Mass Observation

Mass Observation was a United Kingdom social research organisation founded in 1937. Their work ended in the mid-1960s but was revived in 1981. The Archive is housed at the University of Sussex.


Mass Observation aimed to record everyday life in Britain through a panel of around 500 untrained volunteer observers who either maintained diaries or replied to open-ended questionnaires (known as directives). They also paid investigators to anonymously record people's conversation and behaviour at work, on the street and at various public occasions including public meetings and sportingand religious events.

Very details, very informations, black and white visual artist－Paul Noble

Paul Noble was born in 1963 in Dilston, Northumberland. He was one of five founding members of City Racing, an influential artists' space in London (1988-98), where he showed in 1990. His work has since been exhibited in London at Cubitt Gallery (1995), Chisenhale Gallery (1998), Tate Gallery (1999), and Whitechapel Art Gallery (2004); and internationally at the Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo (2003), Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam and the Migros Museum, Zurich (2005). Noble lives and works in London. 

                                      

The Tree Book

                                         

Visual Stories VESA SAMMALISTO

Vesa is a Finnish illustrator and graphic designer based in Berlin, Germany. Vesa graduated from University of Art and Design Helsinki in graphic design. Vesa studied architecture in Tampere University of Technology. Vesa was honoured with ADC Young Guns award in 2011.

One in a series of urban survey posters for the cities of Helsinki, London, and New York, The posters and accompanying small prints were exhibited for the first time at Kaapeli (Cable Factory) Helsinki during the Factory Superstars group exhibition in October 2010. 

 I really like VESA's art work, i think he is a creativity story teller by use his visual language. Every city have the own style and people live in different city also have different life styles. Drawing is a pretty way to tell stories, Vesa's illustrations give me a lot of inspirations

A visual storyteller -- Antoine Corbineau

Antoine Corbineau is one of my one of favored designer , he graduated from camberwell college of art and design in UAL. I like his hand-drawing style and color, the more importance is his creatives. The following texts are come from the book of VISUAL STORYTELLING . 

What are the major issues facing visual storytelling today?

Time! Visual storytelling entails a huge amount of work (which also means a higher cost) but the deadlines are often very short, and briefs often arrive very late, so it is not always possible to have enough time to experiment and to create a proper and well-thought piece of visual storytelling.

A GRANGE SCHOOL

SPRINGTIME IN PARIS

SNOWFLAKE CHARITY BALL 2013

How do you describe your illustration style?

It's a colorful and dense combination of logically interconnected hand-drawn elements, typography and textures-but that sound a bit cold ! I just draw how i can, and my colorful, hand-drawn style in not only inviting but also an interesting may to communicate more comples subjects. 

Southbank Centre

Festival of the World 2012

 http://world.southbankcentre.co.uk/

Your colors are always very distinctive and joyful.

How do you choose each one?

I'm a painter as well as an illustrator, and i used  to use color spontaneously, without limit or preselection, but i am now trying to restrict myself to a limited and specific range of color that i wouldn't select that way. Color choice is very important, especially in my work. It gives the first overall mood and vibration, the ones that makes the viewer want to come look closer.

A cycle life of a honeybee

A honey bee's life

In an interesting installation in the national and history museum, showing a short but busy life of a honeybee, the use of a rotating disk, about the six stages of the bee life, the circle seems to be a reincarnation bees repeated from generation to generation live with the same lifestyle.

Day 1, Frist, she cleans the hive
Day 6, Then she feeds the young
Day 12, Then she makes wax cells
Day 19, Then she helps guard the hive
Day 26, Then she collects pollen and nectar
Finally, at the age of 5or6 weeks, she dies...

 

 

A graphic designer design for happiness

Stefan Sagmeister is an Austrian Born typographer and graphic designer, I know him in the TED talks and I watched his lectures about happiness design (Happiness by design; 7 rules for making more happiness). His design works combined with typography, installations and moving imagines and most of them are encouraging and relax.

So far, I think he is a helpful designer for my project, even though I have not seen his own book, but I have to book Amazon, and I hope it will be useful.

Stefan Sagmeister’s design in New York City

7 rules for making more happiness from Stefan Sagmeister

1, Thinking about ideas and content freely-with the deadline far away

2, Traveling to new places.

3, Using a wide variety of tools and techniques.

4, Working on projects that matter to me.

5, Having things come back from the printer done well.

6, Getting feedback from people who see our work. 7, Designing a project that feels partly brand new and partly familliar