Headingley Triangle Arts Festival

http://www.triangle.org.uk/artday.htm

Last Sunday, after going to the Saltaire Arts Trail, I attended the Headingley/Cardigan Triangle Art Day. This day follows in a similar fashion to the Saltaire festival as residents open their houses up to the public to show off art work from local artists. It was again a nice chance to have a look at what was being produced locally and gave me some real ideas, especially when it comes to photography for my projects. Again I would recommend this annual event when it comes around again next year.

There poster could do with a rethink though...is it a Microsoft Word job?...

Saltaire Arts Festival

http://www.saltaireartstrail.co.uk/

Last week was the Saltaire Arts Trail in Saltaire, Bradford. As part of the annual Saltaire Festival the public are invited to walk around the streets, halls and houses of Saltaire which display the work of artists, photographers, sculptors and designers alike. The picturesque world heritage site Saltaire was the perfect backdrop for the event and the work on display was very impressive. It was a nice chance to take a look at the amateur work out there and it was a chance for them to display their work for free. There was the chance to purchase work but I found it nice to just walk around, take it all in and perhaps even take inspiration from some of the work on offer. It was my first experience of the festival and I look forward already to the event next year.

On another note I was very impressed by the brochure design (available on the website) and the website design, as you would expect from an arts festival. It did make me laugh that the arts festival falls under the main Saltaire festival and the website for that is awful...take a butchers...www.saltairefestival.co.uk

Some of the brochure pages are below...

Jeffrey Milstein

Jeffrey Milstein is an American photographer whose latest project, Aircraft, featured in June's Creative Review, focuses on the "The Jet as Art".

Standing at the end of LAX airport runway Milstein photographed the undersides of incoming aircraft to look at the designs that distinguish companies from competitors and plane models from others.

A somewhat boring medium you would think but what the photography has captured is the beauty of the machines by removing all motion and simply placing the images on a white background.





http://www.jeffreymilstein.com/

This project of Milstein's is available in his book "AirCraft, The Jet as Art," published by Abrams.

I was reminded of the project after looking at the stamps created by True North for the 100 years of motor sport. Both using the idea of removing all motion to represent the beauty of the machine.

Some of Milstein's other projects are also very intriguing, especially his project "Industrial Archeology". Examples of this project are shown below.