Vienna Smith

24th October - 29th October Monday 24th We started the week off wits a 9am lecture presented by Dr Simon Bell. The lecture was about William Morris and Industrial Revolution. There are the notes I gathered: Happened mostly in 1800'some victorian period. During which factories and machines took over Gutenberg's invention is a revolution William Morris was in the middle of this time (designer, artist, writer, linguist and printer) Member of Pre-Raphael Brotherhood Founder member of Arts and Crafts Movement: valied fine Craftmanship Set up Kelmscott Press which used hand printed methods to recreate medieval style books Industrial revolution by the 19th century, chimineys became part of eras visual language Victorian posters: letter press in black (colour was poor quality) Key words were emphasised 18th century: bigger fonts to emphasise 19th century: bigger and different ones to emphasis Fashionable into could be ugly/ hard to read Tuesday 25th  Todays day...

Here is what I have been prodoing dusing this project...

I have devied to go wother the music festival "Wilderness". Here is what I have been doing in my sketch book...

17th October - 21st October Monday 17th Mondays always start with a 9am lecture by Dr Simon Bell. Todays lecture was entitled "Gutenberg and the Gothic", the lecture was very interesting and also continued from last weeks lecture. This time we managed to watch the psychedelic short film that wasn't working last week. But before i start talking about the short film, i will add the notes i gathered from the lecture.       Why Gutenberg? In the middle ages there was a revolution New civilised society based upon independent learning or exchange of infromation Blossoming of professions such as medicine and law Gutenberg invented moveable type Visually sophisticated Gutenberg did not create printing. The original methid was cutting wood, then printing with it He was a goldsmith by profession     What did he achieve? Developed matrix for lasting letters to make them regular  Gutenberg wanted to deliver seamlessly and profitably Made the bible...

10th October to 15th October Monday 10th October The day started at 9am with a lecture from Simon Bell. He informed us that each week he will give us a key work to. This weeks one was closed. The lecture was abut Psychedelic art and he raised the question "why did psychedelic posters look the way they did?" The answer: Posters were a reaction against the establishment by the 60's youth, the Vienna Secessionists (C19) There was also an overlap of visual styles between the decades Misleading to make use think decades are neat 10 year periods 60's was a decade in 3 parts Different styles of creativity (David Bailey) Other designs happened during the time of psychedelic After taking these notes we were supposed to move on to watching a psychedelic clip but, unfortunately it wasn't working so we ended the lecture without the clip. This lecture opened my eyes up and gave me a better understanding of this time period and incredible art. After the lecture ...