Inspirational website

The thought of doing web design has never appealed to me however when you see websites like this that involve css rather than flash and coding it is reassuring that possibly there is room for me in the web design industry. I love the colors used here and the type face. It would work as a piece of design on its own without being a website.

92 year old Penn newspaper clipping

Renowned for his exploration of the photographic medium and its boundaries, he typically preferred to isolate his subjects. Dying only recently at the ripe old age of 92 he had a stunning portfolio of fashion and portraiture. He is seen here photographing a New Guinea mud man!

Grass roof

Despite hours wasted watching grand designs i am still yet to see a realistic solution to sustainable architecture. The grass roof is one that irritates me. It is set to cause more problems than it solves. It insulates to the core temperature of the ground outside. i.e in winter the building will have a cold roof in summer the building would have a warm roof. Perfectly opposite to the desire outcome. Also there is a reason we tend to have pointy roof tops in this country, that being the rain fall. In this proposed urban living of farm fresh cattle grazed roofs surely they will hold water and cause damp within the structure, drainage will not work unless you are willing to loose a god chunk of ikea mud which in turn will bring a bill from Dyno rod. I fail to see the logic behind some of these concepts. Unless these roofs are purely created to make people think green and believe their terraced house comes with a garden.

Any man that can piss on a canvas and pass it off as art is a legend in my eyes!

As much as i love the art by Jackson Pollock i can't help but feel that his methods off painting became a little deranged. Methods he employed in his artwork included ejaculating onto the canvas', dragging naked women covered in paint across the canvas', and urinating on the canvas'. i fail to recognise these pieces as his best i believe he was at this point looking for fame and recognition. True the death of his wife would have driven him a bit crazy but i reamain unswayed that these methods were required. I do like the piece above, it feels quite orriental and reflects great balance and placement. i will consider however employing Jackson's' painting methods in my 4th year work!

Spot the Difference

Did something go wrong with the designing of this perfectly symmetrical building. Obviously the left tower is much smaller than the right. Other than that it is perfectly symmetrical I like the detail on this building and the jucstaposition of it against the surrounding buildings. Despite being placed in the third world country of cuba it seems like it should be form the french renaissance period possibly this could be put down to the spanish colonizing?!

Made of dog chews- Saatchi and Saatchi

This is a piece of artwork i saw in the Saatchi and Saatchi gallery in london. It was made completely of dog chews. True i do not intend to make a roman monument form dog chews, however i like the idea of using different medias to promote a subject or concept no matter how ridiculous they are.

Novel Idea

This is a shoe shop i saw in london, the idea being when you purchase a pair of shoes you get to scribble your thoughts in a box, weather it provides incentive to buy shoes or provides the incentive for other people to come into the shop and purchase shoes from the same shops as their freinds. Still it is an interesting piece of advertising, possibly aan idea i could use in my own work somewhere.

i despise!

Two things i will do my damnedest to not be associated with, Tweeting and Blogging. Twitter fair enough optional thanks but no thanks. Blogging, i feel forced into and i can absoloutly gaurentee at the end of this brief i will try to never blog again! However there is something mildly addictive about it, there is something that drives you to think you should let everyone know about the mundane happenings in ones life. And the more you do it the more it becomes a diary and looking back at it its intriguing to track my own progress and its interesting browsing peoples tweets, understanding how many people choose to tell the world they are making tea, distressingly something in me cares! I still wish social networking would just sod off for a day though!

Speaking of Claes Oldenburg

Is this art, is this architecture... has he exhausted his concept and should he just move on? I think maybe this is more art as is the screw, however the peg and shuttlecock i think are lazy. I wouldn't want them in my garden you can guarantee he has nothing to do with the building of them, sure Damian Hurst doesn't create much of his own artwork now but a least he isn't just making things bigger!

Worlds largest magician

This is a very Claes oldenburg in my eyes. More than the artworkk itself i enjoy its situation in a pristeen gallery. Its so out of place. I never know where i stand with this concept of making something big and slamming it in the middle of the room. I think its to easy, yet maybe an interesting subject such as this does restore ones faith in the concept.

Fabios new shoes

They're bizarre looking things. Obviously they are a piece of art work rather than a solution to Amanda Wakely's summer range. Heels in my mind are always seen as very delicate and sophisticated and for some reason so are these. I like the idea of the structural rigidity using only paper it compliments the idea that these are delicate and sophisticated despite looking brutal if it wasn't for the colour. Maybe only the skinniest of girls could wear these.

I demand the finest water known to man

This ticks all the boxes in packaging design i think. These are three very elegantly designed bottles. They portray the idea of fresh and clinical yet sophisticated at the same time. the use of colour is limited but effective and the irregular shape to the label makes even the bottle itself a part of the design. It would be interesting to see how it well it works with other coloured liquids.

Is it jesus?!

I'd like to think the trippy blue lines are deliberate, they force you into looking for something that isn't actually there. Personally i find the longer i look at it the more i think i see. Its a very effective film advert and a welcome break from seeing badly applied 3D ideas and other illusions.

3D Typography

I really like this piece. The use of the 3D typeface is very appealing. Its a tricky look to generate but i think very effective. However I'm not sure which area of design i would use this for because it narrows itself to a younger target audience and lends itself well to night club design or maybe car advertising?

Sleep driving

Again i can't help but feel this Think campaign has left a lot to be desired. Its well shot but the content i feel is lacking, i like the less dramatic approach but i find this advert in no way memorable or effective. I feel they almost need to glorify the benefits of sleeping rather than showing in this case the grim alternative to driving, sleeping in a miserable service station.

Rubbish AD pretty funny though

Despite having little experience with making video's i feel there is defiantly potential to make a fly on the wall tired drivers ad. I think it would appeal to the target audience and something i need to look at doing. I like the comical tone of voice, it increases the chance of an ad being spoken about and being passed around virally. Especially when working with a minimal budget.