November 2011
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Archizines at the Architectural Association
A few weeks ago we visited the AA to see the Archizines exhibition. We saw a great volume of nice magazines (or zines if you like), but not too many new acquaintances though. Out of the publications I had not seen before, I really liked Candide, Face B and Pablo Internacional.
My memory fails me sometimes, especially after pulling a few all-nighters this week, so I can’t remember if I...
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The range of my colour is O
What is colour? is a title for one of the briefs I’m currently working on at the college. We had to choose a single colour to work with, and to research. The one I decided to focus on is a colour we mainly use for attention purposes.
Anyone who has seen a range of my work knows that it’s often quite minimalistic, and the use of colour is usually pretty limited. I tend to bring the...
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“Art schools are turning into businesses
and businesses are turning into art...”
– Question from the audience at Critical Tensions conference in St Bride Library 11. 11. 11
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Revisiting − One Hundred Years of Solitude
This is a dust jacket I made last spring as my Penguin Design Awards entry. The competition brief was to design a contemporary cover for Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude. Even if I quite like the design’s simplicity, looking back now I feel that pushing the idea a little further could have helped to get a better result than zero to none. Phil Baines,...
