OUGD406 Brief 1 - Research

Previous Winners - GIF

Renowned Designers 
(Some participated in secret 7")

David Shrigley 

David Shrigley has previously entered the Secret 7 competition, at
first I hadn't heard of him until I realised I did I just didn't know it
for example the Jason Mraz album "We sing, We dance, We steal
things"

Shrigley has a very distinct personality & characteristics to his artwork.
I love the sketchy child like illustrations they give off humour and
"easy goingness" which on Jason Mraz's album is true to the
denotation, Jason's music is free flowing and Shrigleys drawing
depicts this really well.

I like to doodle myself and I really enjoy looking at David's
doodles too they're usually funny or tell an interesting story i'd
really like to try his approach to drawing in my initial ideas for
secret 7".

This is David Shrigley's entrant for Secret 7" for The cores - I'm in
love.

Pete Fowler

Pete is also a previous entree to secret 7" to find a little bit more
about him I looked his name in google and found his website
"Monsterism" http://monsterism.net instantly from looking at his
site I get the impression he is fun loving and laid back his work is
playful and bouncy it makes feel connected to his work, and almost
a feel of nostalgia, Pete is heavily influenced by Mosnters hence the
name of his website swell as nature, daily life and music. I feel his
entry for secret really depicts movements and the physicality of 
music.

Peter Saville

Saville is very well known for his courageous steps in the industry
for example Joy Divisions very famous album artwork, no text just
image this was very brave at the time as no one had ever created
album artwork which did not say the bands name. Not only has he
created designs for joy division but for several other extremely
popular bands I believe this because of his innovative way of
thinking.

"Sought out by a younger generation for his signature style, 
Saville’s work became increasingly self-referential. Not only was 
he photographed for Suede’s Film Star, but The Apartment was 
a set in the cover of Pulp’s This Is Hardcore. Meanwhile advances 
in image manipulation software enabled him to digitally rework 
images, rather than having to work with sourced imagery. He 
applied these processes to commercial projects including Coming 
Up and to ad campaigns for the fashion designer John Galliano at 
Christian Dior as well as to personal projects, such as his ongoing 
series of Waste Paintings." - The Design Museum

Jamie Reid

The image of the queen Jamie Ried has created Is a photo-montage
he has created a collection of defaced images of the queen suggesting her
heirachy is false - a safety pin across her lips suggest she can't speak for herself
and when listening to the lyrics it clearly denotes this.
Jamie Reid's work for the sex pistols is extremely controversial or was at the
time and was a clear break through for freedom of speech.
I don't personally like his work but I appreciate his design decisions I may be
able to use a similar technique for my chosen song be that freedom of speech
or photomontage.

Mark Farrow

Mark farrow's style is very clinical and clearly inspired by modernism
he has often used modernist shapes in his work or utilised the white
space in his work. I like the modernist clean feel its not over cluttered
and I find it aesthetically pleasing.

"We actually thought of this more as an identity than an album cover.

 The tick was obviously inspired by the album’s title ‘Yes’. Reducing 

the title to a symbol that encompassed the other elements the band 

had requested just seemed to work; it’s instant and memorable and pop. 

The tick is made up of eleven coloured squares, one for each track on 

the album. The coloured blocks continue on the inside of the package 

where the tick deconstructs and both merges and clashes with photographs 

of the band.

In addition, we also designed a highly limited edition vinyl version 

of the album which consisted of the album tracks split over eleven 

separate vinyl records, each in a coloured sleeve and housed in a 

smoked Perspex case. When correctly arranged the eleven album 

sleeves will allow you to make up your own tick, measuring some 

eight feet in length. This edition was nominated for the Brit Insurance 

Designs of the Year at London's Design Museum and included in 

the Best in Book section of the Creative Review Annual in 2010."

- Mark Farrow on Pet shop boys album

Jackson Pollock

When listening to the music for secret 7" on some tracks I got the
impression of freedom and drugs and craziness and Jackson Pollock
really depicts this for me his no thinking involved way of art really
speaks to how I could reflect his artwork to music, Jackson Pollock
has clearly inspired the artwork for several albums - the stone roses -
I personally enjoy representation of the album and feel it fits the album's
really well.


Julian Opie

I chose to look at Julian Opie because I love his design work for
Blur.

"English sculptor, painter, printmaker and installation artist. 

He studied at Goldsmiths College (1979–82) under Michael Craig-Martin

, for whom he briefly worked as an assistant, and emerged as an i

nfluential figure on the British art scene in the 1980s, with a highly 

inventive series of painted metal sculptures. These humorous and 

playful sculptures combined a loosely painted imagery with steel 

shapes. Towards the end of the 1980s his sculptures became larger, 

more austere and minimal, and were often based on a relationship 

between art and architecture. As his work developed it dealt increasingly 

with the exploration of visual and spatial experience, often with 

reference to digital simulation. Imagine You are Walking (1–18) 

(acrylic on wood, 1993; London, Lisson Gal., see 1994 exh. cat.,

 pp. 96–7), comprises 18 neutrally painted images of the interior of a

 computer-generated maze. In a related series, images simulate the

 bland, hypnotic experience of motorway driving. An autonomous, 

purified idealism is underlined by alienation, suggesting a dystopic

 side of modernist architecture and planning and the human failure

 of a technological modelling of experience. Opie's exploration of 

cognition also takes the form of architectural model-making, in 

which he constructs bland generic models of building typologies, 

such as castles or churches. These were intended to reflect a disengaged

 and superficial emotional response to the outside world; such a 

response could equally be one of numb indifference or innocent 

wonder. In 1995 Opie was awarded the Sargent Fellowship at the

 British School in Rome." 

- The Tate/ Gallery