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.
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
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.
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!
In 1963, he was one of the founders of the design studio Total Design (currently named Total Identity). From 1964 onwards, Crouwel was responsible for the design of the posters, catalogues and exhibitions of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. In 1967 he designed the typefaceNew Alphabet, a design that embraces the limitations of the cathode ray tube technology used by early data display screens and phototypesetting equipment and thus only contains horizontal and vertical strokes. Other typefaces from his hand are Fodor and Gridnik. In 1970 he designed the Dutch pavilion for Expo '70 (Osaka, Japan). A design of Crouwel that is well known in the Netherlands is that of the Number Postage Stamps for the Dutch PTT (in circulation from 1976–2002).
In the years Crouwel was working for Total Design, he designed many geometric wordmarks, one of which is the wordmark for the Rabobank, designed in 1973. The lettershapes have been influenced by the fact that the wordmark had to be used as a 3D light box. After the 3D application was finalized, the 2D design for print was adapted from it.
