Gregor jones personal statement d1.7 ppd I have always enjoyed Art from an early age. My earliest memory of this is doodling on sheets of computer paper and cutting up old Christmas cards to make new images. I can remember spending most of my childhood just drawing and being inspired to make and design anything and everything! This love of Art has stayed with me and developed and grown and, now, I cannot imagine wanting to do anything else. I have always wanted to work within the Art and Design industry because it has always felt like the right direction for me to take. For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to go to a university and I now feel really lucky to be having the opportunity to do so, I am feeling very excited about my future! I enjoy being creative and I view Art as a natural way for me to express myself. I particularly enjoy drawing and how this allows me to create images in a way that I see them. I enjoy working in a figurative and detailed way and I aim to make my work expressive and visually interesting through tone and mark-making. I feel, from my progression from G.C.S.E through A Levels, , I am beginning to develop my own style and way of working. I particularly enjoy furniture work and using substainability as a subject matter. My main interests & hobbies lie in the Arts, Film and photography. I enjoy taking photographs, I visit the cinema at least once a week with friends; I especially like films of a documentary nature that give an insight into life of another culture. I find cinematography a particularily interesting aspect, how a freeze frame of a moment can be transformed into a single beautiful image. I also like to visit art galleries, particularly a local independent gallery called Catalyst Arts. Within Product Design section I would probably focus more on the furniture design and developing new objects that make life simpler using minimum and environmental friendly materials and who knows what else ‘’the possibilities are endless’’ as some might say.
RICHARD ROBERTS
WORK:
Gormley’s work has been widely exhibited throughout the UK with solo shows at the Whitechapel, Serpentine, Tate, Hayward Gallery, British Museum and White Cube. His work has been exhibited internationally in one-man shows at museums including Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark), Malmö Konsthall (Sweden), Kunsthalle zu Kiel (Germany), National Museum of Modern Chinese History (Beijing), Antiguo Colegio de
ABOUT:
Richard, a qualified Architect, is a Senior Designer and Project Architect for Jason Bruges Studio. After studying Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Sheffield, Richard obtained a MArch ARB diploma at the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL where he nurtured a strong interest in interactive architecture and installations. He subsequently worked at Metropolitan Workshop, where he was involved in the complete refurbishment of the grade II listed Great Central House, Marylebone Station, London. Richard currently teaches on the Adaptive Architecture & Computation Masters course in the Bartlett Graduate School.
WORK:
The dynamic artwork records the changing lights and colour of the surrounding buildings and skyline 24 hours a day. The content is interpreted as short performances on the facade during the hours of darkness. The performances will be unique every time you visit, automatically responding to seasonal change and special events around the building, such as film festivals, premieres and the Chinese New Year. Commissioned by Nexus, transport operators for the North East, and unveiled at Sunderland Station, this 144m long piece presents a virtual platform filled with passengers shadows within a glass block wall. The 3m tall glass block wall in the underground train station has been turned into a large low-resolution video matrix (755×15 pixels). Behind the wall is a disused platform, which long ago used to see passengers waiting for trains. Now the tracks are long gone and the old platform is hidden from view, we have created ghostly characters that appear behind the glass wall opposite passengers waiting for the trains.
REFLECTION AND RELEVANCE TO PERSONAL PRACTICE:
Richard’s work is a interesting one, I found it fascinating to how he is able to produce such complex designs but make them work fantastically, I find that the design area he has gone into doesn’t reflect my work or where I want to be working in a couple of years . I found that his work was to in depth for me I like my work to be simple but efficient, and get the message across to the user.
San Ildefonso (Mexico City), Kunsthaus Bregenz (Austria) and State Hermitage Museum (St Petersburg). Gormley has also participated in group shows at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Venice Biennale and Documenta 8 (Kassel, Germany). Major public works include ANGEL OF THE NORTH (Gateshead), ANOTHER PLACE (Crosby Beach, Liverpool) and HABITAT (Anchorage, USA).
