http://cargocollective.com Morgan Land Wed, 06 Feb 2013 05:47:15 +0000 http://cargocollective.com en http://cargocollective.com/morganland/Letterpress http://cargocollective.com/morganland/following/morganland/Letterpress Wed, 06 Feb 2013 05:47:15 +0000 Morgan Land 4927251 This year I discovered letterpress. <img src="http://payload131.cargocollective.com/1/3/122171/4927251/HOPE2_600.jpg" width="600" height="400" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload131.cargocollective.com/1/3/122171/4927251/HOPE2_o.jpg" data-mid="26874719" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload131.cargocollective.com/1/3/122171/4927251/closeup2_600.jpg" width="600" height="400" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload131.cargocollective.com/1/3/122171/4927251/closeup2_o.jpg" data-mid="26874727" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload131.cargocollective.com/1/3/122171/4927251/CLOSEUP_600.jpg" width="600" height="400" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload131.cargocollective.com/1/3/122171/4927251/CLOSEUP_o.jpg" data-mid="26874732" border="0" align="left"/> This year I discovered letterpress. http://cargocollective.com/morganland/Critical-Visualisation http://cargocollective.com/morganland/following/morganland/Critical-Visualisation Wed, 06 Feb 2013 05:42:53 +0000 Morgan Land 4926714 <img src="http://payload131.cargocollective.com/1/3/122171/4926714/19 copy_600.jpg" width="600" height="678" width_o="1648" height_o="1864" src_o="http://payload131.cargocollective.com/1/3/122171/4926714/19 copy_o.jpg" data-mid="26415761" border="0" align="left"/> This is an installation piece I made in a group for Across RCA, which is a series of projects that students from every course in the college can elect to join. This meant that I worked with a Design Interactions student named Marcel and an Innovation Design Engineering student named Paul. Both German and very tall. The project was to use data from the World Values Survey and visualise it somehow. We chose to look at the relationship between two questions: "Do you think the Government should reduce environmental pollution (but it should not cost you any money)" "Would you agree to a rise in taxes if the extra money was spent to prevent environmental pollution" To show the relationship between both the two answers of each country, we made curved wooden shapes. One half represented the first question and the radius was relative to the percentage answered yes, and the other half has the radius relative to the second question. <img src="http://payload131.cargocollective.com/1/3/122171/4926714/8_600.jpg" width="600" height="400" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload131.cargocollective.com/1/3/122171/4926714/8_o.jpg" data-mid="26415648" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload131.cargocollective.com/1/3/122171/4926714/21_600.jpg" width="600" height="400" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload131.cargocollective.com/1/3/122171/4926714/21_o.jpg" data-mid="26415764" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload131.cargocollective.com/1/3/122171/4926714/10_600.jpg" width="600" height="400" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload131.cargocollective.com/1/3/122171/4926714/10_o.jpg" data-mid="26415725" border="0" align="left"/> The result was a series of unevenly balanced shapes, some veering wildly to one side, other more centered. Only one country (Mali) had identical question results and therefore a perfect semicircle, the rest are accountable either to a certain level of hypocrisy in wanting the government to reduce environmental pollution but without wanting to pay out of their own pocket, or altruism by being more than willing to pay more in order to help the environment. <img src="http://payload131.cargocollective.com/1/3/122171/4926714/14_600.jpg" width="600" height="891" width_o="1713" height_o="2544" src_o="http://payload131.cargocollective.com/1/3/122171/4926714/14_o.jpg" data-mid="26415746" border="0" align="left"/> Here are some work in progress snaps. The shapes were designed on the computer then printed off to scale and traced onto MDF and cut in the workshops. <img src="http://payload131.cargocollective.com/1/3/122171/4926714/balance1_600.jpg" width="600" height="450" width_o="960" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload131.cargocollective.com/1/3/122171/4926714/balance1_o.jpg" data-mid="26415933" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload131.cargocollective.com/1/3/122171/4926714/balance2_600.jpg" width="600" height="450" width_o="960" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload131.cargocollective.com/1/3/122171/4926714/balance2_o.jpg" data-mid="26415931" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload131.cargocollective.com/1/3/122171/4926714/balance5_600.jpg" width="600" height="450" width_o="960" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload131.cargocollective.com/1/3/122171/4926714/balance5_o.jpg" data-mid="26415929" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload131.cargocollective.com/1/3/122171/4926714/balance4_600.jpg" width="600" height="450" width_o="960" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload131.cargocollective.com/1/3/122171/4926714/balance4_o.jpg" data-mid="26415930" border="0" align="left"/> The objects were painted and sanded down several times to achieve a smooth finish. This is an installation