Chesterfield College Art and Design Exhibition

When I went to the Chesterfield College Art exhibition I found these three images which I particularly eyecatching and they just appealed to me. They were three prints which had few colours on: a shade of pale blue mixed in tih black and white. One consisted of a tank which one side was in the shade and the colour of the ground was white with blue sky, another was a man looking up like he was looking at you when looking at the piece like he was waving and the other was a metal fence which looked like it was in the moonlight. All these pieces had letters which were cut out of newspapers and magazines which were stuck onto the piece when printed then taken off after so that it gave a stencil look off which worked exceptionally well. 

V&A

Alan Fletcher

Alan Fletcher is one of the World's best known Graphic designers and typographers and he designed the V&A Logo in 1990. There had been many different symbols and shapes to the V&A logo in the past but trustees commisioned a new logo to be made to replace the others. The letters which were used for the logo were designed by Gianbattista Bodoni around almost 200 years ago. What Fletcher did was take the stem of the A (leg) and removed it and tucked the ampersand into the A and also removed the crossbar of the A. However this did not disrupt the logo, in fact it was so unique and that people can still read it and know what it is that it is still used now for the logo of the Victoria and Albert museum now. This is a very simple design which is very effective and is known World wide. 

Joseph Penell 

Joseph Penell was born on the 4th of July in 1857 and died on the 23rd of April in 1923 and he was well known for being an artist and an author.

He first studied in Pilidelphia but soon went on as many did in those days and moved over to Europe where he made his home in London. He was an Author throughout his days but also a keen etcher and lithographer and also as an illustrator. He also taught at Slade School of Art but what I think is great about his works is the details in which it goes to to create shadows especially in his mono tone prints and drawings as he uses different shading techniques such as cross hatching, hatching and smudging and many more. The industrial scenes are very good as if he's sending a message through the drawing of manual labour and people working with machines. He really expresses feelings and hard work through these drawings and uses shading to complete the image as a whole to bring it all together.