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In a career spanning nearly 40 years, Antony Gormley has made sculpture that explores the relation of the human body to space at large, explicitly in large-scale installations like ANOTHER PLACE, DOMAIN FIELD and INSIDE AUSTRALIA and implicitly in works such as CLEARING, BREATHING ROOM and BLIND LIGHT, where the work becomes a frame through which the viewer becomes the viewed. By using his own existence as a test ground, Gormley’s work transforms a site of subjective experience into one of collective projection.
ANTONY GORMLEY
ANDREW STAFFORD
DIMA LOGINOFF
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Andrew Stafford born in Sussex 1965. He studied at WSCD (Worthing) and Kingston Polytechnic. Stafford established his own design office in London in 1988, and has worked for companies such as Alessi, Magis, SCP, Bloomberg (New York), Brinkworth, FUEL.
WORK:
He designed the bestselling door wedge, Swiss‚ for his own label ‚ Randomproduct.com‚ in 2005. Most recently he has designed a flagship store for jeweller Ben Day in Notting Hill, and a gallery space for Kate MacGarry in East London.He has been a longtime furniture consultant for award winning architects AHMM, most notably on the Stirling Prize shortlisted Westminster Academy and the Jubilee School in Lambeth, Barbican Arts Centre, and several private residences.
According to a reputable magazine Architectural Digest, Dima Loginoff is one of the few Russian designers who have achieved fame in the western world. Initially a hair stylist, Dima got carried away with interior and product design and eventually dedicated his life to it. He simultaneously attended and graduated with honours the International Design School in Moscow and Interior Design School Rhodec in the UK. Dima has worked for world famous brands such as VitrA, Microsoft, Elle Decoration, Studio Italia Design and others, and won numerous international awards.
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REFLECTION AND RELEVANCE TO PERSONAL PRACTICE: Andrew Stafford is a very experienced designer the fact that he doesnt just work with one specific product but a veriety such as furniture and products. I find that the way he looks at life and works with it is very insperational the way he has done very well with his “SWISS” product and has continued to create more products that are better. I am very interested in furniture design and Andrew Stafford shows that there is so much more to do as a design and the veriety of what you are able to do is vast.
ABOUT:
Swiss, 2005. An injection moulded door wedge produced by Random Product.
Lux is a new bed manufactured by SCP. It was launched at Saloni del Mobil in Milan 2002.It is made from solid timber and plyforms, and is available in five colours through SCP.
For today in the world there are five books with works of the designer. Famous trend agency Agenda Inc. (Paris, New York), working with leading world brands, such as Louis Vuitton, Karl Lagerfeld, Dior, Vivienne Westwood, Sony and so forth named Dima Loginoff the designer of shockingly beautiful things. In 2010 Dima has received the prestigious nomination “YOUNG DESIGNER OF THE YEAR” in the international competition ELLE DECORATION INTERNATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS.
ALEX HAW
REFLECTION AND RELEVANCE TO PERSONAL PRACTICE:
I find Alex Haw’s work very fascinating I especially like the wood work he does where he combines the weaving of one abject around the whole of a house. His other work I don’t find to intriguing its just so confusing and not what I would be looking to work on, His work doesn’t really intrigue me to go into that sort of design because of the complexity of the work.
Alex Haw is an architect and artist operating at the intersection of design, research, art and the urban environment. He runs atmos, a collaborative, explorative, design-led practice creating architecture and events with an emphasis on content and connectivity, real-time responsiveness and technological innovation, spatial sensuality and articulation.
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The Cloud
ABOUT:
The stair is a continuation and intensification of the simple graphic skirting board lines that trace their way through the house.
Alex Haw is founder and director of the award-winning atmos – a practice dedicated to rethinking and improving our spatial world across scales, from furniture to urban design. The studio works across media, executing buildings and installations and public projects that converge meaning with technological innovation in the pursuit of immersive, sensual, beautiful and stirring landscapes. Projects range from private houses to public landscapes, installations to cities. Alex Haw also runs Latitudinal Cuisine, A social structure that brings friends and strangers together to cook and explore food from around the world. The Cloud is a proposal for an inhabitable digital landmark structure for London. It marries the ongoing British fascination for weather with a contemporary immersion in the digital climate of humanity.