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Wednesday 21 December 2011

M.C Escher reference


M.C Escher
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Tessellation's are a mystery to being with, there is a dynamic art to deal with in creating the perfect one. 

Take for example M.C Escher's picture above with the fish and birds, he has created a perfect link to how they can fit inbetween each other; also known as negative space potentially.The picture looks as if its created with both pencils and charcoal to get a rich colour of black. It doesn't look that interesting as there isn't any colours other than the paper and the charcoal. The background is very interesting as the there are fine marks neatly bordering the general picture. 

Another very creative thing to take on board is that the top and bottom show a fish and bird in great detail and gradually he has decreased the detail to just a line drawing. I really like this idea as its definitely something that be easily replicated or recreated to suit a different artist.

Millennium Square Pavement
The real reason I decided to research M.C Escher was because patterns are among us in our daily lives. Like for example during my time on the Bs1 project, I made my journey involving different types of pavement. I have uncovered 10 different types of pavement around this one area of BS1, as I was looking for something that was everyday I noticed that there was a difference in the pathways and areas. This picture I took around millennium square next to the IMAX theatre, the path way as you can see is very modern and has a dynamic look to the area.

Ferry Station Pathway

This path however is from Ferry station; a few metres away from millennium square this pathway gives an audience this is a old historic area. I have realised these paths already give an audience a sense of whether its old or modern. This path suggests that its old as the pattern design would take a while to complete and you can tell that the stone has eroded away through out the years. With this design it is very unique and the person to have designed this must have been influenced by tessellation's and patterns. This looks like a water ripple outcome and as it's close to the river, it would seem relevant.
Water Ripple 

Almost the same as this picture to the left, however in the path above this person has made a grid like structure to his outcome.


From looking in depth to M.C Echer's work, I have seen through these everyday life patterns and how it creates design for everyone. I now understand that these design or new ones will change our perceptions of understanding what is old and what is modern.





















Friday 9 December 2011

Graphic Design (in Cardboard)

Creating the cardboard letters

The start of todays lesson was on creating a huge letter. My letter was P and as the class were assigned different letters we all eventually made "Graphic Design".
























This whole lesson was a real indication of how I could incorporate this within my project work. Oli basically inspired me, as I really enjoyed making a huge letter I decided to make small individual letters and setting them around the area of Bristol.

Sunday 4 December 2011

Graphic artists references

Monday 28th November 2011

Artists Research 

Noma Bar



Norma Bar an amazing Graphic artist. His work mainly consists with creative negative space effects, like for example this picture shown above. This image shows interest for the viewer and of a well known image thats slightly twisted, there is so much to see in the image and what it was meant to be. The smiley is shooting its eyes and the funny thing is that its the last one, the way how the slingshot has been made into the smile gives you the negative space and completely works with the whole image.


The work has obviously been created using digital media such as illustrator. The outcome is very clean and has a meaningful message.


The impression of Noma's work completely gets my mind going and I start asking myself how he has managed to make it so simple. The smiley with the slingshot is such a professional looking piece and the way how negative space in this image and many others have been very inspiring. The things i have picked up on looking through his work is by making the outcome very simple but with a dynamic element of graphical elements.


I will continue to look at the latest work from Noma bar and using him as an influence on my work will strive me to design in the write direction.


Tang Yau Hoong  


http://tangyauhoong.com/negative-space/


Tang Yau Hoog a graphic designer . Tang uses a range of different scenarios with his input of negative space creations such as this piece above. The image is of a night skyline shows many various skyscrapers in the background, and in the foreground we have blinds overlooking the over exaggerated moon. The picture is very good with the space it was created on Tang's graphical knowledge has deliberately made the moon too big so that the full image comes together and creates an eye. 


The balance of colour is very subtule to the viewer as the only colour used is a soft blue and mainly black. As the image is digitally produce it also has a rustic effect to the black parts; bottom left corner and right shows a grunge look.


Creating this image as an eye is brilliant, the whole message comes across as almost a first person view by making this type of shape. It almost creates a chill out type of mood to the audience and is very pleasing to look at.


All of Tang's work has got a message inside, whether it'll be the message that the audience interprets or the work of our minds. He truly is a great artist's and has lots more designs to look at on his website.




Friday 2 December 2011

Bitmap vs Vector

Bitmap Vs Vector



Bitmap
A bitmap image is a range of different pixels, to build up an image. They are essentially known as rastered images and use a multiply of selected colours to become a image. The outcome of these photos are very good in quality. They look smooth as the pixels are small and together they use a gradient of the same patterned colours with the help of anti-initialise.

While using Photoshop you must be very careful on resizing the image because it will eventually lose focus and quality to how it originally was. 
Take for example this image of the rose, you can definitely see that the computer has tried its best to arrange colours to build it back up. The way how this picture is zoomed means that the image was considerably smaller. once making a bitmap image is to change the resolutions on either the image you are using or the page you are going to create it on. 



Vector

A vector image uses a series of different polygons to ensure that the image stays the same and doesn't lose quality. All the areas a circle for example will be very smooth based on a mathematical equation in the computer application that deals with vector; in this case it's Adobe Illustrator. Vectors are used in a lot of graphic design like for example t-shirt designs posters to get the message as clear as possible. 

Today I made a vector image of the yin and yang logo and then I created my own version. Using the technique that Oli taught the class; the negative space idea of tricking the mind of what is or is whats not.