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Baltic gallery visit

Over the christmas break I visited the Baltic centre for contemporary art to check out the latest installation by Brian Griffiths, Bill Murray: a story of distance, size and sincerity. The installation is a series of nine different styled buildings, including a LA beach house, a Scottish mansion, and an ocean adventure dome but all them are styled on Bill Murray's activities and pastimes. The show encourages comparisons and differences through intimacy and use Murray's authenticity to give the objects meaning. Personally I'm a big Bill Murray fan, so I wanted to see this exhibition for myself and i found it takes Murray's characteristics as an approach for the viewer to reimagine these unique styled buildings. While at the exhibition I came across some useful wayfinding at the Baltic that helped with one of my ongoing studio briefs on wayfinding and signage, the examples proved to be a useful pieces of primary research.

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Studio Brief 02
Initial Concepts

Eye to Eye
-Eye for good design
-Observant
-From my eye to ?
-Insight

This concept is all about my view on design and where I'm currently at in my professional practice, I want to document my projects, archive and information but also focus on my interests and inspirations 'through my eyes'. When scrolling through designers / studios websites you don't get a very good insight into what influences them so you don't often make a connection but for my idea is to have an insight into my vision of a designer and how I'm developing. Ways in which I could present this concept is through a website, but also a small editorial piece as I'm heavily interested in editorial design at this moment in time. I believe a website is possibly the best option to execute this idea because it has the widest reach for a a possible audience, and with my concept having a underlying 'blog' feel about it, its the most suitable. I'd also like something tangible to present to personify myself, a business card wouldn't be any use at this time in my practice but a small booklet / notebook could be relevant, this piece could represent me but also personally help my practice.
As far as the identity goes for this design, I want something minimal and subtle to represent my identity, a simple monochrome logo that communicates my idea of 'vision' and 'insight'.