UPLIFT MAG :: IMAGE

An events poster created for Uplift Magazine promoting womans power and rights. 

Love the collage and bold type, the burst of colours is so vibrant and satisfying through the white. 

GUY LARAMEE :: IMAGE

 Guy Laramée is an extremely unique and deep theater writer and director. He also delves in contemporary music composition, musical instrument design and building, singing, video, scenography, sculpture, installation, painting, and literature. He has received more than 30 arts grants His work has been displayed in many countries around the world including The United States, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, and Latin America.

Below are some mind blowing book sculptures used in one of his recent projects about the Great Wall. 

The time and skills that have been put into these are amazing! 

The concept of this piece of work is in a paragraph at the bottom of this post, and it is pretty hard to understand or re-write. 

But i definitely thought that these amazing sculptures deserved a post in my research for my Image module especially as i have been working with paper a lot.  

Having recently overthrown the American Empire in the 23rd century, the Chinese Empire set out to chronicle the history of the Great Panics during the 21st and 22nd centuries.

This Herculean undertaking resulted in a historiographical masterwork entitled, The Great Wall. Comprising 100 volumes, this encyclopaedia derives its name from The Great Wall of America, a monumental project to build an impregnable wall around the United States of America so as to protect this land from barbarian invasions. 150 years in the making, this wall ultimately isolated Americans from the rest of the world while sapping the country’s remaining cultural and natural resources. It also undermined the American people’s confidence in systematized hedonism, thus hastening the fall of the American Empire. As we now know this paved the way for China to invade American territory.

The Chinese Empire later ordered a group of scribes to write The Great Wall series. In the course of their duties they familiarized themselves with the libraries of the former USA. Through a strange twist of fate they thereby discovered the ancient sources of their own civilization which the new Middle Kingdom had long ago removed from its libraries. In the end this contact, primarily with Taoism and Chan (Zen) Buddhism, sowed the seeds of the Chinese Empire’s demise.

Guy Laramée
Translated by Professor Norman Cornett, historian

Lumen Photography :: D&AD :: Image

Some amazingly inspiring photography of trees in snow by Lumen.

So simple , two elements , snow and trees , put together make such an appealing image!

The detail in the trees comes out agains the snow , beautiful! 

I love how the colour contrasts and makes the trees look as though they have been stuck onto a white background , they almost look illustrated! 

I like how the trees look out of their own environment , this imagery would look luscious with some nice type over it!

Erik Kessels :: D&AD :: YCN

Paperluxe :: Image

The inspiration for my bookfair is in this entire video!!!          

                                

Flickr in 24 hours :: D&AD :: Image

This installation by Erik Kessels is on show as part of an exhibition at Foam in Amsterdam that looks at the future of photography. It features print-outs of all the images uploaded to Flickr in a 24-hour period…

As you might imagine, this results in a lot of images, that fill the gallery space in an avalanche of photos. “We’re exposed to an overload of images nowadays,” says Kessels. “This glut is in large part the result of image-sharing sites like Flickr, networking sites like Facebook, and picture-based search engines. Their content mingles public and private, with the very personal being openly and un-selfconsciously displayed. By printing all the images uploaded in a 24-hour period, I visualise the feeling of drowning in representations of other peoples’ experiences.”

Fred Aldous :: YCN :: IMAGE :: Notebooks

In the store there were also notebooks created by young up and coming graphic designers in the area.

The binding of the books were standard and the designs looked very similar to the styles and quality of my peers. i Definitely appreciated the books as they were all so simplistic , trendy and had a hand crafted feel to them. 

Each book was different and had a personality of its own , even the poor print on some of the covers were appealing as it gave each book a U.S.P.

I wish that i had seen these books before my Bookfair brief as these seemed to be selling and for decent prices! , this was due to the sheer simplicity and usage of the book for the audience. 

Lesson learnt , LESS IS MORE! , Producing something that will benefit or interact with the audience will sell, design alone will be appreciated but not sold!

What were promoting :: YCN

Fedrigoni Imaginative Colours paper selector, an encyclopedia of colour available from the entire Fedrigoni special papers range.

The tool consists of four fan style paper booklets, divided into sections of: warm, cool and neutral colours, containing a total of 262 samples of paper. The Fedrigoni paper selector is an essential tool for graphic designers to appraise the best shade and suitable surface for their latest projects.

The ultimate toolkit for design and print professionals, who'll soon be wondering how they ever managed without it on their desks, a real source of inspiration for loads of creative, innovative ideas!
You can purchase one of these swatches only from the Fedrigoni online shop

 www.fedrigonicartiere.com/Xerography/products.asp?Promozioni=IMAGINATIVE_COLOURS&LID=E

Digital Collage

Love these by carl kleiner , digital collages of shapes an colour on basic backgrounds. 

Book Fair :: Image

Here are a few artists and designers i found whilst browsing through the stores at the book fair in leeds. 

There was some very interesting work there 

Image :: Research

Some work by .... an artist who caught my attention at the book fair 

Mini eco :: 3 dimensional shapes :: Image

  Mini eco is a site that i found and it is just up my street!The blog is run by a full time mum with a passion for crafts and sharing them on the web.

                       

The shapes include made include 

Cubs
Icosahedrons
Tetrahedrons
Octahedrons
Dodecahedrons

So now its Happy chopping/folding/sticking for me!!

MODERN WRAPPING PAPER / GRAFIKA

I've been looking at UK-based stationery design shops and found 1973 Ltd. They have lots of interesting colourful products and produce alot of stationary , cards , papers etc. This is their Grafika wrapping paper line, they also recently announced a series of coordinating greeting cards,postcards, and notebooks.  

THE NIMBUS FACTORY / MODERN STATIONERY

The Nimbus Factory has a whole host of adorable stationery and paper good designs , i love this their colourful Everyday Occassions collection, pictured above.   

Modular Folds - Origami / Image

A trip to the library to teach myself different folds.