November 2011
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“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via immortels)
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Rock scene in Manchester - research
I have gathered all the information needed for my Manchester booklet which will be about the great local rock scene. Did you know that Manchester is the city with the most rock stars per head in the UK?
On one side of my booklet I am going to write about some of the biggest names from Manchester. I have chosen to write about:
The Hollies
The Bee Gees
The Smiths
Oasis
On the other I will...
Booklet research →
One of the first phases of my booklet research was looking at the Creative tourist website /Manchester’s guide for the creative tourist/. It offers a lot of useful information on different art & culture topics, but my favourite part is the booklets which you could download from their site. They are very nicely designed and are a great example for our project.
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“Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
– Mark Twain
Friday lecture
These are the books I’ve been reading for the past few weeks. Already red Exploring illustration and Stop stealing sheep & find out how type works/which is really amazing and useful/. I was really glad that during today’s lecture by Tim Isherwood named Page Layout and Grid Systems I was already familiar with a lot of the discussed problems and examples, thanks to these books. I...
Excuse the flowery language- Craft ....
tashatime:
Danny also sent me this today which I really like. It reminds me of some of Alison Carmichael where she present bad/ horrible words as beautiful (see below) I think it makes you as the viewer consider the piece more as it is not what is expected. Back to stitching.. another link from Danny, Tower of Babble from hereThanks to Amy Kett n...
Evolution of famous logos →
