Assessment Day Thursday 19th March

What I want to see for the assessment
as far as i know all of you went for the printed option so here i would like to see
- sketchbooks
- mounted spreads on a board
- dummy to show binding, paper, covermaterials, size
- spreads glued together so one can see how the pages work in the succession of a book or if a broadsheet folded together so that one can see how the folds are placed and what effect this has on the type

if someone has changed and is now working on the pdf publication or the website please let me know ..


Assessment day

Everyone needs to be in the studio at 10.15! NO DELAYS!!!

each of you (whether individual or group) presents your project for 5 minutes or so - this is merely to share your outcome with the group!
so at that point show your boards, your binding etc and talk the group quickly through the project as if they were your client and you would need to explain your concept, why which format, why which materials, why which folding, why which paper, why which binding etc ...

start at 10.30
the order ...
jan, zarah, aaron
brooks, yessica, sarah
matthew
saskia
claude
carly, laura
ana
coocky
lee
leann
natasha
renata
in sun yun
elena
johnathan
junior
thomas
chelache
alex

then please leave your project clearly labeled and your sketchbooks also clearly labeled with me and i will look at them on my own in the afternoon, you can pick them up either in the evening or the next day.

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books/bookshops/fundraiser links/pdf books/websites/etc

This is only a start – please add further books/bookshops/fundraiser links/pdf books/websites/etc to complete this selection!

fundraiser links
- http://www.artfutures.org.uk/
- http://dams.rca.ac.uk/res/sites/RCA_Secret/
- http://www.whitechapel.org/content.php?page_id=3137
- http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/corporate/projectsandschemes/artmusicdesign/pfa/events/roundel-auction.asp

useful books
- Experimental Formats 1 and 2, Roger Fawcett-Tang
- Special Effects - a book about Special Print Effects
- Typography Today - Helmud Schmid
- New Typographic Design, Roger Fawcett-Tang, David Jury
- 8vo, On the outside, Mark Holt, Hamish Muir
- Contemporary Brochures, Catalogues & Documents, Adrian Shaughessy
- The new handmade graphics, Anne Odling-Smee
- notes on book design, Derek Birdsall
- Printed matter, mainly books, Jost Hochuli
- printed matter, Karel Martens
- Dutch resource: Collaborative exercises in graphic design
- Apples & Oranges, best dutch graphic design
- Area: 100 graphic designers, 010 curators, 010 design classics
- Altitude, Contemporary Swiss Graphic Design
- All Messed Up, unpredictable graphics, Anna Gerber
- Great British Editorial
- Lead between the lines
- The Best Dutch Book Designs (there is one for each year)
- Die schoensten deutschen Buecher (there is one for each year)
- 1000 Graphic Elements, Wilson Harvey

good bookshops to go to for Artcatalogues & Graphic Books
- Tate Modern (ten minutes from college!!)
- Walter Koenig, 80 Charing Cross Rd or in the Serpentine Gallery (http://www.buchhandlung-walther-koenig.de/)
- Magma (http://www.magmabooks.com/)
- Artwords (http://www.artwords.co.uk/aboutus/)
- Bookartbookshop (http://www.bookartbookshop.com/)
- Design Museum

also worth going
- St Brides Library (http://stbride.org/)

pdf magazines/books
- http://www.ubu.com/ubu/
- http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english/graduate/ (more a magazine but still)
- http://www.artreviewdigital.com/ (again more a magazine …) (http://www.artreview.com/)
- further google ‘pdf book’, ‘self-publishing’, etc …

