Fermi's Motion Produces a Study in Spirograph NASA Goddard Photo and Video

Fermi's Motion Produces a Study in Spirograph, originally uploaded by NASA Goddard Photo and Video.

I've no idea what it is, but I like it...

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Untitled, originally uploaded by golfpunkgirl.

Margherita

Margherita 07, originally uploaded by tom_gifford.

I got engaged this weekend which seems like the perfect excuse to post a photo of my gorgeous fiance – or 'fidanzata' seeing as she's Italian. I truly am ridiculously lucky as she's the love of my life.

Normal service will resume shortly...!

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Untitled, originally uploaded by chimera imeria.

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Untitled, originally uploaded by Vince_21.

Bainbridge Open 2013 Poster

Recently I've just completed a new project for Bainbridge Studios. They needed an A3 poster to promote their annual open print exhibition, Bainbridge Open. The poster is aimed at encouraging printmakers and artists using print to submit their work for the show, and to raise awareness of the show in general. The only real constraint was that it had to use a limited number of colours (ideally no more than two) so that it could be screenprinted easily.

I've worked with Lucy Bainbridge, the owner of Bainbridge Studios for a number of years now on various projects and it's always good fun. As you would expect from a practising artist, she has a great eye for design and is a very obliging client. 

It sometimes happens that I feel my first idea also happens to be my best one. That initial response to the brief is where you maybe get a lucky spark of inspiration, and this project was no exception. Perhaps more unusually though, my first idea was also the one we ended up running, with only minor tweaks along the way. I still explored and worked through other routes and designs to give Lucy some options, and also to help me understand whether my preferred option really was the best or if I was just being lazy! 

Here are two of the alternative options I presented:

And this was the option that Lucy picked and we ran with in the end. Essentially it's a bit of a visual joke based around the fact that printmakers often have to be able to picture their work back to front in their mind's eye. It does hopefully have the added bonus of also making the headline eye-catching at the same time. The posters are being worked on as we speak and I'm looking forward to seeing them in real life. 

If you're interested, I also wrote a little bit about the last Bainbridge Studios project I worked on here: http://www.blog.graphitegrey.co.uk/2012/08/bainbridge-studios-poster.html

tree time by auton james

tree time, originally uploaded by auton james.

Pea Soup

Tower Bridge 04, originally uploaded by tom_gifford.

Like the other 540 people snapping away on Tower Bridge this morning I couldn't resist getting a pic of the fog on my way to work.

Post-fire salvage operation, September 1973

In post-fire salvage operation, a "faller" has just cut down a giant tree which the flames had destroyed. A cloud of soot and ashes billows up from the impact of the tree's fall, September 1973, originally uploaded by The U.S. National Archives.

Destitute pea pickers in California. Dorothea Lange.

Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California (LOC), originally uploaded by The Library of Congress.

Secret 7"

I had a bit of spare time this morning so I quickly worked up some entries for the Secret 7" competition. The brief is to design new 7" record covers for seven different artists. The winning entries will then be printed and sold on Record Store Day to raise money for the Art Against Knives charity.

You can't use text relating to the name of the artist or their song so I had some fun picking images from photos I've taken that hopefully match the artists involved. The competition is open till 18 February and winning entries will be in selected record shops on Record Store Day, Saturday 20 April 2013.

Chinatown

Chinatown 05, originally uploaded by tom_gifford.

I am interrupted by cristinajimenezrey

I am interrupted, originally uploaded by cristinajimenezrey.

Wellcome Collection

Acupuncture, originally uploaded by tom_gifford.

I went to the Wellcome Collection in London last night with work. I've been quite a few times now and it's still one of my favourite museums in London. It's got an amazing mixture of the weird and wonderful, and best of all it's all free. Definitely worth a visit if you're in the area. http://www.wellcomecollection.org/

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Untitled, originally uploaded by ici et ailleurs.

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Untitled, originally uploaded by Michelle Fader.

Como

Como 03, originally uploaded by tom_gifford.

Milan

Milan 03, originally uploaded by tom_gifford.

Open by Andrew Bartram (WarboysSnapper)

Open, originally uploaded by Andrew Bartram (WarboysSnapper).

Scope by ben_patio

Scope, originally uploaded by ben_patio.