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ASK ME ANYTHING ASSIGNMENT

This is my work so far for my ask me anything assignment, its very close to being finished and only a coupla touch ups are required. 

I have chosen to seperate each question onto different pages to create a DIY handmade zine sorta feel. i think the style in which i have created this zine reflects Basquiats frantic and somewhat disjointed artworks with confusing messages that are hidden. His artworks need to be looked at more than once and thats what i want this zine to feel like. I have also created a kind of handwritten notation style as if i was physically taking notes whilst talking to basquiat live. this is also paired with the little drawings that are relevant with the conversation i am having with him. 

Below are all of my pages that’ll be in my zine followed by my inspiration artworks done by basquiat 

HOW COOL ARE THESE PEICES OF ART?

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week 11 lecture

This weeks lecture followed on from the lecture in week 10. the lecturers talked about why we actually design and what is next for design. 

The focus was mainly based on the inclusion of technology, and how it has dramatically changed the way we design and the impact it has on society. An example of this is a movie bar code. Each scene from Kung Fu Panda was taken and colours and moods can be seen when looking at the movie in one snapshot. this example of new age design, emphasises the move away from human led design, to design that is primarily done on the computer. 

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Week 10- collage

So this weeks practical was pretty much about collage. In class we went through various artworks, all of course in the collage art style. although i am not really interesting in collage, i can find why many artists and designers use it. it creates a very textured story where the artist can explain and demonstrate different themes.

as i said before, collage isnt something i am very interested in. but after going away and doing my own collage i think i may incorporate this style subtly into some of my work in the future.

heres my collage i did during class, its about Australian culture and beefy, strong, alpha males. Moreso the alpha males around the coastline of Australia and how they are sorta top shit around their respective local areas. 

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WEEK 9- PUNK

“This lecture was the most captivating for me, as its my kinda aesthetic. i am really interest in the punk movement, the music surrounded it, the art/design that came from it and the DIY mentality that was heavily thought of in this movement. i love how there is a push against the “rules” of design and how not everything has to be so perfect, neat and mathematically correct. The punk movement was also about self expression and doing whatever you want, without any consequence. from this, many people rebelled against the government and the people in power.   

I really really love the work that an Aussie artist does. His name is Daniel Watkins and for me he really emulates the punk aesthetic in his work. His art has a deeper message that is usually having a “dig” at people higher up, where society stands nowadays and just general issues. Heres some of his sick work... 

ARTWORK FROM HIS EXHIBITION “they used to call me”

these pieces of art romanticise the ego driven figures closely linked to buying, selling and the commercial system to a state that becomes meaningless. Its this kind of theme that really links Daniels art to the punk movement, as well as the heavily hand-made and DIY aesthetic.  

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Week 8- Futurism

Yeah week 8 lecture... 

I didn’t enjoy this one too to much, it just didnt really resonate with me and i found a lot of it quiet boring to be honest. 

One thing that i found pretty cool was the Futurist cookbook!

i found this really funny and quite silly, as the futurist believed so deeply in embracing the new and emerging technologies that they wanted to even revolutionise the way that italians ate. 

They attempted to bring more senses than just taste to eating and cooking. They did crazy things such as put a gunshot into an esspresso, play music to accompany the food (but not whilst eating because your palette with get distracted) and even spray perfumes into the room before eating.   

funnily enough, this reminded me of a modern chef who has cooking shows on tele that i watched when i was younger. 

Heston Blumenthal is a guy that cooks with weird ingredients and uses science to heighten the taste of food. So when hearing about what the futursits did with food, i immediately thought of this whacky guy. 

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Rear Window Workshop

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Week 7- Bauhaus

For this week’s lecture we delved into Bauhaus (”the house of construction”), created by Walter Gropius in 1925, Germany. 

The bauhaus school brought together textile workers, craft workers, product designers, communication designers and architects... all having to go through the exact same process and learn the exact same things. 

Below is the course outline that all students had to take. 

Having being taught in all of these design fields, the students adapted an aesthetic that was very particular to the Bauhaus school. 

One thing that really stood out to me during this lecture was how similar all of the designs to come out of the Bauhaus school were. they all had this very similar aesthetic, with the use of circles, semi-circles, boxes and typeface. Materials were used in a “spartan” way, things that weren’t needed were left out and space was optimised. 

below is some of the work done by Bauhaus communication designers 

Herbert Bayer’s universal alphabet embodied these principles of only keeping necessary components. 

He reduces the alphabet itself by deeming some of the capital letters unnecessary. 

he merges upper and lowercase letters to form one universal typeface. 

