Thursday, 17 November 2011

Workshop - Lino Printing

Firstly a design is choose to be printed. A mirror image of this design is transfered to the lino block. Typically this is done using tracing paper or sometimes the sketch is made directly to the lino block. It depends on how confident you are in your mirror image sketching abilities.

Tuesday, 8 November 2011

By celia boix

Points of view

If you though that the only two ways for you to see a glass were either as” half-full” (Optimist) or “half empty” (Pessimist) then you’d be very wrong my friend because Despair.com has come up with a list of ten in their Points of View checklist which include:

Realist – “Yep. That’s a glass, alright”
Idealist – “One day, cold fusion for a glass of water will provide unlimited energy and end war”
Capitalist – “If I bottled this and give it a New Agey sounding name, I could make a fortune”
Communist – “This drink belongs to every single one of us in equal measures”
Nihilst – “This glass does not exist, and neither do I”
Opportunist – “There’s a funny t-shirt in here somewhere”

So which one do you fall into?

Monday, 10 October 2011

Steve Jobs

With the death of Steve Jobs, the world has lost its foremost design genius. But his legacy will live on, and I believe we will see Jobs elevated to the level of Leonardo Da Vinci in the years to come.

Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
– Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011

Out of order

Friday, 7 October 2011

Dadaism

Dada is the groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of antiart to be later embraced for anarcho-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the foundation for Surrealism.