The Scottish Colourists were four well-known painters (Peploe, Hunter, Fergusson, Cadell) who were grouped under this title given their similarities within their approaches and philosophy. Despite differences in medium at times, their usage and angst-free application of colour in their work became their signature. »Every man has to find his way, and mine will be the one of colour.« Fergusson said; based on this sentiment we developed the Foundation’s identity to include a multiple different business cards each featuring a unique artwork detail on the front. This allowed the Foundation to show the sheer breadth of all artists both in terms of subject and style.
Praysong I
The mine is based on a blank sheet of white paper. I am tense. I don’t want thoughts but they don’t stop. I’m looking for the emptiness in my head. As white as the sheet of paper. A white with endless possibilities. What to do?
I’m starting. Carefully, slowly, then faster. The line is created. It runs through the pure white. I stroll to the left, stop, turn and circling, race back and stop. I come to rest more and more until it flows.
My drawings are created spontaneously. I let my pen slide freely over the paper to develop shapes and forms. Later I will go into the shapes that are created in more detail to create various organic elements.
Lettering in Persian/Arabic alphabet
Art piece – digital lettering.
Type Specimen | LED Pixel | Love
Type Specimen for the Font – LED Pixel by Typo Graphic Design with over 73 Font-Styles & 903 glyphs,
Postcard | Golden Poo with Neon Heart | Riso Print
Metallic Gold glänzender Poo Emoji 💩 mit Hearted Eyes 😍
in psychedelischen Neon Farben.
Idee & Gestaltung: Typo Graphic Design ■ Manuel Viergutz
Format: 10,5 cm B × 14,8 cm H (DIN A6)
Papier: Nachhaltiges Metapaper, warmwhite, extrarough 270 g/m2
Druck: Risografie (digitaler Siebdruck) mit umweltfreundlichem Metallic Gold + Neon Colors
von www.drucken3000.de
orange skin
The colourful gnomes and the happy cat
They are strange people, the colourful gnomes. As soon as they sense the presence of a happy cat in the vicinity, they immediately run towards it and jump into its mouth.
One day, amazed by the scene, I stopped a blue gnome before it jumped into the feline’s jaws and asked it:
“But why are you so happy to jump into the cat’s mouth? Once swallowed you will die!”
Then the gnome shrugged its shoulders and replied, in a calm voice: “That’s what we’ve always done. If we suddenly stopped, what else could we do?” and with that, it ran off, throwing itself on the big happy cat’s pink tongue.
TSFF 30
For over 30 years the Trieste Film Festival, the most important cinema festival of Central Eastern Europe, has observed and narrated the creative yet often turbulent events of this part of Europe. A series of contrasting circles, transparent, vibrant, overlapping, complete, unfinished or merged, joined or separated, evoke this 30 years-long story.
tat*
tat* — Inspirational Graphic Ephemera is a bit of a graphic designer’s curse. Walk into any design studio and you’ll see bits and pieces of graphic ephemera pinned to the walls or taped to a computer screen. Even the purist will have a secret cache hidden away somewhere. Designer Andy Altmann has been collecting tat for more than 30 years. He finds inspiration in the ordinary, and magic in the mundane. Finally he has decided to share his collection with the world. Conceived and edited by Andy, this is the apotheosis of tat. A visual treasure trove, full of surprises, it should find a place on every graphic designer’s desk.
Andy Altmann is a founding partner at Why Not Associates, one of the UK’s leading multi-disciplinary design companies. Although he trained as a graphic designer, Andy’s work typically blurs the boundary between design and art. His projects range from exhibition design to postage stamps, via advertising, publishing, television titles, commercials, corporate identity, and large-scale public art. The common thread is a fundamental love of typography, research, and experimentation.
As a student, a decision to present a scrapbook instead of a sketchbook for his interview to St. Martin’s School of Art, was the catalyst for starting his collection of tat: “I rummaged through the drawers at home and found some football cards from the 60s / 70s (plenty of Georgie Best), an instruction leaflet from an old Hoover, Christmas cracker jokes … Then I started on the magazines, cutting out images of anything that interested me … and photocopied things from books before reaching for the scissors and glue.”