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just some stuff

ive been quite bored during this whole thing so ive been doing these kinda mind map things that are really unorganised and everywhere. ive been basing them of things ive seen or heard or thought of and just pretty much whatever gets into my head. im not really sure if it has heaps to do with comm design but i wanted to add it to my blog thingo just to show that ive been doing some stuff. for me, these pages are kinda like blogs in themselves, just harder to interpret and a lot less organised. 

i got this idea after thinking of designers or artists i could do my interview on, i thought of Basquiat. He was influenced be things he felt, things he saw and just stuff he saw in everyday life. I’m a massive fan of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work and his disjointed take on art and how its often so poetic and raw, although he isnt a designer, i really feel he is very influential and some of his work carries principles of design. 

yeah.. these are just some things ive written down and drawn really badly!!

this one above is about the vegie garden and songs i listen to. 

about going to the supermarket and how its weird now. 

oh yeah this ones about nuffin really hahahah. just stuff i heard and songs. 

again... influenced by music and yeah. saw some things 

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week 5 lecture- industrialisation of print

This was a lecture i wasnt too intrigued about before watching it. i had preconceived ideas about history and how i thought it was a little boring. but listening to these lectures about the history of design and print i now have a greater understanding and respect for historical times and how things have came to be now.

i was particularly interested in how mathematics and anatomy were infused with print and typography... for me, i see a letter and its just a letter, i dont think about the angles and specific way that i could manufacture that letter. i think that i am like this because i have a particularly messy style and i dont really have care about perfect precision. The style and precision of the people back then is so so different to me and i think by learning a completely different take on typography is beneficial for my designing as a whole. 

below are images taken from the lecture, which i thought were really interesting.

by using grids and shapes and compasses they were able to create near perfect forms and lines so long ago. 

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WEEK 4

I think this was the very first week of full online uni, so it started off really really slow and daunting. luckily i had a very good idea to what my question was going to be and i had already started to play around with forms and shapes. i took a lot of time to mess about with different veges at the start of the week. 

i am quite happy with the link between my question and the subject matter, i think its really smart and has a wholesome and earthy aesthetic. In the images above i spent time formulating my question and deciding where i would place things and with what plant/vegetable i would do it with. 

After looking at some inspiration on the internet, i noticed that adding shadows really gives the photo another point of interest. i played around with my make-shift lighting for a while before settling on a particular angle. 

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week 3

After last week classes were pretty much called of because of the public holiday, i was really excited to get into class and just do something other than sit around. The lectures were really interesting and i took a lot away from them but i just felt like doing some stuff! i feel like a learn a lot better and i retain more information if im actually being hands on. I’d much prefer to get a scrap book out and scribble or draw rather than sit on a computer and take notes or collect information of topics.  

in this class we continued off from the lecture that was last Friday. in this lecture we talked about the evolution of communication and how people in the past used clay tablets and triangular stemmed reeds to create one of the first representations of communication. i learned that time and efficiency played a huge role in the evolution of letters and how we communicate. it was easier to create a small shape that symbolises something rather than drawing that certain thing realistically. this activity we did was to ask someone a question on our own play-dough tablet(seen above). the idea was to learn how to use the tool in a variety of ways to create different effects on the dough, such as do we use the curved side, do we use a straight edge to make indentations and many other techniques. 

the way i approached this task was to use the least amount of lines as possible to save time and to be more efficient. with the ‘A’ and the ‘E’ i left specifically left certain lines out. i did this because when i tried to do the whole letter it became messy and unreadable, it was also a lot quicker to use less lines.   

we then responded to our partners message on the back of their tablet.(shown bellow) 

from here we were told to create a self portrait of ourselves and stick them on the wall fro everyone to see. there were a lot of really creepy looking portraits and yeah kinda was real weird. i really liked how some people rally simplified there portraits and drew something that symbolised them. i stuck my thumb into my play-dough to leave my thumb print. i thought this really symbolised who i am, as no one else in the world shared the same thumb print with myself, its kinda also really quick to do...

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week 1

First class of comm design on the very fist day of uni. This was, i think my second class of the day and by now the onset of fatigue was setting in as i woke up quite early to catch a train for my first class (colour and info). the changeover from the previous class to this one was swift and much needed as i was drifting off. 

Entering this class was a real refresher and sparked excitement and curiosity. we met our tutor, Bailey and she showed us some of her sick work. i really drew a connection with her style in her comics as i’m really into cartoon and stuff that kinda pushes the boundaries of “technical communication design”. So when learning that this class gave lots of freedom, it really inspired me.  

Probs enough of me going on about all that pointless stuff and talk about what we did and yeah... As a sorta ice-breaker activity thing we were instructed to make our names out of anything we could find in our bags (luckily i over packed and had a heap of shit in my bag). I pushed myself to be as creative as possible and think outside the box, which i think was also the point of the exercise. To really notice shapes and forms and really quirky stuff and how they interact with each other to make letter-forms. My name has 3 N’s in it was i found it a bit difficult to think of something creative for that, which was a bummer. Overall i’m really happy with how i constructed the K. 

After doing this we collaborated with other classmates that were on our table, to now make the alphabet.  it was really cool to compile all of the shit that we had in our bags and work as a group to create every single letter and number. After discussion we agreed upon the pre-existing letters that fellow team mates had made already and we kept them for our alphabet. for other letters we were really pushed to create something unique and not use boring straight lines that pretty much blocked out the letter. although substituting pencils or popcorn and pen lids for soy-sauce, it was still quite difficult to substitute boring items for fresh ideas. 

overall, we opened our eyes to letter forms of all different shapes and sizes, with different thicknesses and curves. we discovered new letters with really unique qualities and identified what letters paired really well together. the activity expanded our abilities to produce type, by thinking outside the box. we learnt that letters can be manipulated in a myriad ways, and it can even be developed with everyday objects.