just a journal

from RMIT to you (Instagram- fillystick)

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a recap of this crazy year so far.

My experience from adapting to a whole new culture to being quarantined and having online classes due to a pandemic: damn, what a wild one. I surely had my struggles this semester (I am struggling right now, in fact) but I am so glad I get to learn about what I really love doing. 

The lectures by Andy and Karen have been nothing but beneficial and helpful, you guys put years of expertise into weekly classes for us to absorb, and I am so thankful to receive such in-depth resources from you.

I also want to thank Ben for giving me weekly entertainment as well as useful websites for us to look for inspiration. Your classes have always made me laugh and I love how friendly you are to all of us. Every time we meet, it feels a big group of design nerds talking about our passion, rather than having a formal class.

My classmates in this course have also gave me motivation as well as inspiration. When i’m having an artist block, I scroll through tumblr and look at all the amazing work done by other students (my brain suddenly becomes less dead and it starts functioning again). I talk to them via social media, too. We discuss about progress, give each other feedback, or we cry together about how screwed we are for the assignments.

Despite all the things going on in the world, I am still happy that I get to have this chance to learn from the most talented people and surround myself with the beauty of design. I hope next semester will all be back to normal and I can finally walk around campus with my friends.

see ya ✌️

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ZINE OUTCOME!

Seeing all the interesting works done by others, I thought I would also share what I did for my zine.

“I was fortunate. Early in life, I understood that my world was a two-dimensional one. At sixteen I knew that my work would be in black and white.”

I made my zine in relation to Adrian Frutiger’s aesthetic, I didn’t put any pictures for the zine (only a picture of Mr. Frutiger himself ) to keep the focus on the typefaces. I played with page space, font size, and typography while designing this, with each page using the typeface that is being interviewed for the texts. (The Univers page would be using the Univers typeface for all texts... etc.)

Some likes and dislikes: I really like my cover page, which is inspired by the negative space typography technique. The font used for the cover page is Frutiger, I felt like it was the best option to represent him. It became challenging in the end to come up with new layout choices with the same black and white aesthetics, but I think I pulled through! Each section of the interview gives a different vibe, they aren’t repitive when it comes to arrangement but still had harmony throughout. I still wish I had more creative ways to deliver this, however.

Feedback is welcomed and please share your zines too!

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ZINE UPDATE

Finally starting to progress with my zine, and by that I mean I’ve done the introductory page… I’m just absolutely hating everything I make at the moment and am really stuck in a rut, but it’s due THIS WEEK so I’ll have to work past the creative block and suck it up. I’m not really happy with the layout at the moment but I figured if I just get something down i can go back later to fix it up. 

You can see better now how I’m gonna try incorporate my magazine collage / photo collages in with the zine. The talkshow host is made up of photos from unsplash.com (all free to use! no copyright!) and I’ll also include some of my own collage later in the zine.

again, feedback is welcome, I want to change the font of my body text as well, its too bold. Something bauhaus but not bold? Does that even exist?

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Not to be creepy but your layout has appeared in my dream once, maybe I was too stressed due to my lack of motivation BUT, this is so simple but stylish, I love the round aspects of it, the text, the yellow one... etc.

you are very chill with your page space, you put minimal graphic and small text, which is the complete opposite of what I do! I always feel like spaces should be filled so they look “full” and “sophisticated”, and I really should tell my brain to stop thinking like that.

Anways, good work!

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Saturday 6 June 2020 Image and Identity reflection

This has truly been the assignment I was waiting for (in no offence to the other assignments)! I loved that we could choose our own potent topic and take the reins of the design process and overall aesthetic. Although I was really confused in the initial Collaborate Ultra virtual classroom when we were given the brief, the more times I read over the brief I started to understand the freedom we were given. I initially wanted to explore Political Corruption as I listen to a lot of podcasts and read many articles on American Politics and it’s injustice, yet I later realised that the topic was too broad, thus moved to the ‘Sexism within Power Structures’ topic. These power structures mainly include the Catholic Church, Politics and Hollywood. 

I put in a lot of research towards the topic to respect the topic and the victims of the crime, mainly through YouTube documentaries, Netflix shows and Podcasts. This enabled me to easily gain information through a medium that I enjoyed.

