Visiting Professional//Joe Gilmore & Qubik.

Notes from today's talk with visiting professional, Joe Gilmore of Qubik, who I was fortunate enough to spend a day working with a couple of weeks ago, and gain further insight into his design practice.

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NOTES

* Ultrasound- Letting the content poster, 2005, determine the grid.
* Concept derived from content.
* Soundhacked app- converting sound files as RAW images in Photoshop- treats the data as an image.
* Glitch book visualises data through an InDesign file.
* Tauba Auerbach- Experimental typography (studied as a sign writer).
* Joe's image blog, Void, collective images and inspiration from an art perspective, has also helped him to gain contacts and work through mutual interest and followers.
* Carroll/Fletcher gallery, designer...branding to be clean, conservative and corporate. Outcomes include catalogue, invites, signage, designing for every exhibition.
* John Wood & Paul Harrison catalogue and metallic spot varnish invites (costing around £2 each...).
* Pulp notebooks created (similar to Muji style), Paperback paper supplier (Dice pattern created for 1,2,3 and 4 notebooks).
* Matt Smith- pulp board cover and bronze/copper foil, printed type.
* Chromatologies materials (the study of colour), colour gradient throughout the text on high-gloss stock.
* Chums Exhibition (cover, all the images overlaid in the grid system of the book- representation of the contents of the book on the cover).
* Sharmen (Newspaper printers, and also uses newspaper club.
* Radim Pesko, Amsterdam- based typographic designer (owner of type foundry).
* Colophon, designers of Apercu typeface (foundry).
* Designed website for LCA Fine Art lecturer, Sheila Gaffney (Head of Fine Art), Used InDexibit as a content manager, good for artist's portfolio.
* Algorithmic drawing, computer-drawn, slightly different angles of lines.
* Fuse by Neville Brody- with floppy disks (experimental typeface journal from the 80s).
* Lulu Printers.
* Swiss font foundry- Greer (?) type... GT Wallshine (Good for Alex Warren Architecture Branding... approx $40 per type weight).