flyers here:
Working Drawings Conference Flyer
Working Drawings exhibition Flyer
Online Registration and Information: www.shu.ac.uk/ad/workingdrawings/
Bookings for the conference are charged per attendee at £10 for non Hallam staff or practitioners and £5 for students. You will receive an email shortly after registration to arrange payment
Further information can be found at here: www.shu.ac.uk/faculties/aces/art/gallery/
Working Drawings
Stats Humour
variationsonnormal.com is such good humour and quirky visual thinking. I particular like the satirical look at website stats with the hugely necessary and important: Average visitor weight. Will regularly visit/be fed via google reader his other quirky inventions like a handle for biscuits to dunk.
'Website stats are an obsession for some people. How many visitors? What age
are they? How long do they spend on the site? The list goes on. Here is my
idea to take this statistical obsession one step further. A doorbell with
built in home visitor statistics display'. (C) Dominic Wilcox
Communication Animation
Saw it and thought I do like the sketched animation look. always draws my attention. A Brief History of Communication, the new ad for The Carphone Warehouse, is a charming stop motion animation by Kristofer Strom, the Swedish artist behind You Tube hit Minilogue (equally as creatively brilliant).
There is a wonderful sequence of the development of the phone from the circular dial, to seperate buttons and then a quaint cultural script of the old 'brick' mobile phones. Then its decrease in size sequenced wonderfully in a clockwise twist from phone, to Ipod/Mp3, to mouse (with quirky/surreal ear phones as its wire) & to RSS symbol (blogging/feeds).
Still with more shifting directions/perspectives it continues fast and sharp until back to mobile with GPS mapping technology into a laptop finishing with the future technology of flying engine subtly anchoring that Chitty Bang Bang idea of flying automobiles.
If it was stop motion, there must have been a thousand photos, but it was worth every last one.
Excellant
cheers
Kristofer
found: on youtube
dugg here: http://digg.com/television/The_Carphone_Warehouse_A_Brief_History_of_Communication
(alas, never the first).
Nokia Map
The new Nokia 6220 advertisement promoting its mapping technology available on it with, a giant collaborative map. Contrasting close ups of people of varying ages with close ups of pencils/pens even a wonderfully kept one of the pencil nib breaking it creates an excellant mix of creativity, enjoyment and concentration.
No surprise of its brilliance from Wieden & Kennedy, they just do it, sorry about the pun.
Credits:
Agency: Wieden + Kennedy, London
Agency Producer: Lucy Russell
Creative Director: Matt Gooden, Ben Walker
Art Director: Dan Norris
Copywriter: Ray Shaughnessy
Production Company: Partizan, London
Director: Antoine Bardou Jacquet
Producer: David Stewart
DOP: Damien Morisot
Art Director: Chris Oddy
Editor: Bill Smedley, Work, London
Post Production: The Mill, London
Telecine Operator: Paul Harrison
On-line Operator: Barnsley
Music Composer: Wave, London
More at: http://advertisingpawn.com
featured here: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/video/video/show?id=2168552%3AVideo%3A788
Watch the Evolution Design
Tom Gauld visualised time a little differently challenging our perceptions in his drawings, doodle style thinking, watch design visual for United Arrows called EVOLUTION.
Rather than using numbers normally depiciting time he takes his solid black characters to depict time as a sequence in evolution as opposed to a sequence in numbers paradigm.
Another great alternative perspective to time (see Dynamic Time Visualisation) that still functions through the placing of the images, it merely making the familiar strange creating a conflict in form (doodles rather than numbers) that needs to be interpreted.
There are many great quirky illustrations by Tom Gauld charting his fantastic imagination who is featured in The Picture Book: Contemporary Illustration & Pictures and Words: New Comic Art and Narrative Illustration.
Source: http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.cabanonpress.com/images/tomsbits/watch.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.cabanonpress.com/tomsshed/8.2.watch.htm&h=434&w=402&sz=37&hl=en&start=1&sig2=jgEeYSpw3VoosVMsW7QO9A&um=1&tbnid=rHPWzGlc3AvO6M:&tbnh=126&tbnw=117&ei=HDVISInoNYuw6wPt7ujwBA&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgauld%2Bevolution%2Bwatch%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den
Data Brigade
Index card
Originally uploaded by dgray_xplane
featured on flickR.
wonderful visual thinking.