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Update Coming Soon...

2010-02-15T11:48:00.003Z

Olie and I have been doing loads and loads of stuff, except updating this blog. We've just been super busy.

Playing chess and stuff.

Basket Ball

2010-01-15T19:17:00.004Z

Here at Do Design Things, Dylan and myself are in trouble...

We've become addicted to a online basket ball game. It's become pretty damaging, and is probably stopping us getting a lot of things done.

But you should play too!
Click Here For Game

Join our group, and we'll see you on the court.

Fire Hose Gallery opens!

2009-12-19T17:42:00.005Z

Season's greetings folks. Is it all snowy where you are? Here in Bristol, there is no snow. Just cold.

Got some photos from the opening of the Fire Hose Gallery which happened a while ago. Drawing & Applied Arts were exhibiting in our space, and us in theirs. Their work had the honour of being the first in the gallery. More'll be installed in the new year.

There's some photos of work from some of the other courses which was also installed around the uni.

Exhibition Match

2009-12-08T22:52:00.003Z

As part of a motion to get all the Junior Fellows working together.

Kerry + Kevin + DO

2009-12-08T22:47:00.003Z

We are soon to be collaborating with Kerry + Kevin, which an initiative to establish a cross-participatory project between Kerry and 41 Kevins. Kerry is Laura Parke.

From Kerry + Kevin:

You're not Squash

Collectively we are joining a selection of activity based social groups, allowing us to meet new people, become part of a team and keep fit.

Thursday 10/12/09
We have been warmly welcomed by Trish Machin to attend our first Scottish dancing lesson in St. Monica's hall, Bristol from 7.30 - 10.00 p.m. No kilts are needed for the first lesson.

We are both looking forward to finding out who and what we are.

Dylan helped out Laura with the site, he enjoyed it.

Olie Down / Dylan Up

2009-12-08T22:43:00.002Z

Olie's website has gone down.
This is due to hosting service problems.
It is unfortunate for all concerned.
He will be back shortly.

Dylan has updated.
He has finally added colour to some text.
He is having withdrawals from the lack of grey.
New posters and things.

The Print Exchange

2009-12-08T22:40:00.003Z

Sent the emails out this week to selected universities.

We will keep you posted as people get back to us.

Click the image to view it larger.

More info on the way.

Sorry for the lack of updates recently. We've both been super busy.

Coming soon.

2009-12-08T22:39:00.002Z

How

2009-11-16T18:26:00.002Z

The second years were given a brief called 'How' for which they had to perform a four letter word in small groups. We filmed them. It was really funny.

We Are Nimbus

2009-11-16T18:25:00.003Z

Olie's badge (above) was made at the Arnolfini. I also have one but I can't find it.

Monograph

2009-11-16T18:19:00.003Z

Monograph is a monthly publication that gets sent out to subscribers of Creative Review. You can't get it in the shops I'm afraid, but if you can find a copy, it's worth a look this month.

Olie's grandfather made a magazine during world war two, while he was stationed on the front line. I'll try and get Olie to do an update about it, he knows a lot more than me on the subject.

However, I just wanted to let you know he's in Monograph this month, and I'm well proud of him.

Here is a link if you want more info : Click Here For More B-Line Information

DO TO DO

2009-11-16T18:16:00.003Z

We have a really long To-Do list. We thought it would be great to letterpress it all. We started last week and haven't yet got around to printing it. It's all set in 10pt Universe. We had to stop and assess the situation when we ran out of lowercase 'e's. We'll update on it again when it gets out of traffic.

Fire Hose Vinyl

2009-11-16T18:15:00.002Z

Olie put up the type. It looks nice.

Weston-Super-Mare

2009-11-02T00:08:00.005Z

We went to Weston-Super-Mare to see Steve. He cooked a wonderful Sunday roast and then we strolled along the sea front. Above is a photo I took of the Old Pier. The weather was brilliant and the sea was dramatic. I'll upload some more once I edit them.
I'm enjoying all the little days out we've been going on.

This is where I lost a lot of change.

Fire Hose Posters

2009-11-02T00:05:00.002Z

Got the posters printed. They look nice.

