charlie francis
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Innovatingtoastandstill
Innovation is a constant stress at traditional organisations. However what seems to happen is that every one is innovating so hard that you become inert. It becomes harder and harder to deliver business as usual because it keeps getting run over by innovation. Its when the product development cycles fall out of sync.
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Melancholia
Just heard on the radio a wonderful show about Dürer as part of the ‘Germany memories of a Nation’ by Neil MacGregor. I have always been fascinated by the print and its wonderful symbols. I was less familiar with the print of the Knight. I was also intrigued to hear MacGreor and a german art historian Horst…
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Pastel Beach
Found on the web. A photo of Copacabana beach, with its mosaic pavement, designed by Roberto Burle Marx. Wonderful washed out colour palette. Saw the photo and wanted to remember the designer of the wave pavement.
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Serendipity
A photo found on a continuous lean, serendipity, andy, and the Brooks brothers look. I was tickled by him and the sign.
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sunday morning
made a lego slide, rose made a castle… watch out, the world’s behind you, there’s always someone around you who will call, it’s nothing at all….
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Space Oddity
Space exploration is other worldly, this makes it odd, its strange and peculiar. But space exploration has created an amazing library of imagery and I am always struck by the colours. Nasa’s collection of vibrant technicolour photo’s are often seem matter of fact in their documentary approach, they are just recording events, but the subject matter is…
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Spirit woodcut
I took a frame from a Will Eisner Spirit comic, ‘Blood Of The Earth’ and enlarged it onto a sheet of MDF. MDF is easy to cut and has a smooth finish to print from. So it makes a great printing block, the only problem is the dust from cutting it is horrible.
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Visual Analysis 1924
Nearly a hundred years ago, from 1924 to 1927, Kazimir Malevich was using charts to explore art styles, movements and techniques. When I saw the charts at his Tate modern retrospective in 2014 they reminded me of so much of my professional work. Where rather than trying to create understanding through words and reports, as…
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Code is poetry
With a corporate bank there are many conflicting sources of design and creative direction. So having gathered the users needs, understood the sites objectives, discussed the functional specifications and content requirements the project has to navigate through the corporations design culture. This culture is always changing, like a river.
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Tom Sachs – Bricolage
I don’t know this artist Tom Sachs at all, but I came across his model of a NASA Hasselblad camera. The low-fi real but not real aesthetic of it appeals. Its not a copy, but, too crude to be a facsimile. I am never quite sure what a Jean Baudrillard’s simulacra means, but it our mixed up world…
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