Monday, 28 December 2015
The edited cup for experimental purposes. I had the idea that I would use an actual mug as the logo design, but it didn't quite look fantastic. So, after a couple of edits down and this being as good as it could quite possibly get - I decided to ditch the mug idea and go back to the drawing board. (The drawing board where taking a picture of a cup wasn't on it)
Illustration Compilation
Thursday, 17 December 2015
Ai Wei Wei and Lego
Last month, Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei made headlines when he called out Danish toy company LEGO for its "censorship and discrimination", when they refused to sell him a large order of their iconic coloured bricks, on the grounds that they do not support the use of its products for "any political, religious, racist, obscene or defaming statements." In retaliation, Ai Wei Wei has launched an attack on social media, by posting over 40 images of famous political activists and religious figures all made out of LEGO, with the aim of sharing 10 images each day for 18 days. "What we're doing is fighting for very basic human values," said the artist, "such as freedom of speech and human rights." So far the artist has posted portraits of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Do, Egyptian blogger Ahmed Douma, and Nobel Prize-winner Aung San Suu Kyi, and you can expect many more to come.
Wednesday, 16 December 2015
Religion - Buddhism
Buddhism
Reincarnation
Reincarnation is the act in which you are reborn once you have died. A constant depiction of life where one does genuinely never really 'Die' - Samsara. Samsara is highly predominant within the Buddhist religion. You do, however, change our 'outer shell' when reborn - you are reformed character but the inner personality remains the same. You may be reborn as a different species - but your spiritual internal basis stays the same.
This applies to Metamorphosis because you are changing your outer-shell and becoming (transforming) into another. A Buddhist solely believes this is the outcome once you have passed your human form.
Corporal Cognisance - Sherri Cornett
LENSE BASED ART
"Our bodies are repositories of our memories and experiences– not just in our minds, but also in the fibers of our muscles, in the expressions of our faces, in our movements, in our rhythms. The shifts in this piece reflect body rhythms: background (eye blinks), journal (respiration), images of travel (upper left, daydreaming/theta brain waves), nature (upper right, deep sleep/delta waves), family/friends (lower left, problem solving/beta waves) and random memories (lower right, meditation/alpha waves)."
I believe this applied to Metamorphosis because of the body. We grow, change and every 2 weeks we even shed our outer layer (skin) to renew itself. We constantly change and grow in different ways - transforming into something ever so slightly different. We are born to slowly but surely die, too (depressing fact of the day ha). We develop wrinkles, we age. We are constantly changing. Sherri Cornett's Lense Based Art piece shows our skin; our wrinkles; our muscles and blinking. Nature, family, friends, memories. Everything that regularly and frequently changes on a regular basis therefore supporting metamorphosis. I like the style in which she has made this Lense Based piece because I think it's a very spiritual piece. It's very unusual and makes you think in depth, which was indefinitely her intention.
Installation by Anila Quayyum Agha
"Winner of both the public and juried vote of artprize 2014, pakistani artist anila quayyum aghaexercises the architecture of the grand rapids art museum in michigan by infilling it with a dynamic interplay of shadow and light. ‘intersections’ comprises a 6.5-foot laser-cut wooden cube pierced with carefully crafted patterns and illuminated from the inside, which casts expansive, lace-like geometries onto the surrounding walls, ceiling and floor. ‘intersections’ mirrors the geometrical patterning present in islamic sacred spaces, and is derived from the artists own experiences growing up in pakistan. ‘the wooden frieze emulates a pattern from the alhambra, which was poised at the intersection of history, culture and art and was a place where islamic and western discourses, met and co-existed in harmony and served as a testament to the symbiosis of difference’, quayyum agha explains. ‘for me the familiarity of the space visited at the alhambra palace and the memories of another time and place from my past, coalesced in creating this project."
