OFF TOPIC BUT THIS IS COOL...

Hey,

Off topic from the identity but I found this - and will forget about it and lose the link unless posted immeadiately. It's the Mobile Museum and is being run at/in partnership with (?) the V&A...

Link is above but here are some pictures too...

p.s. the first picture is an animated gif but it doesn't seem to animate unless you click on it. 

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Last One....

Last reference for the day - also my WeMadeThis I think....

It's a little obvious the whole light bulb/bright spark thing BUT - the photographic approach is interesting and something a couple of people have said they wanted to explore as an option?

These are simply photograms of a light bulb I believe and I think it works really well - the Ident is for a bar/cafe space but it translates across anyway. What is so nice is the way the image speaks back to the way the typography mimics the layout of text on a lightbulb. Clever buggers.

I think were we to use photography there would really have to be a relationship between image and typographic approach or ident as a whole etc...

Museum of Everything

References for Hand Drawn Signage... This goes against my little spiel about fitting into the style of the building before but I thought it was cool...

Another cool reference that this reminded me of was The Ministry of Stories in London also - it was done by the guys at WeMadeThis - silly (i love this kind of shit) - but well executed.

This is kind of unrelated to where we have been saying we would go with this - but it's definately different from what past years have done, we'd stand out. However I think what makes this interesting is the sense of humour inherant in both designs - something that might be harder when combined with 300 students who are approaching this thing like it's their Sistine Chapel...

Made Thought Ten Years

Another references for a more modular way to display works - this is somewhat more complex in this instance because they have created the perspex casings to incorporate specifically laid out pieces etc.  - but it could be approached in a more generalised sense and incorporated with the plywood structures?

The exhibition was put up on september industry a while back so some people might already have seen it but there is also a 30 minute clip of a whole lot of MadeThought work there.... or the website

Georgia and I had mentioned seeing this last week - I think it's a nice example of how minimal design and typographic identities can still be quite warm and positive feeling - something I think is an option - I've been kind of thinking about the tower building and it's very authoritative 70's architectural thing its got going on and I think we should really try to work in line with that - something out of line will just look so out of place once it's actually in the space...

HYPERKIT

A reference to one of the websites Aaron was looking at during the last meeting - Hyperkit from London who really achieve the lo-fi exhibition design style we have been discussing - with the use of trestle tables, shelving & modular systems.

(P.S. I totally dig the look of the ENAMEL ALPHABET signage)

I think the Hyperkit references also show how simply the design of the exhibition and the identity can interact with eachother - which is what seems to have made the past shows more or less successful - esp. with Design Republic, where the concept of the show was reflected throughout the design of the space - from printed material to maps to signage and installations.

I think this is completely achievable for us - especially is it was simply a matter of commissioning the construction of a number of plywood made systems such as the following.... (which are other collected references from around the interweb...

(Above is the Central St Martins Grad Show from last year)

I do realise that a lot of these are displaying small printed books etc. and won't apply to all of the UTS students but I think the concepts can apply for us and be designed in a way that works for all - or we can find modular systems that can be bought.