Final Images - Project 3

These were the two images I will submit for my final t-shirt design. I wasn't sure whether to include colour into my image or if I should leave it as a line drawing. Personally I think it looks a little bit better for a t-shirt if it was a line drawing I think. Penguin Prison is the name of the Artist of the song I chose and the song is called 'A funny thing' including the lyrics 'you can't argue with the radio god'. It was quite a hypnotic song which made me envision a young child being completely zoned out whilst listening to it.

Mechanical reproduction

Some time in the 1980s The Guardian ran an April fool’s article on the ‘first’ photograph. Shown on the front page this was deemed to have been taken in the 1790s by a monk in Japan. - spoof.

The first authentic photograph is the fixing of a camera obscura image.
The means of fixing an image is all that distinguishes a photograph from a projected image.
Does the camera see what we see?

When we speak of a copy without an original we call it a ‘simulacrum’.
Roland Barthes meditated on the photograph for much of his professional life. His book Camera Lucida best shows this. There he reproduces a photograph of a condemned man and adds the remark ‘he is dead and going to die’. This too raises the question of temporality – we see that he is alive in the photograph but we know he is dead – there is a conflict between perception and memory.

The difference between photographs and paintings is more than a matter of their resemblance to things or even their resemblance to each other. Often a painting is said to be ‘photographic’ when it is realistic. Yet we know that photographs may not appear to be realistic.

• Conventional signs/ image - letters, punctuation, words etc.
• Iconic signs/ image - pictures
• Indexical signs - indicates something: Shadow indexical of man/ smoke indexical of fire/ footprints etc

Indexical is evidence of presence e.g photograph.

Photo is documenting truth - manipulating this brings it back to painting.

Simulacrum - a copy without an original

Ralph Steadman

 





Ralph Steadman was mentioned in a lecture that we were given and automatically I enjoyed looking at his work. This has influenced me quite a bit due to the glasses and the weird outlook he has when sketching people.

Word and Image

"Making comes before matching" - E.H. Gombrich

Visual/ Pictures - Right side of the brain
Verbal/ Speech - Left side of the brain
Drawing on the right side of the brain by Betty Edwards


Difficulties of drawing is overcoming what you know about a thing in favor of what you see in a particular instance.

In history, the first written language used images (Hieroglyphics).

Callum Preston

Harvard referencing

This seminar was a brief overview of Harvard referencing. Personally I still don't understand! Been set 2 essays already so I guess I better get on Google and in the library to try and understand!

Brief 3

The format for this project is a t-shirt, use the digital template provided to produce your final design.

You are required to print out your final design on the template provided on a sheet of A3 paper presented professionally. You are also required to hand in all supporting research and development work.

You are required to produce your review “text” in the format of one word or a short statement (positive or negative) and then illustrate this word or statement. The image and text are to be included in a single design in any size or colour on the front of the t-shirt.

John Ross

Guest lecturer John Ross showed us some of his work in print making mixed with comic writing.

He told us that we should use strengths apart from art in our work, so if we have a hobby or passion to use it.

Think the opposite. May help idea generation.

Technique should be developed to be able to make idea work.

Ralph Steadman is an illustrator that lets loose. His work is very free and interesting including really strange things that were going through his head at the time.

Lesson learnt - do not hold back!!

Stephen Raw

Guest lecturer Stephen Raw informed us today that work can help people, not just look good. I found his work fascinating how it all generally looks the same using his own signature type face yet by using different colours, phrases and materials can make them completely different.

Type - can be absent to receive information
Oral - have to be present.

Consider all areas including;

• Calligraphy
• Rubbings
• Put all work in if they would like it or not
• There is no right or wrong just appropriate
• Size and materials

www.stephenraw.com

Typography - Bad

There are lots of kinds of bad typography;

• Unreadable text
• Too busy or messy
• Spelling errors
• Bad spacing

Here is an example of how bad spacing can effect the text drastically. This sign is meant to say 'Final Registration' but as the letters are too close together it ends up changing the word 'Final' completely.

Typography - Good

Yulia Brodskaya - 
 

I think the work of Yulia is classed as good because it is unique, intriguing and different using quilling to enable the text to be bold and legible.

Craig Ward - 

I enjoy Craig Ward's work as it is very literal. The words and the design fit together well. His work is recognisable and simplistic.

Julene Harrison

Rob Ryan

 

Final Images - project 1

These circles are to show the colours and moods of the story, by using the events. It begins by having an innocent snow white with pale skin, black hair and blue eyes. Then moves to the step mother becoming angry so flames. Then the woods where snow white is sent to her death, I would have preferred this circle darker to have more of a deathly feel. The heart which was meant to be hers but instead was a deers placed in the center of the queens jealous green eye. Then the poison red apple for danger used to trick snow white. Finally the pale, happy ending where she marries the prince and lives in the castle.

Images should be printed on a large scale and re-arranged to preference later on.

Typography

Typography - form - writing
                    - visual grammar
                    - visual communication

The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Typography is the art and technique of arraigning type in order to make language visible.
The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces.
Typography is the practical and artistic arrangement of type and printing with type.

Aesthetics continued

Seminar groups to consider the value of aesthetics in contemporary visual culture 


What beauty is about? - Functional, Emotion, Pretty, Neat, Fun. Pleasant things work better.
Fear effects the way the brain works.
The use of candy to make people happy easier to solve problems.
To get work done you must set a deadline taste, sound, colour, appearance - visceral level - subconscious behaviour, walking, talking.

