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London Design Festival

Tuesday 20th September 2011, I attended a graphics trip in London and visited a variety of small galleries in East and Central London as part of the London Design Festival 2011. In participation to this trip, The London Design Festival helped us with our inspiration to expand ideas and examples of some artists.

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life un finished

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Primary pictures and primary pictures illustrated

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narrative - baby and toodler

Extra work

Narrative

idea:

Make a photographical narrative about life. The narrative will explore a variety of people's life cycle.

Life Cycle - Baby, Child, Teenager, Adult, Old age, Gone.

page1 - A new born

Page2 - Educated child having fun

page3 - Someone struggling

Page4 - Letting your hair down

Page5 - Well earned person loaded with money

Page6 - Addicted Adult

page7 - The loved ones.

page8.

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Revista-Manifesto-Rock-Underground-em-BH/488912 <inspired link zine'

Final outcome to look like a concertina book

2012 OUTLINE

UPPER SIXTH SPRING TERM START AND LOGO BRIEF

As we suggested to students before Christmas you now have three weeks before coursework will be stopped prior to starting the six week exam preparation period before your A2 exam. This gives you three weeks to work on coursework and must be used for new work not for work you have failed to complete up to now. (You will have a final 3 weeks for coursework completion after the exam is over.) In the next three weeks you can:

· Extend a project started already by doing a new book design as an extension to the book project or a new narrative or editorial piece using your own theme/ ideas/photos.

· Do a three week project of your own choice. This may be something you had an idea for in the summer but have not had a chance to carry out or maybe something you have thought of and prepared over the Christmas break.

YOU WILL ONLY BE ABLE TO DO THE OPTIONS ABOVE IF YOU EMAIL OR DISCUSS WITH US IN THE FIRST LESSON OF THE WEEK A CLEAR PLAN TO USE THE TIME PROPERLY. YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO SPEND THE THREE WEEKS PLANNING AN IDEA.

If you do not have a plan you will spend the three weeks doing the logo/branding brief below:

· Choose an existing company or product OR devise a company/product name of your own choice

· Research 6 existing logos and analyse them

· Develop a minimum of 6 different logo design ideas and then develop the 2 best ones further. (Do you need the name or a symbol or both?)

(You should be developing your own logo ideas by the end of the first week)

· Select a final design and use it to show how it would be used to brand associated products with in an area that would normally require the company branding to advertise it. This could be an advertisement, bill board, poster, packaging, direct mail, clothing labels etc as appropriate.

You may need to photograph or download a product image if the quality is good enough. Think about the target audience for this final stage.

Illustrated essay

Essay tasks upper sixth

As part of your A2 coursework you are asked to produce a piece of written work of between one and three thousand words. In order to produce a sufficiently in-depth piece of work you are recommended to aim towards the 3000 words. The essay should in some way link to the design work which you are producing this year and be primarily analytical in your approach. The use of reviews and quotations are an excellent way to develop an analytical discussion.

To help you to collect information for this task we have devised a series of tasks.

You need to complete 6 of them including the two artists studies. If they fit with your other areas of research the 2 artist studies could be taken largely from studies completed this term with additional analysis added.

The whole piece could be developed around the theme of narrative and book/editorial design.

Below is an example of a quote from a critic’s review which starts to ask questions about the role of book design through the quotation:

‘with the rise of e-books physical books have become more covetable as objects’. Discuss.

This is an example of the way a quotation from a review can lead you into developing a line of discussion for the essay. An alternative quotation can be lifted from the beginning of the article:

‘Book designers are the ultimate hidden persuaders’- Develop this theme from the audience and the designers point of view.

The article can also provide you with new areas for research such as Suzanne Dean and ‘Random House’.

The second article I have provided is a critic’s review on the 12 posters created for the 2012 Olympics. The central theme of the discussion focuses on their being designed by artists rather than designers. As a designer your essay may discuss whether this is a successful decision or not.

‘with avant-garde art moving ever further into the cultural mainstream and design becoming increasingly conceptual, the artist created product no longer stands out from the mass of visual information.’

This quotation may lead to an essay which discusses the role of artists and designers in today’s world/creative industry

Choice of tasks:

· Visit a gallery and review an exhibition

· Discussion about an artwork or sculpture

· Create a question linked to your chosen topic or artists and answer it.

· Respond to a quote/quotes you have found

· Analyse a critics review

· Two Artist studies using the full framework (subjective, structural, cultural, post modern)

· The role of design in a contemporary world

As the comments on the review show these tasks may become interlinked.

During the Christmas holiday we would like you to carry out some of the tasks suggested and look for suitable reviews, quotations etc in order to write the essay in January. The final essay must be illustrated with images you have found and seen so make sure you record them.

I have attached 2 articles for examples but we would like to look for youir own article as well. There are various places you can go to find articles eg.

· Guardian.co.uk Go to ‘art and design’ for some articles but you will find more by following this with a search under ‘graphics’ or ‘typography’.

· Timeout

· En:etapes. Com This is a site mainly with graphics articles and info. but also a good source for exhibitions etc. Some are abroad but many are in London.

· Daily Telegraph ( Review section)

· http://learning.havering-sfc.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=353

LINK TO ARTICLES ON MOODLE

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09.12.11

-Take pictures have firgures and over draw them

-Use illustrator for the background

-Mix textures etc.

Arthur and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air Re-Invented

For my narrative project, I have emerged two existing stories, one of which is a childlike animation named 'Arthur' and a ultimate classic family atmospheric comedy realistic series of Will Smith named, ' The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'. By colliding both stories I have come up with 'The Fresh Prince of Elwood City'. Elwood City is the location where Arthur Lives.

My story line is an re-invention of both stories following some of the scripts mentioned but presented in a comic structure. I have re-designed the characters involved in 'Arthur' and used inspirations from celebrities and just stuff like twicking up their 'Swagga' making it more 'ghetto'.

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Narrative in the style of Paul Smith

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Narrative Group Task

We were given a task to create a story similar to a comic and start off with an object and pass on your story to the next person. As each person in the group of 6 people add something into the next box you eventually end up with a story. Initially this tested our creativity and imaginative skills.

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