WIG? - Peter Saville and Malcolm Garrett.

As I'm going to be attending the talk I thought I'd do a bit of research on the speakers. Both designers work heavily influenced the look and feel of the music industry in the north. Peter work with such names Factory records and Joy division and produced these highly memorable and innovative designs.

http://blog.eyemagazine.com/?p=166

http://www.designlessbetter.com/blogless/posts/peter-saville-on-his-album-art

Whilst searching the internet for information on Saville I came across this interesting website. Not too sure if it has anything to do with him but I thought it was a really cool way of interacting with the website.

http://www.btinternet.com/~comme6/saville/

Malcolm Garrett was the first of the two designers to produce a published piece of design and it was a record sleeve for the band The Buzzcocks second hit Orgasm Addict. He later went on to work with the likes of Magazine, Simple Minds, Duran Duran and Peter Gabriel.

http://invizuals.com/post/4803527525/malcolmgarrett

Both of these designers have played a big part in the music industry and for me I prefer the works of Saville. I enjoy the composition of his work more and how contemporary it is even now 30 years later.

WIG? - Place.

DAY 8

Today I went back to working on the collages of the Memphis and Liverpool images which i had a look at early on the my first week here. They already had one collage for the header of a webpage for the project but they need 2 more. I've been looking through the images I'm allowed to use an been carefully removing the backgrounds from some of the and picking out bits that would be great for the collages.


Cutting them out was the hardest part, creating the collages afterwards was more straight forward. The project is about the two cities being almost twins and it's about the music scene focusing primarily on the Beatles. The collages wont be using any Beatles imagery but instead are focussed on the similarities of the cities for example architecture and travel.


I've had the idea of using a 'mirror' aesthetic apposed to the tidy mess collages that are more typical. When I say mirror i mean that one side would be images of Memphis and the other of Liverpool to create the idea that the cities are reflecting off each other. This gives the compositions a good structure of symmetry and provides a good consistency in the visuals as a set despite the fact that they will be use separately across three webpages.


Here's what i have so far. I'm not very keen on the first three but they were made before I had the mirrored idea.

These are vectored sunburst shapes that I made which was a suggestion from Rob. I've only applied them to one of the collages so far but I'm going to make more compositions to see what works best but I think its safe to say that the three above are far better than the first three.

Later in the evening Rob and I went to The Short Project where the talk would be given by Peter Saville and Macolm Garrett was going to be held, the project was quite secretive and it was difficult to understand was it was all about. When we arrived they gave us different coloured wristbands which allowed you into different areas which seemed quite restrictive. After being confused and restricted for about 40 minutes we left as it would be another 2 hours before the talk. 

Although it was shame to miss the talk we did however go to an old pub in Manchester and saw some people do some stand up poetry readings which was interesting. The event was run and organised by Bad Language which is a small sort of company project which has published 3 books of poetry and short stories which get submitted to them through a website. The books had some interesting illustrations on the cover so it was nice to see how this low key company was getting people involved and who did the artwork.

WIG? - Object.

1. Sketchbook.

2. Mobile phone.

3. Thermal Flask.

4. Bicycle.

5. Roller blades/quads.

6. Stationary.
7.Ukulele.

WIG? - Concept.

1. Travelling.

2. Awkward moments.

3. The Contents of something e.g. your pockets.

WIG? - Place.

DAY 7

Today I continued to research into the electrical car campaigns and adverts to help stimulate and pool topics for people to draw ideas from and get started with the designing.

I found these two really useful adverts for different vehicles which both seem to play on the idea that the world will be better off with the switch over from fuel powered to electric cars. I took screen shots of parts that I thought would be inspiring for people looking for ideas.

Rob has invited me to go to a talk tomorrow evening by Peter Saville and Malcolm Garrett on a project that they have been collaborating on. This should be really interesting as both designers went to St Ambrose high school in Altrincham where I live and they also attending Manchester Polytechnic like I did for my foundation degree.

Rob emailed me a few links to some articles on the talk.

http://www.thesharpproject.co.uk/events/

http://www.thesharpproject.co.uk/sharp-news/full-circles-square-containers-garrett-saville-sharp/

Should be exciting and inspiring.

WiG? - Opinion.

Cats are awesome!

WIG? - Place.

DAY 6

After a nice weekend, it's back to work today and it was just a day to get your head down it seemed. Everybody was working away and it was far quieter than the previous week. The heat didn't really help however and I must have drank my weight in water.

I continued to play around with the BBC designs but was soon asked to do some research on different electric cars and car advertising campaigns as Creative Concern will be working on some designs for a new wave of electric cars and charge stations that will be put into effect this year.

I spent a long time looking a videos and websites all about different car makes and their campaigns trying to pick out stills and screen shots for some visuals to show what sort of things the companies that make the cars are already doing to promote them and sell them to the audience.

I researched specifically the new models of cars that will be released as they would be likely to focus on the pros of having an electric car. Which in turn is what CC would be trying to do with their work but as a collective.