Meeting held to outline requirements for upgrading their boardroom.
James H plus three fellow students.
The Company, formed in June 2011. How they see themselves:
- Not corporate. Individuals providing bespoke solutions for clients. Co name / logo derived from 'stitch in time saves nine' saying.
- Project needs to communnicate this.
Current space large white box with some 'off the shelf'' paintings
Main office space cultivating 'laid back image- skateboards on wall, pool table + some work stations!
The Board Room
Their current thinking/ aspirations:
- End wall (RHS photo above) to be decked out in 'Paul Smith' striped pattern, integrating blinds.
- Floor to be wood
- Main white boardroom table a fix, ditto projecttion screen
- Door to be replaced with solid door / no window panel. They have idea for painted scene lookinfg out onto some romanticised industrial landscape!
- Whiteboard can go
- Like idea of working directly onto walls rather than 'hung pictures'
- Also want ideas for LHS entrance wall as you enter
Next Steps
- Ideas for 24th Feb
- No decision over how commission will be awarded- they will pick what they like
- Fixed price basis
- Need to stick to agreed timescales....
Very initial thoughts
- play with architecture of the space
- pick up on Paul Smith stripes in some way
- utilise ceiling to help make this connnection- as in bouncing l'light' from ceiling to wall.
- utilise bespoke link e.g. canvass directly onto walls as 'artists material' - bespoke charcoal marks??
Morse seems to be a goer:
- Researching industrial tapes as medium to execute work- obvious links with original tapes which were used as part of the radio telegraph system. Also strong, uniform colour good.
- Could also view work as geological profile with fosils representing the encoded message....
- Gallery wall dimensions 4,750 x 2,400mm height
- Scale of space would be best served by 75mm width tape.
Content of meesage important- number of options considered but front runner:
Hello
Sunderland
The medium is the message
The medium is the message
Brain working in the night- wake up with colour idea- red and white for Sunderland, obvious AFC reference.
Medium is message lines - first in B&W second in colour . Hopefuly viewers will be able to pick up on repeat pattern of symbols- the words are the same but is the message?
Image related to proportion of 2,750 x 2,400mm space.
Symbol spacing according to conventions of Morse code..
Considering
- Integration of sound element. Discuss with Graham M who says it is doable with current equipment. There are programmes on the net which can transform text directly into morse!
- Contact with local radio hams and managed to source Straight Key morse teelgraph machine from an enthisiast!
- Possible opportuinty for kids (space immediately adjacent to propsed wall)- brief, lighthearted explanaation of the 'code' plus invitation for kids to spell out their name in code - if a tally were kept it could itself form an 'abstract artwork'.
Work up Proposals and get in for 6th Feb...
