Holidays!

Hi all

Just wanting to wish everyone a happy holidays and to congratulate you all on your 301 year. I think the Chained Lady catalogue at the beginning of the year was a masterful effort and I am extremely proud of you all for providing Tessa and the artists with an exquisite publication. Great work also in developing your individual research. I feel confident that you'll hit the ground running next year and take on 401 with ease. On that note... Luke Wood is the new fulltime lecturer in Graphic Design. This is great news for the studio and for the school. Luke and I will be working together over the summer on the curriculum for next year, which for you will be a year of self directed research. I recommend that over the summer break you take time to have a plan for your first term. You'll be asked to draft a teaching and learning agreement that will work as a proposal for your research. I'm back in the second semester and am excited to see where your individual practices will be heading at that stage.

Anyway... enough from me... hope you have a great Christmas and if you're around Lyttelton on new years eve come and catch the Grand Saloon at El Santo.

Aaron

Missing Missy.

Please read. You will LOL.

For Rosalee

Somehow facebook led me to this blog post. Thought you might like to have a look...


http://hobbyhorsesandsecondcourses.blogspot.com/2010/10/dont-forget-to-write.html

Tree in Jars

Jo this might interest you.

Death: a magazine for the enthusiast and non-enthusiast alike

Online magazine

Dream Diary Blog

http://robinwhitmoredreamdiary.blogspot.com/

Also the photo for string gardens wont work but have a look at this

Photos of stuff people might like

Field of light

The Crystal Life of Sewage

Wholeo Dome

Specially designed door shelters people against falling earthquake debris

In anticipation of a 7.6 magnitude earthquake possibly hitting the city of Istanbul by 2030, an MA design student named Younghwa Lee from Kingston’s University has designed a special kind of door that protects residents from falling quake debris. Designed to ensure safety and reduce injury or death, the door folds horizontally in the middle, while the bottom part remains braced against the floor for support. This allows the door to sit in an angle when the earthquake strikes while the person takes shelter under the fold.

Catalogue send out...

Hey guys...just wanting to know if anyone has any names of places you want to send the catalogues to???...hopefully we can start sending them out by the end of the week. if you put names and address up here we can start getting a list together..

Sagmeister talk

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/stefan_sagmeister_on_what_he_has_learned.html

I thought this was a pretty interesting and amusing short talk about his work on what he has learnt so far.

for Chloe

Hey Chloe, not sure if you've seen these guys before but if not you might find it interesting in relation to the jesus shells. These guys are trying to send a personal handwritten letter to everyone in the world and they have started with small towns.

http://www.mysteriousletters.blogspot.com/

http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/482-talk-3-michael-crowe-lenka-clayton

One work per day for thirty days!!

Dominic Wilcox is making one creative thing per day for 30 days as part of the Anti-Design Festival. Check out his progress on his Variations on normal page.

Err... earthquake anyone?

Hey hope everyone's ok! Have you seen the studio yet Aaron? What's the plan for this week?

Critique stamps of disaproval

Read this and apply it to your life

Found on a neat blog that people might enjoy. There's some cool stuff done with type that you might be interested in, Jo :)

Semi-Permanent

Semi-Permanent 2010 - New Zealand’s largest annual design gathering and the only event of its kind in Australasia.

Semi-Permanent is a celebration of all things design - graphics, fashion, animation, illustration, motion graphics, typography, sound design, live audio-visual art, interactive and experiential marketing, fine art, music, product design and more.

S H O R T I M A G I N E D
M O N O L O G U E S .

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SUBWAY
SANDWICH ARTIST'S
STATEMENT.

BY JONATHAN TUCKER BELL

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This work of mine is called Sunset, though any sense of peacefulness that it conveys is ironic. I think I've made it obvious that the even rows of roast beef are a satirical comment on the 1931 Iowa Cow War. By referencing the unrest of the past, I comment on the uncertainty of our own times. In this way, the meat speaks to us all in a sort of bovine anthem: "We are all mad cows." The sandwich creates a constant tension between diametrical opposites: animal vs. vegetable, chewy vs. crisp, savory vs. sweet.

I haven't worked extensively in roast beef—I'm more experienced in turkey and ham—but recently I've learned a great deal experimenting in this new medium. I've been trying to push myself with new textures and colors. I love the way the meat has a sort of iridescence that dances across its surface like the dusk-red sun atop the stippled sea. But the most interesting thing about beef is that this glittering quality can also recall the fireworks of battle or the glint in a vengeful lover's eye. A single slice of beef can contain worlds.

What I'm doing with green peppers represents a departure from previous treatments. Rather than deliberately placing them on the meat, I let the latex-gloved hand of fate take control as I scatter the chopped capsicum across the folded beef. I try to maintain a delicate(ssen) balance between elements of order and chaos. My work explores that middle ground where human will and cosmic destiny collide.

My work represents the struggle between animalistic instinct and high reason. The nine-grain wheat bread you see recalls the nine mythological muses, paragons of human creativity and intellect. The yeast, integral in my artistic process, illustrates the rise and dominance of man. He covers and masks his animal core, but my work makes visible the inescapable human dichotomy between doughy brain and sliced-protein gut.

Fontsmith.

If your still looking into your architectural type specification book jo you may like this, stumbled across it tonight. Spin is the name of Patricia Finegan's design practice, it's under 'New Work', 'Fontsmith'