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Eatock at Kemistry Gallery
November 15 - January 12
Londonhttp://www.kemistrygallery.co.uk…
Thats one for all the Eatock lovers on NT to go along to
- detritus0
heh, I've nothing against Eatock - I actually really like a lot of the work he does... I'm just slightly anti-the-whole-reductionist- approach-to-web-design he used to espouse and the half-wit acolytes who seem to believe he invented it.
- DaveO0
I do like his work but I think there's something really smug about him sometimes.
Foundation 33 work was really good too...
- jamble0
ooh ... a chance to meet the man who invented the navigation on the left of a webpage layout
- detritus0
Mm.. 'twee' springs to mind.
Though I'm unsure whether that's merely a function of my slight sense of jealousy towards the guy - he seems to lead an interesting life.
All power to him, I guess.
- BaskerviIle0
I really like his work and will definitely go to this.
I know a lot of people on here give him a hard press over his 2-frame template, which people (not him) started calling an 'eatock site'.
All he was trying to do was to give people who knew nothing about web design a way of putting their work online. This was before things like Flickr and Blogger which make stuff like that much easier. Plus the design world is a bit more web savvy.
But you can't really fault the creativity and inquisitveness of his work. He seems to have retain the mindset of being at artschool, which for most gets shaken out of you after a couple of years in the industry. He's got a great balanace of personal, odd projects and paying work. Might be silly sometimes but at least he sees them through.
- ********0
A lot of good people from that year at Ravensbourne... MadeThought, North, Eatock, Tiller Williams etc.
- DaveO0
Good post baskerville – totally my opinion.
For me his work doesn't have enough visual muscle, but hey, he's better than me!
- 5timuli0
Eatcock™
- tank020
He seems to have retain the mindset of being at artschool, which for most gets shaken out of you after a couple of years in the industry
i consider this a bad thing.
art school is a artificial ivory tower,
the real challenge as a designer comes in making projects that are both commercial and creative..its still a craft what we do, not an art...but overall i like his work...
and i like that template thing fot the same reason baskerville said.
- gramme0
I somewhat agree tank, however I do think that we craft art for the sake of business. The soul-sucking dimension to the practice is that our work must be effective in pushing idea or product, in addition to being attractive...the good news is that among discerning clients and consumers, attractive design and material sells.
Think of all the work commissioned by the church throughout the centuries – it's the same thing, different century.
I wonder if the argument could be made that graphic design is a slightly less self-centered profession than pure fine art, since the latter group tends to be primarily concerned with their own visual agenda and not someone else's.
Just a thought...I have no issue with people following their personal muse as long as the work is worthwhile (which I recognize is a very subjective and nuanced field upon which to thread).
- wordsinmouth0
at first thought it read "eatcock", and was inclined not to look at this