Impatience and Problem Solving.

I've been playing around with 'Crewel' and using a 'simple' filling stitch, a painstaking process of filling in the gaps. I'm so impatient that it begins to just look messy & rushed.
I've been using 2 threads for this, as you can see on the left side;



I decided to use 4 threads, to do the job quicker - and it seems to be working. (On the right hand side of the 'U' above)

12th International Book Fair

Had a nice time today 'manning' the Vis Comm table in the Leeds University Parkinson Building, basking in the sun which poured through the massive windows and having fake conversations with Lisa.
The fair on the whole was impressive and better than expected. So much to see and so many great book based ideas.

Home

I've been at my parents house for the past few nights - I've been working in a Primary School here in Doncaster, helping with a project some architects are working on to re-develop the play ground. Its a whole lotta fun!

Coming home during the Comm Tech brief is a real treat because my mum is a real embroidery buff and she lets me do a lot of experimenting.
I wanted to stay away from Cross Stitch, which I have previously been working on, the style is really quite restrictive because of the weave of the 'banding'. I picked a few books about other styles;



The Complete Needlework Course had a 'Stitch Glossary' at the back - Very useful.



The Encyclopedia of Stitchcraft had similar sorts of examples;



I learnt from the book 'The New World of CREWEL' that 'Crewel' is indeed the name of the style of embroidery I'm looking to do. It basically means 'Freestyle' embroidery.



This is great, by Kaffe Fassett. Its done using wool and similar style banding to that used in embroidery, but its made from plastic.



The front cover of 'The Needleworkers Dictionary' shows an alphabet done in a Crewel style.



I've been having a go at making my own type using the methods in the books;




(I use greetings words just for an example of something to write.)



My first attempts were free hand, but the 'Crewel' book comes with some iron on designs, which highlighted the point I could draw my design on beforehand, for precision.



I haven't gotten round to using a sewing machine yet on this trip - but I plan to.

I'd also love to have a go at carving - my father's past-time; (how did I end up so cool with such nerds for parents!?)

Tasty Type II

YUM YUMMA - Probably the most interesting use of eggs, flour, sugar & stop frame animation!

Found Type

The Center for Vernacular Typography
ITCHY ROBOT
JASON SANTA MARIA
Typography from Tel Aviv
Typography from Tel Aviv II
FLICKR

Tasty Type

Typography in Motion from ilovetypography.com on Vimeo.

Animation

We've allll seen this animation by now, using pen and white board, and the work Kristofer Strom went on to do for Carphone Warehouse (yay x-factor!)



Its oozing with ideas though for this kind of animation.

Looking for people who have taken it further,,,

Not really taking it further, but people coming up with similar ideas, based around white board and pen



Holy Cow! this is done using Post-its!