The Blackboard paint works.

Fire Hose Prep

2009-11-01T19:44:00.001Z

Time Well Spent

2009-10-31T23:20:00.002Z

Burnham-on-Sea

2009-10-27T23:08:00.007Z

On Monday the 26th the third years went to Burnham-on-Sea for the afternoon.

We went along for the trip. I'd never been, but I'm sure I'd go again.

We had fish & chips and donuts. A bit of this and that. I kept my eye out for a suit.

Geting to Burnham:
Catch a train to Highbury and walk in the direction of the sea.

Sea Line

2009-10-27T22:29:00.012Z

We went to Cardiff to help out our friend and colleague Jez. We drew a three mile line though the city to link the Bay with the University. It was quite a long day.

After the line was drawn, Jez took us to some beaches.

We went to find some dinosaur footprints.

Above is a footprint.
Somewhere.

The day was good, but very long. I hadn't had much sleep the night before and the walking line was a lot further than I thought it would be. Saying that though, it was good to help Jez out. He's got an exhibition in Cardiff very soon.

Exhibition is at Cardiff university,
school of optometry and vision sciences.

Opening Friday 30th October 6pm - Auction (The main event)
Friday 13th November

On another note, I'm setting up a new blog, Fine Young Fellows, for purely junior fellow related stuff. It'll be up sometime very soon.

Fire Hose Gallery - It's on the way.

2009-10-22T12:39:00.001+01:00

This is Us

2009-10-22T12:37:00.003+01:00

We spent the day in the photography studio taking nice photos of our work.
We thought it might be good to have a nice photo of us both.

Where We Work

2009-10-22T12:33:00.002+01:00

It's been cold outside and warm inside.

A little more London

2009-10-22T12:30:00.001+01:00

St Brides type library & Poster 4 Tomorrow workshop.

2009-10-19T21:05:00.008+01:00

Hello!
Today Dylan and I ran a workshop to come up with ideas for Poster 4 Tomorrow. The Brief is all about freedom of speech in oppressive regimes. You can have a look here. There was a really good turnout to the workshop and some interesting ideas raised. We hope that the students will develop their work further and enter.

The other day we went to London to visit the St Bride type library. We had a fantastic talk from Nigel Roche about the history of typography and printing. It was amazing to see someone so passionate and knowledgeable about their subject speak. He didn't miss a beat. I loved it.

We also visited the Anish Kapoor exhibition at the Royal Academy. Personally, I enjoyed the cannon... quite a lot.

GDST 1 more photos

2009-10-11T21:16:00.006+01:00

Hello there. Here are some more photos of GDST 1. It was lovely. You should come next time...

Olie and Balloon

2009-10-08T16:20:00.002+01:00

Fire Hose Reel

2009-10-08T16:05:00.006+01:00

The university has removed all of the fire hose reels from the campus. This leaves a lot of nicely sized white cupboards. There are two on the Graphic's floor. We've spent a while doing one of them up, it was in pretty bad nick before we started, but now it looks clean and smart, like a good suit.

We're going to open it up as a gallery, for students to display work in. Opening dates TBC.

GDST 1: Cycle to Bath - The event

2009-10-08T15:35:00.005+01:00

Many thanks go to Janet from MA Animation for coming along to Bath with us on Wednesday. The weather forecast predicted rain, however we arrived at our destination dry, if a little cold. I think the chance of rain put a lot of people off from coming, but it was still a lot of fun.

We'll be doing the ride again I'm sure, though the next Graphic Design School Trip will being going someplace else, using some other form of transport.

We did more riding than photographing, so these are the few shots we took.

GDST 1: Ride to Bath - Posters

2009-10-08T15:06:00.009+01:00

We organised a ride to Bath.
These were the posters.
It was yesterday but I've been lazy with updating this blog.

Mapping

2009-10-08T15:03:00.001+01:00

Bike Copulation

2009-10-08T14:57:00.003+01:00

Dylan's Ride

2009-10-08T14:31:00.003+01:00

Olie's Ride

2009-10-08T14:15:00.002+01:00

Intro Post

2009-10-05T00:03:00.004+01:00