Details of my graphic recording of the exhebitors at WohnZukunftsTag 2017, Berlin.
See the full illustration on Behance and if you like my work follow me on instagram for more fun!

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Details of my graphic recording of the exhebitors at WohnZukunftsTag 2017, Berlin.
See the full illustration on Behance and if you like my work follow me on instagram for more fun!
Glitch “Smiles Concept”
Crisis Glitch
DATABENDING
Upon reading up on the chosen Glitch Art aesthetic I want my time-based media to have, I came across this technique of “data bending”. This involves opening the image in a Hex Editor or any code-writing software and altering the code that makes up the file.
This process requires lots of experimentation to achieve the effect you are looking for.
The images presented here are experiments I did using a screenshot of Twitter. The code was altered by copying and pasting Shakespeare’s sonnets into the code.
The process does not work very well for videos and GIFs as they are quite a lossy format and sometimes the file output is nothing at all, therefore I may have to glitch every frame of my time based media before I compile it into a whole piece.
Perspective Task - Image One
This piece is inspired by a secondary source of Lee Jeffries’ portraits of the homeless, and the upfront bold visuals of Barbara Kruger’s work (see research post).
I wanted to convey the loss of identity the homeless have when living on the streets; to the public, they are just homeless people rather than individuals themselves. I started to think about how I could show this through graphic design as well as touching upon Perspective.
Whilst researching portraits for the Tall and Narrow task prior to this, I found the works of photographer Lee Jeffries to be very effective; the bold use of black and white with high contrast is like a sucker-punch; on first glance it’s just a portrait but when you really look, the colours hit you and exceeds your first expectations and pretence of the photograph.
I chose this piece from Time magazine by Lee, as the subject is kind of unkempt and their nails are long, a hyper-exaggerated version of the homeless in my opinion. Similarly to my first tall and narrow outcome where I blacked out the faces and names of the ID cards, I used black bars to block out the identity of the homeless person.
To work within the constraints of perspective, I duplicated the layer I was working with and rotated it 180 degrees, and set that layer mode to Overlay. The two images layered on top of each other adds a level of ambiguity to the piece also; it’s difficult to tell which way is the right way up, and can be interchanged, allowing the viewer’s perspective of the piece to be altered.
Tall And Narrow - Drawing Four
This drawing was inspired around the theme of the rationale of homelessness. I researched charities like the Samaritans and Crisis to find out some of the reasons and compiled this into a list. These key phrases would later become the text for the drawing.
The initial sketch was done in pencil to resemble a spotlight shining down on the silhouette of the homeless person. I felt having the reasons inside the rays of light from the spotlight add layers of meaning to the piece; for once the homeless are under the spotlight and in front for all to see, as oppose to being sidelined.
To achieve the silhouette effect, I blocked the figure in with traditional ink. I used a stronger concentration of india ink to give it an absolute black look to the darks.
I then produced the text using Photoshop but printed the words using ink to work through the constraints of the brief. Using the computer to aid the drawings gave this a more professional quality to the piece and made for an intricate and visually complex piece of art.
Got to shadow a graphic recorder today and learn some things from her today about what she does.
Got to shadow a graphic recorder today and learn some things from her today about what she does.