Thursday 29 July 2010

"A horse walks into a bar"



Today I went along to Castlefield art gallery, to see a group exhibition called 'A horse walks Into a bar'. It was hidden behind Deansgate train station. It wasn't what I expected, the gallery was very small it reminded me more of a doctor's surgery.
Here is a bit about the exhibition...
The artists involved in the exhibition are Corey Arnold, Richard Billingham, Andrew Bracey, Lorraine Burell, Maddi Nicholson, Dan Staincliffe, Chiz
Turnoss, UHC and Mark Wallinger.
The different types of media used are video, painting, photography, sculpture and performance.
The artists playfully examine the restriction of human and animal characteristics and question the evolution of the human race.




My opinion of this exhibition wasn't very good. I didn't find it interesting I found it confusing. During the exhibition I saw a photo that had two swans and a hand in it, wooden boxes with cartoon statues on them, and main attraction of the exhibition, which was placed in the middle of the floor, was what looked like a small version of a barn with an orange inflatable balloon attached to it with a sound of breathing. The only part of the show, that in my eyes related to the name of the show was the film. The film was just of a woman sat on a horse with a man and child standing next to the horse. It didn't really tell me anything. It felt to me like the exhibition was over before it started.








Saturday 24 July 2010

" Words are defined as vehicles that takes us even mentally, spiritually, physically,to places that we've never gone. "

Derek Luke

Tuesday 6 July 2010



In this poster I like how the type tells the story of the poster...


I came across this typographic poster produced by Craig Ward. I think the colour scheme is the right choice. I like the concept of the poster, which is badly placed type over type. The type is the poster.

Shape...

Shape are a creative design agency based in Manchester. The team members are called Jason Mayo, Andy Golpys, Matt Whiteley and Gareth Hughes. They do Identity, magazine design, type setting, illustration, typography, packaging etc.

This is a piece of work that Shape did for 'o2' . The slogan ' We're better connected' is shown through the shapes connecting together to make objects. Which I thought was done quite cleverly.

Saturday 3 July 2010

TyPoGrApHy...

As I am coming to end of my second year, I have found that I am more interested in the typographic side to design. I like the way letters appear, the negative and positive shapes, how they stand on their own, the colours, what they represent, what they portray, how they can form an image, Serif and Sans serif and the connotations and denotations.

(Typo) = "mark, figure" (grapho) "I write"

Typography involves - type setting and type design
handwriting and calligraphy
graffiti
architectural lettering
poster design
advertising
typographic logos
clothing
labels on maps
kinetic typography
Editorial magazines
I came across this when I looking on youtube which I thought was quite funny







Here are some typographic images that interested me...

















Here are a few typographic logos that I like. I like how simple and straight to the point they are.