Olafur Eliasson

I saw this exhibition by Olafur Eliasson 5 years ago and I can still remember just how monumental it was. It was so bright, warm and relaxing, myself and my friends lay on the floor looking up at it. This influenced one of the designs for the D&AD brief.

Claus Oldenburg

I am a fan of the work of Claus Oldenburg, a Pop artist. I particularly like the way Oldenburg produces monumental sculptures using everyday objects produced in greater scale to give them heightened meaning.

Andreas Guersky

This is a photgraph by Andreas Guersky, I like the way he captures patterns in architecture.

pull your finger out

Hi Liam,

You need to add Labels to this blob to ind out how and why look at the Professional Practice briefing pack.
Also have a look at this book might be interesting to look at for the D&AD brief Italia Modern Design - Published by PIE Books c2007 i found it on grain edit.

Get some more activity going on this blog over the break its gone a bit dead lately.

Language head

One of the things I have been aiming to do is take more photographs and after reading the text I picked up on the idea of Spain wanting to have a single personality but Catalonia wanting to be seperate. So working with the theme of multiple personalities and heads to denote the mind I took one differentiating factor mentioned in the text, language to produce my first head. Im not overly pleased with this but I think it does look interesting and is experimental.

The Number 23

The film 'The Number 23' has been an influence on another image I have produced denoting the differential factor between Catalonia and Spain being the language. 'The Number 23' is a psycological thriller about a man's life unravelling when he reads a book of the same title. The character played by Carrey becomes obsessed with the book convinced that it is based on his life without realising the book has darker connotations. The poster for this film was an aesthetic influence on the head I produced as I liked the idea of writing text over a face. However where as the lighting and colours with the expression is darker the head I have produced isnt aimed to be negative it is more indifferent.

Scroll face

This is my face of Verdaguer I like the idea of old fashioned paper to denote the traditional scroll that may have been used to write poetry on. To be honest Im not exactly sure whether they did write on that sort of paper but I think it works on a stereotypical level.