Source
Inspired by mosques that she has visited. She took photos of the structures that inspired her, which later than determined her own designs to develop her piece. This is a Box with a light inside to project the imagery all over the room. When people go to see it, they instantly become part of the sculpture because they have the patterns on themselves.
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Source
Inspired by mosques that she has visited. She took photos of the structures that inspired her, which later than determined her own designs to develop her piece. This is a Box with a light inside to project the imagery all over the room. When people go to see it, they instantly become part of the sculpture because they have the patterns on themselves.
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Tuesday, 15 December 2015
The tests of the boxes
The above two boxes didn't work. They really just didn't. After completing their box design, you can tell just by looking that they don't look as though they were going to fit. However, I did end up printing them off and the boxes obviously weren't to measurements because neither fit accurately enough without them looking really unprofessional and some of the parts left a gaps (which is something I didn't face an issue with the box I actually used.) To conclude; I did lose the images of the testing but it isn't hard to work out by eye that they REALLY were not going to work.
Failed Design
Testing out different logo designs and the promotional stance (P.O.S)
1. Ad Shell, Box Designs, Logo, Magazine Ad, Card (Infographics)
Thursday, 19 November 2015
Bauhaus 1919
Bauhaus was Walter Gropius' dream. Bauhaus is the beginning of starting a fresh on what has been destroyed in the war. A utopian idea that began with a school; Bauhaus. It looked somewhat like a gothic cathedral. Gropius (the man who created) did create the Bauhaus & Manifesto, but however, the school was almost entirely funded by the public. A revolution was created through the construction of Bauhaus. The backbone of Bauhaus was the studios, the workshops where they would construct items from wood, book bindings, metal, glass, ceramics (etc) and despite the construction based work, they were always influenced by aesthetic art.
On the Bauhaus staff, there were many artists with incredible talent. Fundamentally keeping the aesthetic purpose of each piece worked on by the Bauhaus Apprentices. There was a compulsory Foundation art and design course before going into the course they wanted. You learned about colour, structure, abstract art; which was different because typically you was taught more about Art History and the technicality of paintings and traditional sculpture. This is another reason the Bauhaus movement was beyond different.
Due to the depression, the students were told to venture out to scrap yards, to learn more about the structure and components of the materials. The bauhaus students were all somewhat fun individuals; with long hair, dressed what was deemed inappropriate. They would throw parties and enjoy themselves on trips to the theatre and bathing in their underwear.
Johannes Itten was a very laid back, pacifist who worked there for 3 years. He looked almost like a monk, with a shaved hair and typical Monk clothing aspect to his life. He even taught looking like a monk and was very interested in the Theory of Colour and was part of the Expressionism Movement.
Ladies were, after a long time, were segregated from the males into a 'women's work' format as appose to metal work because it began making individuals outside of the students, uncomfortable due to the mix ratio of males and females and the fact ladies were doing what was deemed wrong for females.
A lady, Mariana Brunt, was a metal worker, which they evidently did not agree with. She did have a very 'sleek' design, with a plain design but everything was extremely smooth and 'perfectly' constructed. She definitely didn't conform to what was expected as a typical lady.
In the foundation course, there was a lot of primary colour and geometric shapes incorporated. Primary colours and shapes inspired a lot of the Bauhaus courses and even the workshop. Triadic Ballet based on the dances by Oaskar Schlemmer is a prime example of what expression through Primary colours was like during and throughout Bauhaus.
1923 Bauhaus saw a new face in the foundation course. He was excitable and tried everything out for himself. He influence the students and the influenced seemed to influence him. Along side, a student (Albert) that had also begun working at the foundation course; he was the first graduator of the Bauhaus and was the first to work there as a previous student.
In 1923, the government had demanded to see where tax payers money was going, therefore Bauhaus formed an exhibition. It showed the expressionistic side of Bauhaus to the Constructive side of Bauhaus. The most evident exhibition was the Bauhaus house, built with a purpose of being so economic in price, that others could build for themselves. They designed a kitchen that was a workshop for cooking; all created within bauhaus. Essentially everything had a purpose - the storage, the layout; to make sure each part has a purpose.