Following research and completing a case study, I started to generate designs and ideas through rough brainstorming and experimental sketches. I ended up with two media applications, being a poster and a website that banks a network of information informing people on the injustices of power structures, providing healing resources and giving readers the ability to donate money towards campaigns that battle the same issue.

Looking back on both this assignment and the Semester One classes of the mage and Identity course, I have found it the most rewarding in terms of creative freedom and learning about the design industry (beyond Uni). Although the most content heavy, I have really enjoyed the Specialist Sessions as well due to the amount of information and context the teachers provide!

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Your presentation aesthetics is so unique, I love the sans- serif font you always choose to use, as well as the lower case, also your color choice- it’s easy on the eyes and refreshing to look at!

The effort you put into the design artifact is so admirable, the fact that you drew the graphic figure yourself, too! Your work really inspire me to work harder and not to be afraid to be creative. thank you for posting your progress to show the rest of the world, you have helped a direction-less design student found a little light 💡

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Graphics #2

Moved on from painting to Illustrator, where I selected some GORGEOUS bright colours ~ inspired by Richard Bernstein’s personal choices in his works, and started creating weird gradients. 

This technique of using points and lines was sort of working, but it was taking to long to figure out so I went hunting for a tutorial and found this one, teaching how to use a gradient mesh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hJlffeGkmo, in conjunction with the direct selection tool to place the colours in the mesh I created. 

and being happy with these colours and this reflective-ishness, I moved on to creating the front cover. 

I really fancied this photo of Bernstein, seemed like an appropriate front cover image but it was really low quality, which took away from the fullness of colour. (https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/photographs/Xrh11n/Richard-Bernstein-NY-1969)

Found this other image (https://richardbernsteinart.com/richard/about.html) which is higher quality, and not as dark, which suited the colours and the theme more, as I found black to be too harsh of a contrast. 

Next came the title! I wanted to follow along that Interview magazine style. 

https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/564075922059249454/ , https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/250020216785835280/ , https://www.thesloaney.com/events/fashion-illustration-gallery-richard-bernsteins-cover-art.html 

Using my Wacom and this free brush set https://www.brusheezy.com/brushes/51128-free-photoshop-marker-brushes-24-deadbeat-marker , I tried my very best to draw something legible, yet still messy. 

Definitely need to keep working on the typeface but here’s some colour options I’m playing around with for now (▰˘◡˘▰)

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THE EFFORT IN THIS OMG

Drawing each graphic one by one... wow this must have taken you a lot of time! I really admire your creativity and how you implement your own style into this assignment. Well done!!

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DA ZINE :o

I appreciate all the compliments in my previous post on the zine :)

I think im about done with it though, I might or might not send it over to Ben and see what he has to say. I don’t mind if anyone comments anything I should fix or do before submitting.

My last page is a further reading & bibliography page but the hyperlinks only work in the pdf version so no point in uploading that (and no drawings on that page so you didnt miss out on much)

But holy moly what a journey this was. I went ham but I know there are plenty of improvements I could’ve made with the drawings. That’s what I hate about working with three week old drawings, I just dread about the things I could’ve done to make it better, but then again, I don’t want to sink hours fixing things when I could use what I’ve learned in the next drawing or project, allowing me to keep moving forward. I think being a perfectionist can disrupt your momentum and burn your creative thinking which sometimes puts you down into a creative slump. Even though I find perfectionism to suck shit sometimes, it may affect you differently and be a good thing for your creative process.

Anyway I think this might be my last post for this journal, I might keep using this to blog archive cool stuff I’ve found, I’ve never used tumblr until this journal and I’m having a grand time, I hope you guys do the same :)

cya next semester everyone (hopefully not online)

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This is... amazing

There is always a big difference between a digital and a hand-drawn work, the inconsistency of the letters, sizes, illustrations, makes it look so real and personal (huge respect for hand drawing everything!!!!) the topic and the context also cute and funny, I wish I can be more creative too in future projects, thank you for the inspiration!

