Monday, February 19, 2007

PIN-UP friday 23 of feb 9.00-13.00 at hyllan

"When image says more then words..."

This Pin-up will focus on visual communication and informative images.

Imagine we lived in a world without words (or that you just would like to compress meaning into non verbal information). Images can communicate as well as text, but off cause it is a skill to handle them.

“We have spent the last 100 years inventing less demanding, less time-consuming alternatives to reading: radio, TV, movies, video games, the internet and now mobile phones that can take and send pictures…we are following the advice of a million symbols, signs and logotypes. There’s a symbol that stands for something every where you look.”

“World Without Words” by Michael Evamy

Try to visualize your thinking.

Make 6 A3 posters (laying format), where text and images communicate as image, explaining what you have done and what you already think you will do but haven’t done yet. Use your knowledge about layout and narratives to express the main intensions and important details, than if necessary ad explaining text.

Place your posters at a table, (three lying posters side by side in two rows), at Hyllan Thursday afternoon.

All groups may attend all presentations.

Juan Carlos Peirone, teaching applied aesthetics, will be our guest.

Last week...

...was kind of non-productive, but very creative. Lots of surfing the internet, lots of coffee and talking. Sketching and writing; not so much.

Results from the surfing sessions and a bonus for you guys, check out these pretty cool links:


www.polarinertia.com
This is a site with photocollections with names like "urban deserts", "berlin wall graphics" or "Tijuana storefronts". Lot's of interesting and surreal urban imagery.


www.mic-ro.com/metro/
This site has lots of nice images and info of Subways in various cities. Even some from Stockholm and Copenhagen.


www.m-city.org
A street art group making murals and graffiti based on stencils around Europe. Pretty neat stuff!


Well, maybe not the most planning oriented links you could find, but at least urban oriented..
/Peder Pants