BOOK ART

Earthbound: Dreams of Flight

Medium: Accordion fold book (opened) on flattened box container with box top. Fourteen original collaged and painted linoleum cut prints depicting dream inspired images using Arches watercolor paper as the substrate. Prints are adhered to a black Arches cover paper using archival adhesive. Pages one and two contain a self authored narrative about the relationship between the creative process of dreaming and the creative process of making art. This narrative is printed using an Epson 2200 printer and archival inks. Box 6 7/8" x 6" x 7 ¼," Book 6 1/8" x 6 1/8" x ½” unfolds to 106.” One of a kind book. Created April, 2005. Added 04/21/06.





The Fifth Amendment

BRANCHES

by Mitch Cullin
illustrated by Ryuzo Kikushima

Written in the first person as the story of a Sheriff in Texas who is judge, jury and executioner

Each copy of the book has 9mm bullet holes shot through the cover, a Sheriff badge, and the title is affixed as a name badge. This edition of Branches includes color prints of the 16 illustrations, tipped in over the black and white reproductions in the book. You can also see more details of the binding and illustrations.

The Fifth Amendment version of this edition is available only to the subscribers of The Bill of Rights series, and includes a box made of the same uniform fabric as the book, with a black leather holster bearing the foil stamped text of The Fifth Amendment sewn to the cover.

New Camera!

Got a new camera today due to dropping the other one whoops. But that was a bit of a drunken accident. This new one won't be taken on nights out as its a bit fancy! Its not an SRL, but its "in the middle" as the guy in the shop said.

So, final decision - record images/ things relating to the word "DISCARDED"

Took some photos this afternoon..

Discarded

Definition -
v. dis·card·ed, dis·card·ing, dis·cards
v.tr.
1. To throw away; reject.
2.
a. To throw out (a playing card) from one's hand.
b. To play (a card other than a trump) from a suit different from that of the card led.
v.intr.
To discard a playing card.
n. (dskärd)
1.
a. The act of discarding in a card game.
b. A discarded playing card.
2. One that is discarded or rejected.

Brain Storm - Unwanted Objects

-Abandoned Vehicles
-Rubbish
-Scrap Yards

Maybe Broken objects would be more interesting? Or discarded Objects in general.
I don't know if it would be a good thing that the objects all appear quite random and the only thing they have in common is that they have been discarded and are unwanted.
Here are some images from deviant art to help explain my idea...

100

New brief to collect or record anything, somehow relating it to the number 100. I think i am going to record and collect unwanted objects, abandoned things. This could be quite interesting..first things that come to mind are a scrap yard. On the train home we went past one full of cars..that were obviously out of use but to me were quite interesting. I think the idea of unwanted objects interesting because they may not have a function anymore, but it is quite interesting to think of the story behind them, why have they been abandoned. The objects that come to mind look good as an image, but are past working. This idea just generally intrigues me.

Lonely Flat.

This weekend is going be an unsociable one. No-one in this flat or next door. But i have lots of work to do anyway so i will have a chance to get on with it with no distractions..thats if i dont start to go crazy.

This is a really good typography site. It uses the personalities and shapes of animals to create a typeface most suited to them. Its just interesting to see which aspects of the animals the designer picks up on. He is very sucessful and putting across the typefaces.

Research Photos.

IDN Magazine

I have found a really good magazine called IDN. It has such good layout in it, and really good designers. One interview i found particularaly interesting was one with the design studio ICFF, founded by Oliver Wiegner. I found it interesting because i could relate to alot of his responses.

Q - Do you have a design philosophy? What sort of feeling would you like your wok to inspire in the viewer?
A - Not really a philosophy, more a feeling or an attitude. Everytime i do a project i want to go one step further. Everytime i try to provoke wth more oddness or beauty in a strange way. I like to create a lack of understanding. It's more interesting for me if people do not understand my work immediately.

Q - What do you think about the relationship between art and Music?
A - Music is like a drug. For me, its really inspiring to listen to music Futhermore, music - and especially electronic music - and graphic design have a lot in common. I guess the process of sitting in front of your computer and mixing sounds or going around and collecting samples is quite similar to the work i do. From time to time i was a VJ. That is the most direct way to bring both together and to be influenced by music immediately.

\"Music is like a drug. For me, its really inspiring to listen to music Futhermore, music - and especially electronic music - and graphic design have a lot in common. I guess the process of sitting in front of your computer and mixing sounds or going around and collecting samples is quite similar to the work i do."

This is a key answer for as this is the music I listen to when doing my work, and this may help to explain why I have always felt there is a link between the music I listen to and the work that I am doing.

Futher into the interview Oliver Wiegner went on to say that when he thinks of a project he will think of connotations, a concept and try to form this picture in his mind of what his work will look like. Even if it is a really rough picture..he would like the ability to print the ideas out of his brain, but the process of having to transform work into the real work brings ideas with it. The results end up being completely different to what he originally thought of.

This is something that i can comepletely related to, more often than not when i get a brief i will have an image of my final piece. But never has my final piece turned out like i originally planned, just because as i am working through development of my design other ideas come to mind.

Sheffield

It was really useful going to sheffield actually, it helped me to clarify what i needed to do. Stefanie Posavec's exhbition summed up what we needed to do. She had three A1 pieces. She had read the novel called on the road and visualised the language structure , rythm and themese contained within the novel into diagramtic/visual form. I could not find any images of this on the interent, but there are some very rough sketches in my notebook.
This was the only one that really helped me with my project though. They were all realted to mapping and the idea of pushing the boundries of ordinary mapping rules. I also have a book that is of great use, called YOU ARE HERE, which also looks at the use of mapping in a unique and orignal way.

Thursday, Links for food project.

http://www.byggstudio.com/pages/billie.html

Looking at this piece, i could use shapes of foods to create outlines and typography.

http://www.byggstudio.com/pages/work2.html

This guy looks at the use of photography and everyday objects