OUGD602: Hyde Park Book Club - Exhibition #1

Yesterday we hosted our first exhibition at Hyde Park Book Club, a small new café/bar on Hyde Park corner. Each of us in the collective produced a piece of work either individually or collaboratively, with the intention to display the work in the Book Club for the foreseeable future after the exhibition launch. We marketed the event on social media platforms running up to the 15th as well.

The piece I created was a take on modern abstract calligraphy based around and stemming from the idea of open books on a shelf or as seen from above. Here is a quick development of composition taken from an idea that sparked when I saw an open magazine pinned on a wall while lying underneath it. From this I opened a selection of books and slotted them inside one another with their pages open, an this developed into a simpler design using just one direction of diagonal strokes. The abstracted letterforms as content is a clear connotation of the words in books, the language.