Liverpool Biennial

Around November, as a group, our tutors James and Ian arranged a trip to the Liverpool Biennial. Liverpool Biennial is one of the most important public art agencies in the North West. They held exhibitions in twenty eight different locations around Liverpool and the name of the event was called Made Up.. The visit was very inspiring. Our first location was the Tate gallery on the docks. Graphic design agency Thoughtful interacted within the project and we were lucky enough for a tour guide by them. We were first shown the Tate’s section of the Biennial. Thoughtful was commissioned to produce the identity of the exhibition for the Tate and when explaining the process of their ideas and designs, you could notice they were very passionate about the project. From there, we were shown three to four more venues plus some of the landmarks in the city. As a group, we were then handed a map to tour the city of Liverpool for the rest of the locations. I mostly found locating the rest of the Biennial sites enjoyable. The different areas in Liverpool I was lucky to tour around was fantastic. This was a great opportunity to see the city in very good detail. Liverpool is definitely an area for contemporary art.

Being in Liverpool was also an opportunity to see a presentation called The Emotional Type held by the Design Symposium. This was a great event to attend, as the work on show was great to see. Bruno Magg (the director of Dalton Maag located in London and Zurich) presented it. The lecture varied from layouts to typography and the use of design being very important. The work was very inspiring.