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charlie francis

  • Home Work + Office Work jacket

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    Years ago when Labour and Wait were in their old shop they stocked some surplus stock french workwear jackets. They always sold out instantly and it was good luck if you could nab one. I got a few. So began the endless search for the perfect, work+work jacket.

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  • Space Oddity

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    I don’t know where or when I first saw Vincent Fournier’s ‘Space Project’ photo of ‘Clean room, Indian National Satellite Insat 4B, Arianespace, Guiana Space Center [CGS], Kourou, French Guiana, 2007’ but everything about it is perfect, the colours, the objects. The whole collection of photo’s are great, but the spartan clean rooms with their…

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    Vehicle Payload Canister Transporter, John F. Kennedy Space Center [NASA], Florida, U.S.A., 2011

  • Innovatingtoastandstill

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    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

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    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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    Melencolia I is a large 1514 engraving by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. Its central subject is an enigmatic and gloomy winged female figure thought to be a personification of melancholia – melancholy. Holding her head in her hand, she stares past the busy scene in front of her. The area is strewn with symbols and tools associated with craft and carpentry, including an hourglass, weighing scales, a hand plane, a claw hammer, and a saw.

  • Pastel Beach

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    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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    Parkways and promenades of Copacabana Beach, Rio De Janeiro designed by Roberto Burle Marx in 1970

  • Serendipity

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      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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    Warhol sitting outside a shop called serendipity

  • sunday morning

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    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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    lego slide

  • Space Oddity

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    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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    Astronaut training in desert in full space suit Apollo 16

  • Spirit woodcut

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    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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    Detail of MDF woodcut of Will Eisners the Spirit

  • Visual Analysis 1924

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    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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