The bauhaus closed in 1924 due to losing funding due to unemployment and national socialism which they did not agree with. Nazism went against Bauhaus because it was considered 'communist' which was everything that Nazism (national socialism) was against. Plus, due to hyperinflation and unemployment, they were printing more money, which would therefore bring down the value of money. They closed Bauhaus before it could be closed by others.
1925; In Dessau, the Bauhaus movement was reborn and reopened with a very interesting architecturally built design. With hundreds of windows, filled with light and clear space, the plain design resembled less of that an art school and more of a chemist. It was modern, with metal chairs replacing wood and an industrial orientated style.
Photography had become something incorporated into the workplace along side typography and graphic design. Essentially everything was possible in the Dessau Bauhaus. They even had a performance hall; where performances were regularly shown by the students. The Bauhaus band were exciting.
People were flabbagausted by the decision of life chosen by the Bauhaus students. Females wore trousers, Males with long hair. When they left the campus, people told their children to "Look away! They're bauhaus." - It was incredibly taboo to be anything they were in 'modern' society.
The second director of Bauhaus.
Hannes Meyer took the place of Gropius, he was in control of the place and that is when things went left. 1929, seeing the Second Director of Bauhaus, saw the Natzism rise and the Communist (Bauhaus) were complete opposites. Hannes Meyer was only the director of Bauhaus for 2 years.
in 1930, Hannes Meyer came out of directorship and Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe because appointed the position of director. Ludwig was an easy going, secrete man who smoked cigars and believed in art. He wanted to bring back art as the foundation of Bauhaus. Nazis were not in favour of Bauhaus at the point, even more so now, because they believed they were going into a Jewish way of thinking and became even more communist - therefore everything against Nazism. They hated them because they weren't conforming to what they wanted them to do. It wasn't the objects that Bauhaus were against, especially since Hitler was in photo's reclining on a Bauhaus chair and their products were right next to the Nazi orientated souvineers in shops.
Bauhaus moved to Berlin, sadly into a space they did not like especially. The police arrived one day and took a lot of the students away because the Bauhaus was so against what was considered Lawful. By 1933, Bauhaus was completely extinct due to the Nazism take over of the country.
Or did it... The Bauhaus movement somewhat moved with the teachers and students where they moved to the USA, especially Chicago. The American city because the definitive face of the industrialisation of the world.
Monday, 16 November 2015
Capp, Mocha, Latte
The difference to include on my packaging. 3 Different boxes (even if only slightly) to compliment the different coffee's.
Capp - The lightest box design with it starting with the espresso colour, into milk, into a lot of foam area towards the top.
Latte - The middle of the box designs, which are fading to a lot of milk creamy colour into a white bubbly foam colour.
Mocha - Espresso, chocolate (so a dark colour) going into a creamy white colour and then a really creamy whipped cream colour.
Capp -
DEB887
FFFAF0
F5F5F5
F5F5F5
Latte
DEB887
FFFAF0
F5F5F5
Mocha
DEB887
8B4513
FFFAF0
FFFAFA
DEB887
FFFAF0
F5F5F5
Mocha
DEB887
8B4513
FFFAF0
FFFAFA
Monday, 9 November 2015
Advertising Mock Up
I decided to mock up some images on a notice board to give an example of what I'll be doing as part of my final piece.
Here you see an example of the sizing I am planning to photoshop my image onto! This would be really large image, so therefore catching the eye of the public and excentuating the product.
When I set up the document, I tried to base it on the above with rough dimensions.
I am probably going to change this a lot, especially considering I'm going to illustrate myself (this I off the internet for mock up purposes) but to get an idea, I improvised. The background is a generic zig zag pattern; exactly how Black Lodge's carpet is.
