The Inspirational Dumping Ground

Stuck on a project? In need of a creative spark? Take a look around, you might find something you like.

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Rylsee [insta]

INCREDIBLE! The cool take on the proportions, distortion, ugh, beautiful. 

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Velvet Spectrum

THE COLOURS!!!!! I love the vibrancy, the energy, it’s a language all of its own. 

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Jessica Hische

I love this 

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Jessica Hische

WOW

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Graphic Design debate #3

Should you accept payment free work or not? Should you take part in free pitches? Is it fair or does it only demerit the creative industry? 

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Graphic Design debate #2

Do graphic designers need an ethical code? It’s often a balancing act between money and integrity. 

Standing up for your beliefs, being professional and doing your best is integrity. But alongside this is also perhaps a cultural awareness. There shouldn’t be any offensiveness to groups of people in your work. Humour is separate to discrimination. My view is that you can’t have integrity and still be offensive in your work as it shows a lack of care. 

The brands we work for, the products we create, the materials we use all define our integrity, as does our personal manner and work ethic. It’s so easy to become a sell-out in the industry that any perhaps don’t even realise. When you sell-out in graphic design, are you just another doormat designer? There’s nothing of you in your work, no morals, no self-expression, and isn’t that the ultimate robot designer? 

Where do you draw the line?

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Graphic Design debate #1

Should a graphic designer suppress their desire for personal expression in client work? 

While your work acts as a tool for the brand or client, isn't it also a cultural tool with an aesthetic language? If all expression of the designer is removed from their work, what is unique about the project? Why were they chosen? How is it any different to any other advertising? It could be argued that personal style brings dimension to the project. It isn’t more important than problem-solving, but it does breathe some life into the project and makes it more human. 

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Colours Magazine

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Jonathan Barnbrook

He was one of the first graphic designers to have the idea of design with a social conscience. His work was bold and often laiden with messages surrounding consumerism, corporate culture, war and politics. In this sense, graphic design was a weapon for good. The use of irony in his work is distinctive as is his wit. 

Some of his most famous work includes various fonts created such as: Mason, Exocet, Bastard, Prozac, Nixon and Drone. He has also worked with Ad-Busters and Damien Hirst. 

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What I want to Achieve This Summer:

Today is the 3rd of June 2020. I’ve been giving some thought into what I want to achieve this summer. I no longer feel like I can just watch time go by. I think I’m just scared because come September, I’ll be in my final year for Graphic design. 

I feel as though I’m running out of time to decide what direction and shape my future should take. I’m sure other people feel the same, where you feel as though you should have all the answers and yet you feel as though you don't even know the questions yet. 

Due to this, I’m going to build on my creative skills. In that list is obviously graphic design skills, I want to come up with a list of briefs to work on over the summer but alongside this creative writing, amateur photography and even some basic sociology/psychology classes. 

Lets do this!

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Finding Data Sets

Just google it. There’s loads of ones available. 

Lidar scanner - a camera that can give you depth so like a 3d hologram. 3D scanning apps. 

Software

Trnio

MeshLab - allows you to import any 3D object

PointCloud - visualization of data in 3D

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TO DO

NEXT WEEK - PROJECTION MAPPING. CREATE A VIDEO TO PROJECT ON AN OBJECT. 

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Processing software

OpenCV.org

LiveCamtest

Facial recognition software. Have a look at this. 

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Touch Designer OSC

Facial recognition software, with lots of other potential. Have a look at it later. Free to a certain point

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Idea for code/imagery exhibit

Dreamscope is the latest in a steady trickle of DeepDream tools created to help more people play around with Google's neural network. Since the code was first published to Github it has been used to tackle everything from images to video and even audio.

The trippy effect is a result of how the machine interprets images. Google developed its neural network to try and identify features in images, letting it learn when something is a picture of a mountain and when something is a picture of dumbbell.

Dreamscope doesn't give people the same creative freedom as DeepDream itself, but is a great way to play around with filters and create some nightmares.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-deepdream-dreamscope

Create your own DeepDream nightmares in seconds

There's now an even easier way to DeepDream your holiday pictures

Theme of dreams??

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Exhibition Ideas

Does the idea matter more or the aesthetic?

It would be really nice to see videos projected onto clear crystals, which maybe go onto mirrored walls? Almost like an infinity room. Could try and get it to link to the theme of opulence. Or maybe project onto prisms. Theme of royalty. Or religion. Utopia vs. Dystopia? 

Projecting onto smoke distorts images. Could be interesting to try out. 

Imagine smoke coming out of the machine...but the machine looks like a cigarette and onto the smoke is projected facts of mortality. Or fire. 

An exhibition that address mortality? But in terms of either purpose or life after? Dante’ s Inferno. 

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Visuals and Code

Another useful (FREE!) piece of software that may be helpful is processing.org which is free online software which allows you to create visuals from code. 

This could be useful if your project involves exploring computers and the internet, or maybe a dystopian future. Who knows. It takes a little bit of getting used to, but the effects are really nice.

A picture is formed of code. Perhaps an entire world could be made of code, and so it is real but at the same time not? There’s a lack of tangibility about it.