TAL ROSNOR and TRACY KANDLE

The beautiful and powerful thing about design is the space / freedom it gives individual for expression. Expression in style, methods and processes. It’s not like maths that has a rule to it. It is the expression of one's self and the creation of something that represents idea and creates meaning.

As different as designers are in the medium they use they all are aiming for the one big thing and that is either telling a story with a sill image, a piece of moving image, sculpture, or literature.

For my comparison, I am going to be looking at Tal Rosner a motion graphic designer and Tracy Kandle a still graphic designer working with the medium of wall paper. As distinct as their medium is they share a common processes.


Tal Rosner from talking about his work, have been inspired by the space around him. he tends to record random found images which he uses for his self initiated or commissioned work. Tracy in the other hand who work with wall paper also record random found materials that are processed to create something new.

Tracy work that i found really representing this commonality between her and Tal as working with found object is her feather series. This particular work of her is very dear to me as she explained how that she finds this piece of feather on the floor picks it up, photocopies it, and enlarges it to a very huge size. This found feather has becoming a new special work of art. Her idea of fining a simple idea and pushing it to its auto most limits. That which was found has become something new and different which is the goal of every designer.

For Tal, he collects these found footage's which he takes into an editing programme, retouching, rescaling, applying techniques such as repetition (kaleidoscope ), on this found object pushing it's boundaries to make it become something new and use able.

I have always liked working with found objects. Finding that object and pushing it to become something new.

Though at Tracy’s presentation I found that i drifted away a bit because the lecture was a bit boring compared to Tal's lecture which though not in his most eloquent self , his work spoke more volume. Same with Tracy. There work spoke for them selves. Clean and original.

Another comparison is what this two different designers have to face in their day to day running of their business is the issue of clients. Clients as typical as they are will only give you so much freedom that they can give. All designers weather in still or moving images most times put this restriction on designers. Both Tracy and Tal noted that they work better when they are given the creative freedom to create a piece of work.

This is another rare gifting of being in college. Where you have the creative freedom to generate, explore and reproduce an idea that I like. I wonder how that will go in real time when we have to deal with real clients and all their restrictions.