Beauty in the Making Exhibition

So yesterday I went to the Beauty in the Making Exhibition which was run in association with GF Smith Papers.

The exhibition was to showcase the methods behind paper production and the processes it goes through in order to become the paper we buy in the shops.

There were demonstrations of paper making and I even had a go at letterpress and envelope folding. There was also some amazing samples of some original hand drawn type from the 1930's. It was great to see the tipex marks on the paper - it made it so much more real.

After the exhibition I managed to go a couple of industry talks. the first one was from the director of Future Shorts the company that contains The Other Cinema, Future Cinema and The Secret Cinema. It was a really insightful talk all about the relationship between film and the audience and the future of short films and cinema.

Here are some pictures from the exhibition

No.37 Publication

So last term our class had the brief of creating a publication based around the theme of territories.

Here is the synopsis of our publication:

Through the medium of 'journeys' this publication looks to consider the relationship we have with our environment; how we record it, how we interact with it and how those things we most commonly ignore become valuable when we're at our most conscious and analytic. Through this consciousness, we seek to question the idea that destination is the sole logical outcome of our journey. You are welcome and encouraged to bring your own luggage; experiences, memories, thoughts and observations. Indeed, it is these elements that fulfil the experience offered in this book through your personal interpretation.

Here is a digital version of our book:

Open publication - Free publishing - More 37

Eightfold Publication Launch

So these past few weeks our class has been working on designing and making publications.

This Wednesday is the launch night for all our work. It's going to be a goodun and everyone is more than welcome!

Here is the poster for the event

There will be eight publications and the one myself and gabriella have been art directing is called No. 37


As for a sneak peak here is the preface to our book:


Through the medium of ‘journeys’, this publication looks to consider the relationship we have with our environment: how we record it, how we interact with it, and how those things we most commonly ignore become valuable when we’re at our most conscious and analytic.

Through this consciousness, we seek to question the idea that destination is the sole logical outcome of our journey. You are welcome (and encouraged) to bring your own luggage; experiences, memories, thoughts and observations. Indeed, it is these elements that fulfil the experience offered in this book through your personal interpretation.

Lis Rhodes at the ICA

Today I went to the Institute of Contemporary Art and although I went for their main exhibition there I found Lis Rhodes' experimental films really interesting.

Here is her film Dresden Dynamo where she has drawn directly onto film and made sounds using the film.

I really loved this film - wish I had seen it whilst doing my Oskar Fishinger project.

Also, when researching this film I came across this other film by Erkki Kurenniemi which is also really visually interesting. The patterns on the electronic objects are really fascinating up close.

Life Skills

Last term, in groups of three, we made documentaries about businesses in Peckham.

Our group documented the company Life Skills, a centre that teachers construction work, as well as maths, english and help with getting a job to local teenagers.

Here is the final video:


Life Skills from Alexandra Brittain on Vimeo.

Shape Rainbow

Last term we completed an animation project with guest lecturer Max Hattler.

The class was split into 16 groups which were each given shapes and colours to base their animations on.

When put together all the films create a shape rainbow.

I was part of group nine - we had the colours green to dark green and the shape was a circle.

Here is the final film.


 

Fanzine Workshop

Yesterday we had another workshop; a fanzine workshop.

The brief: to make some form of fanzine in a day based on a given word.

My word was repeat.

I started out with some postcards I found in a charity shop which I wanted to use.

I began by experimenting with about 4 of them; photocopying them, cutting them up, adding text to them.

However I kept coming back to the idea of slicing the images and piecing two images together.

Once I had one long image I then begun folding the image into a concertina so that you could see one image one way and the other the other way.

I then created a variety of these long images which I then Japanese bound together.

The idea being you could take the pages out of the book and create the concertina for yourself.

I would really like to create a lot more of these double images, perhaps playing further with the splicing and repetition of the slices of imagery.

In terms of the concertina it might be night to experiment with text; something you can read only when you have made the concertina.