Monday, October 5, 2009

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Prelim progress sketch 1


Synopsis

Write a synopsis
Write about your vision of the future. Answer the questions 

How will we live? 
We need to live more environmentally friendly. Advancement in technology will always surge forward, some things get bigger and some things get smaller. For example, televisions have gotten bigger in screen size but the overall size of the item is much smaller. Laptops come in large and small sizes but are becoming lighter for ease of portability.

Some people will live in space colonies that orbit the earth. Some will even travel through space on large ships able to sustain life for a very long time until they reach another planet.



What conditions are inside and outside? 
Inside is very clean and orderly. Lots of colored lights and computers.

Outside the environment must be taken better care of. Less waste of our resources such as water, wood and metals. Rainforests, rivers and lakes should be preserved as is to protect the habitat of animals.

What is in our homes? 

Automated functions for cleaning your home. Such as a robot that can vacuum or sweep the floor. Telephones will be replaced by video phones. Personal computers will be smaller and more compact.

What is outside? 
In the cities and towns, many gardens and outdoor spaces for people to walk. People don't need to drive so much on roads and can instead fly to many more places. Some people will live in space in floating space stations.

What are the weather conditions? 
Much the same as now, perhaps a few degrees warmer due to global warming.

In space there is not much in the way of weather. Some people may be born on the space colonies and be completely surprised by rain or snow when they visit earth for the first time.

What is everything made of? 
Recyclable materials. Metals. Bricks. Plastics.

What events have had an impact on our surroundings? 
Alien invasions, ill nino weather effect, war, genetically engineered creatures

What events have had an impact on how people think, behave, exist? 
Contact with aliens. War. The drying up of earths resources.

What is growing? What machinery/gadgetry is used? 
Small plants will grow around the homes with fruit and vegetables. Especially in the space colonies.
A mobile phone can look like a headset for hands free use.
A mini computer can be carried on your wrist like a watch.

What do buildings look like?
Some round buildings, some square buildings. More skyscrapers like in the capital cities of the world.

Space ships are very rounded. The colonies are large connected rings.

Write  a paragraph of text for each poster: One for the inside space and one for
the outside space.

Inside Poster
This will be the view from inside a space station or space ship. It will show some modern looking furniture in the room. Might have a computer console or tv screen.

Outside Poster
Will be a view of space, a planet and a space station orbiting by. May have some other space ships in the sky as well.

Research on houses for the future

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/4332114.html?nav=RSS20&src=syn&dom=yah_buzz&mag=pop
Article on solar powered homes

http://www.trendir.com/house-design/futuristic/
blog of modern homes

http://www.trendir.com/house-design/eco-home-design-by-european-architecture-firm.html#more
Eco house



http://www.trendir.com/house-design/modern-australian-architecture-leaf-house-mimics-terrain.html#more
Australian leaf house - design inspired by nature



Futuristic Video Games

Phantasy Star Online ( Sega - Dreamcast/Gamecube/PC )
 
Phantasy Star Portable ( Sega - Sony PSP )








Space Channel Five (Sega - Dreamcast/Playstation2)



FURNITURE






MOVIES


The Fifth Element

Monday, September 28, 2009

Higashi no Eden (Eden of the East) opening song



This opening sequence for the anime series Eden of the East has all this awesome typography floating around. I love it.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Truisms poster 3 - Art Nouveau FINAL


Truisms poster 3 - WIP

Taking a stab at the Art Neuveau style this time around.




My original concept sketch





Work in progress. I reworked the hair to be more curly and fixed the position of her arms to be holding the scarf. Her body is a bit fuller and the dress flowing in the same direction as her hair.


Border design concepts

Friday, September 18, 2009

Art styles Research - Art New

Art Neuveux
-writhing vines, leaves, plants
-pastel colors
-feminine
-opposition to history
-hand written text


Alphonse Mucha
Born 1860 in the Czech Republic. He had a mixture of successes and failures. His "new art" debuted in 1895 when he created a poster for Sarah Bernhardt's play, Gismonda. After this poster (pictured below) he became very well known.




