Peterborough based Dominic Le-Hair is a designer with a thing for typography. We came across this project on both our Vimeo & Behance networks and knew that it needed to be shared.

If you are wondering how the piece was achieved, Dominic explains:
“Rubber magnets were cut out with an X-Acto knife and attached to a sheet of paper. Another piece of paper was then laid on top of this. The iron filings were sprinkled from a shaker and attracted to the magnets creating lyrics from the Bonnie “Prince” Billy song – ‘Even if Love’ ”

Find out more about Dominic here.
See more work from Dominic, including images from the Magnetic Typography project, on Behance.

/////

To celebrate our first 50 days of the new-look Central Station, we showcased an artists a day. See the full list of artists here.

It’s a big cupboard with a window, which I had shelved to accommodate my clutter. The day we moved in to this house I removed a towel rail from the back of the door. That makes me think it might once have been a toilet, and visitors do try and go there rather than the bathroom, but thankfully there haven’t been any accidents yet.

When it’s messy, like this, I’m working hard. I think that goes for most writers. A tidy desk is lovely, but a little suspect. The surface is quite grubby, although writing isn’t particularly messy, and I like the way it’s accumulating a patina of ink and coffee rings and pencil marks. The postcards sometimes change depending on what I’m writing about but there are sentimental odds and ends as well; a library card from Berlin, photos of my gran and my nana, trinkets from here and there.

Silence works quite well for me when I’m writing, though sometimes I’ll listen to an album or even a song on repeat. When I close the door it feels nice and isolated. That helps me write too. I bought a couple of old Ordnance Survey maps of Orkney that I’m going to paste to the wall behind me. I think that’ll give me an illusion of open space. I’ll be able to twirl in my chair and pretend I’m sailing around the islands.

Visit www.zoestrachan.comfor more information.

//////////

‘Where I Make’ invites readers behind the scenes of artists from many disciplines to share photographs and a little insight about where they create their masterpieces. See more from the series here.

Did we miss something? Add you own suggestions to the bottom of the page.

1. edwin1 by Edwin

2. How Children Learn Part II by RueFive

3. Pictures paint a thousand words by Andy Cogdon

4. Sir Richard Bishop (ali fib) by embla quickbeam

5. Typographic Illustration Books by annabodalikar

//////////

See more of our Top 5 selections here.

They were at Edinburgh College of Art at the same time, and were paired up by their two departments to work together on a collaborative project. The idea was to address the idea of the creative working as an isolated / solitary force. And to work in a different, more open and engaged way. It was a flexible brief.

So Jo created a short text, something that was quite open-ended. Which forced her into thinking about someone else, someone else’s interpretation, how someone else might think. She emailed work to Gen, having never met her…

Gen in the mean time was being asked to create an image that the writer could respond to. So she drew We Howl, a wolf catching salmon for their tea.

Both girls seemed to be frightened of how the other artist would respond. What would they interpret? Was there enough for the other to work with?

The actual work: Jo wrote a prose poem responding to Gen’s work. Very different stylistically to what she normally writes. And Gen came up with a delicate image called The Watch in response to one particular line in Jo’s text.

Both Gen and Jo recommend collaborating, having been wary and cautious to begin with. It’s really affected how they approach their work, what they do, how they think. Going forward, they’re going to work together again, planning a book for the not so distant future.

/////

To find out what Dundee Popup was all about or to read more reviews & blogs  from the day, click here.