It was the beginning of a significant collecting habit that he has maintained ever since. So what is it that makes a piece of graphic tat interesting? Is it the ‘retro’ thing—a fascination with a bygone age, the primitive printing techniques, naivety of the design or use of color? All of the above of course, but it’s never quite that simple. It has to have that indefinable element of magic. To a graphic designer, most of this book could safely be regarded as ‘bad’ design. But there is something special in each and every piece that made Andy pick it up off the street, trawl online or enter a dodgy looking shop on the other side of the world to snap up. You’ll find everything from sweet wrappers to flash cards, soap powder boxes to speedway flyers, wrestling programs to bus tickets. More tat than you can shake a stick at. Taken together, it represents a lifetime of gleeful hunting and gathering.
tat* (noun)—anything that looks cheap, is of low quality, or in poor condition; junk, rubbish, debris, detritus, crap, etc.
tat* — Inspirational Graphic Ephemera
Publisher: CIRCA PRESS
Release: April 2021
Author & Designer: Andy Altmann
Volume: 400 pages
Format: 25 × 21 cm
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-911422-27-3
Price: £ 45.–
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Holidays on Mars
The pictures from astronomic telescopes deliever extremely colourful views of galaxies, exoplanets and space. Those pictures show the tremendous impact of light and its absence on our perception of colours. My work “Holidays on Mars” illustrates and reflects the 2021 mars landing in a form of holiday photography. It’s built out of computer driven light gradients created within the main rule of quantum physics: by a fusion of chance and cause.
food in contrast
“Views”
Two analog collages that belong to a larger series called “Views”.
I don’t use to think about the meaning of a collage when I make it. Sometimes the meanings come later, sometimes they never do it. In this case, this series was made in the spring of 2020, during the lockdown, so probably these works are talking about the need of going out, although I didn’t make them with this intention.
Fluorescent Echoes
These images are self portraits taken using different polaroid cameras and out of date film. I experiment and disrupt the image and its chemistry using various techniques; layering damage to create strange abstractions. Images of my body metamorphose into the universal: landscapes, coastlines, weather fronts, fossils dug from the earth, or distant nebulae.
the future is queer
For me, colour is diversity, spirit, perspective, to live a joyful life. But some aspects are not self-evident for the queer community. Even though they represent colours in every way possible. But we are here and ready to fight hate with love. Together we can realize a colourful and queer future.
Square
Wanted to make clear and understandable visual for those who doesn’t fit the worlds generic concept. For those who aren’t born from the norm.
#PoolLab
Excerpt from an ongoing self-initiated project.
All Letters Are Beautiful
The typographical world is a seemingly endless and creative one — but works are often presented in reduced colors or entirely in black and white. The “All letters are beautiful” poster shows the diversity of typography in a contrasting way through colors; celebrating the beauty of different letters, shapes and styles. Realized as RISO prints, a color gradient was created with fluorescent pink and orange tones and printed on Metapaper warm white as well as on black drawing paper.
IAM.AMI.WHOAMI.IAM.
feeling colour through glitch and finding yourself with questions about yourself within.
Abstract Geometry
Vector composition from the Abstract Geometry series, consisting of acrylic and oil paintings and digital files.The subjects explore the relationship between form, space, repetition and color.
Shadok
Shadok is a place dedicated to digital arts, video games, djing, and events linked to digital field. The combination of colors, shapes and rhythm refers to an imaginary, fluid and moving technological world, able to cover various areas such as video games, techno music, children play and hacking.
Schiltigheim Culture 20-21
Poster for 2020/2021 cultural season. It’s an unreal architecture made of strong colors, blocks, stripes, spaces, new horizons, new perspective for a new cultural world. The sky has been printed with Pantone Blue 072 ink.
rgb — construction
rgb — construction is an abstract art illustration that deals with the rgb colors. The illustration implies the interplay of red, green and blue.But it also shows that each color clearly stands for itself. A construction that only works through the union of individuals.
double “o”
For me colour is all about playing with meanings so I wanted to create kind of riddle. First things you’ll see are shapes, but if you look closely you’ll see letters and sign “colour”.
DANKE FÜR DIE KLEINEN DINGE
Die kleinen Dinge sind es, die das Leben ausmachen. Ein freundliches Lächeln, eine nette Geste, oder eine gute Tat. Kleine Dinge können den Unterschied machen. Angesichts der großen Aufgaben in während der Pandemie kann man sich entmutigt vorkommen und an den Herausforderungen verzweifeln.
Jeder kann auch mit kleinen Dingen helfen, unterstützen und einiges bewirken.
#zuhausebleiben #supportyourlocal #wirschaffendas
Eine Initiative der Bewegung für Radikale Empathie. @radikal_empathisch