Rijks Museum |
Amsterdam, unlike London, carries a relaxed almost serene amotsphere that filters out through out the city. With a number of museums, design houses and design shops the dutch appraoch art and design from a very different angle. Here there is a sense design is for everyone, paying just one fee you can see all the museums exhibtions and spend as long as you like. Photography is welcome in every museum, whilst the general layout tends to follow a more standard, less imaginative and some what simplistic white wall vs design work ratio.
Museum Examples (full article found in Museums and Galleries tab)
One of the most noteable things about Amsterdam was how many posters, stickers and pieces of street art where on show. Although I am sure if you look hard enough you could also found this London, the calm slower atmosphere in Amsterdam
made it easier to stop and observe. Click the flickr link bellow to see the full range of photography and street art.
Through The Viewfinder
Bellow I began to test using some experimental photography, I tried to use the imagery to demonstrate what the photographer can see right before the photo is caputred. The idea being we are seeing are image through the eyes of someone else.
1. The Pit Rivers Museum- Experience
The Pitt Rivers Museum Offers a large and extremely varied collection of display pieces, from ancient African jewellery, to stuffed animals and toten poles. The museum itself is split into two halves. With stuffed animals and animal skeletons taking up the first two floors the basement is left to a large collection of ancient artifacts including tribal masks, dolls and jewllery. Its muddled yet enchanting collections make you feel as if you are visting someone's home to see their collection of artifacts as opposed to the more formal, refined feel of London Museums.
Although not the first place I would think to go for inspiration, the shear range of artifacts makes it impossible to not feel inpsired or struck by an idea, in one way or another, whilst visiting the gallery.
2. Bus/walking tour of Oxford- Visit
The second activity I hit with my nail was the Bus tour of Oxford, unfortunately due to timings I couldn't actually take the tour. However, because I know Oxford so well I decided to re-visit all the places the Bus would usually take you. Bellow I have included some images of the places I visited.
The Ashmolean |
Oxford itself has many hidden streets and beautiful buildings, including the Radcliffe Camera (as seen bellow). The Radcliffe Camera is famouse for its impressive collection of books, reportedly holiding a copy of every book ever published.
Radcliffe Camera |
Racliffe Camera |
3. The Zoo- Visit
Although the Zoo initially was not somewhere I would consider a place of 'inspiration', it did in fact help me stumble upon a number of ideas.
The first, found when observing the elephants and Giraffes. The Giraffes carry beautiful texture and structure, it is their brown and yellow pattern that makes them instantly recognisable. Building upon this I began to consider how using texture and or pattern may be used a visual communicator in design and ideas or schemas we link to each of the textures.
Although the Zoo initially was not somewhere I would consider a place of 'inspiration', it did in fact help me stumble upon a number of ideas.
The first, found when observing the elephants and Giraffes. The Giraffes carry beautiful texture and structure, it is their brown and yellow pattern that makes them instantly recognisable. Building upon this I began to consider how using texture and or pattern may be used a visual communicator in design and ideas or schemas we link to each of the textures.
The second idea linked closely to the first, I began to consider how animals communicate to each other. Elephants for example use vibrations felt through their feet whilst universally throughout the animal kingdom body langugae and sound also make up a large part of communications.
Design find: Alongside a number of ideas I stumbbled on at the Zoo I also made a couple of design finds. The posters shown bellow and above are the Zoo posters advertised in the Underground.
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