Emerge

I was really lucky to be involved in a great exhibition during London Design Festival called Emerge. I was one of 22 of 2009’s brightest young graduates who was chosen by guest selector Fraser Muggeridge. Part of the exhibition was a take on Pentagram's poster brief for which 22 established designers design a poster celebrating London in red, black and white. Mine was based on the fabric patterns on buses, tubes and train seats found around London.

Its been a while... I had a bit of a break hunting for internships and doing an exhibition.. I shall digress in the next few posts :)

I went and detoured one day to Margate... I have never been before but it is at the very tip of Englands toe and does feel like the end of the earth. One thing that I saw and fell in love with was what was quintessential British seaside typography. I studied in Bournemouth (another seaside town) but have never seen such wonderful time warped sign-age...

The design team at Front manipulated a Royal Delft vase by exposing it to a simulated gust of wind. I think that the approach is really original. The object is manipulated to tell a new story.It has now been given a persona which it didn't have before. This is a similar concept that I will approach the objects that are to be used as a demonstration of tools of the state of Flow. The mundane turned extraordinary.

Nice little packaging concept from chappsmalina. The exterior informs the reader about the inside with little information, focusing on the outline of the contents and the familiarization with the audience. This familiarization is linked with the vector images used to represent the tools used in my chosen activities of Flow.

Not much said about this piece, but through the form of  the single sheets and the anchorage of the name, enough said. Unique.

Haptic

I was introduced to Kenya Hara's book Designing Design. This book really was enjoyable, opening my eyes to a new form of considered design. Above is an image of Kosuke Tsumura's Kami Tama. These lanterns are constructed with a silk meesh that, with the help of a wig expert, was transformed into ghost like light almost feeling alive. If you focus on how you feel and experience a sensation of its touch just through sight you will be able to recognize that there is a unexplored field of design. Hara called this Haptic which is the awakening of the senses. An exhibition was held in 2005, filled with amazing idea like this. Worth a look.

Base

The packaging and book work of Base is pretty inspirational although what seems to be a large agency they still produce the work with extreme attention to detail. Bepeople is a personal fave.