A M M E

–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––practicing artist–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– communication designer––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– watercolour portrait & colourist

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Rings - circles - machines

Rings – circles – machines

GREG CREEK. Amendments. Water-colour on paper, balsa tray, each 180 x 140 x 3cm. Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne. 2017

DAMIEN HIRST, Beautiful Vibrations and Soundwaves Painting 2008

Creek states that his works are both optical beauty and a strong material presence — part objects, part process and part exercise in repetition.

Hirst explores the idea of an imaginary mechanical painter. The…

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Marlene Dumas

I love the gestural brushstrokes and the thin washes of paint / watercolour / ink to create this distinctive appearance. She is exploring the complexities of identity, raising awareness on social & political issue by collecting from her personal collection and the print media. Looking at her background of being born in South Africa, she is confronting themes like racial and ethnic identity.

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testing 2

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dossier testing 1

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O.D.D SHOP - Art Greeting Cards -

O.D.D SHOP – Art Greeting Cards –

10 Assorted Art Cards Set, Greeting Card + Envelopes

Blank Inside for All occasion

10 Assorted Art Cards Set, Greeting Card + Envelopes

A$40.00

Set of 10 matching greeting cards.

These cards features O.D.D WORKSHOP unique artwork design of characters, portrait and quirky coloured beings. Perfect for birthdays, friendships,…

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Tommo~Kiddos

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Linkage Property

Logo Development / Brand Identity Design

Applications: Letterhead / Business Card

Client:  Linkage Property

Linkage Property specializes in all aspects of delivering its product from site acquisition, planning, permit approvals, development, marketing and sales and is ambitious in developing regional properties throughout central Victoria.

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/mood!/ Vol.02

~ a visual expression by digital creation ~

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FINAL PROJECT

WORKING AS IF IN A VACUUM

PUBLICATION

reflection // rationale:

Working as if in a Vacuum

The imperfection in the machine is the human momentary capture.

Unfolding the unwritten, unseen, and unspoken of the digitalised image of the modern era.

Exploring typography, photo images, and motion in dynamic images.

The scanner is a medium that acts as a prism.

Working as if in a Vacuum” is an incomplete sentence from Andy  Simionato’s email about the specific requirement of our task – ‘ The important thing is that you are aware of related research and that you are NOT working as if in a vacuum.’ I find this quote very interesting, imaginative, as if we are exploring cluelessly in the universe.

The project is a layered multimedia package, futuristic, colourful and alternative images into a publication, in which such interrelations are registered, which highlight the technological nature of art . At the same time, they are reflections on contemporary relations in regards to modernity and tradition. The technological progress is a self-amplifying process creating rapid and movement. As an indirect effect and its focus of inevitable imperfection come into existence.

Typography: experimental design of using Photoshop filter generators, such as Blur Gallery, Noise, Pixelate, Sharpen, and Threshold. Creating the letterform image in textured and in different stories, like a character in an artful movies, being putting makeup, soft lights, and special effect, emphasising and over-exaggerating the letterform, reducing the univocal and readability of the original letters.

I want to explore alternative ways of seeing typographic alphabet and creating an interesting visual distortion. The trick is about trials and errors, and allowing more light and movement in the action. Scan/ warp/ juxtaposing mundane objects around me, yet interesting by the aesthetic and the triggered memory of the owner and original uses. The visual aid of putting screen devices that play motion during the scanning process is very original, I am not sure if anyone else is exploring the same idea, it preserves the multiple frames of a movie/ video into a single compatible still-image.

This publication is around 40 pages, using different paper stocks, such as tracing paper in the section of ‘ from a to z ‘, silver metallic paper in the photo image section, and pearl metallic paper in the motion image at last. The tracing papers act like another visual supplement, creating a far complex and overlaying outcome even seeing at just one page. Which also, is tasteful from the perception of how typography is immersed in our everyday lives without noticing, they blend so well with all other elements, and they lose meaning once they are singled out and amplified. I really love how the pages are printed, they look very nice on the silver/ pearl metallic paper, the attention of the exotic content is hardly taken away by the paper stock.

I am very satisfied with the content and the concept of my publication, the use of materials is considered. There are mistakes in the book, I have acknowledged them, yet they still matched the idea of how the imperfection of the machine, printer, is actually caused by human in many ways, not only technical instability and as well as human errors, human state of mind, variations of the condition. All images are amplifying the the human existence of the subjects, such as the photoshopping the letterforms to add characteristics, tiny dusts and fibres in the photo image, finger -prints and grease on the motion image.

It’s such a pleasure to be part of “ Mess is More” studio object, working as if we were in a vacuum, unfolding the relation of modern technology and human mark making.

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PRODUCTION

SCAN TO POST-PRODUTION

PHOTOSHOP GENERATING

The original scanogram is very raw to be blown up and seeing the beauty of the shape and movement of human force of warping and glitching.

Therefore, I have experimented Photoshop filter generators, such as Blur Gallery, Noise, Pixelate, Sharpen, and Threshold. My favourite is Dust and Scatches, Median, which making the letterform looking very dreamy and faded.

Here I am also thinking about the publication cover design, combining all the individual fronts to juxtapose a sentence.

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PRODUCTION

MOTION IMAGE – CAPTURING

These are a series of images of Ipad/ Macbook, playing videos or films at the same time scanned directly or being wrapped slowly in the scanner.

The speed of the scanner as well as the content of the motion graphic, is the key for producing an interesting image. If the movie isn’t playing at a fast pace, and the scanner is too fast, the image remains as a normal screenshot with little variation. I could improve that by setting scanner DPI of 600+ to make the scanner slower to achieve a more dynamic image.

source:

1   Edward Vanzet: I wish it were true

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac31gQBFfJs

2   Holy Mountain

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PRODUCTION

PHOTO IMAGE – OBJECTS

Scan/ wrap/ juxtaposing –   mundane objects around me, most of these objects are not in many uses, but they are still interesting by the aesthetic and the triggered memory.

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PRODUCTION

TYPOGRAPHY – WRAPPING

So I print out some a series of different typeface of alphabets on white a4 paper. Then wrapping one by one in an Epson scanner, sometimes the result came with these RGB colours, very vibrant and interesting. Yet, sometimes, it just showed the black and white scanner image. The trick i think its about trials and errors, and allowing more light and movement in the action.

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RESEARCH 

PUBLICATION IDEAS

exploring and looking at what others design and arrange futuristic, colourful and alternative images into a publication, book, zine, magazine.

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RESEARCH

TYPOGRAPHY VS. TECHNOLOGY

I feel like i need to focus on design element, such as the fundamental typographic alphabet. Its just such a basic and yet meaningful topic that i can explore on. Here I’m looking at glitching, scanogram, 3D modelling, painting, and combination of image and typography.

I want to explore an alternative way of seeing typographic alphabet and creating an interesting visual distortion.

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Scanogram

materials: scanner/ magazine

Creating Striking Images with Scanner Glitch Distortions. This is a image of scanner glitch experiments done for my alternative photographic process.  This technique can apply to typography as well.

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Introducing Risography:

Risograph is a high-speed digital printing system manufactured by the Riso Kagaku Corporation and was designed mainly for high-volume photocopying and printing.

The process involves real ink - like offset printing - and does not require heat to fix the image on the paper - like a photocopier or laser printer - the output from a risograph can be treated like any printed material. This means that sheets which have been through a risograph may be put through a laser printer afterwards and vice versa.

Risographs have typically had interchangeable colour inks and drums allowing for printing in different colours or using spot colour in one print job. The Riso MZ series models have two ink drums, thereby allowing two colours to be printed in one pass.

So cool.