November 14, 2009
Here are some posters for Sydney International Food Festival.
The posters, which were designed by WHYBIN/TBWA, sydney. They caught my eye because as you can see they are flags of the world made out of the food from that country. Now, some people in my class at uni have chosen to deal with food for their european project and this is a good example of something that they could do, obviously not copying it though! This is what is say’s on the WHYBIN/TBWA website:
The concept visually unites food with one of the most common international symbols – flags. The flexibility of the concept and imagery has allowed the ‘food flags’ to be used across a broad range of event collateral from the event program right through to a 30sec TVC. The campaign will span across TV, press, radio and online. It will continue to run until late October when the festival wraps up.

November 11, 2009
These quotes are going to be featured in my lego book:
“Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the Game.” – Michael Jordan
“There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick – geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour,” – James May
“It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with” – James May
It has been quite good having to do this project in the year of Lego’s 50th year because there’s a lot of it around. For Example, I’m looking forward to James May’s ‘Toy Stories’ on BBC2. In which he follows the building of a Lego house.
My Lego Book is very almost finished. I don’t know quite how I’ve done it but it’s managed to become about 160+ sides long. I will probably be sending it off in the next few weeks, before the end of the month anyway.
November 9, 2009
I’ve just listened to Russell’s talk. It’s on a podcast. I found it really interesting, and will listen to it again over a cup of tea as I wasn’t quite awake the first time. I find it ironic that in the blog part of this talk (Russell put some photos and videos on his blog so that we could read along) he takes photos of his hand-written headings then put them on the blog. I hope you’ll see how this is relevant, I’ll attempt to explain it after a cuppa. It makes me want to hand-write a message on printed letter-headed paper, take a photo of it, print it out, scan it in then upload it onto my blog so that other people can ’save as…’ and print it out for themselves.
Russell’s example:

November 5, 2009
Last night I went to a talk at the Ffotogallery in Penarth, it was called ‘Confessions of a recovering Data Collector.’ Given by Ellie Harrison, who started her almost obssesion with data collecting on her 22nd Birthday by taking a picture of, and recording everything she ate for a year and a day, with over 1000 images she then put them all into an animation, which made it look like she was continuously eating. There have been other projects since, which have been a little more obssesive, where she recorded what she was doing and when, all day every day for four weeks and put it together in a chart:

Our Next project at Uni is going to be all about portraying information and I’ve been having a think about data collection and the way that I already do it, and think about little projects that I could do. I already write a diary, not every single day but have been doing it since I was 16 and it’s so funny to read back. I look back on it and remember how I was feeling about a certain situation. My language was so different at that time too, well, my London dialect used to come out a lot in my writing back then. I also wanted to take a photo of my hands every day, because I used to bite my nails, a terrible disgusting habit I know, but if I took a photo of my hands every day then I wouldn’t be tempted to bite them because I’d want them to look nice for the photos, I might still do that, as I haven’t completely stopped. Social Networking is almost like an obsession with data collection too, writing statuses, and even blogging can be a version of data collection. Check out her website, there’s some really interesting stuff on there and she’s got a book out too, ‘confessions of a recovering data collector.’
November 4, 2009
Seeing as my current project is all about Europe – well, mine is all about European Capitals etc. I’ve been looking at map-ish things anyway and this came up in my adventures around the internet. It’s from Maya Drozdz and Michael at ‘Visualingual’ who always comes up with some great stuff on her blog.



November 2, 2009
by Retha Ferguson I found this on the ‘it’s nice that’ blog and naturally thought ‘GIANT LEGO!’ as you do!
