Top Advice!

Two incredibly inventive and helpful animations by Rory O' Sullivan. Chris Steel spotted these and blogged them - thanks Chris! Does the advice sound familiar to anyone???

The Secret Bookstore Guy

Interesting dude doing an interesting job...

The Man Who Souled The World

This documentary is about the early 1990's skateboard company 'World Industries' and it's founder Steve Rocco. World went from being a tiny start up company to a $20 million success big hitter via a ruthless attitude and pioneering and controversial graphic design on their boards. Marc McKee was the key artist responsible for their success. This is part four of the documentary which is well worth a watch but skip to 07.25 of this section to hear more about the artwork. Thanks to Kemar for spotting this and putting it on his blog.

Skateboard Art Movie Trailer

Justice D.A.N.C.E.

Insanely good music video for Justice featuring a very simple idea; T-shirt graphics coming to life.

'Game Over' by PES

See more films from this incredibly inventive animator at: www.eatpes.com

Sketchy US plan to control the internet!

Daniel Eatock

http://www.eatock.com/ - daniel eatock (born 1975 bolton, UK) is an artist and graphic designer who lives and works in london. A graduate from the royal college of art in 1998.
 
Make/Think: AIGA Design Conference October 8–11, 2009

Video Days

Spike Jonze shot and edited this seminal skateboard part of Mark Gonzales in 1991. Music is by John Coltrane. A heady combination...

Ed's innocent drinks advert

I directed innocent drinks first TV advert. Look for the bee (and it's wing of) that

flies in front of the pack shot right at the end.

Stefan Sagmeister

STEFAN SAGMEISTER (1962-) is among today’s most important graphic designers. Born in Austria, he now lives and works in New York. His long-standing collaborators include the AIGA and musicians, David Byrne and Lou Reed.

• Design Museum
• Wikipedia
• http://www.sagmeister.com/
• Live + work With Stefan Sagmister

Apple Mac logins

As a part of DAVC becoming ADI we have access to the vast amount of computers over in the MPC part of the west building. As the case with the Mac lab in the back of AVA (behind the main Graphic Design Studio) you can login to these machines like so:

USR: u1234567 (student number)
PSW: enter (type the leters e-n-t-e-r)

you will be asked to set a password (don't forget it)
If for some reason this does not work please contact go here and fill in the form.

Mac Labs are open until 9pm in the MPC and they have technical staff who can help with non work related computer problems.

IMPORTANT - each login comes with 1Gb of storage (which is displayed on the menu bar once logged in) if you go over this limit it may appear that photoshop or other software is saving files but it won't be. You will loose this work.

The Rescue - A Scheduled Stop at the Town Of Figure Eight

This trailer is for the latest part of the film I am currently making called Town Of Figure Eight. A collection interconnected short stories set in a fictional town.

More info on my projects check out FB Lalacuna Digest

V V Brown - Children ft. Chiddy Bang

Ed's video for V V Brown - Children ft. Chiddy Bang

Motion Design Printers

Another contact for your printing needs:


Motion Design - Professional Design & Printing

Rock bottom priced A2 prints for less than fabpad and brought into UEL for collection.

FB: Motion_Design
Twitter: Motion_Design

Motion_Design@hotmail.co.uk
07961742884
07961742880

Its a company is run by one of Second year Graphic Design Students Hussian Noor

Adding Labels to better setup your blog

Adding labels to your posts is easy. At the bottom of the 'New post' window your'll see a text box called 'Labels'. Type in here your preferred label names. I would suggest 'Graphic Design', 'Personal work'.

Make sure you add a label to all your posts, especially our Project work. Now you need to add a menu for the viewer to see the posts sorted in labels. This is done in the 'Design' menu of the blog. Go to the design menu and 'add a gadget'

Now add the gadget 'Labels' and configure as appropriate.

Adding Personal work to your blog

We like to encourage the use of your blog but, it is an assessable part of your module so no posting just anything unless there is a good reason.

Think about your audience, ie Ed and Dan. If it has lots of personal work on there it makes it very difficult for us to see your work and mark it.

Think of it as an online versions of your portfolio. Its about showcasing your best work, not just anything.

If you do feel the need to post other work we would suggest you add labels (tags) to all your blog posts (work) and create one label called Graphic Design, and another called Personal Work. Then also add a blog Gadget to the design. The Gadget to use is called 'Configure Labels'. By using that gadget it gives the viewer (audience) a way to see just the Graphic work or the personal work.

See the post 'Adding Labels to better setup your blog' for instructions.

Course Manifesto

Course Information

ADi - We are graphic

An informative community website for UEL programmes in Graphic Design, Photography, Moving Image, Illustration, Animation and Printmaking.

www.wearegraphic.org
Facebook: wearegraphic

Milton Glaser

 Milton Glaser -- born 26. 6. 1929 in New York, USA

The Type Museum

http://www.typemuseum.org/visit.htm

Not open to the public, but if prior arranged you can get in there and have a look around. A must for any designer!

The Type Museum
100 Hackford Road
London SW9 0QU

Telephone 020 7735 0055

Jamie Reid

Jamie Reid (born 1952) is a British artist and anarchist with connections to the Situationists. His work, featuring letters cut from newspaper headlines in the style of a ransom note, came close to defining the image of punk rock, particularly in the UK.

• http://www.jamiereid.org/
• wikipedia

Storm Thorgerson

Led Zepplin - Houses of the Holy (Pre-Photoshop)

 Storm Thorgerson (1944) A Royal College of Art student, Founded Hipgnosis with Aubrey Powell in 1968. Many of his designs are notable for their surreal elements. He often places objects out of their traditional contexts, especially with vast spaces around them, to give them an awkward appearance while highlighting their beauty.

100 Best Album Covers, ISBN 0789446154

A Momentary Lapse of Reason (Pre-Photoshop)

• http://www.stormthorgerson.com/
• wikipedia

Syd Barett - The Madcap Laughs (one of my favorite covers)

Peter Saville

Ever since his first work for the fledgeling Factory Records in the late 1970s, PETER SAVILLE has been a pivotal figure in graphic design and style culture. In fashion and art projects as well as in music, his work combines an unerring elegance with a remarkable ability to identify images that epitomise the moment.

• More on wikipedia
• What the Design Museum says

Letter Press Studio

What is a Professional Development folder?

It is ideally an A4 Folder that contains all the Briefs / Transcripts from verbal briefs / Work sheets / work diary / etc.

This folder shows us your professionalism, how you order your practice and to some extent how much you care.

What are Research Folders?

It is ideally an A4 Folder that contains anything that you have got that does not go in the: Professional Development File, Sketch Book or A2 Portfolio . An example would be leaflets from galleries, photocopies of pages out of books, newspaper cuttings, emails (that were relevant), etc.

We need to see that your not just looking at the web for research. So show us that you have looked at different places for research.