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Zine Layout Exercise - Free Style

This is my overcooked design layout for the exercise in our last class. I’m really into using the Outerglow effect in photoshop at the moment and adding maximum noise to it. The font that I used is called ZX80 and I came across it a few years ago on Dafont.com - I can’t remember if I ever actually used it for something, or if I just downloaded it for fun. I colourised different sections of the photograph and played around with layer filters, I think I ended up using Pin Light and Hard Light. I actually had to revert my Photoshop CC2020 back to the 2019 edition because there are SO many bugs in the new version - I kept finding that the whole program would freeze and shut down each time I would try and use the Hue/Saturation adjusters or any layer adjustments. It’s also just super slow in general even opening files. Seriously hoping they fix that up soon! 

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to see people creating various design with limted time and resources really shows how different everyone’s aesthetics is! This is so different than what I came up with, this reminds me of the punk zines Andy showed in lectures where the statement came first, legibility second, so good!

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WEEK ELEVEN: WORKSHOP 

I was feeling very overwhelmed during Week 11 due to the workload of all my classes combined and tried to brainstorm my written tasks before my practical assignments as I found these ‘fun’, so when it came to showing my progress, I had to quickly whip these small layouts up because I found that I didn’t really get to start on my actual poster (which was my original idea instead of doing a zine). I already knew what my aim for my poster was (to create a poster that I would hang up as a piece of art) so this inspired me to create something that I really enjoy, making the process especially fun. I also took into consideration different styles of layouts that demonstrated easy readability and what I was accustomed to thinking was ‘good design’ for an interview. After our workshop, Karen suggested that we needed to have more fun with our designs which is possibly the best advice a teacher has given me. I think I’ve put into my head that the school system only wants one thing and that we need to create projects that only fall into one style and I feel very grateful that my degree really asks for our own input and style. 

While putting together my layout ideas, I already knew which one I was going forward with because I was already having fun and adding more detail to it, which were the two end posters on the right. 

Here are some posters that I’ve found very engaging to look at. They aren’t necessarily the layout that could display an interview neatly but they hold details that are very inspiring.

References:

Poster 1

No title, n.d. poster, viewed 28 May 2020, <https://www.are.na/block/5108072>

Poster 2

No title, n.d. poster, viewed 28 May 2020, <https://www.are.na/block/3859637>

Poster 3

Bauhaus Imaginista, n.d. poster, viewed 28 May 2020, <https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/430445676888578022/>

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Inspiration for the zine assignment, the wasilly chair really is an icon! I love the second to last’s header where you shove all the letter into the W, really creative!

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quote poster design made my me (font: palatino by linotype)

Week 11's lecture talks all about the future of design. Andy and Karen actively addressed the path in which design is going, keeping in mind the quickly evolving technology and resources that designers are now able to utilize. some of the technology include parametric and generative design practices, data visualisation. It lastly explained how communication design in general is transforming through emerging technologies like machine learning and A.I.

The lecture reminded me of a quote by Adrian Frutiger, how be believed the written word will remain the means of creating a connection between those who have something to say and those who want to hear it. 

Even with the world rapidly changing and evolving, we should always understand and learn the root of design: expressing and communicating. As a design student who barely knows anything about everything, I should be mindful of what I see around me, taking everything in but also invent and invest on my own style and aesthetics. 

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Keith Haring’s Ignorance = Fear (1989)

Haring's imagery here references the 'three wise monkeys' that, "see nothing, hear nothing, say nothing". Within this illustration Haring refers to the public's ignorance with respect to Aids and calls for critical awareness of the 'facts'. (source)

Keith’s exhibition in the NGV in the beginning of the year introduced me to his works, but I didn’t know his works were for advocation on safe sex, awareness and research on AIDS. I think the poster’s slogan is appropriate to use in various ways. Especially in times like this, we should definitely be aware of what is going on and try our best to help each other. 

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Frutiger: through the eyes of his inamoratas

I thought I would share some the writings I’ve done for my Assessment 3. I think the hardest part about this is to try and give personality to each typeface, since I am interviewing them as Adrian’s exes.

I even gave them character charts, maybe I should direct an ancient Chinese drama with Adrian as the emperor and his typefaces as his harem (im joking)

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Here is a little preview of what I wrote:

Univers 1957: first famous typeface

since Univers and Frutiger are his most famous typefaces, ask the two typefaces if they think they are Adrian’s favorite 

trait: a wise old woman, a rival with Frutiger

You were Mr. Frutiger’s first lover, can you tell us how you guys met and what the relationship was like?

