just to be confusing

my website is back up again

I love researching

because I find things like this Niklaus Troxler's legendary jazz posters of the 60's (he's still going!) and I get to listen to Free and Bad Company for hours..

what does it mean to 'respond'?

This week we were asked to make a couple of responses for uni. It made me think what a 'response' is? It's something that I tend to struggle with. Do you simply interpret the information your given, or do you put something of your own opinion into your 'response'? Do you edit the information? Or is it simply going in and then coming out in a different form (like a meat mincer).

I looked up the dictionary definition;

1. To make a reply, answer.

2. To act in return or in answer.

3. To react positively or favourably.

In graphic design terms, or simply just design, I think these should be more;

1. To visually make a reply.

2. To visual act in answer.

The third isn't. As a designer you defiantly shouldn't like everything. Even the opposite, it's important not to like everything, and to react to that.

I think this is something I need to explore more. Watch this space. For now here is my response to the film 'Hell is a city'. Which was a British Noir film, made in 1959.

After this evening, this is going to change, but I'm not too sure how much.

first job

all done and dusted

a quick note..

..to say that catford.com has gone a bit strange, I wanted to put up a few snaps of offset2010, but alas not now. Here are a couple anyway,

I'm off

catford.com

go here, it will be much better

Paul Rand