Regents canal, near Kings Place
RGB primaries: a test
The Barnsbury pub
Drawing based on field recordings
Gather field sound material and then use it as a basis for drawings.Pick some different types of fields, as: - Repetitive background noise, like a train passing by - Sporadic clustered noise, such as people walking across schoolyard / park with dogs - Sounds of tv program/ talk show in unknown language - Various types of silence: with different emortional charge (awkward silence, silence before the storm, concentrated silence between two loud noises, eternal silence of outer space, etc.) - Sounds from the inside spaces: big/small rooms, bars, cafes, library, in public transport, inside own home, train station, church, theater, hairdresser, hospital, lavatory, bathroom - Sounds of nature vs man-made: wind, car sounds, church bells, bird songs, dog bark, rain, thunder - Sounds based on objects found in the field: knock on wood, rotating / breaking the glass, pouring/ boiling the water, clicking on switches, echo of different places, hand dryer, crumpling plastic bag.
A day in the Life of Urbino
A short animation created during WT/ISIA 2014 summer school in Urbino, Italy [youtube=http://youtu.be/j3JC8bocmi0&w=900]
Sketch of room
Urbino icons
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Night train and morning cafe faces
Place where we stayed during WT/ISIA summer school
Student dormitories of the Collegio del Colle (1962-66), designed by Giancarlo De Carlo: Urbino, Italy [gallery columns="4" ids="7494,7495,7496,7497,7498,7499,7500,7501,7502,7503,7504,7505,7506,7507,7508,7509,7510,7511,7512,7513,7514,7515,7516"]
Brno biennale badge
Little Venice, Paddington
Trip to Corfe Castle (last summer)
Just found some more sketches from our cycle trip to Corfe Castle last summer. As I tend to sketch n many sketchbooks at once, sometimes it's hard to synchronize stuff, as smaller ones run out quicker... Here they are anyways!
Boats in Bournemouth
This is also the one I did during Corfe Castle trip - a wonderful seaside. As always, while everyone went swimming, I decided to stay ashore and draw...
Vignelli canon: use of fonts
In the new computer age, the proliferation of typefaces and type manipulations represents a new level of visual pollution threatening our culture. Out of thousands of typefaces, all we need are a few basic ones, and trash the rest. The Vignelli Canon, p. 56
Logos
For many years now, I haven’t done a single logo. The reason for that may be that every time a client wanted a logo I'd say something silly like ‘If you don’t have identity a logo won’t help you’ – after which the client would walk away. This has not been a very responsible behavior on my side – and I decided to change my mind. Now I think I should do logos, even if I don’t know why I do them, because, as I now believe, if you keep on looking, you will finally find out what is it that you’re looking for.
Alexandra park, near palace
Space as material
In phenomenology, the environment is concretely defined as "the place", and the things which occur there "take place". The place is not so simple as the locality, but consists of concrete things which have material substance, shape, texture, and color, and together coalesce to form the environment's character, or atmosphere. It is this atmosphere which allows certain spaces, with similar or even identical functions, to embody very different properties, in accord with the unique cultural and environmental conditions of the place which they exist. Phenomenology is conceived as a "return to things", maneuvering away from the abstractions of science and its neutral objectivity. Phenomenology absorbs the concept of subjectivity, making the thing and its unique conversations with its place the relevant topic and not the thing itself. The man-made components of the environment become the settlements of differing scales, some large—like cities, and some small—like the house. The paths between these settlements and the various elements which create the cultural environment become the secondary defining characteristics of the place. The distinction of natural and man-made offers us the first step in the phenomenological approach. The second is to qualify inside and outside, or the relationship of earth-sky. The third and final step is to assess character, or how things are made and exist as participants in their environment. Source: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology_(architecture)
Norman Shaw
Which colours are Karel Martens' boxes?
- Alice blue
- alizarin crimson
- amber
- amethyst
- aqua
- acquarnarine
- asparagus
- azure
- beige
- bistre
- black
- blue
- Bondi blue
- brass
- bright green
- bright turquoise
- bright violet
- bronze
- brown
- buff
- burgundy
- burnt orange
- burnt sienna
- burnt umber
- camouflage green
- cardinal
- carmine
- carrot
- celadon
- cerise
- cerulean
- cerulean blue
- chartreuse
- chestnut
- chocolate
- cinnamon
- cobalt
- copper
- coral
- corn
- cornflower blue
- cream
- crimson
- cyan
- dark blue
- dark brown
- dark cerulean
- dark chestnut
- dark coral
- dark goldenrod
- dark green
- dark indigo
- dark khaki
- dark olive
- dark pastel green
- dark peach
- dark pink
- dark salmon
- dark scarlet
- dark slate gray
- dark spring green
- dark tan
- dark tangerine
- dark tea green
- dark terra cotta
- dark turquoise
- dark violet
- denim
- dodger blue
- eggplant
- emerald
- fern green
- flax
- fuchsia
- gamboge
- gold
- goldenrod
- gray
- gray-asparagus
- gray-tea green
- green
- green-yellow
- heliotrope
- hot pink
- indigo
- international Klein blue
- international orange
- jade
- khaki
- khaki (X11)
- lavender
- lavender blush
- lemon
- lemon cream
- light brown
- lilac
- lime
- linen
- magenta
- malachite
- maroon
- mauve
- midnight blue
- mint green
- moss green
- Mountbatten pink
- mustard
- Navajo white
- navy blue
- ochre
- old gold
- olive drab
- orange
- orchid
- pale blue
- pale brown
- pale carmine
- Pale chestnut
- pale cornflower blue
- pale magena
- pale pink
- pale red-violet
- pale sandy brown
- papaya whip
- pastel green
- pastel pink
- Paul mauve
- peach
- peach-orange
- peach-yellow
- pear
- Persian blue
- pine green
- pink
- pink-orange
- plum
- powder blue
- Prussian blue
- puce
- pumpkin
- purple
- raw umber
- red
- red-violet
- robin egg blue
- royal blue
- russet
- rust
- safety orange (blaze orange)
- saffron
- salmon
- sandy brown
- sangria
- sapphire
- scarlet
- school bus yellow
- sea green
- seashell
- selective yellow
- sepia
- silver
- slate gray
- spring green
- steel blue
- swamp green
- tan
- tangerine
- taupe
- tea green
- teal
- teené
- terra cotta
- thistle
- turquoise
- ultramarine
- vermillion
- violet
- violet-eggplant
- viridian
- wheat
- white
- wisteria
- yellow
- zinnwaldite
Text source: Full color, Martens, Schwartz. Roma Publications, 2013. P. 143-145
