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Hello, my name is Maya Alvarado. On this blog is a selection of things that have caught my attention, things I have seen over the last few weeks and the kind of work I like to create. I love making out of wood and the joinery that it takes to do so. Printing (screen, lino & etching) really interests me and I hope to continue with these over the near future.
'Tis the season to be moving....
I hope you enjoy looking around the blog.
The museum of everything at SELFRIDGES
This exhibition #4 is supposed to be about language and communication by artists all with some form of learning difficulties. I talked to a volunteer who makes automaton sculptures about this, but I could not find too much about it on the website or flyer. Maybe it is all up for your own interpretation.
A lot of the pieces had this graphic communicative feel:
I love these black and white images:
And this colourful man
The text and shape aspect of the images show they are communicating something, or at least expressing through this. Although they are in a large department store, the museum have kept the sense of their last place in primrose hill, limiting their space by the walls, still having an upstairs and packing the space with lots and lots of brilliant work.
cool typography
PLAYTYPE
e-Types are selling their 'PLAYTYPE' items at KK Outlet,
I loved the handle-less mugs.
The variants of the font are all bold and iconic.
Tiles + bethnal green
After the galleries me and Barbara went to take a look at her dad's shop. They were doing a special event with wallpaper and covering Columbia Road with it!
http://www.misterrob.co.uk/
Then we went to his studio which was tucked in a fauna covered courtyard passage, which you are led into through the cutest wooden door:
I was lucky enough to get a few seconds tiles which I think are beautiful!!
sorry the pictures aren't better!
http://www.misterrob.co.uk/
Then we went to his studio which was tucked in a fauna covered courtyard passage, which you are led into through the cutest wooden door:
I was lucky enough to get a few seconds tiles which I think are beautiful!!
sorry the pictures aren't better!
KK OUTLET
http://www.kkoutlet.com/
The little zine of making instructions is worth getting, then you can make all these for yourself:
We also stopped off at KK Outlet's 'Object Abuse' exhibition. It was really cool to see what the artists/designers did with their brief to 'remould, rebuild and repurpose' an everyday object. There were some great inventions that came out of this:
Dominic Wilcox's Paintbrush hooks - usually it's irritating when you leave your brush in glue and ruin it, but he's managed to turn it useful:
A less sporty use of a racket:
Recycle-friendly cycling mask
Wilfred Wood's (great name) handlebar chandelier
Atomic
But my favourite has to be the TV Cabinet-turned-Mechanical Screen Printer by Matthew Tully
I'm trying to remember where I came across this printing chair recently, I think it was another blog, but it's by this same guy a set/prop designer/maker based in the east midlands:
The little zine of making instructions is worth getting, then you can make all these for yourself:
The art of looking sideways
Yesterday I went to Kemistry gallery with Barbara. Alan Fletcher's 'The art of looking sideways' exhibition was on. A big selection of the original pages of the book were displayed in clear polly pockets nailed to the walls in a grid. There were his handwritten preliminary notes, collages of images and newspaper cuttings and you could see how they were then transferred into book form. We both agreed it was easier to take in these insights in this way, I guess there was less information and it was all laid out for you:
Some drawings I did:
I like this ink typeface
Some drawings I did:
I like this ink typeface
moving house
A drawing I did of a lovely house I would like to moving in to, but I'm very happy with my new Kingston home :)
I found this cute ribbon in the Albert Cuyp market in De Cuyp, Amsterdam, I would love to live there after my degree. I went to the most delicious Moroccan restaurant there called 'Bazar' - you have to go if you make a visit!
this would be a good trim to photocopy onto a 'house zine'
Juxtapoz
Juxtapoz is a cool graphic + art magazine, I have only bought it once, but there was so much in it. Recently I have been checking out there blog:
http://www.juxtapoz.com/Home
On it I came across Mark Whalen, a brilliant illustrator - his work speaks for itself!
I love this picture if him, I know that if I was painting that line now I would probably smudge it, I want to get back to that calm state of drawing/painting.
http://www.juxtapoz.com/Home
On it I came across Mark Whalen, a brilliant illustrator - his work speaks for itself!
I love this picture if him, I know that if I was painting that line now I would probably smudge it, I want to get back to that calm state of drawing/painting.
even better graphic design
This is the business card for a social network inspired restaurant in Gran Canaria. I think it seems a bit off-putting to eat at a place that makes you think about cooking faces. The 'natural' & 'fresh' vibe they want to give off isn't really shown here, but it's a cool manipulation of the trademark facebook.
TYPE
My friend posted The Kooks' 'Is It Me' music video on my wall, because she knew I liked typewriters. For a long while there has been an up in the use of typewriters in illustration and graphic design, but in recent years it seems they have become more commercially used. I was walking in Carnaby St the other day and I saw a shopfront with the company's new range and the information coming out of a typewriter, I think it was Diesel.
This also reminded me of the printed t-shirts of machines and the typewriter necklaces that Urban Outfitters do.
This necklace of a gold replica with a print sample has evolved into a simple graphical representation:
It seems quite fitting at this time as the world's last typewriter was made this summer by Mumbai based company 'Godrej and Boyce.' Approximately 12,000 machines were being produced up until 2009 - when they were still commonly used in India, and now the company is down to it's last 200 for sale.
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