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‘Internet Culture’

There is a digital divide going on, people in the world are losing contact with people that don’t have easy access.

How does Visual communication relate to this subject?

1930 Billion photos - 2014 Trillion photos

Marshall McLuhan 1965

“Actually without benefit of —- This is a think that education will resort to more and more(use of”

“People would travel to France or Germany to learn the language”

Alexa and google discussions on how the devices are always listening to us. Our phones are constantly taking data from our verbal language and using it to ‘benefit’ us. By recommending items on our social medias which we have spoken about, proves that our devices are literally listening to us 24 hours a day.

How does the internet change the way we experience things?

-It literally has sculpted our world into something different, I see kids growing up and playing online together instead of in person. From YouTube and watching content creators online for entertainment, to scrolling social media; Everything we need is on our phones, people are walking with their heads in their device.

Telepresence: Sensation of being elsewhere, enabled by communication technology or virtual reality.

Joseph’s spread tasks

For last weeks test, Joseph came and demonstrated to us over teams about spreads. He showed us his own portfolio on his instagram, some methods on how people create covers and described in detail his processes and how he likes the imperfections in his work, and purposely adds to these to make the cover unique, using real life textures such as burning a crisp to the edge or scratching physical typographic elements. I thought this was really interesting because I too enjoy to make my work look rigid and I find myself adding noise to a lot of my processes of images and design work.

Our task was to hand draw a column grid and cut and paste elements of the spread into the page however we wanted, I thought this task was quite enjoyable and with it being physical and not on indesign with moveable text boxes. I decided to go with a large and small image, and then a three column grid. The following task was to use the same spread but add a new style to it by not following the rules of layout, I teared the cover picture in an even larger scale, separated and used different title texts combined and sliced an image into thin strips. I even glued a quote on an image then ripped it in halves so they were completely separated on the page. I thought this was a useful and fun task to do at uni, it’s something I’d assume to be a waste of time, I questioned it beforehand, almost asking what’s the point, but until you actually do what is asked you will understand. It made me visualise and respect the lines on the page, whilst also recognising the effect of not. I am also quite happy with the outcomes, this task also helped me remember the names of certain things on the page.

Movie cover Editorial

This task was for us to practise and show our skills on the cover of an editorial. I did all of mine on photoshop because I wanted to use the layers to my advantage. I think I managed this task really quite well and got good feedback, although I don’t think many people had seen this classic film as Martin suggested I made it almost more scary, but the truth of the matter is, this film is a dark comedy, where the character is a child born from an angel and devil. However I only recognised the angel part with the halo on Nicky’s head as I didn’t want to overcomplicate the design with too many colours.

The Ugly Editorial

Here is an example I have chosen to describe for the ugly part of editorial designs. I found this image on google after searching for ugly designed covers, I wanted to be shocked and disgusted, and truthfully I gasped.

It appears that this magazine, has decided to use in-game graphics? The title is horrendously placed and doesn’t appear to have a recognisable logo. back to talking about this cover design, I want to mention that the colours are absolutely clashing, and this makes parts of the information, particularly at the bottom of the page, strongly ineligible.

I think if I were to re-create this cover, I would use colour where it mattered and use it to my advantage to make things stand out. I would change the page layout completely, and make it make sense with better typography and colour use. I think the worst part of the page is possibly the spacing in the ‘also in this issue’ section, and the randomly placed ‘number 10′.

I almost feel like it was purposely done this way, was it? It sure grabbed my attention.

Comparison on Editorial Magazines

Today, I am going to be looking at some editorial magazines and writing about how I feel about them both, in good and bad aspects. This exercise is useful to me because I should be recognise what makes something work and what doesn’t.

I have researched some pointers to help me look, and touch up on what is and isn’t supposed to be on an editorial, and educating myself on what needs to be thought over. Some examples of this could be : -Allignment, -Columns too wide or thin (It is recommended for close to 10 words per line), -Legibility, -Font styles (Too many), -Clashes of colour, -Unbalanced layout, -Images...

Found on Stackmagazine, ‘Bloom’ is recognised for being ‘in a sea of trendy gardening magazines’ and I can see why. The page spreads brings out a calming vibe like it’s title suggests to ‘gardening away your anxiety’. I notice that this style of editorial spread suits my style and I just prefer boxy layouts with images and text because the page is easy to navigate.

