stock

Ale & I just had a meeting to discuss to stock for the three publications that will be printed for his portfolio. Photographs will fade when printing them from normal printers on stock and so the images will be exposed onto photographic paper in order to make sure that the images will last and obtain their true colouring.

Each category of Ale's photographs (ie landscape, fine art & commercial) have different characteristics that will be optimised with certain photographic stocks. With this in mind the decision has been made to use three different stock types for each publication:

Landscape
Hahnemuhle Bamboo, 210gsm, natural white, 90% bamboo & 10% cotton
This stock supposedly represents naturalness and spirituality. It's ideal for warm toned colour and monochrome tints, making it ideal for the the landscape publication.

Commercial
Hahnemuhle Fine Art Pearl, 285gsm, bright white/pearl finish, 100% a-cellulose
Ideal for strong contrasts and pictoral depth with a unique pearly finish. With strong colouring it would work really nicely for the commercial photography.

Fine Art
Hahnemuhle Baryta, 325gsm, bright white, 100% a-cellulose
This stock is high gloss and creates high colour depth, large colour gamut and strong image definition.

Ale will be receiving samples on each stock sometime next week which will allow me to get a feel for the stock and photographic quality/characteristic for each one. I now need to find out about binding and look into stock/textured material for the cover of each publication, looking at how they'd sit with the specific stock.

logo

The fashion committee decided on 'neu' for the name of their fashion showcase. After some deliberation james thought it would work better as 'nu', both visually and conceptually, as it represents different directions and fits in with the juxtaposition of old and new with the reflectiveness of the 'n' and the 'u'.

We brought all our logo designs together and decided that my design would work best due to the composition and structure of the 'n' with the 'u'.

triton

Triton is the largest of Neptune's moon and orbits in the opposite direction to Neptunes rotation. It has a surface of frozen hydrogen and a water ice crust. The core makes up two-thirds of it's total mass.

Orbital period: 5.88 earth days
Orbital Speed: 15,803.2 km/s
Inclination: 129.8°
Mean Radius: 235.8 km
Circumference: 8,503.7 km
Mass: 2.14×10²² kg
Surface Gravity: 0.78 m/s²
Apparent Magnitude: 13.5

miranda

Miranda is the smallest and innermost of Uranus' five major moons. What makes it unique is the surface structure of lightly cratered ridges and valleys with ridges 12 times as deep as the grand canyon.

Orbital period: 1.49 earth days
Orbital Speed: 4,067.7 km/s
Inclination: 4.23°
Mean Radius: 235.8 km
Circumference: 816,185.4 km
Mass: 6.59×10¹⁹ kg
Surface Gravity: 1.35 m/s²
Apparent Magnitude: 15.8

iapetus

Iapetus is Saturn's third largest moon. It's known as the yin and yang moon as interestingly it's got a two-tone colouration. It also has an equatorial ridge that runs half way around the moon.

Orbital period: 15.95 earth days
Orbital Speed: 5.58 km/s
Inclination: 0.35°
Mean Radius: 2,574.7 km
Circumference: 16,177.5 km
Mass: 1.346 x 10²³ kg
Surface Gravity: 1.35 m/s²
Apparent Magnitude: 8.5

titan

Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and is the only other object in our solar system that has liquid on the surface. Unusually, titan has a dense nitrogen rich atmosphere. There are thick clouds around the moon thought to have been formed from evaporating lakes from methane rain.

Orbital period: 15.95 earth days
Orbital Speed: 5.58 km/s
Inclination: 0.35°
Mean Radius: 2,574.7 km
Circumference: 16,177.5 km
Mass: 1.346 x 10²³ kg
Surface Gravity: 1.35 m/s²
Apparent Magnitude: 8.5

callisto

Callisto is the last of the four Galilean moons and unlike io, it's inactive and has a very old surface. The surface is mainly ice and has the highest impacted surface in our solar system.

Orbital period: 16.69 earth days
Orbital Speed: 8.20 km/s
Inclination: 0.19°
Mean Radius: 2,631.2 km
Circumference: 15,144.4 km
Mass: 1.0759 x 10²³ kg
Surface Gravity: 1.24 m/s²
Apparent Magnitude: 5.65

ganymede

 






















Ganymede is another of Jupiter's moons, one of the Galilean moons. It's composed of mostly silicate rock and icy water and is actually larger than mercury. 

Orbital period: 7.15 earth days
Orbital Speed: 10.88 km/s
Inclination: 0.2°
Mean Radius: 2,631.2 km
Circumference: 16,532.3 km
Mass: 1.4819 × 10²³ kg
Surface Gravity: 1.43 m/s²
Apparent Magnitude: 4.61

europa

Europa is another one of the Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter. It's thought to have a similar composition to Earth in the sense that it's got an iron core, rocky mantel and water on the surface (although frozen due to distance from the sun) enough to cover the entire moon.

Orbital period: 3.55 earth days
Orbital Speed: 13.74 km/s
Inclination: 0.47°
Mean Radius: 1,560.8 km
Circumference: 9806.8 km
Mass: 4.7998×10²² kg
Surface Gravity: 1.315 m/s²
Apparent Magnitude: 5.29

io

Being one of four of the Galilean moons (largest four) of Jupiter, io is one the most prominent moons in our solar system. The moon is highly active with erupting volcanoes, caused by the intense tidal gravity of Jupiter, keeping the yellow (sulfur) surface of the moon new.