Univers: Well, to answer your question in short, it all started when Adrian made a typeface inspired by Futura. We met at the Arts and Crafts School in Zürich while he was learning with Walter Käch, but it wasn’t until his job at the French type foundry: Deberny & Peignot in Paris, where we got really fond of each other...

why do you think Mr Adrian fell in love with you? do you think you had anything special that made the relationship happen? 

Univers: I think it was his own determination, and the artist in him, that made “us” happen.  Adrian always knew what he wanted without fail- he said at sixteen he already knew that his work would be in black and white- I think he carried this motto to his love life, too...

Serifa 1967: iconic but not really personal to Adrian

trait: a short-term girlfriend, she felt like Adrian just wanted a replacement after his separation with Univers, because they are similar (the difference lies in the serifs)

Can you tell us about your relationship with Mr. Frutiger? 

Our time together was good, but short. Here’s the problem: When you’re dating a famous person, whose ex is even more well-known than he is; you really cannot escape all the comparing people make about you. Univers was very well known, and I think Adrian got with me while this woman was still fresh in his mind, making me a replacement, a natural progression, before his “next big thing”...

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Adrian Fruitger ( the person I’m going to “interview”) image source

For the last comm design project, I'm doing an interview about Adrian Frutiger, using his typefaces (universe, serifa... etc) as his past lovers to ask them questions about Frutiger as well as introduce each typeface.

Adrian Frutiger is a type designer who created 40 fonts in his lifetime. Praised for the beauty of the readability from his meticulous architecture, his works have been distinguished by signs in the Paris Metro and many international airports, as well as on Swiss highways and some London avenues.

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week 9 and 10 lecture

NIE WIEDER KRIEG!!! NO MORE WAR – ACT NOW – Urban street art sticker

RESPECT MY EXISTENCE OR EXPECT MY RESISTANCE - Urban street art sticker 

photos from Markus Spiske 

I was catching up on past lectures when I realized week 10′s content ties back to what is happening in the US right now, which made me decide to create my cover photo in relations to the event. 

My intention is to pay my respect- as well as acknowledge- the rights of the community that is in pain at the moment, and reflect on ways of improvement when it comes to racial equality.  

knowing that design is closely related to activism really gave me a new perspective, which is the power of design: the fact that we can make a difference by creating, expressing, and voicing an opinion. Design is so much more than just making a profit, it is a tool that comes with great responsibility and potential. Learning how to utilize it to spread importance is what I shall be thinking in my future years. 

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WEEK 9

PUNK: a counter-cultural movement

PUNK DESIGN, A SUMMARY: despise typesetter, prefer DIY

collage-style 1: ripping up and starting again

Takes a commercial image and repurposes it for revolutionary purposes.

collage-style 2: the use of stencils

stencils had frequently been used for their ease of use and acquisition, their association with the underground through graffiti, denoting something raw and urban, as well as its nature as simply being flawed by design. 

zines: using illegible and garish styles to shock the viewer out of apathy, the punk movement gave little thought to the commonly perceived ‘good’ design practices.

parody and politics: using images from a media-saturated culture for a new purpose, they meant to trigger recognition in the viewer and include them on the subversive in-joke.

All ripped up: Punk influences on graphic design

MALCOLM MCLAREN: A multi-talented man

promoter and manager of bands the New York Dolls and the Sex Pistols

he was one of the first white music producers to bring hip-hop to a wider audience and one of the first to popularise world music in the west

partnership with fashion designer Vivienne Westwood: SEX

In a new, in-depth biography, Paul Gorman offers a vivid portrait of the postmodernist impresario who conjured up punk’s angry pose, the Sex Pistols, and much more.

Malcolm McLaren's Life of Chaos, Music, and Art

JAMIE REID Jamie Reid’s artworks

 A GUIDE FOR ANYONE WANTING TO DO IT THEIR WAY, FROM REID:

Destroy Your Computer: The more we get drawn into this mad digital world, the more we lose contact with each other. “Most jobs are about enslavement, break free if you can”

Study Art: If I hadn’t gone to Croydon I would never have met Malcolm McLaren, not just for what he did with the Pistols but for everything else he did. The irony is that neither Malcolm or I would have got into Croydon if it was today. What does that tell you about what’s happened to our education system?

