designs idea

After doing a lot of drawings of the book cover i narrowed it down to 2 designs as they where the only ones that was going to work, am would be appropriate for my cubist music cover design
this one being one of them, but although it suits the brief its very boring and normal looking, it doesn't have that extra kick to make it look the best !

this is the sizes of the page to prove i haven't gone over the limit size

Logo design to size

After finally finalizing my logo, and making it look good i have planed

i have done the sizes required 25cm wide, 5cm wide and 1cm wide
in my brown logo and black and white logo!

cubism not changing

from seeing this on line (Google Search ) this being all the music notes, i decided to create a cubist notes from the original using the pen tool in illustrator

Simons Photoshop Lesson

We was shown a few ways that we can work with type and then said make a poster of your choice! HELVETICA IS THE WAY TO GO !

Julio Del Castillo Vivero-photographer

Julio Del Castillo Vivero


Julio Del Castillo Vivero is a Spanish Photographer who is a freelance photography in the UK.


After meeting Julio and getting to know him and his work, I became passionate with his photos in ways that i could use him as a roll model for my photos






This is my version of Julio's work, taking into the account of colour contrast, a point of view (what a person looks at the most) and negative space

ESSAY CHOICES

1. WHAT IS A SIGN? Using a range of examples of signs, illustrate and explain the difference between straightforward signs(denotation), like road-signs and pictograms, and more complex signs that use metaphors and allusion (connotation) such as some logos and album covers.

2. WHAT IS STYLE? Different styles mean different audiences and different ways of addressing them. Consider how a particular graphic design style (either current or from the past) connects with an audience.

3. WORDS AS IMAGES. Explore some examples of graphic design, where words are used to make pictures, or visually act out the meanings they carry. These examples should come from letterpress and digital printing. Discuss and compare their effects



Theses are the 3 essay questions we can choose from but the proper question is what one to choose. I have read and analyzed them and i have illuminated number 2 as i have done an essay like it before and there for i wouldn't have much research to come up with and to make the essay interesting and challenging.
Speaking to Anne about the essay i brought up the question of "does it have to be relevant to the project we have just done" - Anne replying no but it would make it easyer for you, you have ur project to back up ur essay and the other way round for ur project

But me personally i really ant to do something different to my project to make it a fresh start, to exsplore and learn more things so im more drawn towards the question 3
I may do some research into the question and decide later!

Simon"s Photoshop lesson

Simons Photoshop lesson this week consisted of playing with the levels and exploring what u can change and get away with ! These are just my favourites.

Captain Jack Harkness Coat !

OMG I want this coat, its only £275

..... and the cardboard cut out !!!

Random image finding

what do you see first a man looking at you or a man looking left ?????

What is Graphic Design

we where asked what is Graphic Design


i replied saying 'its a creative process used to advertise!"

Cubism Project

After sitting down as a group and talking about our own ideas, we soon came up with a design with a range of all our ideas together we had 2 walls to work with and above our heads too

IMAGE ABOVE-all we had to start of with was a red straight line on one wall, which we all agreed we wanted to distal and make cubist looking. In the middle of the line we are sticking a 3D shape which you will have to look inside it to read a cubist quote (quote found when we did our presentation on cubism). below that there will be loads of cubist shapes (3D) made out of mesh and painted in muddy earthy colours, above will be a guitar in a cubist style and a cube is a detailed way, if u look at it straight on it will be fine but if you look at it at an angle it will be distilledIMAGE ABOVE -And on the other wall we have a font saying cubism out of paper leaflets holders and all around it we have distalled images so they just look like nothing in a cubist way, but when you look close you will realize they are loads of random images.

Mapping Project

Follow on from the summer project, we where asked to map out findings
ive come up with the idea of mapping my bed room in detail and show lines for things i like and dislike (the higher the line the more i like it, the lower the more i hate it)
i really wanted to keep most of the things in the room similar to what they are in the room!

