I’ve always enjoyed the output of creative agency ‘I Love Dust‘ and they have recently updated their website with a completely new look and loads of new bits of work. Some crazy and great illustrations, typography and product design. I particularly liked the illustration above for Facets of Femininity.
I’ve been a fan of the work created by creative agency ‘Love‘ in Manchester for quite some time. Some of the founders of ‘Love’ have now founded a new agency named: ‘Music‘. Perhaps this is one reason why I’ve really taken a liking to the work produced by ‘Music‘. Music is such a brilliant name for a creative agency when you think about it, as design like music is just another way of conveying something like an idea, feeling or emotion. I really like how music’s site works too, it’s like a big wall of design to navigate around. Take a look at their work here: www.designbymusic.com
Aside from being an absolutely gorgeous site design Andreas Lutz’s website is also impressive because the user can interact with it through voice and gestures. Using your webcam you can use hand movements to navigate through his portfolio of music, site design and games. You can also use voice activation to navigate from one section to another for example by saying “music” you can be taken to the music section. This site is just really impressive, check it out!
I stumbled upon this book in a second hand bookshop in the Lake District and it has to be the best book I have ever found or even ever read - EVER. Having done a little bit of research into the history behind the book there appears to be a fair bit of controversy over how true it is. This doesn’t surprise me however I would personally like to believe every one of Jan’s fantastic tales. Also wikipedia and quite a few other sites state that the stories are true which obviously makes them 100% fact! Well maybe. The premise for the book is that the central character ‘Jan Welzl’ left his home in Eastern Europe for the Arctic circle (By foot) in his late teens which has led to the most incredible, amazing, gruesome and awe inspiring adventures I’ve ever heard of. However after 30 years of adventures in the arctic Jan finds himself shipwrecked and stranded in America unable to pay for his return to his adopted home in the Arctic where his tribe of Eskimo’s and whaling fleet await him(ok now I write it down it does sound mad, but the stories are mesmerising and really appear very real ). So in order to earn money to buy his way back Jan starts to sell his stories to a local newspaper. It apparently didn’t take long for word to spread and he became a very famous character in the early 20th Century. In a way the stories are just fascinating because they document what a different world the world was 100 years or so ago. Jan’s adventures lead down some very lonely and scary roots into some of the remotest parts of the world as Europe was only just entering the Industrial Revolution. His description of Eskimos and other tribes is both amazing and shocking. This book is not just a wild, extreme and lonely adventure but its also a bit of a history lesson it even documents the rise of the whaling industry in the arctic. Anyway he eventually managed to earn enough money from his stories to make his way back and that is where this particular book ends. I really can’t describe what a brilliant journey this book takes you on, if you can find a copy I recommend grabbing it straight away. The copy I bought has a fantastic old book look and smell to it, with faded maps on the inside sleeve and a forward by the journalists who wrote down Jan’s tales. Even if his stories are potentially exaggerated apparently Jan Welzl from Zábreh did exist and there is a statue to commemorate this great traveller in his home town. Some of his adventures have been turned into children’s stories I believe.
If you have any information on the authenticity of this book, please let me know! To read a bit more about this crazy story go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Welzl
Artwork by nousvous.eu
Last night I went to a private view held by http://www.projectspaceleeds.org.uk, it was brilliant! A group of Leeds based artists had been brought together to exhibit work for the theme ‘Morphic Resonance’. The main question driving the exhibition was: ‘How is there space for artists in our cultural landscape?’. Being quite new to Leeds I was chuffed to discover so many proffessional artists attending the event and contributing. A piece of work which has really stuck in my mind involved a video of a whole room slowly filling up with water, which was somehow transfixing. The video was very slow, but somehow this made it feel all the more interesting as though you were being given a private insight into something very unusual and something your not likely to see again. As that piece suggests, there was a lot of work relating to space and how modern artists interact and percieve this space. Nous Vous produced the promotional artwork for the event and also exhibited. Their work never ceases to impress espcecialy their impeccable typography.
This is a 'Design blog', well kind of! I use the term loosely as not all the posts are design related, apart from being posted by me, a designer! Some posts are my work but most will be work by others discovered by endless searching of the web. Anyway hopefully you will find a feast of visualy exciting links and posts here. my email is: info@jeffreyshield.co.uk
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