Stars: The Moon 1902


William Bradley 
 His career was linked closely with American publishing and he was the son of a cartoonist. His first job was at the age of 11!!! His posters, like the one pictured below were among the first to introduce the Art Nouveau style to America.




William H. Bradley, American, 1868 - 1962
Thanksgiving No. from "The Chap-Book," 1895
color lithograph
50.8 x 33.7 (20 x 13 1/4)


Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born in 1864 in southern France to an aristocratic family that dated back 1000 years. As a child he was sickly and began to draw and paint. He was a short man due to breaking his legs as a kid and thus became more dedicated to his art as he was unable to partake in other physical activities. As a teenager he become a student of the artist Fernand Cormon, whose studio was located on the hill above Paris, Montmartre. He hung around cabarets, racetracks, and brothels constantly sketching. However because of his unusual appearance, people made fun of him and he turned to alcohol. This was to be his death as he died at age 36.



Ambassadeurs: Aristide Bruant
1892; Lithograph in six colors (poster), 141 x 98 cm

Leonetto Cappiello
Leonetto Cappiello was born in Livourne in 1875. In 1892 he moves to Paris and becomes well known for his newspaper charictures. In 1905 he gives this up and dedicates himself entirely to making posters.



Helene Chauvin


Refs: http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/mucha.htm
http://www.nga.gov/education/tchan_5_18.shtm
http://www.cappiello.fr/anglais/hislife.htm
http://www.lautrec.info/biography.html

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Art styles Research - DADA

Blog research on each of the style that you use. This will consist of:
1. List between 5 and 10 aspects of design that is associated with this
movement.
2. Focus must be on at least four designers/artists that belong to this era.
3. You must NOT copy and paste text, write your own content.
4. Include images.
5. Upload all your resource images and inspirations

DADA

Characteristics of Dada
-Typography is chaotic. Mix of font faces. Unorthodox punctuation. Mixed sizes and upper/lowercase.
-Abstract
-Photomontages. Cutouts of photos from newspapers/magazines etc.
-Collage - paper, fabric and other 2D items combined to make abstract visuals
-Assemblage - 3d sculptures made from found objects

Some Artists

Kurt Schwitters
Kurt did many collage pieces and drew inspirations from the Dadaists of Germany. He named his collage pieces "Merz". He has also done abstract drawings and used many other mediums for his creativity. He fled Germany during WW2 so he could continue to practice his art, as the Nazi's tried to eradicate many free thinking artists.
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Merz Pictures, 1921. montage on board.
 


Max Ernst helps to arrange the first DADA exhibiton in Cologne and was involved in many DADA publications as well. He was originally going to be a psychiatrist but becomes a painter instead. His artworks can be very complex.

Pieta or Revolution by Night - Max Ernst


Man Ray was a dada artist and a surrealist artist. His first pro-Dada object was an assemblage titled "Self Portrait" and was exhibited in 1916. He lived in New York City and was friends with Marcel Duchamp. He was disappointed with his Dada experiments in New York and left for Paris, stating that "Dada cannot live in New York".

Sade - Man Ray



John Heartfield used his art to protest Hitler and the Nazi party. He used photo montages and had a satirical approach. His protest against war, greed and corrupt powers attributes him to the DADA movement.