Have a Sense of Humour

Learn from the Past

Look to the Future: Radical ideas will always get appropriated by the mainstream, people in authority lack the ability to be creative, and they rob everything they can. you have to keep moving on to new things. 

Iconic Punk Artist Jamie Reid Has Some Advice for Young Creatives

XEROGRAPHY ART: is an art form that began in the 1960s. Prints are created by putting objects on the glass, or platen, of a copying machine and by pressing "start" to produce an image.

What Happens When a Photocopy Machine Becomes an Art Tool?

MEMPHIS DESIGN (MILAN 1980’S): its aesthetic embodies the 1980s

Simple geometric shapes; flat colours combined in bold, contrasting palettes; stylised graphic patterns defined by black-and-white stripes and abstract squiggles – these are the ingredients of Memphis-inspired design, fuelled by influences from earlier movements such as Pop Art and Art Deco.

10 iconic examples of Memphis design

ETTORE SOTTSASS: One of the most influential and important figures of the last century, Architect and Designer, founded the Memphis group In 1981, a group that has radically changed the scenario of Italian and world design.

Ettore Sottsass’ works

DAVID CARSON: RAYGUN   David Carson design

David Carson’s deconstructed style for Ray Gun, was very much a design aesthetic that blurred the lines of visual communication and challenged its readers to interpret the text in their own way. Much like the youths that he targeted throughout the 90s, they were rule breakers themselves that rebelled against society. His use of non-hierarchical text and visually complex, layered compositions, spoke ‘their language.’ 

“I’ve never used grids; I still don’t. I never studied or learned about them, and when I did I saw no reason to use them.”

STREET PRESS ANALYSIS: RAY GUN COVER — David Carson, Anti-grid Design Icon David Carson Says Computers Make You Lazy, Contextual Studies: David Carson

NEVILLE BRODY: THE FACE

The Face, drawing freely for his visually exciting layouts and typography on avant-garde artistic ideas. Brody was thoughtful to the construction of its layouts, with blocks of texts often placed horizontally or vertically on the page, the layouts contrasting strikingly with hand-mediated imagery and photography. Such ideas exerted a significant international impact on the appearance of the magazine, advertising, and retailing design.

POST 14 – 1980's – 'The Face' Neville Brody – Monique

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WEEK 10 

MIMMO ROTELLA 

'With a Smile', Mimmo Rotella, 1962

Mimmo Rotella - 324

ROBERT RAUSCENBERG

Robert Rauschenberg 1925–2008

JACEK TYLICKI

Jacek Tylicki Art and Artworks

FISCHLI & WEISS 

Fischli & Weiss: Flowers & Questions. A Retrospective – Exhibition at Tate Modern

GILBERT BAKER: RAINBOW FLAG

“Our job as gay people was to come out, to be visible, to live in the truth, as I say, to get out of the lie. A flag really fit that mission, because that’s a way of proclaiming your visibility or saying, ‘This is who I am!’” 

Baker saw the rainbow as a natural flag from the sky, so he adopted eight colors for the stripes, each color with its own meaning (hot pink for sex, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, turquoise for art, indigo for harmony, and violet for spirit).

How Did the Rainbow Flag Become a Symbol of LGBTQ Pride?

FLAG IN DESIGN: the lecture talked about how flags influence to power of design, this is an interesting article of how flags can go beyond the rules of design, but still make it work.

7 fantastic flags that break every design rule

ACTIVISTS (ADBUSTER, TIBOR KALMAN, GUERRILA GIRLS, BENETTON: COLORS MAGAZINE)

A Review of COLORS

“Oliviero Toscani and Tibor Kalman launched “a magazine about the rest of the world” for United Colors of Benetton in 1991. It seems only fitting that an unconventional title like this should be documented in an unconventional way.” 

“Toscani wanted a magazine without any stars, without any celebrities, and without any news. He decided they’d interview people nobody knew, and they’d use the internet to find stories. This approach- a combination of dynamic graphics, striking photographic imagery, provocative themes, and an unwaveringly global outlook—has become familiar to magazine readers now, they hope to firmly establish COLORS’ status as the founder not only of today’s independent magazines, but of mainstream media as well.”

