You got to start somewhere and this was created for my best mates brother's electrical company 'Premiere Electrical'...Again if you need any electrical work done, let me know and i'll give you one of their cards.
Monday 26 October 2009
GM Domestics
Identity for a domestic company, well my girlfriend's stepfather business...So if your washing machine is on its last legs give him a call or check out his website (which I didn't do).
Neville Brody 'Bounce' - Nike
My favorite piece of work produced by Neville Brody. The font is very bold and has great impact, the fact he has used different horizontal alignments of the text and scale creates the feeling of the text bouncing. Below is a link to some of his work.
Powerful & Masculine
First assignment in UWIC, the group included myself, Aleshja and Kashia. Proudly I can say we where the first group to complete the assignment and meet the deadline of the task. We went down the stereotypical male route with male's generally liking things simple, direct and organized. We wanted to show the dominance of these letterforms which we believed meet our criteria in being Powerful and Masculine. In the criteria it also required us to chose and describe 8 different letterforms as well as using modernist layout principles plus working with a black and white colour scale.
Fatty Fatty Bum Bum
Great chinese artwork, with a vector look style! Very nice overall presentation and very simple to interactive with, have enjoyment popping the bubbles whilst you wait for the content to load up. Another boredom buster...
Mauricio Guimaraes - Illustrator/Web Designer
Not only a illustrator and web designer, but also a graphic designer. Website is flash based, and unique in a sense it represents his favorite style of work. Well worth a visit.
http://www.mauriciostudio.com/
Mynthon Kaira Ice Fishing
Simple game with overall nice presentation. Nice little something to do in your spare time. Link available below so enjoy...
Sunday 25 October 2009
Brendan Stuart Burns - As Well As Being 2002
'As Well As Being' was painted Brendan Stuart Burns in 2002. Brendan attended Faculty of Art and Design in Cardiff where he gained a ‘First Class BA Honours Degree’ in Fine Art between 1981 and 85. In 1987 he gained a Postgraduate Painting from the Slade School of Art in University College London.
His favorite materials to use in his work are oil, wax, graphite on board and using perspex to help create these layers. Using the Perspex allowed him to paint not only above painting but the underside, so the painting has three layers in which allows him to create his abstracts. The French Composer Claude Debussy inspires this piece of work.
Claude is one of the great impressionist composer’s. Impressionist composers would focus on suggestion and atmosphere rather than strong emotion. They did this by using the piano using dramatic use of major and minor scales. La Cathedrale Engloutie that Brendan Stuart Burns created this piece of art to, the music is based on myth of the Cathedral of Y’s.
This says on a calm clear morning it is said that a creature would rise from the sea, with bells chiming, monks singing and sunlight streaming through the window, however Claude Debussy created his own musical interpretation.
Across the room Carl Richards own abstract painting gives his own interpretation actually based on the myth, whilst Brendan listens to the music. He says “Painting is thinking; it is a presentation of what you do not know as well as what you do know. ‘Touch’ within these paintings is crucial.
Each of the tiles he has created have been created whilst listening to the same prelude over and over again until the image was complete, in other words he listened to the same bit of the song over and over again until he was happy with it. La Cathedrale Engloutie music he listened to is quite calm and relaxing really, but the impression I get from the music and the painting as an item together is the typical Welsh weather. The colours he has used are quite natural colours in a sense they are the colours you would find on rocks that had been eroded by the rain. How the rain generally starts of slow, picks up a bit more and slowly fades out.
David Alston review on the Brendan Stuart Burns painting suggests that Brendan is influenced by the welsh landscape and has many pictures and sketches of the coastal foreshores and Headlands.
Brendan’s paintings are generally created using the same mediums although scale can range from something as large as this to hand to elbow sized canvases.
His work has made him one of Wales’ most renowned and prolific painters.
I chose this painting as someone once told some thing along the lines "to me painting is not painting if your recreating something photographic, but something that gives someone's own imagination on the subject, now that’s painting".
