GRADIENT

if Sagmeister can do it, so can I!

UNIFORMITY

My views on communism, capitalism & consumerism

Open publication - Free publishing - More uniformity

A:Z: TANGIBLE

Another of my interactive environments, this time "Follow the orange dots". Following the dots takes you to a hidden environment. Exploring people's curiosity & attention to their surroundings.

A-Z: WAYFINDING

reminding people there's more than this reality and that there is much more hiding- if nowhere else- inside our imagination. also, a hint of irony and social criticism, I've placed "Paradise" sign in front of council flats (which certainly isn't for most people), "Wild West" same location (because it sometimes feels like one) and sign for "Beach" on a frozen road covered in snow.

A-Z: REPEAT

Ican't remember who said "if you don't know what to do, just repeat it" but he was right. Quite interesting how much you can express with one same image/word. This is a poster for Kongo women campaign I designed for my A-Z project.

A-Z: ANALOGUE/ TESSELLATION

I like to move it move it I like to MOVE IT! I got this bag full of shit vinyls at home, still don't know where they came from. I'm moving house in about half a year so my plan for this time is to use as much stuff as I don't need and try to make something out of it. So I thought I might as well print on them, could be quite cool. This a first attempt, very random one. It was a white label and I never bothered to read what it says. When I gave it another look I realized it's Reel 2 Reel!!!!! You remember?! I'm sure everyone does. So, I laid down some text and got busy, this is the result! I really like it, mad business!

A-Z: VISCERAL/ VERNACULAR

a visceral fear of change instinctive, instinctual, gut, deep-down, deep-seated, deep-rooted, inward; emotional; animal.

6th sense.

1 (usu. the vernacular) the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region SLANG

2 architecture concerned with domestic and functional rather than monumental buildings : buildings in which Gothic merged into farmhouse vernacular.

A-Z: PHOTOGRAM

This technique offers the artist ample opportunity to play with light and a great variety of materials, opaque, translucent, and transparent, to produce, very rapidly, rich and unexpected effects.

A-Z: DUOTONE

Duotone is a halftone reproduction of an image using the superimposition of one contrasting color halftone (traditionally black) over another color halftone. This is most often used to bring out middle tones and highlights of an image. The most common colors used are blue, yellow, browns and reds.^[1]

Now due to recent advances in technology, duotones, tritones, and quadtones can be easily created using image manipulation programs.

A-Z: XRAY

I love x-rays! I once found this cool head x-rays down a hidden alley in Bricklane. They belonged to mr Jones, whatta classic! Here are a few nice examples of x-rays connected imagery including X-Ray Spex punk band.

A-Z: WOOD TYPE

About Wood Type

Wood was used for letterforms and illustrations dating back to the first known Chinese wood block print dating from 868. The forerunner of the block print in China was the wooden stamp. The image on these stamps was most often that of the Buddha, and was quite small. Provided with handles to facilitate their use, they were not unlike the modern rubber-stamps of today.

The use of wood in printing as a material for making type had been made for hundreds of years before the 19th century.With the expansion of the commercial printing industry in America in the first years of the 19th century, it was inevitable that someone would perfect a process for cheaply producing the large letters so in demand for broadsides. Wood was the logical material because of it's lightness, availability, and known printing qualities.

Darius Wells of New York found the means for mass producing letters in 1827, and published the first known wood type catalog in 1828. The usual procedure was to draw the letter on wood, or paper which was pasted to the wood. Then cut around the letter with a knife or graver, gouging out the parts to be left blank.

A-Z: TESSELATION

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tessellation or tiling of the plane is a collection of plane figures that fills the plane with no overlaps and no gaps. Tessellations frequently appeared in the art of M. C. Escher. Tessellations are seen throughout art history, from ancient architecture to modern art.

In Latin, tessella is a small cubical piece of clay, stone or glass used to make mosaics.^[1] The word "tessella" means "small square" (from "tessera", square, which in its turn is from the Greek word for "four"). It corresponds with the everyday term tiling which refers to applications of tessellations, often made of glazed clay.

A-Z: ONOMATOPOEIA

An onomatopoeia or onomatopœia (from the Greek ὀνοματοποιία; ὄνομα for "name" and ποιέω for "I make") (adjectival form: "onomatopoeic" or "onomatopoetic") is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes. Onomatopoeia (as an uncountable noun) refers to the property of such words. Common occurrences of onomatopoeias include animal noises, such as "oink" or "meow" or "roar". Onomatopoeias are not universally the same across all languages; they conform to some extent to the broader linguistic system they are part of; hence the sound of a clock may be tick tock in English, dī dā in Mandarin, or katchin katchin in Japanese.

A-Z: EPHEMERA

From Wikipedia

Ephemera is transitory written and printed matter not intended to be retained or preserved.

The word derives from the Greek, meaning things lasting no more than a day.

Some collectible ephemera are advertising trade cards, airsickness bags, bookmarks, catalogues, greeting cards, letters, pamphlets, postcards, posters, prospectuses, stock certificates, tickets and zines.

///////In short, it is something you'd usually throw away but you decide to collect. Ephemera is a brilliant expression of time it was created in. It is also a priceless visual treasure. I have found some cool books of ephemera collections, say, metro/tube tickets from the 60s til now////////

To me, ephemera many times has some kind of an emotional value. I usually keep things I don't really need because they are a connector between now and the past, and they instantly bring up the situation/person.

AN EXAMPLE OF EPHEMERA COLLECTION ON CANDYCOATEDUNIVERSE