I am planning on mixing photography and illustration for the final. Purely because then it makes it look almost like a collage; which typically my audience (generic tumblr coffee drinkers who like to watch strange American sitcoms until 7am - aka me -) are interested in.
Monday, 2 November 2015
Exploring ideas for the final of my logo
Design Evaluation - Logo Process
William Morris
Environmentalism is about conserving and preserving the environment.
-the industrialisation revolution started within this time. It's artists that brought up how beautiful nature was.
"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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Film of Morris part 1 (arts and crafts movement)
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William Morris was carried to his grave in a house and cartridge covered in vines. He was buried (being very patriotic) in an old English county side church (considering he's an atheist) which he didn't like trains because they were part of the industrialisation. He chose what would've been a "poorpers" funeral, despite having money because it was more for aesthetically pleasing. Philłip Red designed the grave stone for Morris, they were friends.
Morris was an incredible worker, he completed so many things; wrote 90 books, designed wallpaper a and many more. He was for the protection of homes and housing and the most popular poet of his day. His life was a crusade against the industrilisation and wanted to preserve beauty. William lived his early life in an extremely wealthy household in Wolvenstoe. Morris went to a private school for all boys, where his mother would hope that he would improve in theology which is controversial since he died an atheist. He used to sit in the window and admire the beauty of the outside world and reading. The boys school was riddled with anarchy where Morris was then taken from the school by his mother. In his first week in Oxford, Morris and Edward Burn Jones became very good friends. Morris was a exceptional poet and was extremely interested in medieval history. In the course of that year, he began to write poetry. Ruskin was part of the reason that influenced Morris' obsession with gothic buildings, teaching him the freedom of expression and spiritual expression.
The satisfaction of Gothic Buildings were a big thing for Morris and his friends, something that wasn't able to be fulfilled by the industrialisation, so they also travelled by foot when going on a tour. Him, Ruskin and Burns were all very interested; which all gave up the church for art.
Rossetti was a very different person they'd ever met and Morris fell "under his spell". Morris and his friends painted the 'Joviel Campaign' in Oxford.
("Chivalrous" means somewhat a 'night in shining armour' mass romanticising.)
Morris and Burns moved into housing in London, where he incidentally created his own furniture design because he didn't want anything they could find regularly. The lady who owned the housing did not like Morris at all; he always got the oldest, coldest bed and the worst of the bunch; food. Morris was a very aggravated individual. However, when becoming in love with a person, Jane, he read up on love and his drawings were very strip of the lady. She was illiterate and people were surprised when they married and which later, she then told him she did not genuinely love Morris, although they did have a child; May Morris. May Morris was the last of the Morris rein. "Red House" was a recreation of homes in the past and the future all rolled into one which he was determined to make it become beautiful and going against anything that was somewhat generic and generalised for specific quarters. It was a romance. 'Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.' was a quote that Morris quoted during their time creating their idealistic home. The walls were painted white because the light and shadow played pleasantly on the walls; which he hadn't created his wallpaper just yet.
Before the marriage of Morris and Jane, Lizzie died.
("Socialism" means equal wealth with the contradiction of the rich being richer and the poor being standard.)
Morris worked on the 'Earthly Paradise' shortly after; which became very illiterate as it proceeded. He would hold dinner parties where he would read sections of the book to people. Morris became a 'celebrity' - where Rossetti was relentless. Rossetti painted a painting for Morris where Morris somewhat believed he had regained her possession. In the painting she is beyond words; something she could never be in general life. She could always look the part; think the part but as soon as she opened her mouth she would immediately give it away that she was not like them as individuals.
Whilst Jane was undergoing medical treatment in a spa, Rossetti was illustrating Jane in the bath with water around the bath to symbolise her treatment. Rossetti and Jane were originally having an affair (or so they say.) May became a socialist embroiderer and jeweller. Jenny, another child of Morris, suffered from epilepsy and died in 1935 of Diabetic Complications. Rossetti was addicted to a Chloral, a solvent that he abused. During the attempt to cure him, Rossetti died in which Morris very morned.
