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I am Rachael.
I am from Cleckheaton. (Yorkshire)
Blue eyes
Blonde hair
Freckles
Twin siblings
I am a vegetarian. I was brought up pescatarian but have not eaten fish since I was 11.
I have 6 pets, 3 fish, 2 rabbits and my favourite little cat.
I really love elephants, I collect them from ornaments to key rings to cushions and pants. Although I have never actually met one it is a dream of mine to actually ride an elephants.
I can not resist a great pun. No matter how cheesy they will never fail to make me laugh.
My favourite exhibition I visited was in the Mumok Gallery in Vienna.
Creative
Fun
Playful
Simplicity
Mumok - Flaka Haliti
MUMOK
Flaka Haliti - I see a face. Do you see a face.
Ausstellungsansicht / Exhibition view Flaka Haliti. I See a Face. Do You See a Face., 6.6. – 5.10.2014, mumok, Wien / Vienna Photo: mumok/Hannes Böck © mumok/Flaka Haliti
Most of Haliti exhibition was of a series of cloud motifs which had computer drawn faces on them from her imagination of what shapes the clouds made. I love the experimentation of the cloud faces and I also l wonder if another person were given the same cloud, would they see the face in the same place?
What attracts me to the cloud faces is the fun, playful aspect of them, how they should just be taken at face value and enjoyed for the child like creativity in them.
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The other section of her exhibition was work that looked at interpersonal relationships shown through a video installation about long-distance relationships in the internet.
The video installation, I Miss You , I Miss You , Till I Do not Miss You Anymore (2014) has three channels, love letters are presented on these three large screens. Each screen has a different colour from looking into her work further I believe the colours to represent stages of a relationship; yellow is the beginning, red is for more sexual conversations and blue represents fading love. The love letters are presented by them appearing as though they were being typed by someone right in front of you, there are even pauses as though the writer is thinking. The way this work has been presented is beautiful in its realism and as the words are being typed in front of you I feel people will relate better to it and emphasis.
Ausstellungsansicht / Exhibition view Flaka Haliti. I See a Face. Do You See a Face., 6.6. – 5.10.2014, mumok, Wien / Vienna Photo: mumok/Laurent Ziegler © mumok/Flaka Haliti
Pin a place I did in my third most visited place I go to.
Unpredictable
Luck
Expirience
Pin through Liverpool
Liverpool
Instead of putting a pin through a copy of a local magazine I decided that I would put a pin through a map, so on a day trip up to Liverpool, a place I only vaguely know that is what I did.
I headed off to find the second point and I was delighted with what I found. In a space between two buildings on a busy Liverpool street there were two lonesome chairs stood facing each other cemented in concrete with three evenly spaced rings circling each chair, that had been drawn into concrete. With the words 'DO YOU THINK MORE INTELLIGENT THAN THE AVERAGE PERSON?' I thought about the question as I sat in the unsurprisingly uncomfortable chair, it was such a strange place in the middle of the city.
The Luminarium like Alice in wonder land.
Unique
Sensory
Magical
Most interesting find
The most interesting thing I have found
In Budapest I went to a festival called Sziget which was such an amazing experience, even though it was raining despite every other day being scorching hot. (Typical) To escape from the rain we heard about an light tunnel so set off to find it. Queuing for about one hour seemed totally worth it once we were inside. The light tunnel was called the AMOCOCO Luminarium which was an 800 square meter sculpture made up of labyrinthine tunnels and inspiring spacious domes filled with light and colour. It was such a beautiful and inspirational space, warm, cosy and very cleverly designed. I could have happily spent hours just relaxing in there.
The Luminarium is hand made of a special, partly translucent plastic that is thinner than 0.5 mm, therefore it’s very sensitive for weight and sharp objects.
Font discovery! I love type.
Continuous line
Social media
Clean
Max Little Design Discovery
Max Little
Whilst scrolling through my instagram I came across some typography that caught my eye. It was on a page called @typecally which promotes typography that they like and people send to them. So I looked into this typography that stopped my scrolling and found it was created by a guy called Max Little. Upon googling him I discovered that he does lots of typography mostly creating his own fonts. This is the one that initially caught my eye, he calls it Divert Typeface.
Initially I really loved the way that the font curved and the was each letter is made up of continuous line, there is something really beautiful about continuous lines and the way they flow. But then I read what it was saying and I found it amusing how Max Little had made each word be true. Up was up and Down was below Up. Left was left and Right was right. I also loved how the four dots for each word centralized it all the word also creating a continuous line making them easier to read.
These are the Divert typeface in capitals and lowercase.The layering of the lowercase over each other makes the font seem fun and playful and the two different colours just work so well together on the dark grey background.
As I enjoyed his Divert Typeface so much I just had to look into some of his other work in more detail, there was other typefaces that he had created and although I liked them I didn't enjoy them as much as the first one I came across. However there were two single typography pieces that I did really like. Never Grow Up was one of them, the way he has created the type fits in with the phase so perfectly, type made out of building blocks. Using both positive and negative space is both clever but could also be representing the inconsistency of a child and how sometimes they get letters the wrong way round instead they would flit between positive and negative space.
The other typography piece that I really like was Some rules are made to be broken I did origionally skim past this one but then I saw that there was a video too and when I watched it it brought the whole typography together.
Again the visual matches up perfectly with the phase and I really love stuff that does that, it is sort of satisfying as everything just clicks together and works.
