The Visual Communications degree show opened on the 29th of May. Unfortunately I didn't make the night itself but called in to see the work later in the week. As always I was really impressed with the standard. I'm getting really frustrated with my camera phone as the quality is so terrible!! New camera on the horizon...
Two of my good friends got married last March. They also bought a house and I had been meaning to get a housewarming gift for them. I developed this piece of typography for them, taking the line from the poem I read at their wedding - "Most like an Arch" by John Ciardi. Pictured here is the final piece (unframed - just a screenshot) and some of the sketches leading up to it (phone photos, not the best quality ever!). Great day and two great people!
I became a member of the Art Teachers Association of Ireland when I started studying art education, i'm now the treasurer of the association. It's a great group to be involved in, i've met so many lovely people and have learned so much from teachers with much more expertise than myself!
We had our end of year day out last Saturday, it was great! We went to Camden Fort, it was so interesting and loads of great photo ops, all these decaying abandoned old buildings, love them! I got slightly obsessed with photographing the old ruined walls, they all looked like these incredible surreal landscapes. I featured a few here and have more on my flickr. We also went to the Be Creative studio in Carrigaline for some life drawing, so much great stuff happening there. There are so many classes I want to do and not enough time!
Here are a few pics from Be Creative, such a great spot!
Our drawings:
Some lovely kids work from Be Creative:
Pics from the sewing studio:
I've been the worst blogger ever! Can't believe how busy my life has gotten since i've been teaching fulltime, it's been mental but great.
I have really missed doing design work for myself, been doing a lot of handdrawn typography and calligraphy over the Easter break (will post pics when it's done) and I put together this poster for the upcoming Suadela and Underscore Orkestra gig in the Crane Lane. They're doing an Irish tour so i'm really looking forward to going along to a few of these gigs!
I found a rules of the road book from 1967 in my parents house, love these retro, colourful illustrations! Way nicer than the current rules of the road!
I read this amazing interview with Giorgia Lupi today via designboom.com. I've always been interested in information deisgn and her work is BEAUTIFUL! So stunning. To me they manage to appear historical, modern and science-fictional all at the same time. I love her colour palettes. She also has some brilliant thoughts on drawing that are useful to reflect on in any discipline. I think i'll bring them in to my students:
"I use drawing as a primary form of understanding reality and expressing thoughts and ideas. this is also very related to what I just said in relation to the previous question: the very act of drawing, of reproducing reality and thus focusing on the things we like and notice definitely helps to introduce what I would call ‘a level of abstraction’ that helps to translate the things we like into clues for our designs. since drawing can mediate between perception and reflection, it plays a constitutive role in the production and communication of knowledge, and from my perspective, the genesis of ideas is often directly connected with graphical thinking."
