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“Centuries of Centuries and only in the present do things happen; countless men in the air, on the face of the earth and the sea, and all that really is happening is happening to me…”
by Jorge Luis Borges _ The Garden of Forking Paths
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To-Do 2
Learn how to teach
Remember to pair ‘Idea’ with ‘Craft’
Go to Denver Biennial of the Americas
Get a job at UCF.
Get a job at Benzanoe Magazine.
Get a job at NFFC.
Get a job at Bruce Mau Design.
Get a job at Eye Magazine.
Exhibition Identity: Nuno Sousa Vieira at Newlyn Art Gallery
I’ve just completed an Identity project for an exhibition by Portuguese artist Nuno Sousa Vieira at Newlyn Art Gallery. The show was organised by students from MA Curatorial Practice at UCF & runs until 22nd May. More images to come (when I can find my camera?!), here’s a taster.
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A2 poster, which was also cut down [...]
Dott Cornwall, RSA Design Directions & Affordable Homes.
Back before Christmas I was working on a project for Design Directions plus, an RSA competition brief supported by Dott Cornwall. ‘Design for social inclusion; community based design’, The project asks how design could be used to support and empower people who may be excluded in some way, through the process of engagement and co-design. I chose Cornwwall’s [...]
Actions speak louder than logos?
Thomas Matthews new identity has been produced entirely using waste materials, but is this just a token gesture?
I think it looks beautiful, but printing a business card entirely devoted to saying how little it is impacting the world isn’t really moving the world on. If they weren’t made in the first place they could claim [...]
USE ALL MODES OF EXPRESSION
Human Intelligence begins with conception; it is our prime mental activity. A concept is only fixed when it is embodied in a symbol, It is the culmination in some form of symbolic expression that we as designers need to understand and explore. We must learn the various modes of expression ie; language, myth, audible, artistic, [...]
THINK COMPREHENSIVELY
We can characterize the way people think using these terms borrowed from evolutionary biology, you are either a lumper or a splitter. Lumpers will tend to look at a problem holistically while splitters try to pick apart the smallest detail. There is no right or wrong way, it is possible to make breakthroughs in our [...]
DEFINE THE PURPOSE
Art’s role is sometimes defined simply as ‘raising a question’, whereas the role of design is seen to be to provide answers. When viewed as just a problem solver, the designer is not in a position to define the purpose. Only by creating new opportunities or initiating projects can a designer reposition themselves away from [...]
BE AN ARTIST, DESIGNER & SCIENTIST
The spheres of Art, Design & Science are all concerned with trying to make sense of the world around us. Design could be described as being halfway between Art & Science.
At the end of the 19th century these spheres were much closer together. It was in the early period of the 20th century, with industrialization [...]
CECI N’EST PAS UNE MANIFESTE
A couple of spreads from my latest project: ‘CECI N’EST PAS UNE MANIFESTE’
This is not a Manifesto, it is a statement of intent. It is not about what I have done, it is about what I propose to do. After all, my intentions are far more interesting than my achievements to date. I don’t need a [...]
Benzanoe Magazine #63 – The photoshoot