Month: February 2025

Notes from Labours 2 workshop:

• Interesting exercise in citing a set of people who inspired our group individually (Anthony Burrill, Dana Abdullah, Raymond Queneau, Anne Alders, Oswin Tickler). In group with mainly Yr 2 students
• We cited using Language in the form of Text and vice versa after eliminating more everyday connections such as form, methods craft.
• Fascinating way of reconsidering connection, citation
• ‘Book Waste Book’ reference – everything about supply chain and material on the imprint page in the prelims, very interesting for my industry background
• We chose the loafers image to ‘citate’ and considered everything from materials to corporate map of sales, distribution, company ownership all the way to basic ‘commons’ involved in the production or a shoe, and cultural references such as the Japanese heritage in the design

15/2/25

Tutorial 1 notes
• Eduardo advised that in his research, motion was not recommended in icon design focussed on improving accessibility
• José – simplified the toolbox in Adobe, can this expand to other tools? Can it be more complex?
• Adobe software monopoly discussed, pricing means majority of users catered for are sighted
• Is bespoke toolbox design achievable? Will we alienate one community if we work with another?
• Abbie – conversely, the development of technology has adversely the affected accessibility
• Beatrice – project is functional, recommends ally-ship and approaching the community we are focusing on to develop the enquiry and inform the design. Community-specific testing
• José – WACOM connection? Example from mark’s experiments, practical consideration in a week
• Abbie – recommend narrowing it down either ICONS, NAVIGATION or APATHY (Adobe issue), we’re asking the right questions.


Follow up meeting with Harry and Jane, with Abbie – agreed to approach various practitioners of low sight or connected to the community, to provide user led feedback. Also started sharing references for written piece.

My final iterations were two videos, available here on Onedrive:
Iteration 1: https://artslondon-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/m_ecob0820231_arts_ac_uk/ER4HrtyoXylLssVLa-rFbUsBz7Nsm-Gj20S2UBusHev1YA?nav=eyJyZWZlcnJhbEluZm8iOnsicmVmZXJyYWxBcHAiOiJPbmVEcml2ZUZvckJ1c2luZXNzIiwicmVmZXJyYWxBcHBQbGF0Zm9ybSI6IldlYiIsInJlZmVycmFsTW9kZSI6InZpZXciLCJyZWZlcnJhbFZpZXciOiJNeUZpbGVzTGlua0NvcHkifX0&e=jhkiOn
Iteration 2: https://artslondon-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/m_ecob0820231_arts_ac_uk/EXzHMyiv-fJPl1GwiWa–FwBTAxQvRvULjj67KsKWkGbyQ?nav=eyJyZWZlcnJhbEluZm8iOnsicmVmZXJyYWxBcHAiOiJPbmVEcml2ZUZvckJ1c2luZXNzIiwicmVmZXJyYWxBcHBQbGF0Zm9ybSI6IldlYiIsInJlZmVycmFsTW9kZSI6InZpZXciLCJyZWZlcnJhbFZpZXciOiJNeUZpbGVzTGlua0NvcHkifX0&e=E90G4M

Some notes from my final tutorial:
• Yellow version works better, more contrast and curation
• The removal of the T is enough
• If iterated further, remove line between the words
• Consider space around it, now the move to moving image, is there a way of echoing ‘furniture’ from letterpress or a background?
• Yellow one succeeds because all of the hands are moving together
• Newsprint version (iteration 2) is more fruitful to printmaking, but feels like a proof or draft
• Artist mentioned as reference but incomplete – ‘Sebastian ____’, neon artist, being between words like this, to follow up
• Now I have the tool, further iteration could mean new words and brining this to a wider audience
• Could this riff on identity, could I commission cut letters of elements on identifying documents for me and repeat this process, asking “how are we defined by documents?”

The form of draft 3 of my written response is a video.
Due to memory constraints, it is available here on OneDrive: https://artslondon-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/m_ecob0820231_arts_ac_uk/EehlRFMMQO1KrFTJqtbn9PYBNWrqB6rn9FKh6xWVmmyR3w?nav=eyJyZWZlcnJhbEluZm8iOnsicmVmZXJyYWxBcHAiOiJPbmVEcml2ZUZvckJ1c2luZXNzIiwicmVmZXJyYWxBcHBQbGF0Zm9ybSI6IldlYiIsInJlZmVycmFsTW9kZSI6InZpZXciLCJyZWZlcnJhbFZpZXciOiJNeUZpbGVzTGlua0NvcHkifX0&e=StRlZG

Please contact me at m.ecob0820231@arts.ac.uk for any access issues. Thank you.