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Kepler 452b

My Primary Idea currently is to creative a world based on an earth-like planet. The planet I've chosen to visuals is Kepler 452b which is an exoplanet 60% bigger than Earth, orbiting a star similar to ours.

The main reason why I chose this planet was due to its size and gravity also the fact that scientist believe it might be highly volcanic crucial to the world I hope to creative since it will be a crystal-like world.

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Introduction to Visual Communication Lecture 5 : Protest

This lecture was about Protest and covered the themes of Empowerment, Subversion, Participation, Revolution, Activism and Rebellion. It started with the 1950's and the creation of the Teenager identity which was portrayed films such as 'Rebel without a cause'.

The Lecture also spoke of the Black rights movement in America in the 1960′s where we saw the last speech of Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. and the beautiful Poem "I know why the cage birds sing',1969 and "And still I rise", 1976 by Maya Angelou who also stood up for female rights and empowerment. The lecture then went on to tell us briefly about Ai WeiWei and his controversial artwork that aimed to fed light on corruption and cover ups in his countries government as well as being critical on their democracy, Human rights and policies. we also heard of Grayson Perry’s “The Walthamstow Tapestry” 2009 which is quite an interesting piece but personally not appealing to me because it looks too active and jumbled.

I liked the Anti-Fur poster done by David Bailey for Lynx UK, it was very graphically and sent the message clearly.I like the colour scheme of black and white then the red for impact which was highly effective.

I think this lecture was trying to show us the contextual influence Protest can have on Art and Design as well as the world in general

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Introduction to Visual Communication Lecture 4 : Production

This lecture was on Production, it spoke about printing production such as moveable types and wooden letter press used in the printing industry as well as Photographic art, even the production lines of the Ford Model T Ford of the 1920s in the machine industry.

The main things that appealed to me were Pop art and Bauhaus, I had expected to hear about Art deco during the lecture since it was about Production and Art deco was an art movement that focused around the new age of machines and mass production but it was not mentioned.

Pop Art is one of my favourite art movements mainly because of the rich colours and the comic style it has and its appeal of being 'young, fun and optimistic'. I liked how Pop art has various different styles but all were easy to mass produce which I think is important for design. The Bauhaus was also mentioned, their style of making futurist architecture and furniture is the most interesting of their time.

Production in modern times For Illustrators is a lot different compared to what it was mostly due to the introduction of the computer and design softwares such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator as well as printing methods. Most art styles can be recreated using softwares and printed an infinite amount of times making production a lot easier and simpler.

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Introduction to Visual Communication Lecture 3 : New Perspectives

This week's Lecture was on New Perspectives and as the name suggest it focused on how Contemporary and Historical Artist and Designers used Perspectives in their work in various different ways to communicate different things. New Inventions such as the portable camera, Flight and computers greatly impacted on perspectives to artist and designers.

I liked David Carson's page layout designs for the Raygun Magazines, I admire how he uses type to create images and use intricate layouts that deviate from what we would expect from magazines. In a sense some of his style of layout designs looked a bit like image or photo collage but using text. Even though it's not the style I tend to go for because I prefer more minimalistic and defined styles, it does spark an interest as a style I would like to experiment with to get more abstract or free formed outcomes. The Russian(Soviet Union) Revolution Posters were also very striking to me because its purpose and aim which is to basically spread propaganda to commoners who were Illiterate so the posters had to be able to tell the message effectively without words. This style of posters were compared to some of the works of Shepard Fairey, his style is similar to vector portraits I like to create except I have not tried using different colour schemes which is a big aspect of these pieces. These are very similar to the work of an artist who has greatly inspired and influence my own style and techniques, Benjamin Wachenje and his vector portraits, except his colour schemes are a mix of the actual colours of the subject mixed with bright colours sometimes neon colours.

The lecture also covered the Bauhaus which I also liked for the modernist style and simplistic styles of their designs.

Piece done by Benjamin Wachenje

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The New Street Zine

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Final

A final page created by our graphic Designer using my vector Illustration.

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THE COVER PHOTO FINAL

Using the style of my graphic design Izzy I constructed the cover of our magazine

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Combining the two Line art with the Photograph in low saturation

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A quick and simple Illustration of the Bull ring side front of the New Street Station done from one of the photos I took

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Grand Vector Central

For one of our final piece I decided to create it as a vector piece.

So far ive only done Human vectors and ive never attempted a building and due to the limited time remaining I had to make this both an experimental piece and final piece.

I started out using 2 of my photos I took of the John lewis entrance of New Street I had to cut and combine a few images to get the full face of the building.

Using the pen tool and creating shapes I made the basic shapes and colours of the building.

This section was a bit difficult because it was very time consuming and I could think of various ways to do it but all would take up too much time. On one side I drew the metal lines manually with a brush but I didnt like the look because it wasnt geometrical and straight like buildings should be. On the other side I used the line tool to create individual lines then in the middle I used the line tool again to make only 1 then using copied and alter it to make all the others.

The effect/ reflection was a bit easier than what i would of thought as I just painting it using the brush seeing as I dont have to worry about keeping everything straight and geometrical.

By the end of this piece I realized It wasnt really a vector anymore but a mix between vector and Digital painting because of the unique look of this station I would of require more training and time to be able to do a detailed only vector of it.

Below is the final profuce after our Graphic Designer Izzy added Text and a few edits

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It has undergone a metamorphosis and Birmingham New Street is about to reveal its modern face. But is its new design simply there to dazzle commuters?

An online Article by BBC which covers the history of New Street Station.

This article proved extremely helpful to us as it was telling most of what we aim to present in our short magazine

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The Reconstruction

I liked the look of the construction phase, It would be an interesting look for the cover of the magazine since it would match the theme perfectly showing the actual reconstruction/ change in progress. I could have two images one of my own and an Illustration of what the station was during redevelopment and combine them.

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Photos I gathered along with historical facts about the Station from it first opened to early changes due to being bomb etc.

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The One (Group Discussion)

With only two weeks left we've finally decided on the idea that we would go with. We will be creating a Zine/Magazine to inform and educate frequent travellers of the station and the area about the history and innovations of the Station. We are focusing on how the look of the station is impermanent because its always changing throughout time but the station itself and its identity has always been stagnant. We moved on to discussing the roles each member would now undertake in creating the Zine/Magazine, How it will look and its content etc.

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The Final Plan

We next planned out what each member would do next based on our roles. I will be designing the cover page which includes a mixed Illustration and photo of my own, I will also design an Illustration for the current New Street: Grand Central Station. Our other Illustrator Emma will be Illustrating the Station through history before it is what it is today. Sarah our photographer will gather Photos to be used as background for the pages of the magazine as well as to be used in generally mainly where photos would be a better fit than illustrations. And finally Izzy our Graphic Design will but it all together but work on the timeline style table of content while the others work on bringing her materials to work with.

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