Tate Britain

Rude Britannia exhibition

This was an extremely fun and humours exhibition which was expected, due to the content of COMIC art.

London Craft Fair, Spitalfields market

23rd-29th Sept

DesignShop

illustration theory

www.mydesignshop.com/category/ddtp-Illustration

Milton Glazer

''those readers who are looking for a full course meal might end up hungry''

The Education of an e-designer

By Steven Heller

Page 8

''Context The objects we design are situated in the world. They are nestled within the boundaries of social and formal order. Their location therein-be it historical or cultural-attaches particular the act of designing and the objects of design. Our awareness of designer's location empowers us. Through that knowledge we can literally reshape underlying ''value propositions'' by proposing new things and places where design happens. Design is potentially disruptive opportunity that lets us interrogate culture (if we choose to use it this way)

''History/Future Design happen in time as well as space. Knowing what happened in the past helps us project into the future. Envisioning particular futures, by necessity engages our knowledge of the past''

''Audience We dont just design for ourselves. audiences engage our work. And audiences are implicit in what we choose to design.''

''Technologies Technologies argument the designers hand (and intensions) through new tools and materials. They afford new design opportunities by expanding of what it is possible to make.''

''If design communicates, it must be indeed 'read'. In this linguistic sense designers are 'writers'. The objects of design convey a wide range of meanings-status and utility among them. The encoding of these meanings through sign systems constitutes notation.''

EYE book review 2003

The New Handmade Graphics: Beyond Digital Design

''Drawing together the work of designers who eschew a Mac-slick look for the wonky and the hand-made using photocopying, letterpress, handwriting, drawing or interventions, The New Handmade Graphics shows us something we probably already knew: that the improvised and the quirky is alive and kicking. That is not to say that the designers featured in the book do not use computers at some point during their process''

www.eyemagazine.com/review.php?id=87&rid=466