In the canyons of your mind - Vivian Stanshall.
When you listen to this song more than 4 times it starts to grate on you.
We had to make a series of five books describing this song in different ways.
These were colour, type, narrative, draw, then the final one was to be based on one or more of the other excercises.
I didn't do much of these at uni as there were four songs we could've done which were therefore played on a loop. You had to wait for your song to come on before you could do much and before you knew it, it was done and you'd have to wait again. I found this really frustrating and found it hard to concentrate. As a result of this I youtubed the song at home and played it over and over until I finished all of my books.
I now know all the words. It's bad.
When you listen to this song more than 4 times it starts to grate on you.
We had to make a series of five books describing this song in different ways.
These were colour, type, narrative, draw, then the final one was to be based on one or more of the other excercises.
I didn't do much of these at uni as there were four songs we could've done which were therefore played on a loop. You had to wait for your song to come on before you could do much and before you knew it, it was done and you'd have to wait again. I found this really frustrating and found it hard to concentrate. As a result of this I youtubed the song at home and played it over and over until I finished all of my books.
I now know all the words. It's bad.
The images above show my books open and the envelope they go together in, the books when they are closed with the envelope and my part of my combination book which was colour and type.
I had a tutorial with Pete on 16th january. We talked through some of my work and about how I could add colour to my blind drawings if I wanted to. He told me some names of artists to look at, Bruno Munari being one of them. Pete lent me his book 'Bright minds, beautiful ideas' which featured Munari along side Charles and Ray Eames, Marti Guixe and Jurgen Bey. I found it really interesting to look through. Talking about the five people featured in the book, it said 'all share a number of characteristics that are of fundamental importance for design. They question everything and are capable of coupling fantasy, playfullness and investigation with vision'
A few parts stood out to me:
Munari said 'Making things complicated is easy, achieving simplicity is tough.'
Marti Guixes' functional tatoos (removeable); man map was a subway map you could fit on the palm of your hand and index finger ruler which is self explanitary.
Jurgen Beys questioning and analysing everything: 'In India, everything is covered in a fine dust. What's the purpose of dust? If I can puzzle out the answer to that, I've made a fortune.'
The next day we got asked to make slides for Geoffs magic lantern. A Gorrilaz song was split up and we all got a line each to make a slide for. My line was 'obscured, as it was, by great clouds'
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