A good design lesson to learn is: how to look at things (problems, situations) from a different angle or point of view. One of the hardest things to do, so sometime we need little reminders such as the film 'Powers Of Ten', which we watched at the beginning of this class. Another is Oblique Strategies a set of cards created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt in 1975. Each card contains a message, which helps you change your current mindset by the suggestion of a new point of view or approach.
As it's still raining, here's a nice site full of amazing things to look at, while we wait for summer: but does it float.
Discussion - Local scale typography
Workshop - Review Typogaki & Personal Collection books
Watch - "IBM Mathematics Peep Shows" by Charles and Ray Eames
Assignment - Copy everything
Discussion - Local scale typography
Workshop - Review Typogaki & Personal Collection books
Watch - "Rear Window" by Alfred Hitchcock
Assignment - Complete Typogaki
Sorry this workshop post is a little late, just added to keep a record of our activities. It was great to look at the Typogaki photos in last weeks workshop. I'm very much looking forward to seeing everyones completed collections in the next class.
Also due this week are your Personal Collection books... please don't forget.
What is the answer to life, the universe and everything?
42.
Some amazing animated films made for the BBC television's adaptation of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy', broadcast in January and February 1981. Visit the BBC's cult homepage for more information about the original series.
Jurg Lehni has an interesting and diverse body of work one of which is Hektor a portable Spray-paint Output Device for laptop computers and Scriptographer a scripting plugin for Adobe Illustrator, which is available to download free.
"Scriptographer gives the user the possibility to extend Illustrators functionality by the use of the JavaScript language. It puts the tool back into the hand of the user and confronts a closed product with the open source philosophy." [www.hektor.ch]
We talked a little about Cockney Rhyming Slang in the last workshop so here are a few more examples:
"Let's have a butchers at that magazine" (butcher's hook = look)
"You're a berk!" (berkshire hunt = cunt)
"I haven't heard a dicky bird about it" (dickie bird = word)
"Use your loaf and think next time" (loaf of bread = head)
"Did you half-inch that car?" (half-inch = pinch, meaning steal)
"You will have to speak up, he's a bit mutton" (mutt'n'jeff = deaf)
"I'm going on my tod" (tod sloan = alone, or own)
"Are you telling porkies?" (porkies = pork pies = lies)
"Are you going to rabbit all night?" (rabbit and pork = talk)
"Scarper lads! The police are coming" (scarpa flow = go)
Great ideas, nicely designed & very British... love it.
Bingo Lingo Calendar by Karl Toomey.
"Based on bingo calls or Bingo Lingo this desktop calendar was developed to give the date as a bingo call." [Karl Toomey]
Take a look at the Celebrity Scales too.
Rob Matthews has some interesting ideas and work. Shown here is: Wikipedia - 5000 pages, fully printed.