This example shows great examples of alignment, the lines are flush from text to image. The text is equal to imagery on the spread, which is always good for visual and information balance. I think this example is beautiful but also it could be sticking to the safety net of being almost boring.

After my pitch:

Client wants less toddler based graphics, more focused on older children, still a little uncertain to what she wants but I think I have a good idea now from comparing other students to the style she likes. I haven’t gotten round to developing anything other than the seasonal graphics for the brand yet so now I have more of an idea I can get started and create this identity for Mimosa Grove!

My feedback was clear to what I needed to do, I should have presented some of my logo designs like everyone else and not outcomes for my season based graphics, as this only confused the client into thinking this was for her identity! You live and learn, rookie mistake on my end. Wished I wasn’t so nervous and maybe I’d have been able to verbally communicate what I had done instead of giving everyone a puzzle to figure out for themselves ugh, at least I did it.

Before choosing a brief, it was a hard decision between designing stamps for the Royal Mail and the Mimosa Grove. Ultimately I decided on the Mimosa Grove because I had focused on the idea of creating cute little baby clothing, I think my head was in this space for this week as I’ve just welcomed the arrival of my new cousin and can’t wait to meet him later today!

I have bounced back and forth illustrating some ideas down to figure out the style I want to use for the brand. I am still not sure where the brand identity is going to take me because upon reading the brief I can’t decide if the client wants it to appear childlike or have some more class about it.. this information will likely be found out after hearing about the styles she wants to have represent her brand.

Mark Murph

Yesterday we had a fun workshop in the studio with Mark. Mark is a graphic designer, musician and collage artist, He told us he had spent many hours looking at a screen in his life and recently started to change this, he then taught himself calligraphy and collaging. He went through a presentation showing us work he had created and other cool collage artists. I took pictures of my favourite works (shown above), the third picture is made up of cut out pieces of money from around the world!

“One image, pair of scissors” ... The basics for what could lead to a great collage, this quote inspired me to think about how collage might work really well in my clothing designs. I started to think about the great collage artists I follow who post online every week, similar to what mark tries to do, and what their work means and represents. I also realised that collage isn’t a common method used in merchandise design.

After his presentation, he gave us a selection of books to choose from so that we could find parts of images to create our own mini, fast-paced collages.

I went on to produce 5 collages, these were my favourite. I created a mountain head and an elephant woman. I really enjoyed messing around with the images and then discussing each-others work afterwards. It really encouraged me that collaging can be fun and meaningful, I’m thinking about collaging my final ideas once produced just to experiment with them and see where it goes.

Mood Board No.1

Deciding an artist to base my work on wasn’t difficult, since 2013 I have been a huge fan of The Weeknd and all of his albums, the artwork from his fanbase is also pretty cool to look at and upon going to a concert of his I got the opportunity to see his merchandise presented in-front of me behind a stall at the Barclaycard arena Birmingham. I do already like his current merchandise but I’d like the opportunity to work on my own version and to explore his work in a more meaningful way compared to just listening to a playlist. I’d like to express his music into art which can then be presented into a piece of clothing, or just make something cool which is evidently related to him.

Bmag ‘Too Cute’

We visited the ‘too cute’ exhibition later on in the day after the Leonardo Da Vinci gallery.

The first room was set up with a short film, a character discussing everyday objects being too cute in a weird yet wonderful way.

In the large room, we were surrounded by a lot of weird artefacts and paintings which contrasted against each-other by having cute characteristic but upon inspection not so much. There was some madness behind the beauty in every piece, it made me question whether Rachael had been a little pessimistic in the cute nature of things or if she was trying to escape reality in which humans love to call everything cute, either way the whole experience was pretty entertaining, I thought the movie was great, even watched it again before I left.

I grasped an Alice in Wonderland vibe from this room, I think it might have been the collection of things surrounding me and the black shadow with cute cat eyes painting. It made me think and reminded me of when you have a regular dream and then all of a sudden it turns into a nightmare and you can’t escape it, nice things turn into scary things.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Seeing this genius’s work in the flesh and hearing a little about his backstory of possibly being autistic because of his strange obsession with subjective detail was extremely interesting to me. The opportunity to see the work up close was fascinating and incredible, my favourite pieces were a map sketch of a location and a dissection of a hand drawn inside a sketchbook. His eye for detail was so encapsulating, if you looked really close you could see very faint lines which would have helped him draw to correct scale.

