Friday 22 July 2011
Monday 4 July 2011
Brick Lane
On Friday 1st July I went on a college trip to Brick lane to visit the D&AD gallery where they were having a New Blood exhibition. Here I was able to view work from different universities and see what the art students were coming up with. It was nice to view work from people more my age and who were also currently studying a course similar to mine. Whilst there I took some pictures of my classmates and some of the work that was on show and picked up a bunch of business cards and university booklets, These gave me a bunch of ideas of what sort of thing I should be making to promote myself as a graphic designer, artist, photographer, whatever I want to be.
After an hour or so of looking around the D&AD we were given a few hours to go and explore London, so naturally I went to the shops. Rough Trade was just around the corner and was full of graffiti and art, you could see where bands had come in and tagged the walls. There was also a black and white photo booth where everyone had stuck photos of themselves up on the walls. It was awesome and nothing like the music shops you get round Kent. Everywhere you looked outside there was graffiti, which gave me some good opportunities to take some pictures.
Once we were done scouting the area for graffiti we moved onto old Spitalfields market where there was a huge variety of stands hosting Vintage clothing, band merchandise, Jewellery, Dvds, Antique furniture, food anything you fancy. One of the stalls I spoke to they had designed their clothes themselves. They had drawn up sketches and had them printed onto t-shirts and were very impressive. I came out with a few Beatles pieces and a few bags.
Overall it was a really nice day out, it was good to see a new area of London I hadn’t seen before, and get a peek into what new artists are coming up with. Definitely somewhere I will be visiting again if not for the art then definitely for the shopping.
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