GLUG: Xibit

Learning Outcomes: 6A2 and 6B2

Glug-xibit - event 

How creative practitioners are inspired by own personal collections 

Glug club - discounts  

Getty - 40% Getty images glug20 

Melanie hough Getty images 

Ideas are to objectives as constellations are to stars Walter Benjamin 

Curating is enlivening stuff, collections

Founded in 1854 - London stereoscopic 

1500 collections 

Jpg by email rather than prints by posts allows images to be accessible 

Archived and collection 

Not really the collector more caretaker 

Collectors trying to leave trace of themselves 

History before history 

Unpacking history of images can learn about people involved which adds value to the images 

Maker of photograph brings image to life 

Collections of last frames? End of film 

Start as object- story of object image as subject for social changes - Yosemite protection 

Aesthetic point of view- visual juxtaposed 

Shoes photographic ambition 

Images going into other collections 

Getty achieve 

Adam Allsuch Boardman - AAAB illustration

An illustrated history of filmmaking 

Home on grange 

Collections - information 

Game modding - making games prettier 

Infographics for modding communities 

Manage large amounts of assets - textures, images 

All of the tin tin book 

9 months foundation and ba illustration at Lau 

In-depth collection of picture house 

Joiner photography - documenting as muoch spatial information as possible 

Modled whole building in sketch 

Picture house into illustration book

Vegan based on reading and imagery surrounding film 

Collecting raw information and quantify 

Refined colours over time 

Pinterest - reference imagery 

How objects changed over number of years 

It’s ok to go backwards don’t have to over complicate things 

Home on Lagrange build a space station 

Card game 

Research based on 1970s space utopia 

Looked into audiobooks and podcasts 

Research helps avoid creative block collect information

Created a data bank of rules: colours, people, cars etc 

Helps keep designs consistent 

Experiments became a collection

Health response to media your consuming in a creative way 

Other collections:

Communicated flat explanations 

Explore interests 

After effects 

Space mountains - collections of facts

AAAD 

Oli Bentley - split studio 

These northern Types:

• Exhibition of 16 typographic artworks and writing 
• Bunch of books in 1 book 
• Explored different materials and processes 

Starting point:

• Proud of being northern wanted do typographic project 
• Big questions came up 
• What it means to be from a place 
• Is it important to be from somewhere 
• Northern provided a lens to explore issues that effect all 

Liberating process of going backwards 

Reverse identity exploding things apart 

Many identities 

Curating questions, investigating the right thing 

Didn’t want to define northern but what it means to be from the north 

Started Looking at:

• Born and bread proper northern through an through 
• Used old maps and responded to crest typographically 
• The idea of the other 

Talking to people 

• Old people home 
• Sat and talked to ruby - northern sole what made her norther 
• Loose bits of ourselves - memory 
• Cultural memory loss 
• Melted lead type of Ruby’s words 
• Printed from melted type 

Typeface for the north 

• Largest letterpress in world 
• Based on cross section if steal 
• People didn’t feel like begging heard - big poster so felt heard 
• Helped by engineers as type was laser cut and welded 

Northern separate to Englishness 

Printed on England flag with sound installation 

No nonsense northern

Low threshold for bullshit 

Profound - bullshit 

Wheel of fortune 

Attachment to place 

Launch for the north set in London 

Legal application to trademark the north 

Northern identity is a myth 

Place based identity is a myth 

Make sure it’s positive and progressive 

How Oli Felt throughout:

• Imposter syndrome 
• Terror of going of on lim 
• Less scared to put yourself out there 

These Northern Types books 

Laura wellington:

Co founder and director of duke studios 

75 resident companies 

Print - collection 

150 prints 

Started with mum - artists printing company 

Worked at factory 4 

Collection is a journey 

Jonny Akers Bristol 

No brow 

Loop arts fair - leeds marshals mill

Laura Wellington