Orbital period: 1.78 earth days
Orbital Speed: 12.33 km/s
Inclination: 2.21°
Mean Radius: 1821.6 km
Circumference: 1,445.5 km
Mass: 8.93×10²² kg
Surface Gravity: 1.796 m/s²
Apparent Magnitude: 5.02

phobos

Phobos is the larger of the two moons of Mars and it's names derives from the Greek word for fear.


Orbital period: 0.32 earth days
Orbital Speed: 2.12 km/s
Inclination: 26.04°
Mean Radius: 11.1 km
Circumference: 69.7 km
Mass: 1.072×10¹⁶ kg
Surface Gravity: 0.0057 m/s²
Apparent Magnitude: 11.3

lunar

 
Our moon, known as Luna (latin) or Selene (greek), is the fifth largest moon in our solar system, and the largest in size relative to it's primary (earth).

Orbital period: 27.32 earth days
Orbital Speed: 1.02 km/s
Inclination: 5.15°
Mean Radius: 1737.10 km
Circumference: 10,921 km
Mass: 7.3477 × 10²² kg
Surface Gravity: 1.622 m/s²
Apparent Magnitude: −12.7

moons

One of the ranges of posters will feature moons in our solar system. Our solar system contains hundreds of natural satellites:

mercury - 0
venus - 0
earth - 1
mars - 2
jupiter - 66
saturn -62
uranus - 27
neptune - 13

Most of the major natural satellites of the Solar System have regular orbits, while most of the small natural satellites have irregular orbits. The Earth's Moon is believed to have originated by the collision of two large proto-planetary objects. The material that would have been placed in orbit around the central body is predicted to have reaccreted to form one or more orbiting natural satellites. As opposed to planetary-sized bodies, asteroid moons are thought to commonly form by this process. Triton is another exception; although large and in a close, circular orbit, its motion is retrograde and it is thought to be a captured dwarf planet.

Most regular moons in the Solar System are tidally locked to their respective primaries, meaning that the same side of the natural satellite always faces its planet. The only known exception is Saturn's natural satellite Hyperion, which rotates chaotically because of the gravitational influence of Titan. In contrast, the outer natural satellites of the gas giants are too far away to have become locked.

Of the nineteen known natural satellites in the Solar System that are massive enough to have lapsed into hydrostatic equilibrium, several remain geologically active today. Io is the most volcanically active body in the Solar System, while Europa, Enceladus, Titan and Triton display evidence of ongoing tectonic activity. In the first three cases, the geological activity is powered by the tidal heating resulting from having eccentric orbits close to their gas giant primaries. Many other natural satellites, such as Earth's Moon, show evidence of past geological activity.

Placing significant moons into categories will be needed in order to assign a print process/finish to the prints. So far I'm thinking these categories could be selected from the following:

- orbital period
- orbital speed
- inclination
- mean radius
- circumference
- mass
- surface gravity
- surface temperature
- apparent magnitude

Alessandro De Besi

Just had a meeting with Ale to find out about his photographic practice so that the design process will be worked around him as a photographer and will will be appropriate to the context.

He works with a Pentax P3 film camera, using a 35mm medium/square format film. The lens is Hassleblad & his most recent work is mostly colour.

There are three main areas of Alessandro's practice which are Landscape, Fine Art and Portraiture. Landscpae seems to be his favourate area, taking alot of interest in compositions of a frame. His fine art is more experimental, working with pinhole cameras. The portraiture is combined with photography for furniture design photographing both the furniture designer and the furniture itself. 

Other work includes video production for a side project, Dilate, which is a collaboration with artists which he would like to be included in the portfolio.

Inspirations include Ben Ingham and Pieter Hugo

All images will be produced in square format with a main focus on composition.

Deliverables include:
logo
business cards
publication
portfolio
emboss stamp
letterheads
photograph pouch
clips
...

Exhibition design

Inventery studio:

Published by Blain|Southern, Tim Noble & Sue Webster Turning the Seventh Corner, is a 136 pp book which documents the conception and realisation of the artists’ recent exhibition at Blain|Southern Berlin.
 A monumental, site-specific installation, Turning the Seventh Corner was created
by Noble and Webster in collaboration with the architect David Adjaye and is the artist’s most ambitious project to date.
The book itself documents the entire process behind the work, from its conception, through working sketches, development and installation concluding with the work installed in the gallery. Each distinctive section of the book has its own unique style. Printed on two paper stocks the book is case bound and pressed with a white foil title on the cover. The typography reflects the physicality of the installation, each title turning one of seven corners.

Richard Rogers

+ Architects

From the House to the City

Exhibition at the Urban Redevelopment Authority, Singapore

21.05.11 to 20.08.11  

 

Praline designed the identity, signage, handout and all graphics for this show in Singapore.

 

‘Taken out of the usual museum context and set within a public atrium, ‘From the House to the City’ in Singapore has successfully created a new exhibition experience in a space that is at once both contained yet spontaneous. The robust use of colours, thematic programming and generous display of delicate architectural models transformed our office atrium into a spectacular showcase of ideas. This exhibition also attracted an exceptionally diverse range of visitors – from the professionals to students, tourists and curious passersby.’ 

Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
2009-10 campaign

Praline designed and art directed the whole recruitment campaign.

Colour Space

Beijing Design Week 2012

 

Colour Space, an installation by design studio Praline and photographer John Short explores the relationship between sound, colour and form.

The exhibition takes an existing idea, of sound being represented by colour, one step further and shows how various sound frequencies create their own individual patterns. Passing 7 frequencies  that correspond to the 7 musical notes through coloured pigment created unique ‘audio explosions’.