“Pane-ful: Ray Pearce studies the perfect imprint left by a tawny owl which flew into his patio door at night. The impression was left on the glass by an explosion of the powder down producted by the birds[’] feathers. ‘We’ll keep it until the window cleaner comes,’ said Mr Pearce, 75, of Wigston, Leicestershire.”
Source: Metro, May 2006
Photo: Raymonds Press
“It may have something to do with their reputation for prudence, but the Scottish accent is the most trusted in the banking industry. People who have a London or Yorkshire dialect are also seen as trustworthy, a poll shows, but Mancunians, Scousers and Brummies are not.
A spokesman for the International Financial Services District in Glasgow said: ‘Customers need to feel they are dealing with competent people’.”
Source: Metro, 20th June 2006
Just launched a new site for a Chance Street Studio in Shoreditch, London who provide photographic studio hire.
Just also re-launched a new site for The Stamp Bug Ltd. The on-line shop contains around 2600 products and is built on a full CMS system for the client to update all content.
“One of the British national daily newspapers is asking readers, “what it means to be British?”
‘Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then travelling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV.’
…And the most British thing of all? Suspicion of anything foreign.”
Source: random email
Photograph taken in a store in Covent Garden, December 2005.
As one Apple tattoo recipient states, “I’m a Mac freak–I identify strongly with Apple and Mac computers–I got it done to convince myself I would always be true to Apple, not for religious or political reasons, but to convince myself that Macs are the way ahead”.
A shibboleth is a kind of linguistic password: A way of speaking (a pronunciation, or the use of a particular expression) that identifies one as a member of an ‘in’ group. The purpose of a shibboleth is exclusionary as much as inclusionary: A person whose way of speaking violates a shibboleth is identified as an outsider and thereby excluded by the group. (This phenomenon is part of the “Judge a book by its cover” tendency apparently embedded in human cognition, and the use of language to distinguish social groups).
…is usually harboured by individuals [and] is stabilised by the norm. Moreover, it is sustained by institutions:
“Society creates the institutions and organs with which it influences aesthetic value through regulation or evaluation of art works. Among those institutions are art criticism, expertise, artistic training (including art schools and institutions whose goal is the cultivation of passive contemplation), the marketing of art works and its advertising, surveys to determine the most valuable of art, art shows, museums, public libraries, competitions, prizes, academies and frequently, censorship.”
Jan Mukaŕovský
1. You believe that: “…graphic design is a problem-solving, business tool and that designers should suppress their desire for personal expression to ensure maximizing the effectiveness of the content”.
or
2. You believe that: “…although design undoubtedly has a problem-solving function, it also has a cultural and aesthetic dimension, and its effectiveness is enhanced, and not diminished, by personal expression”.
How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul, Adrian Shaughnessy, 2005
“A few educators interviewed for this article further estimate that as many as 50 percent of their own B.A. and B.F.A. graduates or certificate holders actually quit design within a year after graduation. The reasons for this vary: Certain programs provide inadequate tutelage and job counseling; or just as critical, many students are simply ill-suited to be graphic designers. Yet once accepted into a school or program, administrators are reluctant to “thin the herd.” Instead they allow natural selection to take its course, and while survival of the fittest is widely accepted in the professional jungle, for an educational institution to release unprepared grads is irresponsible to the student and the profession.”
By Steven Heller, AIGA
Click here to read the rest of the article.
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
A few of us worked with a photographer from London in Morzine last ski season with Getty Images, shooting film and stills for their image library. The footage is now on-line and can be viewed here.
July 2005
Zest Magazine
May 2005 vol 22 no 5
Health & Fitness Magazine
31 March 2005
Design Week
Steven Collins,
The Daily Telegraph
“Semiology [is] the study of signs and signals, the symbols, gestures and messages through which western society sustains, sells, identifies and yet obscures itself by painting or powdering over its raddled, whore-like visage…Barthes’ purpose is to tear away masks and demystify the signs, signals and symbols of the language of mass culture.”
Dennis Potter,
The Times
