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GiD things is a blogspot for students studying the Graphics, Illustration and Digital Media specialism on the Leeds College of Art Foundation Diploma in Art & Design course. This blog exists to highlight contemporary designers and their practises which are relevant to ongoing studies and topics investigated throughout the course.

Thursday, 4 March 2010


Measuring Type

A selection of the most commonly used typefaces were compared for how economical they are with the amount of ink which they use at the same point size. Large scale renditions of the typefaces were drawn out with ballpoint pens, allowing the remaining ink levels to display the ink efficiency of each typeface.

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Matt Robinson


Continuations on a theme


Universalsports.com has a gallery of posters from the winter olympics, though obviously not all done by the same person it is a nice little example of exhaustive images on a theme.

The Virtual Revolution


Really good series on the internet's effect on commerce and society. Last night's episode looked at social networking and the week before's investigated online advertising. Click the picture to view.

Friday, 19 February 2010

Brian Dettmer


Brian Dettmer

zoetrope record decks - sculpture


by DIY music and animation duo, Sculpture, who use zoetrope record deck, tape loops, cassettes, samples, and lo-fi electronic noise, cross-fertilizing analogue and digital techniques to generate vivid sonic and visual collages.

Sculpture is Dan Hayhurst (audio) and Reuben Sutherland (visual). Check out some more of Reuben's commercial work at http://www.joyriderfilms.com