treesbeesbeestrees: November 2009

Sunday 29 November 2009

shake and bake

I designed this poster to see what the results would be like. poster is spot varnished on to black paper.

user receives poster in the mail.

user places poster back in envelope with chalk seals up and shakes.

Result.

Artist Sighn has taken on the a HUGE project, hand-cutting 1,000,000 wooden pieces each with the type "It's ok.” there's definitely beauty in the results and therapy in repetition but this is taking it to another level. I feel like the repetition in my work making 34 bird houses with every part of it being like a production studio. every task involved in part of making each bird house times by 34.

Trevor Reese.

Trevor Reese has made some beautiful typography out of wood, he also creates other sculptures using wood and light to create a wonderful image. how ever I am particularly interesting in the type just due to how perfect and hand made it is, creating a aesthetic ore around the overall design.

Monday 23 November 2009

today

Today i waited for the post man to deliver my paint so i could finish spraying my birdhouses however while he failed to bring me anything i got on with making some moustache chocolates to compliment the houses.

To do this i vacuum formed my mould, I had to created positives first out of wood which took the majority of morning, using mdf which was cut and sanded to do this, with tapered edges so i had no over hang.

The positives were added onto the vacuum table

table was then lowered

1mm perspex was added

vice was put over the top to hold it all in place.

the heater was pulled over and heated up for 30 seconds

pushed back

table up

vacuum on, and hey prestow.

4 bars of sainsburys belgian chocolate, melted in a pot.

washed casts and pored melted chocolate into to casts and placed in fridge.

genius.

Note: 800g of chocholate = 36 moustaches - total spent £10. = 27 p each.

Foreign News: Grow a Beard - Monday, Jan. 25, 1937

At the end of his first month on the British Throne, King George VI last week continued to gladden his Government's heart by being as little like his abdicated brother and as much like his father as he possibly could. He had shown himself tractable by preferring the solid virtues of rural Sandringham to the glitter of London night clubs. He had reopened the Royal racing stables along the lines on which George V ran them. He was riding in sombre Daimlers and Lanchesters and not in slick American cars. He had even changed his policy about yacht racing to meet popular demands. When George V died his will instructed that his yacht Britannia should be sunk unless one of his sons wanted to race it. All four sons, including the present King, turned this offer down and the Britannia was sunk (TIME, July 20). George VI, however, lately revealed he is willing now to be a "Sailor King" like his father, is expected to take to yacht racing.

Last week jubilant British subjects were looking anxiously at their King's smooth chin. Word had gone round that His Majesty's Government in the person of Squire Baldwin had advised the King-Emperor to grow a beard.

George Mitchell

I like this image by George Mitchell, Type has always been my first love so integration between beards and type is amazing.

Debonair Cigars

I think this might be the best design I've ever seen, designed by Royalt, if i smoked i would smoke these, in fact if there's ever a good reason to start, would be if i was bought some.

If You Grew A Beard

i like this but i don't think id ever wear it as a tee shirt.

unknown neckless off Etsy

I love the cross stitching on this bad boy.

Beard Song

any thing thats inspirational i guess?

Laith McGregor

Laith McGregor is something special just from these drawings, cant find much information on him but these are beautiful inspiration.

unknown note book available off etsy

I really like the idea behind this not book but I don't think it has been executed properly. Moustache Notebook

Anke Weckmann

Anke Weckmann is linotte the illustrator behind this illustration for Stirato Magazine, im not too keen on lady beards they really scare me and i feel like there a bad omen.

Diana Sudyka

I love birds and beards so when i saw this drawing from Chicago-based illustrator and printmaker Diana Sudyka it was no exception that I fell in love with it.

greedy hen

Greedy Hen is an art collective / studio, housing the collaborative works of Katherine Brickman and Kate Mitchell. this image really caught my attention because while making my houses i really had in mind the idea of birds coming out of beards.

crumbs caught in an old man's beard attracting wild animals to come nest

Paul Thompson

Paul Thompson’s portraits of bearded children for Natural History Museum’s Ice Station Antarctica posters are amazing . Creepy and slightly disturbing, but kids should always have the choice weather or not they have beards, in know i would want one at the age of 10.

http://www.paulthompsonstudio.com/