This is what i have so far:


Once i have finished this i will cut it so its equal white space on both sides on the map, and using a key, (which will be somewhere in the white space) will show the good and the bad in different colours.
i love the amount of detail im going in to for this project, i have also found it interesting to work with different media in this project (like: watercolours, acrylics, gouache, pastels, oil pastels and even eye blusher, i have found that makeup also adds a rather interesting tone to my work, i used it mainly for the wood affect on the door.

Group 'ism' Project

Cubism

Cubism was a movement that started in the 20th century, brought on my Pablo Picasso and then followed on by Georges Braque, It revolutionized european painting and sculpture and inspired related movements in music, literature and in architecture. The first branch of cubism, known as Analytic Cubism, was both radical and influential as a short but highly significant art movement between 1907 and 1911 in France. In its second phase, Synthetic Cubism, the movement spread and remained vital until around 1919, when the Surrealist movement gained popularity.

Even today we are influenced by cubism, the way we abstract our buildings and furniture not only in images, the Swedish are very well known for abstracting there furniture, making it seam modern, something new, no one has ever seen before but when have just made things more abstract, places like Ikea which is a Swedish shop that you can find all over the world.

Chris Howl, clame to fame!

After doing the paper project, in the quode we meet Chris Howl and we promised him fame

so here it is, just like i promised xx

Mini Project - Paper!

We had an afternoon which we had to make something interesting out of something simple like....... plain, A4, white paper!

We where all split into groups and given a media to work with.

Lucky for us we got a ....... CAMERA !!!!!! wooooo!

Descusing as we picked up the camera and the paper, we where edvised to start outside, on the way we came up with ideas which found to be hard with a single shot, but better with an mini animation.

Before we started we came up with ideas that we could use to make these storys interesting
catergorys where created :

-Trees!
-Origami plains !
-Insects !
-Fortune teller !
- MURDER, but who did it and how did it happen, who knows ??????
-Fortune teller blending in!
- Epic shots of the Janitor mowing the lorn lol
- Fortune teller coming to life and being hungry : 3
- The End xxx


some of my fav photos !

STARTING UCA Maistone

I found out 3 weeks ago that we has a summer project, (at least it wasn't so last minute)

My project was to explore and investigate my favourite place>

So after a long think and then eliminating the once that could be a possibility leaving me with my Bedroom, which was logic as i have made my room my own, its unique to me, i very much doubt that people have a union jack flag painted on there wall and pillows with the flag.

So anyway may project is about home, i explored my personal thoughts around my home, as well as places i like to go the most in the house and i always ended up in my bedroom where all my favourite DVDs are and where my bed is, my hamster, my clothes, my art equipment, my laptop and everything that has always meant something to me.

So when it came to moving in to my new flat, i really wanted to make it special, personal to me as i made my bedroom back home, it took to car loads but i final got all my stuff over to the halls and unpacked, and now it feels like I'm at home again, .............. sep without the moaning parents!

Lets Start Again!!!!!

A New year so lets start again, and properly this time lol

OK, ....This year, I have moved into halls so i can stay close to uni. I am studying a BA Hon- graphic design at maidstone, and for the next 3 years I'm going to work as harder than I ever have in my life. starting today...... so if I do slack, I give you permission to slap me .... gently 8D

Bibliography so far

Christina Balit

-http://www.lionhudson.com/authordetail.php?author_id=18
-Atlantis: The Legend of a Lost City 
by Christina Balit , Plato 
Softcover, Lincoln Limited, Frances, ISBN 0711219060

Robert Ingpen

-Age of Acorns
by Robert R. Ingpen
Hardcover, Blackie Children's Books, ISBN 021693009X
-http://www.palazzoeditions.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=165:robert-ingpen&catid=39:artist-a-author&Itemid=2
http://www.melaleuca.com.au/ingpen/


http://www.argos.co.uk
http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/index.html
http://www.tesco.com/

