Museum; The National Glass Centre
The National Glass Centre is a unique venue situated in Sunderland thats allows people to see how how glass works from all over the world are produced. It also lets them explore there own visual creative ideas with glass by allowing them to mould and sculpt pieces from themselves.The building is made from steel and glass the entire roof is created from glass allowing people to go up and look down ‘Not good if your scared of heights trust me!’The Centre provides local exhibitions and National exhibitions for the general... Read The Rest →
Museum; HMS Belfast
Although it is not on land the boat is still a facinating museum to look around, its just on water!! Being from a family where my Grandad served in the navy, on vesels similar to Belfast, during the war he always talked about them through my child hood and it became an interest to me to know about them and learn about them. HMS Belfast played its part during the second world war and helped in the destruction of Germanys biggest battlecruiser the Scharnhorst. It is amazing to see the... Read The Rest →
Museum; Guggenheim New York
I was lucky enough to visit this museum when I went to New York with 25 friends and our design teacher on an expedition to to view design, innovation, architecture and design within Manhattan. The building itself is a tribute to architecture and was created by Frank Loyd Wright. Quoted from the museum entrance “I need a fighter, a lover of space, an agitator, a tester and a wise man. . . . I want a temple of spirit, a monument!”—Hilla Rebay to Frank Lloyd Wright, 1943 The museum itself... Read The Rest →
Museum; Sainsburys
Lets face it if your doing a brief based on or anything to do with food, where’s the best place to visit? A food supermarket. Its full of branding, attracting colours, user guides and information layout ideas. If you ever get the chance to look around a supermarket simply for research purposes rather than with food on the mind you ll notice a lot more. You even notice what people are attracted to and how the supermarkets attract them by interior layout, whats in your face, whats not!! the height... Read The Rest →
Museum; Baltic
The Baltic Flour Mill This art/modern contempory museum sits on the river Tyne’s keyside. The Baltic has no permanent collection it is an ever changing archive of exhibitions by talented artists from all over the world, it ranges from blockbuster shows to art and the community demonstrations. It is a great place to discover fresh ideas and inspirations with its ever changing pieces of work. The building itself was converted from an old flour mill into what is now the museum. The Baltic is the biggest gallery of its kind... Read The Rest →
