Haeckel's Embryonic forms

An awareness of origins of form as depicted by Haeckel.

He demonstrates his belief that the embryos echo the history of evolution from fish to reptile to human, and a trail of those forms being tailored to origins and environment and resultant needs.

Folkloric costume from the Museum of British Folklore

Images of costumes of British ritual and celebration via The Museum of British Folklore...it doesn't exist yet as a museum but you could help it happen









The purpose of these costumes are to invoke spirits, relate to and reflect natural powers, and to communicate with an audience. They often serve specific ritualistic needs... love, anarchy, peace, fertility, harvest, beer, temperance, celebration, protest..

Hello.

For those of you who don't know me, I am Jim Stoten, and I teach on the 1st year Illustration course at Camberwell.

I haven't ever put a post up on a blog before, so I am putting this picture of me and my friend Tom up as an experiment.

Me and Tom do a podcast every time we get together, and you can listen to them if you want.

They are here.

http://tomandjim.co.uk

Just go to new podcasts at the top, and then click on the image to listen to the podcast. Something to listen to when you are fed up with music.

All comments are welcome.

Richard Wentworth, Making Do and Getting By

Richard Wentworth is best known as a sculptor whose work tends to focus on the idea of transformation in alteration and juxtaposition of everyday objects. Looking at his works our perception of our world is changed too, because of the alteration of the connotations of those objects and their inherent symbolism.

The images below are from his photographic series Making Do and Getting By in which he observes the ingenuity of humankind in the appropriation and adaption of everyday objects for new uses, new meanings, and new narratives. A wellington boot becomes a doorstop, a cup becomes a window prop, a brick and piece of board become a ramp, a book becomes a means to steady a chest of drawers (but is rendered impossible to read).

Tomi Ungerer

Tomi Ungerer paradoxically made a living producing political posters, children's books and visual erotica. Again clarity of message, simplicity of palette, visual balance between light and shade, positive and negative.

Ed fella & Geoff Mcfetridge

Collaborative work, it can happen.

Ed Fella

Ed Fella, typographer and Illustrator, uses observed typographic forms to take content and articulate it expressively.