John Heartfield - Seeds of Death




REFERENCES
http://www.towson.edu/heartfield/art/5.html
http://www.artpages.org.ua/index.php?option=com_datsogallery&Itemid=104&func=viewcategory&catid=6
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2006/dada/techniques/typography.shtml
http://greenlanddesign.org/coleg/2009/01/dada/

Monday, September 14, 2009

Stuff I like: Ancient ruins/art, Mayans, Aztecs, Egyptians



I'm fascinated by ancient civilisations. Their art and architecture is amazing.

http://psychedelicadventure.blogspot.com/2009/06/aztec-spirit-bird-crop-circle-uk-2009.html

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Things I Like - Illustrations, Manga, Doujinshi

Illustrations

There's a lot of digitally colored illustrations that mimic traditional media or mix both traditional and digital techniques. For example an artist may draw their outlines by hand and scan it into the computer and color their work using Photoshop or OpenCanvas. Sometimes I really can't tell if something has been made all by hand or by computer. But I really like the techniques that mimic the look of markers or water colour paints. I'm particularly fond of Japanese anime characters and Marvel Comics characters.


Pictured: Sora from Kingdom Hearts (videogame) - Produced by SquareEnix

Manga (Japanese comics)
Manga are always in black and white, there may be the odd pages in color on special occasions. They are quite different from English comics. First of all, they read 'backwards'. If you picked up an English comic, the panels read from left to right, whereas Japanese comics (and books) read from right to left. It's actually quite easy to get used to. Anyways, I quite enjoy the boldness that black and white comics can have.


Pictured: Naruto Shippuden manga page by Masashi Kishimoto

Doujinshi
A spin off from manga, is doujinshi. These are fan made comics that are published quite professionally and are available for sale. Copyright laws in Japan aren't as tight as the western world. Characters from popular manga/anime are frequently featured in doujinshi and usually the subject matter is humor, romance or sex. I love doujinshi because you can see your favourite characters drawn in a number of different styles and you pretty much get to see all the things you wish would happen in the real story. There are some really talented fans out there!


Pictured: Naruto doujinshi page - Artist Unknown

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Art styles Research - Post Modernism

Blog research on each of the style that you use. This will consist of:
1. List between 5 and 10 aspects of design that is associated with this
movement.
2. Focus must be on at least four designers/artists that belong to this era.
3. You must NOT copy and paste text, write your own content.
4. Include images.
5. Upload all your resource images and inspirations

Characteristics of "Pomo"
-Borrows concepts from a multitude of design movements and theories from outside design
-Contradictions (eg: Grunge & Clean styles in the same layout)
-High art and low art mixed together
-Combines old and new, good and bad. The lines between these things have been blurred.
-Mixed media
-Collage, photomontage, pastiche, desconstruction
-More a way of thinking than an actual style

MILTON GLASER
He was born 26th June 1929 in New York.

He always wanted to be an artist and in 1954 he founded "Push Pin Studio".

He rejected the ideals of international style and did his own thing. He used drawings in his designs, which had long since been forgotten about with the introduction of photography.

He describes his style as random as he has done such a wide variety of works.


1973 - New York City Tourism Campaign. This campaign still runs today.


1987 - World Health Organisation, International AIDs symbol and poster.

REFERENCES
http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/glaser.html
http://www.miltonglaser.com/


NEVILLE BRODY

He was a typographer, a graphic designer, a philosopher, an inventor, an explorer. He challenges the conventions of graphic design.

His early works in the 80's for magazines Fetish and The Face established him on the world wide stage as a leading graphic designer. He rejected all commercialism in his style.

Has worked with a lot of big name companies, such as this advertisement for Nike below.



REFERENCES
http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/designer/neville_brody/


DAVID CARSON

Very innovative with typography and breaks all the rules. Does a lot of magazine work. One of the most influential designers of the 90's.

In 1995 he published his first book that sold 200,000 worldwide. He has published 4 books in total.


Bark back catalog design 2009

REFERENCES
http://www.davidcarsondesign.com


ART CHANTRY

He is mostly self taught. In the 80's he became the art director of a music magazine called Rocket.

Does lots of work for bands such as posters and CD covers. He uses low-tech techniques and recycled images and is perhaps one of the pioneers for the 'grunge' style.




REFERENCES
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/01/arts/art-in-review-art-chantry-greatest-hits-vol-1.html