graphic design websites etc …
(posted either because there is good work on the site or the website itself seems nice or or or ….)
various
- http://pubres.janvaneyck.nl/#
- http://www.bookworks.org.uk
graphic design related websites
- http://ffffound.com/
- http://www.formfiftyfive.com/
- http://www.blanka.co.uk/Home
- http://www.lehni-trueb.ch/
- http://www.ponybox.co.uk/
- http://www.km-d.com/
- http://www.polimekanos.com
- http://www.apeloig.com
- http://www.milchhof.net/site/
- http://www.spin.co.uk/
- http://www.juligudehus.net
- http://www.graphicthoughtfacility.com/
- http://www.muellerhess.ch/
- http://www.uweloesch.de
- http://dreibholz.com/
- http://www.nmodesign.co.uk/
- http://www.ohyescoolgreat.com/
- http://www.onlab.ch/
- http://www.nothingdiluted.com
- http://www.nothingdiluted.com/
- http://www.peterb.sk/
- http://www.blottodesign.de/
- http://www.waynedaly.com/
- http://www.marcuskraft.net/
- http://www.nbstudio.co.uk/
- http://www.esmog.org
- http://www.designproject.co.uk
- http://www.apracticeforeverydaylife.com/
- http://www.a2swhk.co.uk/
- http://www.yesstudio.co.uk/
- http://www.blast.co.uk/
- http://www.catalogtree.net/
- http://ultra.li/
- http://www.scrollan.de/
art related websites
- http://www.nothingdiluted.com/index.php?/ongoing/1997-2007/
- http://www.julianopie.com/
- http://www.whitecube.com/
- http://www.manandeve.co.uk
many more gallerywebsites can be found on these art listing sites
www.fadwebsite.com
www.firstthursdays.co.uk
www.artrabbit.com
www.criticalnetwork.co.uk
www.commentart.com
www.artvehicle.com
www.worldwidereview.com
www.newexhibitions.com
www.a-n.co.uk/interface
www.artshole.co.uk

to add as much visual research as you can find

Further information

Mary - who is very excited about this also - just sent me the following information for you.

This is the copy of the pressrelease they are currently sending out - she thought this might be useful for you

Drawing 2009 offers the perfect opportunity to start or add to your collection by purchasing a new unique work by significant artists at an affordable price. Over 200 international artists, both established and emerging, are invited to make an A4 drawing in support of The Drawing Room programme and its non-profit activities. The drawings are exhibited for three weeks, culminating in an exciting auction event attracting new collectors, art curators, gallery directors, artists and others interested in contemporary art. All works will be featured on The Drawing Room website from 30 April. Bids, starting at £200, can be made by visiting the exhibition, via website, phone or email and by attending the auction event on 20th May.
Will Allsop, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Liam Gillick, Antony Gormley, Mona Hatoum, Michael Landy and Cerith Wyn Evans have already donated drawings for Drawing 2009 and previous Biennial Fundraisers have included drawings by, amongst many others, Michael Craig-Martin, Martin Creed, Ian Davenport, Richard Deacon, Jeremy Deller, Tracey Emin, Paul Noble, Julian Opie, Cornelia Parker, Grayson Perry, Paula Rego, David Shrigley, Mark Titchner, Gavin Turk and Mark Wallinger.
The Drawing Room was established in 2002 as a non-profit gallery to explore ideas around contemporary drawing and make them visible in the public domain. It commissions new work by national and international artists, often giving artists their first solo show in the UK, and tours exhibitions to museums and galleries throughout the UK. The Drawing Room’s founders and Directors are: Mary Doyle, Kate Macfarlane and Katharine Stout.
For further information on the event please contact Mary Doyle on mail@drawingroom.org.uk


and as someone asked she sent me here 'How to place a bid'

DRAWING 2009 – Biennial Fundraiser
Wednesday 20 May, 18.30 – 20.30
Drawing 2009 silent auction closing event at The Drawing Room. All welcome
Drawing 2009 can be viewed and bids placed on-line and at The Drawing Room during the exhibition and the silent auction closing event. Bids can also be placed over the telephone.
The Drawing Room is open to view Drawing 2009 Tues – Sun 12.00 – 18.00. Admission free

HOW TO PLACE A BID
Bidding opens at 12.00 on 30 April and closes at 20.30 on 20 May 2009
You need to register as a Bidder by filling out the on-line Bidder's Registration Form (link). This will allocate you a Bidder number which you need to remember.
You will use this Bidder number to place as many bids on as many drawings as you wish at The Drawing Room, on-line or over the telephone. If you place bids at The Drawing Room or over the telephone they will be transferred to our on-line bidding system.
Drawing 2009 will culminate in a silent auction event on Wednesday 20 May, 18.30 – 20.30 during which current bidding will be displayed and bids can be updated.
Payment can be made by cash, cheque, credit/debit card before or on collection of the drawings.
Bids start at £200 and increase in the following minimum increments:
£200 - £500: minimum £25 increments
£500 - £1,000: minimum £50 increments
£1,000 - £2,000: minimum £100 increments
£2,000 upwards: minimum £200 increments

Welcome everyone!

Hope you all enjoyed the rough 'East End' yesterday!

Please post a selection of the photos you took and the recording you made on here.

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Further I really want to 'follow' your steps via this blog -> so I want to see what you find in your research stages, what happens in your idea generation stage, etc ...

I want to see the weird and the wonderful!!!!!

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