‘Surveys from a Small Island’ opens August 26 in Ipswich

August 13, 2011 4 Comments

Seven Photography and Graphic Design students from UCS and Senior Lecturer in Photography Heike Löwenstein invite to the Opening of Surveys from a Small Island – An exhibition inspired by New York on Friday 26 August from 3-6pm. The show continues in the Foyer of the Waterfront Building until October 16.

The work was created during a student trip to New York in June, in response to the city and to Löwenstein’s exhibition Surveys of a Small Island curated by meatyard arts that was showing at the same time.

After a ‘pop-up’ exhibition on the Highline on their last evening in New York the group now shows a considered selection of work from New York as well as visuals and objects that have been created in response to the visit by two Graphic Design students, Yvette-Marie Ormsby and Jonanice Kitt. The photographic surveys range from matchbox pinhole photographs of Coney Island by Tom Rose to quiet observations of private moments performed in public by Caroline Guthrie, comments on people working in service of others by Neil Salter and large format polaroids of the Highline by Natalie Martin. Kristine Diza has decided on a grid of images of a day out in New York and Löwenstein will show experiments with vertical panoramas that challenge viewing conventions. Tom Rose and Andrew Biddulph (who remained back home) collaborated on a visual contemplation of time and space, shot in New York and the UK at the same time.

The development of the exhibition has been facilitated through the blog of thenetwerk®, the photography research group that Löwenstein has founded with colleagues in 2008.

The exhibition may encourage and inspire all current students to create more surveys of the (small island) UK, which could be exhibited next year in New York – just an idea …

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Yviemarie: Mmm doughnuts

August 5, 2011 3 Comments

I made a little image for my blog, with some of the illustrations from my prints. You can the style I am working with, simple shapes, limited colour palette (at the moment anyway), layers of detail.

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Yviemarie: Poster edits

August 5, 2011 11 Comments

         

Right folks, I’ve made the dits to the poster inlcuding title, time of event, and reduced the size of the information to show more of the background image. I prefer the boldness of the colour one, but to comply with ideas of black and white printing, the black and white one would make the text more legible if printed bw (the yellow would end up a shade of grey and would disrupt the clarity of teh text).

We can of course use full colour for the digital flyers, facebook event, IP1 etc

Heike, I can email you these in any format that you would prefer, ready for print with  a 3mm bleed. Just let me know. Erm…I think that’s it for now :)

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Yviemarie: Graphics

August 5, 2011 3 Comments

I wanted to share some of the sketches from my blog, the early stages of the illustrations I’m making for the exhibition.  Don’t want to give too much of the game away before the opening afternoon!

This is a collection of vector illustrations of things that I encountered, or which reminded me of my trip, displayed in teh shape of an apple. See the connection :) This will be framed, probably unmounted, and more than likely in a white box frame. I have thought of the colour scheme to be reds, greens or a fade of the two, to make it more like an apple. Although I really like the idea of just using brights. Possibly 2 or 3 prints in the varying colours will be displayed.

This is a repeat pattern inspired by our trip to Coney island. This one really intrigues me due to the wavy repeat, something I haven’t tried before! I felt very nostalgic here, it reminded me of an old-fashioned New York, when you really did go to the seaside for a holiday. The colours here are red, white and blue.

This is my application sketch. I’ll be creating some custom coffee cups (three is the magic number), with New York designs on. These are to be displayed on a plinth, and depending on space, accompanied by a matching take out bag. I’m not sure whether to keep the display clean and minimal, or to include a coffee-ringed napkin. What do you think?

You can also see an idea of the AZ collection – which will be made into a poster print, and possibly single letter prints of my favs (or maybe those will go on the slideshow?)

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Yviemarie: Name of exhibition

August 2, 2011 5 Comments

Right folks, we need suggestions for a title for our exhibition. The poster design has had good feedback so far, but the current name is perhaps too vague. It might not be understandable to people who don’t know of the first exhibition in New York, so a Part 2 makes little sense.

Everyone’s ideas please post them here, so that we can sign off on it by the end of tomorrow. We can then sort out printing and distribution.

So what do we think? Names, names, names…

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Yviemarie: Poster

August 1, 2011 9 Comments

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Here’s an idea I’ve been playing with for the poster. I wanted to keep it simple and contemporary, with a hint of what the ‘theme’ is without giving it away completely. We want people to be curious. This image is stock, however, I’d really like to use someone’s photography. Anyone willing? The flyer will be the same design but with a different photo background (as will the catalogue, and invite if anyone wanted one in the end). This way we have a few variants to add interest whilst maintaining a strong overall branding concept.

The copy will change according to what is finalised regarding dates and times. What does everyone think? Is there anything in the copy that is missing?

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Yviemarie: Marketing

July 30, 2011 3 Comments

I’ve been thinking alot about the marketing ideas for this exhibition and have a few potential designs ready to be mocked up, however, I need your help for some imagery. Some of the designs incorporate photography, so it would be great if anyone who doesn’t mind would email a high res pdf or jpg for me to work on. Just one please, as I think I’ll get distracted with too big a choice!

I’ve already been in touch with marketing at UCS, to get fimiliar with their new branding guide and they will need to see a copy before we distribute. Does anyone have any thought on how many we’ll need, and where we’d like to display?

The branding currently covers posters, flyers, catalogue (thankyou Neil) and invitations, if anyone would like to specifically invite anyone? Also, what financing options was mentioned at the last meeting. I have a local printer I usually use, who I don’t think is too badly priced for small runs, although as we are UCS students would it possible to use whoever UCS prints with?

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Yviemarie: Group

July 27, 2011 1 Comment

A new group has been created so we can all better communicate on the smaller details regarding the up-and-coming exhibition at UCS. Please join here, to share ideas!

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Yviemarie: NY

July 21, 2011 2 Comments

As one of the two graphic designers who just had to join this trip, I think I have an interesting perspective on the experience. It was my first time to New York, and it was also my first trip with fellow creatives. It is a great thing to be immersed in a new place with people who are like-minded. Designers NEED people after all.

My sketchbook quickly filled up with ideas and thoughts and doodles, and it has been quite difficult to try and figure out a way of incorporating so much into a physical piece. I have, so far, three ideas to continue to develop including some illustrations, patterns and an alphabet. Check my blog for developments.

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