Project #4 at Camberwell: Animals + Beasts

Drawings from the Natural History Museum + the Horniman Museum.

Final product!

We were given a vague description of an
animal + made a creature out of the informative
drawings in our sketchbooks.

Project #2 at Camberwell: Reportage

Drawings of the view from my window.

Drawings from the Southbank, done on the sly.

Final images: mini-posters based on the theme of 'Big and Small'.

Project #1 at Camberwell: Perform

View the performance here.

Joining Project !

A little bit of stuff from the joining project:

1.

NAME: Ruby Barclay

AGE: 19

PLACE OF BIRTH: Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham

POSITION IN THE FAMILY: Baby

NATIONALITY: British

RELIGION: A strong belief in connections made with others, nature + myself

EDUCATION: Snooty all-girls school / the punk life

HOBBIES: Looking at my cat + crying

CAREER PLANS: Trying not to fall off a tightrope

2.

REQUIREMENTS

(Just a few because my scanner is dodgy)

EXPECTATIONS

HOPES

:-------)

Examples of British Design, Art + Illustration:

Herry (Heather) Perry, Pleasure Outings, Transport for London poster, 1935. (via)

William Morris, Strawberry Thief, furnishing fabric, 1883. (via)

Sainsbury's Own Brand packaging, Peter Dixon, 1962-1977. (via) 

David Shrigley, How Are You Feeling?, 2012. (via)

Grayson Perry, The Agony in the Car Park, 2012. (via)

David Hockney, Lithograph of Water Made of Lines, 1978. (via)

Lauren Child, Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book?, 2012. (via)

John Griffith's Penguin Classified List from 1958. (via)

Rose Blake, Barbican Conservatory for The Sunday Times Magazine, June 2013 (via)

10 interesting images

From 1957 onwards Bernd and Hilla Becher took photographs of industrial architecture.  I like that these mundane structures look like alien spaceships or places of worship. The photographers called them "anonymous sculptures". Together the images have a great visual effect, and according to the guggenheim website, "They organized their photographs into series based exclusively on functional typologies and arranged them into grids or rows. This served both to invoke and reinforce the sculptural properties of the architecture...".

I saw a collection of Becher photographs similar to these at the Neue Galerie whilst on a drawing trip in Berlin last November. 

 This photograph by Ernst Haas has a great autumnal colour palette, which triggers thoughts of foggy mornings, the smells of woodsmoke, damp soil + rotting leaves, Britain in the 1970s, milky tea, muddy church shoes + cold fingertips. 

Modernist gingerbread house via Present and Correct . Three things I love: modernist architecture, winter, + gingerbread!

A beautiful collection of fruit stickers (via Present and Correct).

(The P+C blog has a great packaging category which is fun to scroll through endlessly as you get caught up in the whirlwind romance between you and the colourful graphics.)

These colours + geometric patterns (that resemble a patchwork quilt) are everything I enjoy tucked into one tiny photograph ! ! (via Varpunen)

Henri Matisse drawing on his walls from his bed makes my heart swell up !  His incessant need to carry on working and creating is a really inspiring. (+ here's another one for good measure!)

Photograph from a series by Shuwei Liu. I came across these photographs when doing research for my FMP, which was about folk culture + costume. The colour scheme of the clothing and the surroundings has instant folk connotations. Burnt orange, tomato red, + washed out indigo blue is a perfect combo. Looking at these beautiful clothes made my hands itch, I want to make something similar to those jackets!

Sainsbury's own brand packaging in the 1970s is very, VERY great. The colours, the typeface, the food itself, what more could you want? (More here).

Top: Maria Primachenko, “Rat on a Journey”, 1963

Bottom: Kristina Isola, “Metsänväki”, 2007

(Isola was an in-house designer for Marimekko, and later admitted to copying Primachenko’s work and making it into one of her own pattern designs for the Finnish company.)

I love Primachenko's work because of it's connection to the earth, nature, + creating a piece of art with a child-like sensibility. Trees are furry patterned shapes, houses are surrounded by clouds of brightly coloured flowers and everything she portrays shines with exuberance and vibrancy. 

I love the patterns made by Finnish design company Marimekko, their designers have a way of using the brightest colours in such a confident way, making Marimekko products timeless and easily worn/ used by all.