Project PLan

week 1
21.2.11 Research

week 2
28.02.11 Research

week 3
07.03.11 Research and development work

week4
14.03.11 Develop quick ideas

week 5
21.03.11 Development

week 6
28.03.11 Final Outcome

week 7
04.04.11 Research printing places

week 8
11.04.11 Send to print

easter brake
25.04.11 Anything left to be done
(2 weeks off)

week 9
02.05.11 Ideally want it done by this time so its ready

week 10
09.05.11 Hanging up and Exhibition

My Statment

Section 1
This year my studies have been focused on illustration and graphic design, artists such as Jason Polan, an illustrator who works in black pen and ink and David Carson, who works with typography in an avant garde style, interest me. Over the last year I have learnt a lot of new skills. Without these skills I wouldn’t get a strong visual idea.
I have experimented in a range of media and technique and have improved my skills in illustrations. Using materials that I have never used before as well as my computer skills on Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Having had the experience of going to London in order to draw, research and record the city or even my work within life drawing,these elements have expanded my knowledge around my practice. My aim is to develop my illustration skills in order to become more confident both as an artist and as a person, as i move on higher into university and work. I have always wanted to be an illustrator of children's books and if I succeed in this i will have fulfilled one of my dreams and these skills will help to improve my work. After doing the fanzine project, I really wanted to try the book on a bigger scale and even get it published at the end.

Section 2
For my final major project I have decided to produce and illustrated/graphical book, for children. I used to love listening to my Dad telling me stories when I was a child. He used to make up silly stories and I have always wanted to illustrate them, one in particular (and my favourite) “The Fridge That Was Thrown Away”. The most important thing to me is that the book is illustrated by hand first and then use photoshop to give it that final coloured finish because I like the style of the brightly coloured book. I will be looking into changing my story slightly because one there is only one character in the story and it would make it more fun for me and the readers if i create more and also in my dads story there is no happy ending. I have used computers extensively this year in order to generate my outcomes and although they will still be a very important part of my image generation, i really want to start of with hand drawing the image to try and capture the energy and flow of the work. The illustrative element of this project is vital to me, because of the chance it gives me to express myself before putting them on the computer and editing. My ambition is to make illustrations for books, so I want to use this project to its fullest, to show that i can be as good as I can be. Throughout this project I'm going to experiment with different medias and techniques, for instance, Screen-printing, Dry-point and watercolors, approaches that I wish to explore more fully as well as working more broadly in colour. All of this will lead my work through stages visually which i then will finally enhance the colour making my designs visually stronger and eye catching. I will look at a range of different artists who have influenced me, as well as researching primary and secondary sources. Artists such as Robert Ingpen who creates fantasy illustrations, well known for creating a new illustration for “Alice and Wonderland”, leaving a mysterious pastel affect to his work, or even Dutte Winkelman, who is a student in Rotterdam, I found her by coming across her blog and found her work very intriguing, mainly hand designed illustration, but she improves her work by adding colour in Photoshop. Also, Christina Balit interests me, as her work is very religious. She makes children's illustrations of the bible, the zodiac and self-composed mythical stories. I intend to draw my own fridge and the contents, as well as going to Electrical goods outlets (such as Currys, Comet) and documenting their finest fridges as well as drawing from rubbish sites and kitchens where i can get the style of change. i will be gathering information from a range of kids, I’m going to be asking them questions on there favourite books and on the end result what they think of my book, and combining the research and materials with my designs, will make my work more visually appealing. I am aiming to get this printed professionally but if the book because quite popular i will be finding out if it can be published a larger scale.

Section 3
Throughout this project I am going to monitor my progress as I go along by self evaluation and reflection, as well as an overall evaluation when i have finished, showing the pros and cons of the project and how the book went as a finished product. I will make sure I attend group crits and tutorials throughout to get advice and constructive criticism on the development of my ideas. All of the advice will be kept in my learning journal. I am going to keep two sketchbooks, one holding quick drawings, observations and other people’s views on my work as I go along. I will also have another sketchbook which will hold research into my book, artist research, and media experimentation, as well as developed ideas. I intend my final piece to be a book that is accessible to kids, that they can pick up and read. At my local brownies which i am a volunteer i have promised a print out of the book because it was them who gave me ideas throughout the project to take things out and improve things and once the book is finally done, they said they would give me there opinions.