Evaluation and Final Six

I took the decision half way through the project to rewrite my original brief as I released that 10 signatures would sacrifice the overall quality. Instead I have given each artist’s name the time it needs.

The result is six signatures I am proud of, with each one not only visually pleasing in it’s end result but also pushing me as a designer. With Martin Creed and Simon Starling I had to learn a new programme in Adobe Flash, and with Rachel Whiteread I learnt to make moulds for the concrete letters. The other three I wanted to revisit techniques gained earlier in the year.

Unfortunately there were a few things I was let down on, or I didn’t have time to take further. With Richard Wright I was let down with the availability of the printing room. I tried on numerous occasions to get in, but the time I was told which I could use the room got put back and back until it was beyond the deadline. And with Rachel Whiteread I needed more time for the material to dry. There were also the other 4 signatures I decided to not start.

I have really enjoyed this project. I feel I came up with a strong concept very early on that both challenged my time keeping and technical skills. I also learnt lots of new processes that I am looking forward continuing in the second year. 

I plan to continue working on this idea beyond the deadline as a personal project. 

 

 

Artist Six - Rachel Whiteread

Whiteread was awarded the Turner Prize in 1993 just after creating House (1993; destroyed 1994), a life-sized replica of the interior of a condemned terraced house in London's East End made by spraying liquid concrete into the building's empty shell before its external walls were removed.

Artist Five - Simon Starling

Simon Starling won the prize in 2005 with Shedboatshed. Starling dismantled a shed and turned it into a boat; loaded with the remains of the shed, the boat was paddled down the Rhine to a museum in Basel, dismantled and re-made into a shed. Both pilgrimages provide a kind of buttress against the pressures of modernity, mass production and global capitalism. 

Artist Four - Antony Gomley

Antony Gomley won the prize in 1994 with ‘Testing a World View, 1993’. It is a sculptural installation consisting of five identical iron figures bent at right angles at the waist. The figures are based on a cast of the artist’s body and are installed in varying positions relating to the architecture of the building.
My idea for the signature came from the image below. I saw what I thought was the beginnings of a A in the left of the image, and wondered if I could create the other letters of his name by filling the room with other sculptures by Gomley.

Artist three - Richard Wright

Richard Wright won the prize in 2009. The untitled work featured a gold leaf floral design which he put onto a wall of the Tate. It was beautiful, detailed and reflective. For his signature I want to do something similar using the same medium. I plan to design a floral design and use the foiling print process. I then plan to rescan it back onto the computer capturing the strong reflections and hopefully a few impurities. 

Artist Two - Martin Creed

Martin Creed won the prize in 2000 with controversial The Lights Going on... and Off. The piece was simply a room with two large lights going on and off. As the work was so simple, my idea is to do the same. Again using Helvetica, I plan to write his name and have a basic animation/interactive video that simply goes from black to white. It also gives me a reason to learn the basics of Flash.

Artist One - Tomma Abts

Tomma Abts won the prize in 2006 a series of acyclic and oil paints. Although Tomma's work is generally not planned, I plan to design a signature around her 'Teete' piece. Instead of using paints to create the geometric shapes, I plan to use folded paper, a camera and photoShop, and depending on time and then go over it with paint. 

Teete, 2003