piece I made in a group for Across RCA, which is a series of projects that students from every course in the college can elect to join. ... http://cargocollective.com/morganland/Making-and-Breaking-Magazines http://cargocollective.com/morganland/following/morganland/Making-and-Breaking-Magazines Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:43:13 +0000 Morgan Land 3610494 During my first year at the Royal College of Art I embarked on a research elective called RDP (Research/Design/Publish) and my chosen topic was the print magazine industry. I'd realised that even though I really like the idea of magazines, I didn't buy any. I wondered if it was because of my crippling addiction to the internet and whether this affliction was shared by the rest of my generation, and if so what this meant for the future of print magazines. The elective ended after two terms with an exhibition of our work and as my piece I organised a talk inviting editors from the most exciting magazines around including The Wire, Little White Lies, Wrap and a former editor of Grafik to talk a little about their thoughts on the industry and how they're trying to make a difference. <img src="http://payload65.cargocollective.com/1/3/122171/3610494/Picture 2_600.png" width="600" height="412" width_o="662" height_o="455" src_o="http://payload65.cargocollective.com/1/3/122171/3610494/Picture 2_o.png" data-mid="18699920" border="0" align="left"/> The talk was a great success and I learned a lot from it. However during my research I'd uncovered some intriguing facts in a range of related fields, from media theory to industry circulation data. I felt that there was a story to be told. A puzzle that nobody had put together before. I decided to continue my project in the form of my dissertation, which was due to be written in the summer term and over the summer holidays. The completed dissertation was a fine piece of work (though I say so myself) but it was just that; a dissertation. Ten thousand words bound in cheap plastic. Written in a style only dogged academics could honestly say they enjoyed. I felt somewhat disappointed that this subject that has such wide appeal was housed in so dry a medium. I wanted to create a piece of work that would coherently summarise and visualise my findings. I had attempted to enter the world of infographics during the project before, with limited success. I made a booklet attempting to visualise data for magazine circulation numbers from 1998 to 2011. I am not a very good graphic designer, and even portraying these simple figures in an effective and aesthetically pleasing way was a horribly traumatic experience. <img src="http://payload65.cargocollective.com/1/3/122171/3610494/booklet_600.png" width="600" height="425" width_o="1256" height_o="890" src_o="http://payload65.cargocollective.com/1/3/122171/3610494/booklet_o.png" data-mid="26414295" border="0" align="left"/> The thought of designing a giant, complex map of information filled me with horror. After some thought I realised that my strength was not in designing but in the content making itself, and that if I accepted this and stopped trying to be amazing at everything, I could concentrate on what I actually enjoyed and enlist the help of someone who loves doing what I hate to do the other bits. So for my Work in Progress exhibition I decided to show the process of me whittling down my huge stack of research down into what would become the framework for a designed/illustrated infographic on the story of print magazines and the rise of internet culture. Here is a timelapse video taken over the five days of the exhibition. I didn't get as far as I would have liked, but it was a good start. I will continue to work on these boards in the studio and have others help me to create a finished product. During my first year at the Royal College of Art I embarked on a research elective called RDP (Research/Design/Publish) and my chosen topic was the print magazine... http://cargocollective.com/morganland/Central-Saint-Martins-Old-School http://cargocollective.com/morganland/following/morganland/Central-Saint-Martins-Old-School Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:53:01 +0000 Morgan Land 1602158 The Central Saint Martins Class of 2011 were the last year group to spend their whole three years of study in the original buildings at Southampton Row and Charing Cross Road; before the move to the freshly built Kings Cross campus happened in 2012. As my BA final project I made a short documentary series to immortalise these students belonging to what will one day be a nostalgic era in Central Saint Martin's history. Rather than concentrating on the prestige and reputation of the college as most tend to do, I looked at the personal insights of the students and their complaints, praises and experiences, as well as documenting individual projects and the hard work put into each one. I tried to build an honest and sometimes surprising snapshot of the reality of college life and what it was like to be part of the 'old school'. This series was shortlisted for the Joss Turley Prize in 2011, judged by Mat from Moving Brands. Project Snapshots Graphic Design Moving Image Performance Design and Practice Talking Heads I love CSM I hate CSM Tutors and Learning The Central Saint Martins Class of 2011 were the last year group to spend their whole three years of study in the original buildings at Southampton Row and Charing...