Analysis of La Chinoise by Jean Luc Godard, Julia Andreone
The Graphic Design BA (Hons) graduate show for Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design (CSM) took place this summer at the Nicholls & Clarke building, Shoreditch High Street, alongside Illustration, Advertising and Photography. ARTS THREAD takes a look at some of the work on show.
Julia Andreone’s Analysis of La Chinoise by Jean Luc Godard is explained by how only by watching a film many times do you see and understand all the visual details. Julia says, ‘I watched ‘La Chinoise’ by Jean Luc Godard over and over, in order not to miss any angle. I classify the images without keeping the film in the logical order and eventually visualise the ideas I had from it.’
Połlysz, Olenka Aspinwall
The Połlysz project by Olenka Aspinwall is aimed at ‘building bridges, improving cross-cultural communication and relationships between native Polish and English speakers.’ Olenka continues, ‘Połlysz deals with language, a key expression of an individual’s identity…Połlysz combines Polish phonetics with the English language, allowing non-Polish speakers to communicate in a quasi-Polish with native Polish speakers.’
I Believe in a Nine-Country World, Yichen Song
Yichen Song’s project is concerned with censorhip. As a Chinese citizen, there are only nine countries in the world Yichen can visit freely without a visa. Yichen explains that if we are optimistic, then we have to believe in a nine-country world full of fabulous places.
Yichen’s Endless Board Game is a comment on Chinese Internet censorship. The players use a board made from fine porcelain, the instructions are hand painted in blue. ‘As the game continues, the players encounter countless censored politically sensitive words until the point when they realise the playing process itself has been an irritating and endless ‘online journey’”.
Blurring invisible boundaries, making the social hold, Zara Kim; Vanishing, Jason Chow
Zara Kim created an installation-come-mobile that examines the invisible boundaries between people in a public space. Zara questioned people who sat at the back of the upper desk of a London bus, when the bus was nearly empty from late afternoon til late at night. Black and white photographs of her interviewees were strung across the gallery space (an X denoting someone who was camera shy) and on the back of the image, their quote as to why they sat at the back.
With his project entitled Vanishing, Jason Chow has created a ‘devise that visualises the process of vanishing. Information is printed onto a water soluble film and is slowly inserted into the tank of water. The information doesn’t last longer than a couple of seconds before it is gradually deformed and becomes dust’.
Language as a carrier, Nia Murphy
Nia Murphy’s project Language as a carrier explores language structure, writing and typography and their relationship to culture and communities. Nia gives us the following quotes, ‘Language is a carrier of culture, reflecting past and present culture and tradition. Without knowing the language of a community, its culture, which means its whole life, cannot be thoroughly understood.’ Sri Lankan writer, Martin Wickramasinghe.
‘A new way of looking at things can be enhanced enormously though a second language. For the structure of each language gives us different ways of dealing with and experiencing realities, by bringing more than one language on a problem, we obtain depth.’ Austrian-born industrial designer, Victor Papanek.
Deconstructing Uniform and Livery, Jamie Hearn
Deconstructing Uniform and Livery by Jamie Hearn is an ‘exploration into how the principles of iconography, form and typography were applied to the identitles of common household brands before the age of computer technology. The visual appearance of each product is deconstructed, allowing different elements to be repositioned within the composition of the two pictures. This aims to highlight how each use colour, form and typography to communicate their identity, however, with differing degrees of success.’
Graphic?, Su Jean Kang & Min Jeng Kim
Graphic? by Su Jean Kang and Min Jeng Kim is wall of coloured cards that express visually the opinions and questions of the two designers. Black cards spell out the word GRAPHICS?, while the designers’ national colours of South Korea, blue, red, black and white, are a mix of thoughts on their three years in London studying, from the price of paper in London to the pressure of deadlines-deadlines = deathlines!
Olenka Aspinwall: olenka@olenkadesigns.com
Yichen Song: gnoseener@gmail.com
Zara Kim
Jason Chow: iamjasonchow@gmail.com
Nia Murphy: niamurphy@live.com
Jamie Hearn
Min Jeng Kim: m.kim100@csm.arts.ac.uk
