WE ARE THE ART & DESIGN POD
The Art & Design POD is a design facility based in the Liverpool School of Art and Design.
Staffed by Caroline, Dom and Andrew, it acts as a bridge between the academic and business aspects of the Art School supporting and promoting the department, its students and local business. We are interested in any creative projects but primarily engage in design consultancy, Graphic Design & Illustration, Digital Fabrication and Community Projects.
This site showcases our work, personal projects and other creative curiosities.
If you would like any more information or would like to discuss a project then please feel free to contact us.
Be a Designer Easter Workshops at LSAD
Following the success of our ‘Be a Designer’ Summer School for young designers last year We are really excited about our forthcoming Easter Workshops for 11-16 year olds from the 3-6th April at the Liverpool School of Art and Design. You can sign up for the week and experience a broad range of activities, or pick and choose from the daily sessions, from animation and graphic design, product design and laser cutting.
Each daily workshop is delivered by a different designer who will work with on real projects, teaching new skills and an awareness of what it is really like to work within the exciting world of design!
Daily sessions run from 8.30-5pm and are held in the Liverpool School of Art and Design. Daily sessions are £35, a full week of activities is £150. To book, simply click here
A SHARED PLACE – FOUR CORNERS 2012
The POD have been successful in securing the position to deliver this years Four Corners project in South Liverpool. The community engagement project will again focus on the Decade of Health and Wellbeing and with support from the PCT and Neighbourhood Management will engage a number of groups across the area (Speke, Garston, Belle Vale, Allerton, Hunts Cross, Cressington and Woolton).
The team are completing the arrangements for a public exhibition to be shared across the region in March via public transport. Work will be displayed on buses and bus stops as well as the Airport and other key sites such as health centres. Look out for gardening projects, improv, comedy, personal histories, photography and some interesting public art pieces in the area.
Visit the site… www.asharedplace.org.uk
96 BY NINETYSIX – HILLSBOROUGH JIGSAW COMPLETED
November saw the unveiling of the Hillsborough Jigsaw Art piece.
The work – created by the Art & Design POD and All Saints Primary School, Anfield for the C.O.B.R.A residents association and the ‘Hillsborough Family Support Group’ – was revealed by the Lord Mayor in the presence of an audience of local residents, schoolchildren and other contributors from the City Council and Liverpool FC and Everton FC.
LFC TV were kind enough to document the event and their video can be viewed here…
http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/video/features/10432-pupils-hillsborough-tribute
HERITAGE THROUGH NEW TECHNOLOGIES
The Art & Design Pod have just collaborated on a heritage workshop “Weave Well Enough Alone” with the Blackburn Museum and Blackburn and Darwen County Council that explored the towns manufacturing heritage using Digital Fabrication to with traditional crafts and production methods.
Linked to the London 2012 Olympics as part of Stories of the World, the project explores the history of leading Blackburn textile looms manufacturer the British Northrop Company, who were once the biggest producers of looms in Europe; exporting them all over the world and employing thousands of people.
HILLSBOROUGH JIGSAW
Through working with a community group (C.O.B.R.A.) in Anfield we became part of a project to create a piece of public art which was focused on respecting the community. As the project grew the community group engaged with The Hillsborough Family Support Group with the idea of themeing the piece around the Hillsborough Disaster – but more as an inspiration rather than a tribute.
We contacted All Saints Primary School in Anfield to create the artwork in order to re-educate a new generation about the events and also to get a fresh perspective on the notion of respect in sportsmanship.
POINTFIVE
POINTFIVE are Jonathan Woodward and Steven Thorpe, part 1 architecture graduates of the Liverpool School of Art and Design. They have currently taken up a studio in Liverpool’s STATIC Gallery to work on their design interactive artworks and small architectural installations.
The POD recently facilitated the laser cutting of a prototype model for a kiosk they have designed – the model is being used to illustrate the project at a manageable scale and to hopefully secure the funding needed to realize the piece.
More information on this project and others can be found on their website – http://www.pointfive.co
INFOGRAPHIC
The POD have been working with another LJMU department – Open Labs – to create their visual content. They are a research department who specialise in future trends regarding technology and the creative industries and the POD are translating their findings into a series of printed infographics and publications.
RHYTHM OF THE CITY
The Pod have been helping FACTs visiting resident artists Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet to produce a series of pieces for a European touring exhibition, The Rhythm of City
The project uses metronomes to represent a series of 10 leading world cities. The pace of the metronomes is determined by data from social networking such as Twitter to:
describe a city and its culture by the speed of inhabitants and services, and its location …Even more, the work is an ongoing performance that embraces different locations, digital social data, and physical kinetic motion.
CART-O-GRAPHY
In Summer 2011,The POD helped artist Dia Batal to realise a project for the Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival called ‘Cart-o-Graphy’, building a mobile ‘cart’ structure that allowed visitors to interact with visual and audio histories of Liverpool’s Arabic community.
The life sized ‘Cart’ emulates the transient homes of Palestinian refugees and combines physical elements from both Arabic and Liverpool culture. The mobile space invites visitors to sit, reflect, watch, listen and play while a separate ‘viewing box’ allows participants to view a reel of images through a spyhole.
YETI
Another personal project – this was an initial experiment, again on the laser cutter to create an image that was created with several sheets of laser-cut coloured paper – a sort of 3 colour separation process.