Stop Motion - Bang-Yao Liu "Deadline"

This post-it stop motion is brilliant. It works really well having the intecation between the post-it notes and the worker. Like they are taunting him, as they seem to do when we have deadlines.

Stop Motion - Ljudbilden & Piloten

Ljudbilden & Piloten have created loads of amazing animaions, all their stuff is really really nice and has a pure quality to it...

This first one is stop motion and I cannot get my head around how they made this. It is just amazing if you think about each frame individually.


This advertisement was created for Ford and is created using stop motion aswell. I really like the interaction between the screens and what is being displayed on them.


These animations just made me feel really happy when I found them... they are characters placed over a video and have a really individual personality, definitely different from things that I have seen before. They have a real identity in this style. 

Stop Motion - PES "Western Spaghetti"

Cooking with a rubiks cube... yep.

Stop Motion - Tony vs. Paul

This must have taken ages to plan and to create but it is absolutely amazing! I don't think there will ever be a stop motion animation that I don't like! This was made by Tony Fiandaca and Paul Cummings. The music works really well with the pice as sometime it matches the beat of their movements. I really like the imaginative ways of showing movement. Genius!

Stop Motion - Text Island

Whilst searching for stop motion inspiration and research for my current Marbles project, I came accross this on the Creative Review website. This piece was created by Director Chris Gavin using text to make image.

Stop Motion - Pater Gabriel "Sledgehammer"

When I told my dada about an idea I was having using Marbles in a stop motion animation he advised me to take a look at this... It is a great song and I never knew the video was so great aswell. I can't imaging how much work went into creating this!

Lights - Etienne De Crecy/EXYZT

The use of lights at this gig are amazing. They appear as a 2D shape which then transforms into a 3D one. Also initially we are tricked into thinking the lights are static, when in fact it is a LED fabric wrapped around a cage. This cage was created by EXYZT.

Documenting Time - Maarten Baas

Maarten Baas created this Real Time exhibition of Impression of the Clocks. It shows different ways to document time and some of the pieces are really interesting. They seem to be able to give you a minute by minute idea of the time, but not seconds. But who needs to know the exact seconds of something? I especially like the grandfather clock and the digital peeling one. I think the have a really nice feel to them and bring personality to a mechanical object.

Visual Data - Hans Rosling

Normally data is seen as boring, in my opinion the way it is talked about and demonstrated is boring. If however you create an interesting visual display of the data people who wouldn't normally be interested suddenly become a fan. This is a great example of how to make any data filled talk interesting and memorable. Hans Rosling is amazing.

Where is Graphic Design?

What is a book?

PostSecret

David Hockney - Artwork

The reason for going to the new Nottingham Contemporary Art Gallery was to see the David Hockney echibitions that was on. I loooooooove his photomontages.

Unfortunately, there was no photomontages. However, I got to see a lot of his artwork which normally I woudn't of bothered to look at or research. It was really interesting to see his other styles and learn more about him.

I was overwhelmed by "A Bigger Splash" and really do recommend to anyone to go see it. Seeing it in books and on a screen doesn't compare.

- David Hockney, A Bigger Splash, 1967

- David Hockney Rake's Progress, Plate number 1, 1962

Nottingham Contemporary Art Gallery

Just before Christmas I went to the new Nottingham Contempoary Art Gallery. There has been quite alot of hype about it being featured in grafik and on some TV shows. I wasn't a massive fan of the building. I like the concept of putting lace over the eterior concrete, its a really nice mixture of textures and really brings the building into the area of Nottingham which it is set (Lace Market). The stains downstairs have a real modernist feel to them too with concrete being used for the floors, walls and ceiling. It is really nice as they haven't treated the concrete, it is pure.

Graphic Design can appear in unlikely places, in this case on a seat. The Gallery has used the logo as a seating point, quite tricky to see in my photos but its quite a clever idea. I like how it lines up right when viewed straight on, but as you move the letters become disjointed. I like!

The logo is a bit weird... back to front. Well... very weird as they have loads which I cant understand at all. If you look through the guide every page has a different logo by a different artist, not designer. WHY!?