The Disciples of Design four by andy bainbridge

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welcome to issue four 25.11.05

the department of design research newsletter

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Hello . Welcome to the Omega issue of The Disciples of Design. This, the fourth but not as the name suggests, the last installment of our on going voyage into the collective subconscious. The design and contents of this artifact is a constant work in progress. The documentation of thoughts, ideas and connections both visual and verbal. We look back to look forward and are at times both literal and lateral. The ﬂuid ad hoc nature of the design and content is a conscious decision to create a dynamic that reﬂects the speed of the digital age. This is our raison dʼêtre and we are up and running. Enjoy!

images by Steve Wilkin Course Leader - Illustration

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By chance or design the format of a McDonalds takeaway bag is identical to that of the standard in ďŹ&#x201A;ight sick bag.

*Both bags featured are from the Department of Design ephemera archive.

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Description: Typeface Illustration Size: 1040mm x1400mm x 30mm Medium: Wooden Type Blocks Quantity: 15 Trays (approx. 3750 pieces) Time Scale: 3 Days Tools: Pencil, Ruler, Masking Tape, Scalpel, Double Sided Tape (extra strong)

Description: Dry Stone Wall Size: 24 yards in length. 5 feet high by two feet wide (tapering to 18 inches) Medium: Sedimentary Sand Stone Quantity: 35 Tonnes Time Scale: 3 Weeks Tools: Pick, Spade, Barrow, Lump Hammer, Stone Chisel, Plum Line

A good dry stone waller never picks up the same stone twice.* *traditional saying

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Textures & Layers. Norcross & Bainbridge 05

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Frozen Footprints. Edale 28.12.05

First year Graphic Design Students were given the one day lateral thinking exercise below. The brief was to take a cup from a vending machine and use it to project a famous personality of their choice. The answers to the selection shown can be found at the base of this page.

Brief Background - Cleaner Coastal Campaign Yorkshire Water wanted to tell their customers that they had cleaned up Yorkshires Seaside. We commissioned a set of three saucy seaside postcards and cleaned up the saucy or ‘dirty’ innuendo usually associated with a typical 1960’s seaside postcard (originally created in Yorkshire). Mike Rigby (BA Hons) Graphic Design - Graduate 2002

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Mike Tyson - Edvard Munch - Sebastian Coe - Ann Bolyn - Megatron - The Saint - Peter parker (AKA Spiderman)

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A“A visit to the turbine hall on the south bank to see Rachel Whitereads huge sugar cube installation is well worth the effort. Not just because itʼs free but because itʼs there. AThe 40,000 moulded cardboard boxes are plastic casts of plaster casts. Placed at random and not so random they offer the viewer quite a sight. AThe installation is running up until March 06, when all the boxes are going to be recycled into traffic cones. AThey can then be viewed at your leisure when they will appear in a continuous installation on the M25. ARenamed hard shoulder?”. random

reviewed by William Whitehead

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Virtual AF - Regular Family: Virtual AF Re

Suitcase: Virtual AF Re

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Foundry: Bitstream (Tokyo)

Font ID: revised 11/05

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Limited edition silkscreen by Jon Harker - 05

An experimental and controversial new type family has recently emerged hot of the hard drive of Swedish type svengali Olof Prila. Using a new virtual reality software package from the Adobe workshops Tokyo, it enables the designer for the ﬁrst time, to view a typeface in side elevation. The new typographical twist,Virtual AF, at present consists of only three weights complete with none aligning ﬁgures. Olof believes this face could herald a new era in type design, Olof “it’s the biggest typographical breakthrough since Gutenbergs letterpress Bibles”. However some purists have lambasted the face as illegible, vague and lacking personality. All we can say is draw your own conclusions?

Above: Typographical April Fool. Featured in Design Week & Creative Review Circa. 1994

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Naturally projected spectrum - digitally captured. Time to design - 5minutes and 27 seconds.

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Rhodi Plc 2005COPYRIGHT

These apparent ďŹ&#x201A;oral designs were created by 4th year Graphic Design student Lucy Gascoigne on her industrial placement. On closer inspection the designs are a clever blend of graphic explosions and bomb motifs. While working at Rhobi Design in Preston Lucy also undertook a vast array of fashion designs, those featured were used for the lining of jackets.

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Postman Pat and his black & white cat (Jess). Created by John Cuncliffe C.1981

The serendipity of these two images is remarkable and one can only wonder at the coincidence?

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Royal Mail information booklet - detail C.1979

The making of a prototype

Appature light for Habitat. Designed by Claire Norcross 2004ÂŠ

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Ribbon light for Habitat. Designed by Claire Norcross 2004ÂŠ

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The image above was taken by Jon Harker on a recent visit to Porto.

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South Island New Zealand - 2004

Limited edition silkscreen by Jon Harker - 05

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These current ďŹ lm poster designs are by Graphic Design graduate Gary Dalton. Gary, a Prestonian, graduated in 2003 and is now working for Empire Design in London.

Limited edition silkscreen by Jon Harker - 05

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Pillar of salt. Intervention 2001

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.......New York as of 26.11.05

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This inventive print is taken from the lid off a frozen Sainsburys 3 layer lasagne

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Key Cutters Logotype. Designed by Mike Rigby 2005

Blackberry preserve 2003. Picked on the B6243 the trafďŹ c Jam featured above was made in a limited edition of 20.

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“do you think we really need the Kangaroos?”

A ʻlook blackʼ at the John Player Special press advertisments of the early 1980ʼs. By vince Vaughn While Silk Cut was changing the face of cigarette advertising with the purple cut campaign, JPS remained ﬁrmly old school. The featured campaign relys on an increasingly tenious word play and standard pack shot solution, which now looks truly dated. In the interveening years our societies attitude to smoking and especially the advertising of the product has changed radically. Smokers or ʻsnoutcastsʼ have been increasingly margionalised and all tobacco related advertising outlawed. A pritty naff brand, JPS were only ever considered cool due to their shrewed product placement on the side of the Lotus F1 car of the 70ʼs and early 80ʼs. They made motering look mean