5002 Introduction - Collecting

Brief

This module is all about collecting and documenting typologies. This links to the summer project where we were asked to find typologies from our own home.

Another aim for this module is to encourage curiosity:

“Curiosity enables creativity. And if creativity enables innovation, then curiosity is necessary for the progress we aim to contribute."

Comments made during the 2016 American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) conference. Through creating collections and typologies this module will help us push our own curiosity.

Examples of Typologies:

Daniel Eatock - Price Label Gift Wrap

Daniel Eatock uses a collection of old price labels arranged in an orderly and dynamic way to create a pattern. Collections are amazing at turning something that is out of context ugly and useless into something that is beautiful and interesting. The processing and documenting of these labels ultimately led to the final creation.

Mark Dion - Tate Thames Dig

Mark Dion chose to use cabinets to present his collection from the Tate Thames Dig. Dion makes use of the form of the cabinet to make the viewer question why the modern museum is organised in the manner that it is, and as a means of presenting as museum artefacts, objects that might otherwise be considered rubbish.

Workshop

In this workshop we decided to create our own typologies with what we had just learnt in mind. We were given packets of Haribo Starmix sweets and told to organise them in any way we see fit using the 'LATCH' system:

L is for Location

A represents Alphabet

T is for Time

C represents Category

H is for Hierarchy

I decide to categorise from the most well formed to the most deformed Haribo sweet.