Miss/Mrs/Ms

'If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs respectably married, then Ms means nudge, nudge, wink, wink'

ANGELA CARTER

the soundtrack to attempting to write

woops

This little guy was found when i was procrastinating and i happened to pause at the perfect moment. Yes, of course, today was a poor working day. i was constantly distracted by EVERYTHING and wrote maybe 250 words for an entry from July. I tidied up my desk thinking maybe working somewhere other than my bed would result in a better yield of work. This is too difficult. Tomorrow needs to be more productive.

Screen printing got cancelled (?) on friday so fingers crossed for monday, where i may be able to muscle my way into that or etching. Now off to search for some bad tv to make me feel guilty about this really really unproductive day.

Edward Lear

I found the most incredible book yesterday at the Southbank book market (Edward Lear's Nonsense Omnibus) full of gems and gorgeous little drawings but put it back because i thought it's £7.50 price tag was too hefty for my pockets. Really regretting not getting it now. As i knew i would...

http://www.belz.net/teaching/edward_lear.html

Ivor Brown

I gots an Ivor Brown book, 'I Give You My Word' for £1 today in Leicester Square. Boom. It's beautiful and full of words like ambuscade, cargozoon, inveigle and potwalloper.

A lovely end to a lovely day wandering around the Tate on the last day of the 'Rude Britannia' exhibition. Altogether an ok show; i was particularly fond of an H.M Bateman print on show (The Lost Stamp) and the satirical drawings of the fashions of the day by Philip Dawe et al. By far the best thing was Mike Nelson's Coral Reef exhibition, a beautiful labyrinth of corridors and rooms with unmarked doors reminded me a bit of being in a ship and left me in a curious discovering mood...

Footnotes

According to wikipedia, authors use footnotes "to escape the limitations imposed on the word count of various academic and legal texts which do not take into account footnotes. Aggressive use of this strategy can lead the text to be seen as affected by what some people call "footnote disease".

footnote disease...hmmmmm, that's a bit weird.

Shoreditch wants to meet you

This is what i finished and printed last monday for the crit on tuesday. It went pretty well, only that i should try to change the main type to a gill related one and try it out on letterpress. For the "Live East London like a local brief", my idea was to promote the idea adopting language used in personal/lonely hearts adverts. I had three variations on copy, with each focusing on area around Columbia Road Market as i think this is the most fascinating part of Shoreditch; one for the area of Shoreditch as a whole, one focusing on the flower market and one for the venue ' The Flea Pit'. Most applicable to print, as most things i do: posters/ billboards/ flyers/teaser 'business cards'.

(these are the examples when modified)

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

My final A1 poster for the second project set at Camberwell.

The brief was to only use typography, strictly no imagery allowed, and one colour to depict 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised' by Gil Scott Heron in an A1 poster (min 25 words) and a double page spread containing the whole poem. I wanted the imagery to be purely greyscale but by a happy accident there were highlights of purple when it went for printing which i thought set it off quite nicely (thankfully).

Insipred by the 'Tower of Babel' concrete poetry, i made jenga sized blocks initially in black outlines. I thought these looked pretty poor though so i filled them in black and put text around the blocks rather than just on the face. They were a beast to position though. Three different sessions because i wasn't happy with the photos. I threw things. And them. That's why they're a bit dented. oh well.