Babels Library (part 3)

It has been a while since I looked at this, but due to some interest from an outside source, I am back on it.

It is only halfway through, and I think it is a little fast still. I have to make it a little uncomfortable to listen too, to maintain the inaccessible theme. Once finished, it has to be recorded on an obsolete medium such as cassette tape, anyway, lets see how it goes.

2012 olympic posters

A host of British artists, including Bridget Riley, Tracey Emin, Martin Creed, Rachel Whiteread, and Bob and Roberta Smith, have designed posters to celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Any gold medal winners?
The posters were unveiled at Tate Britain in London along with the programme for the London 2012 Festival. The full list of contributing artists are Fiona Banner, Michael Craig-Martin, Martin Creed, Tracey Emin, Anthea Hamilton, Howard Hodgkin, Gary Hume, Sarah Morris, Chris Ofili, Bridget Riley, Bob and Roberta Smith, and Rachel Whiteread.

The images will go on show in a free exhibition as part of the London 2012 Festivalnext summer and they will also be used as part of a high profile campaign to promote the 2012 Games.

Posters (£7 each) will be available to buy from 3pm today via london2012.com/shop. Limited edition prints will also be for sale individually and as a boxed set from Counter Editions who can be emailed on london 2012@countereditions.com for more details.

In 1972, the organisers of the Munich Olympics ran a similar (and very successful) enterprise. Like these posters, artists were asked to respond to the idea of the games and celebrate them, not produce pieces of visual communications promoting the games per se. You can see the posters produced (by the likes of Josef Albers, David Hockney and Max Bill)  here

The genius of everyday things

Where would we be without the little heroes that underpin our everyday lives? Could you be bothered to brew leaf tea five times a day or fish the beans out of your morning coffee?

Hidden Heroes: The Genius of Everyday Things is an innovative new exhibition giving the spotlight to the miniature marvels we couldn’t live without.

The featured inventions are presented alongside original sketches and drawings by their inventors, patent specifications and original advertisements. The exhibition reveals the efforts made to establish each product, as well sharing quirky titbits of information such as Napoleon’s role in the evolution of the tin can and the connection between a descending plane and bubble wrap.

'At a time when celebrity is king, it gives all of us at the Science Museum enormous satisfaction to celebrate the truly uncelebrated and shine a light on a group of outstanding inventions and inventors, revealing the supposedly mundane to be nothing short of remarkable.’  Dr Susan Mossman, materials science specialist at the Science Museum.

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/galleries/hidden_heroes.aspx

If I where an icon

5 minute exercise using Otl Aicher grid. 3rd year students giving very different ideas of what they would want their desktop icon to be. Some showing little imagination!