21. ⌘S

⌘S
sunny-sunday-breakfast.rlf

20. ⌘

19. Friends

The one where...

18. Thurl

2.	(Mining) To cut through, as a partition between one working and another.

17. Wedge

antilles, potato, door, shoes, club, etc.

16. ich tue ja garnix

I am not doing anything.

15. Monocle

Dear Optimax, would it be possible to get Laser eye treatment in just one eye, so that I could legitimately wear a Monocle?
Yours faithfully
Stuart Bannocks

14. Sunny

A sunny day in West Horndon

13. Sat down

I sat down alot this Saturday.

12. 360° badges in one

This badge is great value for money!

GRARAGE IN CONSTANT USE, DO NOT OBSTRUCT

Animated Giff

11. Asterisk

"Place badge onto the garment you wish to footnote.
Write footnote in area bellow.
Keep it nearby incase of tricky or insightful questions."

10. THIS TIME LAST YEAR

Viva = Spoken Exam (I think). I will allow myself a maximum of five "this time last year" badges, otherwise they will all end up being retrospective.




A diagram I drew last year with the assistance of Matthew Ward, it showed how I would present a years work & thinking in 20 minutes. I think I did it in under 15 minutes in the end!

9. CLAIMED ON EXPENSES

I have firmly jumped onto the political badge wagon.

8. TODAYS COLOURS

Last week the Milan09'ers from Goldsmiths09 visited The Aram Gallery to see the exhibition Significant Colour, curated by Chair Guevara aka Daniel Charny. It was an exhibition full of great colours and great questions about colour, plus 1/2 of El Ultimo Grito.

I used to tell myself that I subscribed to Shaughnessy's theory "master form before colour" (that might not be his theory but I definitely read something along those lines in one of his books) but I think its just an excuse to avoid having to deal with the complexity of colour.

Also, mastering form seems like a dose of hassle + subjectivity and somewhat impossible to quantify, so you can forget about that for now Adrian. S, less rules + protocol and more everything else.

So here are my colours for today, laden with the following layers of subjectivity:
choosing colours on my 2-year-old uncalibrated mac laptop screen in a bright studio, making my selection in an RGB document then converting it to CMYK, printing on a laser jet, taking a picture of the resulting print-out, tweaking the levels, curves and contrast and then uploading it to my blog. All in all resulting in me not getting the colours I chose, but to be honest I am not sure exactly what colours I chose in the first place, but I am Ok with that. Now.

MADE IN A BATHTUB

A collaborative day of paper making with Max Kropitz

7. Hot or Cold

I like the idea of putting arbitrary information onto a badge, no bold statements just the little things, "I am cold" "I am hungry" "I am quite tired" etc.

6. NEW SHOES

I got a pair of new shoes to replace the ones Milan 09 claimed.

5. post-disciplinary

The death of "multi-disciplinary"? Lets hope so!

4. RAISINS, YES PLEASE

I inadvertently said this to someone I work with today, it instantly became a source of great amusement.

3. Utterly Badegely

Utterly Buttery gold foil paper seal + black paper + neon pink gaffa tape.

2. stuart banana

(The Image Above was added on the 14/05/09 two days after the original post)

I continued my thinking on the extraction of my Metadata today, asking "what words, symbols & letters would I use to define or label myself?" This turned out to be too difficult, so I resorted to some "ego surfing". I started to list some of the terms that I am searchable by on Google, such as my name, project names then moving onto more abstract searches. I didn't get as far as I would have liked but one of my favorites was "stuart banana" put that into your search box & click images.


The original plan was to print this badge the same as the hash tag but the printer wasn't working, so I resorted to the faithful typewriter. I very much enjoy the juxtaposition of writing web-terms on a typewriter, it feels somewhat perverse.

1. #hash-tag

What a way to start "Badge a day" over two hour's late, but thats OK.
A quick intro to a concept that doesn't need much more explaining than I will be making a badge everyday for 1 year (or at least attempting it)!


Todays badge, is a hash-tag. The thinking revolves around labeling and questioning content, how do we label images and content to make it searchable. The extraction and use of metadata in a web context is second nature, and our ability to title, describe and add tags is as easy as 1, 2.0, 3 (lol). But the way in which we search for these concepts and assess the success of of our search terms is something that bothers me. The tag is searchable but the image itself is not, I am interested in the distance between image, tag & content and playing with these technicalities online and in RL.

11/05/09

STU

Printed using a trodat professional 5253.
The original type is 4mm high.

I am still hungover from all the design at Milan09 (part 1)

I still have a Design hangover from Milan. I think the whole Goldsmiths team has Milan induced headache + cold. Milan was great fun and a real experience, and was a great platform to discuss and question design, but it's also a big, sometimes scary, sometimes sickening reminder at how much design is out there.


For less info on amateur-share:
amateur-share.org
For more, but less informed info on amateur-share:
Design & Society
For slightly more but also subversive info on amateur-share:
The Incidental Flickr
Goldsmiths 09 Flickr


Prophets & Penitents
Confessions of a Chair
An enjoyable and interesting exhibition of prototype chairs in Milans oldest church, but still a somewhat laughable statement of "Please do not touch the chairs, thank you."

Chair=Chicken
For more info on why chair tastes like chicken:
The Working Title



I think one of my favorite questions over the 9 or so days was "should we need a bus to get around design", a question posed whilst on the shuttle bus which takes you from the entrance of the Fiera to the Satellite, on a good day without a printer, badgemaker or computer on your back providing you had missed the 9:30am rush, you can make it on foot in around 11 minutes!

more to come soon...