We took the tube to Algate East; where we visited the Whitechapel Gallery. We then went on to Shoreditch to visit The Old Truman Gallery. These Galleries had some inspirational work. Such as, 'Phone Booth' by Paul Auster. I enjoyed viewing his work as it related to my Visual Equation project.
During this outing in London we also had a browse in several shops in Covent Garden, such as Muji, Magma Books and London Graphic Centre. These shops had amazing art and craft goodies...at an extremely costly price!!
After a long day of traveling around London it finally came to Paula Scher's talk, situated in Logan Hall, Institute of Education, Bedford Way. Funnily enough, before the talk started a bumped into Paula Scher in the ladies! We had a very interesting conversation about how sh*t the hand-dryers are!
Her talk was very inspirational; she spoke about her childhood and what it was like growing up; where she has worked during her design career; what she has worked on etc. She clearly wanted to get the message across that: you can achieve whatever you put your heart to! She spoke in depth about how she was seen as an Illustrator, so therefore she wanted to do work in graphic design to broaden her skills. And how people have told her she is a fine artist and could only work in that area, therefore she wanted to prove them wrong and work on briefs to create logos and album covers.
She took a great interest in typography and illustrated mapping. 
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