SHEPARD FAIREY: HOPE POSTER   Visual Analysis of Shepard Fairey's 'Hope'

Color: Red, blue and beige are representative of the American flag, illustrating his patriotism. Blue help to define his features, the beige on his face might be to say that race doesn’t matter.  

Typography: provides the concept that the poster is trying to communicate. HOPE’s typeface used is Gotham, a strong slab sans serif, the use of Gotham in this work creates a sense of authority and a bold assertive statement in which there is no uncertainty. These clean letterforms grab the viewers’ attention and makes a statement, permitting for maximum legibility and objectivity.

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Led Zeppelin concert poster / Tokyo, Japan / October 2 & 3, 1972

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this design symbolizes the post modernism/ counter-culture aesthetic. The bold fonts, the icons surrounding the hero image, the stencil-like image in the middle, and the choice of the background color; these elements make this poster seem somewhat rebellious and unique, making it the perfect example of a product influenced by the Punk era.

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WEEK 7 & 8 LECTURE NOTES

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WEEK 7:

PAUL KLEE

Painter (expressionism, cubism, surrealism) 

 colour theorist (Paul Klee Notebooks)

taught at Bauhaus with Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky https://www.paulklee.net/

WHAT PAUL KLEE TAUGHT IN BAUHAUS (1921- 1931)

“First letters, then symbols, then, finally, how to read and write,” Klee demonstrated multiple ways a point can become a line, a line can become a plane, and so on. This would lay the groundwork for future works, this needed to be mastered before tone and color entered the picture.

“Observe the Fish Tank” Klee requested students spend time observing the fish’s activity in his aquarium, as he thought artworks (even abstract works) should be inspired by nature. “perhaps starting from nature you will achieve formations of your own, and one day you may even become like nature yourself and start creating.”

“Draw the Circulatory System” In his lectures, he described the nature’s patterns with scientific reasons, mapping mathematical equations and arrow-filled diagrams on the board. Klee would sketch on the chalkboard the movement of blood through the body, as he said the human body reflected how art is created. 

“Weigh the Colors” Klee only introduced color after students understood fully about lines and planes. Klee’s lessons about color combined scientific precision with a deep sense of mysticism. Klee required his students to create color diagrams of their own, including one assignment in which they visually weighed one color against another (the color red, as it turns out, is heavier than the color blue)

“Study the Greats” Artists should break down the artworks of their peers and forerunners into the most elementary components—line, form, and color—to determine what makes an image successful or problematic. Klee provided students with feedback on their works in his home, Of all the Bauhaus masters, Klee was the only one who did not give grades.

“We do not analyze works of art because we want to imitate them or because we distrust them,” he once said. Instead, we do so “as to begin to walk ourselves.”

5 Art Lessons from Bauhaus Master Paul Klee

OSKAR SCHLEMMER (TRIADIC BALLET)

Oskar Schlemmer's ballet of geometry – in pictures | Art and design

Schlemmer's work aligned with Bauhaus’ thinking: merging art and technology, man and machine.

Schlemmer was the first artist to fuse dance and modernism through his exploration of abstraction in real space. 

Break-away from classical ballet's: from the focus on the soloist and the duet to the emphasis of a collective approach to dance. 

The costumes can be seen as a living embodiment of Schlemmer's previous sculptural and pictorial work, it reflected the idea of the New Man during the early 20th century.

Oskar Schlemmer Paintings, Bio, Ideas | TheArtStory

WASSILY KADINSKY

Russian painter, father of abstract painting

Point and Line to Plane (1926) Kandinsky presents details of the inner dynamics of non-objective painting, with the role of point in nature, music, art, and the combination of point and line that results in a unique visual language.

WHAT WASSILY KADINSKY TAUGHT AT BAUHAUS (1922–1933)

“Express your inner world, not the latest artistic trends” 

an object could only legitimately be considered art if it was an unadulterated

He believed that theory came after, not before, true artistic creation

He felt that the expression of one’s inner reality was crucial to achieve moral integrity 

true artists should be prepared to be misunderstood throughout their lifetimes

 “Don’t paint things. Paint in abstract form” art is not only abstracted but entirely non-representational.

“Approach color as a window into the human soul”  Kandinsky believed that each color had an personality, and compared colors to the keys of a piano, and the human soul to the piano itself. As an artist used colors, he or she was in effect playing different musical notes, causing “vibrations in the soul.”