The person to take us into the gallery spoke detail on how Da Vinci would have literally sat there with human body parts such as hands and legs to dissect and draw. This to the average artist is a very bizarre act and leads back to the understanding of his strange detail which for many is too extreme.

His map drawing to me was very interesting to see because it made me think and appreciate the maps of current day technology, perhaps Leonardo himself would have had to travel the entirety of this map to know where to place mountains and structures.

Illustration

As you can see I’m very good at drawing castles from memory, I’d say it looks more like a prison which makes sense actually because in Leicester I used to drive past a castle-like prison almost everyday, combine that with a little bit of Ben and Holly’s little kingdom and you have here a masterpiece I could sell for thousands at any art gallery near you!

We also had a little task in drawing for a character already chosen for us, a task which I wasn’t too amused by because people and drawing do not go hand in hand with me, stick men and women were a prime style I liked to use.

I thought the task was good for getting people to be involved in each-others work, and I learned more about the Illustration course itself which seems to be interesting, but not for me.

Tate Liverpool

The Tate Liverpool trip was a great day to enjoy the sunshine, nap on a coach, twice, explore a new city with friends and check out the great scenery.

I’m so glad I pulled through travel sickness for this trip because I had the opportunity to see some great, interesting works in the Tate Liverpool.

We learned how the artist was almost related to the Dada movement, a previously mentioned factor in art and the artist coming from a farm background who liked to incorporate geometry into his work. As we walked through almost four rooms containing his work we could watch the evolving styles, although I couldn’t take much information in as I was engrossed in the scenery, which could be seen through the two windows placed in-between artworks on the third floor of the gallery. I think i’m just more interested in a great scenic background more than artwork, but that’s just a personal interest of mine. I couldn’t control myself getting distracted by the sea waves reflecting the sunlight, I did however walk around the gallery after the talk and experiencing it for myself, approaching pieces that interested me without hearing a backstory first.

Graphics - By Jane Anderson

Today we had an introduction to the Graphics course by Jane Anderson, She introduced the class into the works behind graphics and showed us a bit of her incredible portfolio. This being the subject course I want to take next year, I was listening and trying to take every sentence in.

Jane loves typography and she went on to tell us how she has designed whole feature walls in public spaces and this was very cool to see, I think she also said she not only designed the wall but hand-painted it herself also which was incredible.

She gave us three tasks to complete, I only had time for two but I thoroughly enjoyed doing them and seeing my table come up with slightly different but interesting ideas. The first task was to use typography to show the given word in a creative manor. This was my favourite task because it was fast and pushed me to quickly come up with ideas and sketch them with only 30 seconds for each word. The second task was to choose a word and sketch lots of different ways of writing the same word, I chose ‘Yes’ evidently and my favourite, although rushed ‘yes’ to create was the one located top left with an engagement ring because it holds powerful emotional context yet it is so simple and cool.

The overall tasks didn’t really help push any ideas forward for my project but I can’t say for sure as I left thirty minutes early, although I did enjoy meeting Jane and hearing positive criticism on my work.

DFP day

We went over to the Parkside campus and were introduced to the course director of Design for performance, I think I remember his name being John?

He introduced us with a powerpoint on a massive projector, helping us understand what the course was about and what he teaches..

We ended up splitting up into two groups and choosing materials from a box to form a scene we then could explain.

I didn’t have a partner, nor could I find any great supplies to make my scene interesting but I did manage to complete the task. I used a sheet of blue acetate to make the reflection on the ground to appear as a body of water, and mesh material already looked like a mountain with an underlying cave system and I used these together to create a little imaginary place in the large studio. I imagined my little man was having his picture taken in front of the ‘beautiful’ scenery.

I hadn’t done anything like this in my life and I can’t say I was overly enthusiastic, I thought the task was quite fun and it brought me back to thinking about perspective, especially when listening to others talk about their work... In some instances, stories so wild and imaginative made me jealous to think my own thought processes were boring and unoriginal compared to the people I share the classroom with, and honestly i’m kind of jealous.

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