Alrighty, so fourth day at The Clink 78. Waking up was really hard this morning, mostly because this was the day we had to leave the earliest and we stayed up way to late last night trying to out dance the Danish travelers. I think we won the battle. At breakfast Will read us the blog from yesterday and it was really good, a little too good to compete with so don't get too excited about this one.
After breakfast we finally got to take a group picture in front of the Clink 78 sign!
Once we headed out it was time for Whitney and Jeremy to lead us to our first stop of the day, and our first design firm TOMATO (say it with a British accent). Since we arrived early we took a group picture in front of Tomato.
Here's a picture of Jessica and her new pigeon friend. :)
At Tomato designers, Simon, Dylan, and Michael gave an informative talk about Tomato as a whole and the work they do there. For many who are unaware Tomato is a collaborative art and design studio who work with mixed media. A lot of the work they shared with us was commercial art and animations, including a pretty cool music video. They offered some great advice to us, saying no sketch is a bad sketch if the intent is well thought out. The studio itself was really laid back and had a comfortable atmosphere.
After Tomato we split up for a little bit to have some lunch before heading over to our next stop at the Royal College of Arts. We had Noodlebar, sweet and sour chicken with rice and noodles :) Yum, it may not look it but it was delicious.
After lunch we made a brief stop at South Kensington Private Bookstore where Eden picked up a design book and I grabbed myself another copy of my favorite Peter Pan. We then continued on to the Royal College of the Arts where we met with Richard who informed us on their visual communication graduate program, and gave us a quick tour of the studio space.
They had their own print room downstairs smaller than St. Brides, but still really awesome. ...Porn is..?
So one piece of culture difference I have never acknowledged at Saint Rose was this water fountain I came across was this water fountain at The Royal College of the Arts. A versatile water fountain where you can not only drink from but as well as refill your water bottles from a separate spout, pretty nifty! -Whit
We took a group photo after the tour in front of the college, and realized we were being graced with DJ's angelic presence. :) After we all split up once again, some of us going to the Museum of Natural History, some to the Victoria and Albert Museum. Whitney and a few others went to the Museum of Natural History where they saw a few interesting things like these below.
We don't say Rubbish in the States! Another culture difference as most people already know is their dialect. This is a sign I encounter when walking over to The Royal College of Arts, in other words this sign is a warning the audience that there is a surveillance camera in the premisis so there shouldn't be any funny business going on! -Whit
I took this picture because I love the colored doors around London! -Whit
Entrance to the Natural History Museum.
LOL SLOTHS.
Dolphins are life<3
He says hi.
After The Royal College of the Arts I went with Greg, Ann, and Jessica to Kensington Gardens in search of the statue dedicated to J.M. Barrie and Peter Pan. It was sunny and beautiful, we even saw some interesting ducks in the water. -Jori
After leaving the park we separated once again, but found Bridget, Sarah, and Emily and decided to travel to Oxford Street to do a little shopping. On our travels I found an interesting piece of design for a clothing store sign. It may look like the letters in the sign are dimensional letters sticking off the wood, but it actually is only the smaller white pieces that you see on the sign itself. Your eye finishes the rest of the letter, clever clever design. -Jori
One of my favorite design pieces from today was actually one of the projects from the Tomato design studio. This was a commercial art project for whiskey and although the ending result are beautiful I was also just as impressed hearing about their process. These talented designers aren't always working from their computers, they actually took some time painting brush strokes until they finally found a composition they were confident with. Definitely a piece that stuck out to me especially with the expressive brush stroke in this dynamic piece.
-Whit
Dinnah time! Jeremy and I have been craving french food since Parisian food does not compare to any food(no offense London) and we just happened to find a Creperie by the Natural History Museum so we came by afterwards with a group and enjoyed scrumptious crepes! Phenomenal!!!!
DJ trying his first crepe ever....Idk how he's been living until now.
After we had crepes for dinner, we ordered crepes for dessert! They were just that fantastic :D
and almost finish all of their ice cream....jk but it was also just as good.
pre-food coma, only Josh Terry.
After a full day we are all pretty tired, but maybe we'll head downstairs for one beer and a few laughs. See ya tomorrow London lovers :) - Whitney & Jori
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