Friday 23 October 2009
Psychedelic Phenomenon
“The ‘Art Nouveau’ revival dates from 1952, when London's Victoria and Albert Museum organized a great retrospective exhibit. In Germany, where the sway of the Jugendstil (as art nouveau was called there and in Austria) had been total and the counterblow of the 1920s most radical, rediscovery began in 1958 with a big show at Munich's Haus der Kunst. In the U.S. the comprehensive 1960 "Art Nouveau" exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art launched the rediscovery”.
And…
“Partly, the European "revival is a sign of tiredness and nostalgia for calmer times," says Milan Architect Gio Ponti. Hugh G. Wakefield of the Victoria and Albert Museum attributes the renewal to the cyclical rhythm in art taste: "Art nouveau is easily recognizable; yet it is now sufficiently far away from us so it has lost the connotation of old-fashioned." But others think the revival of interest in craftsmanship, the elegant and refined, is no Proustian search to relive things past. Rather, it constitutes a revolt against the grim, stark, formless, spiritless expression of much abstract art and modern architecture”.
Full article found on;
So it was seen as a rebellion against traditional values. Many people where inspired by the music at the time, music from legends such as; The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd etc. These bands used this ‘Psychedelic’ phenomenon to help sell albums and concerts.
The ‘Hippie’ era had began; long flowing hair, bright tie and dye t-shirts, experimentation with drugs, sex and religion. They also found using a gorgeous woman to help promote events, sold ‘sex sells’.
From the images at the top of the page, the left is a poster for Bob Weir & Rob Wasserman from 1999 by Frank Kozik. On the right is a ‘Ted Baker’ top I own brought recently this year. This shows the ‘Art Nouveau’ can still be found today in prints and fashion.
Images where generally found to be;
• brightly coloured although desaturated.
• Had floral patterns inspired by nature.
• Hindu gods were present on many.
• Ornate lettering.
• Symmetrical Positioning.
• Brightly coloured smoke, to give the impression of being stoned.
DesignWeek Review
DesignWeek was launched in 1986 in the United Kingdom; from 2007 Centaur Media PLC has published it and it is still the world’s only weekly design magazine that is released
every Friday.
From 1989 Lynda Relph-Kinght has been the Editor of DesignWeek, her previous experience was working
for The Architect (a now-defunct monthly) and Building Design an architectural weekly.
The website is generally updated everyday, with all the latest issues and articles available to read online. Using networking site Twitter you are able to follow all the latest news and reviews.
A weekly cost of this magazine would be £2.80 subscription but through the website you can require this magazine; £85 for one year, £162 two years and finally £223 for three years, so you could save up to 53% which would allow you to receive an exclusive package with benefits.
Audience of this magazine generally tends to be people within the design industry such as; Furniture, Graphic, Interior and Product Designers, although it would be quite relevant to students who are learning the trade through colleges or universities.
Design Week sets an innovative tone to how we browse useful links within our broad range of creative design. Utilizing a basic viewing approach keeping the viewer in mind to how we process information and linking that to an appropriate layout built around pure white colours, sustaining interest to its target audience, the creative community, making navigation into your chosen design area simple and effective which no hassle of unwanted distractions.
Design Week hosts a broad range of useful articles that both relate to struggle, techniques and reason used at a professional level giving you insight into contemporary design, the professionals work we see on a daily basis, that can aid young aspiring designers today with examples from top artists, ranging from recent awards, to early stages of design and planning from the developers themselves. With the mass of information, Design Week still continues to capture audiences and deliver the necessary knowledge, which is only relevant to the subject, keeping it easy to read, and continuing interest, which is effective design in its own rights.
One of Design Weeks most recent article is on England's new branding for the Commonwealth Games. Demonstrating the project aim towards a logo that represents the English team at the games in Delhi, which will be printed on the teams kits and communications, showing England's identity through a visual form, which carefully highlights the struggle to design a new brand, keeping the previous symbol and its competitive sprit alive.
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