Back on the 5th February, a small group of us visited the Yorkshire Sculpture Park for the Rob Ryan exhibition on at the time to see whats what. At first, I was really just going for the ride, I hadn't seen much of Rob Ryan's work and didn't at first attract to his sort of style. Quite delicate, time consuming and well.. feminine. But, with an open mind for more I still came and was pleasantly surprised. Yes the work is time consuming, but for larger one off pieces. His work was also produced in the form of window vinyls, screenprinting and laser cutting. Below are just a sample of the images collected from the exhibition of the techniques I wish to explore, and the rest can be found here.
I think ever since we started the collaborative brief, both Becca and myself have wanted to atleast consider window graphics into the H.Samuel brief, and never twitched that we had collected some great examples at the Rob Ryan exhibition of vinyl graphics, both on clear and frosted surfaces, the window vinyl can give another depth/dimension to the window and is a prime location to apply graphics for retail spaces.
I really like the black onto frosted, I feel the white might have been lost a little on the material, but at the same time the black doesn't seem too overpowering. This, was exhibitions main piece of signage, above a long corridor leading to the main exhibition space.
The large frame pieces show so much personality and dedication, which is what we want to achieve with H.Samuel. The idea of buying a gift or jewellery should be a personal thing and be more of an experience, than just going to the shops.
Although not a great picture of the window composition, the effect is quite dramatic especially on a good day for weather when you get the reflections and silhouettes created from the design. Although not incredibly detailed like his framed pieces, the windows feel a presence but not in an over powering way.
A better image found on his website.
The variety of colour is great, experimenting with different colour palettes even with a similar message. This screen-print example still has the nice handmade quality to it, and even with a faster form of production, feels very personal. Is this something we need to achieve?