Morris and Jane and still married; however Jane met a obnoxious womaniser, Wilfred Scawen Blunt. But, whilst making love due to his fixation, Jane's lover used to imagine him above them in spiritual form whilst 'making love'.
(Karl Marx was a writer who influenced the Communism and Socialism.)
Oscar Wilde was told to 'join it' - the Socialism - which Morris was the individual to say it in his typical whit.
Before the marriage of Morris and Jane, Lizzie died.
("Socialism" means equal wealth with the contradiction of the rich being richer and the poor being standard.)
Morris worked on the 'Earthly Paradise' shortly after; which became very illiterate as it proceeded. He would hold dinner parties where he would read sections of the book to people. Morris became a 'celebrity' - where Rossetti was relentless. Rossetti painted a painting for Morris where Morris somewhat believed he had regained her possession. In the painting she is beyond words; something she could never be in general life. She could always look the part; think the part but as soon as she opened her mouth she would immediately give it away that she was not like them as individuals.
Whilst Jane was undergoing medical treatment in a spa, Rossetti was illustrating Jane in the bath with water around the bath to symbolise her treatment. Rossetti and Jane were originally having an affair (or so they say.) May became a socialist embroiderer and jeweller. Jenny, another child of Morris, suffered from epilepsy and died in 1935 of Diabetic Complications. Rossetti was addicted to a Chloral, a solvent that he abused. During the attempt to cure him, Rossetti died in which Morris very morned.
Morris and Jane and still married; however Jane met a obnoxious womaniser, Wilfred Scawen Blunt. But, whilst making love due to his fixation, Jane's lover used to imagine him above them in spiritual form whilst 'making love'.
(Karl Marx was a writer who influenced the Communism and Socialism.)
Oscar Wilde was told to 'join it' - the Socialism - which Morris was the individual to say it in his typical whit.
Monday, 19 October 2015
This is a sheet showing how far I am to finishing my packaging. Not very; as i'm aware! But, however, this is an indication that it is progressing. Now it's just a case of finalising the designs, making sure everything is up to scratch and in the right place.
INFORMATION FOR BOX
- Vegan Symbol
- Shelf Life
- Infographics
- Ingredients
- Allergens
- Recyclable
INFORMATION FOR BOX
- Vegan Symbol
- Shelf Life
- Infographics
- Ingredients
- Allergens
- Recyclable
Thursday, 15 October 2015
Concept Sheet
Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Monday, 12 October 2015
More inspiration for box template design
Mock Up
With this design, I tried to make it look different to all the rest but keeping it as a definite strength within the market. The white lock on the front next to the logo would be a window to see into the product. Yes, it isn't very exciting at all, but it doesn't look as generic which could possibly draw in people's interests. I have included "vegan", "gluten free" and a barcode on the box, plus an ingredients list. It would need a lot of work, including a recyclable label, a more indepth ingredients list, the logo need smartening up a bit and professionalising, the wood background could do with my own photo scanned in of wood & overall everything needs to be much more professional. However, this was only a quick mock up and the overall design (including the list)- will be changed for the final design.
Thursday, 8 October 2015
Smart Targets
- S - Specific, Significant, Stretching
- M -Measurable, Meaningful, Motivational
- A - Agreed Upon, Attainable, Achievable
- R - Realistic, Relevant, Reasonable, Rewarding, Result Obtained
- T - Time Base, Time Bound, Timely, Tangible, Trackable
A Smart Target is how you're going to achieve your goal.
Thursday, 1 October 2015
Pre Raphaelite // Desperate Romantics
They got the name because they were the 'medieval' before the actual Raphaelite movement such as Micheal and Raphielle.