Aesthetics - the brand of philosophy dealing with such notions as the beautiful, the ugly, the sublime, the comic, ect.
As applicable to the fine arts, with a view to establishing the meaning and validity of critical judgements concerning works of art, and the principles of underlying or justifying such judgements.

Elsa Mora

Brief 2

All students are required to produce a series of designs for the front and back covers of the four provided styles of sketch-books.

You are required to tailor your designs to reflect a promise that each style of sketch-book offers a consumer that you have identified.

You are only to use text and no images in the production of your designs.

Aesthetics

Explore how the word is used and compare.
Aesthetic - Beauty, perception of the senses. (Touch, taste,hearing, sight and smell).
Aesthetic also means 'of the senses' - Anesthetic means dulling the senses.

Conception - Mind.
Perception - Visual.

Beauty, truth and goodness - perception over conception.
Beauty is subjective - going on in the mind, there is no common view as everyone is individual.
It is a matter of free liking.
To have proper judgement we should have no interest, separating ourselves from interest and taste.
Association creates interest.
Dis-interest - subjective judgement is universally valid.
You have to see something for it to be beautiful - 'goodness' doesn't have to be seen.

         "Form ever follows function, this is the law." - Louis Sullivan

Photography.

         "You can't judge a photograph for it's own sake" - Roger Scruton

Photography is a message without a code unlike paintings, drawings, lines and crosshatches etc. It is a physical record of something. They are like shadows.

Sublime - goes on forever/ uncontained

Sketchbooks

Points that need to be considered when analysing sketchbook work;

• Is it filling the page completely/ consider spacing
• Sketchbooks will be different depending on the brief
• Random ideas or ideas leading towards something?
• Experimentation
• Aesthetically pleasing - good layout to look at
• Learning/ personal gain/ commercial gain

Society 6 is a website that could be used for inspiration, with plenty of artists selling their work in many forms.

http://society6.com/

Sketchbook Practice

These two images of sketchbooks are vastly different. The first one by Duke Riley is quite collage like using browns and old letters/ photos to add a retro effect. I would like my work to be more messy and loose but I seem to be too stuck in my perfectionist ways!

The second artist is one of my all time favourites, Andrea Joseph. She is more of a perfectionist like myself. She creates a lot of drawings using biro crosshatched to the point where the images look shaded very detailed. I love almost every single piece of work she does.


http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.co.uk/

Reflective Writing - Rowan Bailey

Drawing practice - finding out what the world looks like and showing yourself. Always maximise what you do - development, repetition. Sketch book as diary Construction - placing things together, not just drawing. consider how sketch books are used and why? Reflection - diary, ideas, research content, development, scrapbook, experimentation, visual language, habit- evolution, progression, mistakes, play, interpretation.

My Effective Design Idea

I was thinking about doing my piece on prescription glasses. Reasons for this are that they fit their purpose, they are specific to the individuals needs by the size, prescription and taste.
I need to identify the designer/ inventor and the date.
Benefits include:

• Allow you to see
• Stays on face allowing constant vision without hassle
• Different patterns and designs to fit the different needs or desires 
• Comfort fit ti you personally - Nose and ear pads.

Effective design should add use and meaning, should serve a purpose and should be reliable.

Personally I think the prescription glasses fit all of these.

Effective design

Write 500 words about effective design and your subject.
6 keywords that are appropriate - qualities of effective design.
Effective on a personal level

• Taste and opinion
• Connection / relation to own personal life
• Purpose
• Social conditioning

Take into consideration:

Is it effective in a functional / practical way or form.

Identifiable design E.g. logos that are recognizable.

Got to be able to trust it to keep its popularity and function.

Audience preference - gaining trust in a brand and engaging / speaking with audience.

Cost effective - Pay more for status and taste.

Economic factors.

Design is coded to speak to different sectors of the market - Target audience/ style/ type/ imagery

Look around high streets at shop logos or banners and who they are aimed at. How you can change these - colour, type, size etc.

Andrea Joseph

I love Andrea Joseph. The majority of her work is created using biro but looks like it has been shaded perfectly with pencils.

http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.co.uk/

Chan Hwee Chong

Anton Marrast

Audrey Kawasaki

The faces that Audrey creates seem to a lot of the time include a sadness in their eyes.

faces

Colour meanings

Louis Wain

This image shows the stages of Louis Wains work and how it drastically changes through his struggle with schizophrenia.

Introduction to Contextual Studies

TDF1065 - Uni Learn - Design practice in context 1

Portfolio - reflective blog and work/ journal

• References to look at on unilearn - books/ websites/ journals
• Rick Poynor - Obey the giant - 2001

Student reflective blog on unilearn to look at - reflect constantly on personal development.

Visual language
Jargen - language that a particular group understand
Dialect - style/ particular voice
Terminology

Individually find an effective piece of design.

• Any source - advertising, modern etc. 
• Something completely down to us.
• Could be renowned or not. 

These could be found on the web, in books or be a physical object. 

In groups

Come together and discuss designs - what is effective?

Check email for timeslot for debate

• widen vocabulary on analysis and explaining work
• Developing general ability

Primary research

Did some primary research going round handing out apples and seeing who would take them. They didn't know me but as I was dressed up they thought it was ok.

Brief 1

You are required to produce six circular images of any size and in any format or medium that present the viewer with the impact of the colours from one of the stories.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

http://www.fpx.de/fp/Disney/Tales/SnowWhite.html

Rapunzel

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm012.html

Little Red Cap

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0333.html#grimm