10 Drawing Practitioners

1. Saul Steinberg    Romanian artist, illustrator, lived and worked in America. I really like this artist’s style, his simplified lines and very narrative drawings. I find them humorous too. I also see interesting how the artist challenged his work - his goal was to draw like a child who never  stopped drawing that way. …

Drawing core workshop 1

This day we began with a short lecture about drawing with Kieron and have discussed the purpose of it. After, we went to the Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green to look and draw for the rest of the day. It was a very intense time for me, as all drawing exercises, especially from the …

10 Best Collage Practitioners

1. Laurent Koller  French, self-taught artist, painter. His abstract and minimalist work is just a pure pleasure to look at. I love the way he express himself through such simple, yet in my view intelligent, expressive and meaningful marks. His sense of composition and use of textures feels just so accurate. Really inspiring, and very …

Mark Making 2

This time we had made our own tools to work with. Here are my first five: I really enjoyed this entire workshop (both days)! I was excited to to experiment with my new, unusual drawing materials and the range of marks created was really different and unique. Next step is to create portrait collages using …

Mark Making 1

This day we talked about a variety of marks you can make using many different mediums and techniques. It sounded like an unlimited process to me. Dots, lines, patterns, textures, these are all fundamental elements in making any type of art. And we all make marks. What’s more important I think, is to learn how …

CS Package 2

The exercise was to make an expressionist typeface on a given theme and mine was “Welcome to the Jungle”. For this, we have used the alphabet we’ve created earlier by splicing together Times New Roman and Helvetica letters. Fun !

Critical Design Thinking 2

FanZines. These are self-published, small-circulation books, papers or even websites today. They usually deal with controversial or niche topics and are presented in unpolished, unusual way, mostly made on photocopiers. I personally really like this kind of DIY approach to it. For me, there’s something magical about zines. It’s so different to magazines or newspapers. …

Critical Design Thinking: 10 Best Practitioners

1. Camille Walala London based French artist, designer and a mural painter. She’s a huge inspiration for me and I love how she’s transforming dull, ugly buildings, playgrounds and other urban areas by painting some bright, bold, Memphis-like patterns over them and making them alive. I also share her passion for working on a big …