William Holman Hunt
Sir John Millais
Dante Gabriel Rosetti
Ofellia by Millais
Ofellia is one of the most iconic paintings and is based on Hamlet (Shakespeare)'s character named Ofellia. Ofellia tried to kill herself after her lover murders her father, in the stream. The plants within the painting are significant symbolism;
For example;
Crow flowers - gratitude
Daisies - innocence
Many others within Ofellia also.
Elizabeth Siddle was the model for the painting, but whilst she was in the bath, Lizzie became hypothermic due to the bath water becoming cold and her not speaking up due to her lack of right of word.
About the unconventional characteristics of Elizabeth Siddle (Rossetti and Millais)
Elizabeth has very long, urban hair which in that time would be considered a 'witch'. She was considered rare, which is why the Pre Raphaelites were transfixed on her outstanding visual appearance. When Lizzie died through an overdose but it was suspected that they, the Pre Raphaelites took the suicide note or whether this was a genuine accident. She was addicted to Laudeman (essentially like morpheine.) She was 32 when she died.
Frued, a mysoginist, created the image in writing that there was no such thing as a subconscious mind; everything was influenced by external influence/ spiritually and religious.
Rossetti was Lizzie Siddals lover throughout her time amongst the Pre Raphealites which they married not long before the death of her.
Ruskin
John Ruskin, an illustrator of the 1800's, was the beginner of discussing the PRB and nature. He was also a friend of Lizzie Siddal. Millais painted Ruskin and was painted in nature and landscape and being at one with it. He however was stood on a staircase and not in nature when painted. Ruskin ran off with Milais wife half way through the painting of him and conspiracys read they ended up at different ends of the stairs by the end of the painting.
Ruskin was a massive supported and premotor of Turner, which Charles Dickens absolutely despised the PRB. Dickens didn't especially favour Ruskin either, [and] both discussed the industrial revolution. Rosetti and William Morris have a lot of relation throughout their work and Rosetti and Morris' wife ended up copping off together which, due to Morris' huge idolisation of Rosetti, he turned a blind eye to it and allowed it to carry on.
William Morris
As part of the Arts and Craft movement, Morris was a very highly appreciated for his rather detailed, brightly coloured nature painting creations.
Renaissance
Triangular composition, golden triangle etc.
Millais
His 'Christ in the House of His parents' was one of his most critizised pieces and there was a lot of controversy about the lack of structure and the aesthetic of the boy. However, this was intended to be a God-like composition; almost humble.
Rosetti
Ecce Ancilla Domiini -
RESEARCH ----- Compositional breaks and the theme breaks
Wednesday, 30 September 2015
Idea at 8pm - MOCK FMP
I'm planning on changing my idea, still reflecting animal rights etc; into a photography and illustration piece. The above images are what influenced this idea and and also by searching into Shrigleys work and other related artists.
This is Shrigleys work. I really like this piece because I think it is really cute/cool and the writing just adds to the strange, simplistic illustrations. |
Anastasia Taou's work; Her work is very simple, a lot of the time very unique and extremely interesting. The painting/ink style is very unique but you can tell it's inspired by Shrigleys work. |
- attacking a conventional state -
"In Marxist philosophy the bourgeoisie is the social class who owns the means of production and whose societal concerns are the value of property and the preservation of capital, to ensure the perpetuation of their economic supremacy in society."
Personal Professional Research
Current jobs -
50 Adult Coloring Book Illustrator
Based 'anywhere' and starting immediately.
$50-150
Pen illustrations and should be able to draw nature; gardens, animals, oceans, landscapes and mandala's, that should not be anything like any other due to copy rights. Must be comfortable with their name not being anywhere for their designs and to never recreate their designs.
- Skills - Illustration, Adobe Illustrator, Drawing, SketchPlay Flooring
Places to place my advertisement
This is the promotional video for 25 Years Later as promised by the series! I would want something mysterious; something very strange just like what they create. I really like how there isn't any speaking in this and would probably re-create some of it but more subtly.
McDonalds Happy Meal Box Template
Tuesday, 29 September 2015
Other Logo's
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