“Inject rhythm into your painting, like a musical score” Kandinsky said an  artist should experiment with repetition, ordering, and scale, not just with colors but also with points, lines, and planes. These arethe building blocks of a composition.

“By creating original work, you will further the cause of humanity” The artist is obligated to use his or her talent to make a positive impact in this way—to create sincere, original work that helps humanity toward collective enlightenment.

Wassily Kandinsky on How to Be an Artist, Wassily Kandinsky Artworks & Famous Paintings

DER BLAUE REITER

A german expressionist group originating in Munich in 1909 (members include Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Gabriele Münter)

The name referred to Kandinsky and Marc's belief that blue was the most spiritual color and that the rider symbolized the ability to move beyond

Their art was structured around an idea that color and form carried concrete spiritual values, they often drew parallels between painting and music

Der Blaue Reiter Movement Overview | TheArtStory, Der Blaue Reiter – Art Term

MARCEL BREUER (FURNITURE- INDUSTRIAL FABRICATION)

He was the first furniture designer ever to use tubular steel

Wassily Chair (1927-28) Breuer’s use of the newest innovations in bending tubular steel for the entirety of the structural frame demonstrated the possibilities of modern industry applied to everyday objects

Cesca Chair (1928) innovative and daring design that embodied many key aspirations of modernist design, it was made of an industrial material symbolic of the machine age and was visually transparent because materials were reduced to a minimum, giving it an abstract quality

The Cesca: One of the most important chairs of the 20th century

MOHOLY-NAGY

Interest in photography: encouraged artists to modernize with the new age: think about the history of art, to reproduce old formulas and experiment with vision, thus stretching human capacity to new tasks.

space, time, and light was a major theme in his various media of works. 

László Moholy-Nagy Art, Bio, Ideas | TheArtStory

JOSEF AND ANNIE ALBERS

leading pioneers in 20th-century modernism, and the duo are renowned for their output in painting, colour theory, textile design and weaving. 

READ MORE: influence of Anni and Josef Albers on fashion

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WEEK 8:

BOLTED BOOK by Italian Futurist Fortunato Depero 

a portfolio of his career, also a showcase of his skills as a designer and typographer

industrial aluminum bolts (a detail that symbolized the progressive machine-age mentality of the Futurist movement)

It is is widely recognized as the first modern-day artist’s book and as a paragon of avant-garde bookmaking.  

READ THE WHOLE BOOK HERE: Page by Page - Depero Futurista

MARINETTI founder of the Italian Futurist movement

Zang Tumb Tumb: Adrianopoli Ottobre 1912: Parole in Libertà 1914

The title Zang Tumb Tumb evokes the sounds of mechanized war—artillery shelling, bombs, explosions.

VORTICISM 

literary and artistic movement in England (1912–15)

it attempted to relate art to industrialization

celebrated the energy of the machine and machine-made products

vorticist compositions were abstract and sharp-planed, showing the influence of Cubism and Futurism. 

Vorticism - Important Art

RUSSIAN FUTURISTS (1912 - 1916)

similar to the Italian Futurist movement, but Russian Futurists celebrated traditional their heritage, including aspects of folk life and religion. They drew from a wide range of Russian "primitive" art forms - religious icons and woodcuts, ancient pagan sculpture, folk art and costumes - that they translated into increasingly pure color and abstract forms.

Russian Futurism

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『にっぽんおじさん博物館（Nippon Oji-Sun Museum）』

日本の歴史はおじさんの歴史。『にっぽんおじさん博物館（Nippon Oji-Sun Museum）』のアートディレクション。

The history of Japan made by Japanese men called “Oji-sun”. This is the art direction of “Nippon Oji-Sun Museum”.

2017.08.23

acrylgouache, illustrator, digital printing

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I’ve been looking into Japanese graphic designers and I really love her work! This reminds me of the Bauhaus aesthetic where things are simplified to the maximum but still keeping its meaning. She used minimal lines to create the persona of Japanese white-collar middle aged men: Ojisan. 

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I thought it would be appropriate to upload a gif on tumblr, this work is done for the color and information course brief 3! this is my first ever gif creation, it looks cranky I know 😔