Amelie - 2001, dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet - color, lighting, narrative Wizard of Oz - 1939, dir. Mel Stuart - scale, paradox, metaphor Amelie screenshots :Wizard of Oz screenshots :The Good Witch of the North is a metaphor for the electorate of the North. She says " Never let those ruby slippers off your feet or you'll be at the mercy of the Wicked Witch of the West. " The Witch represents West-coast bankers and the slippers symbolizing silver that was not manipulated by the banks. Further reading on The Wizard of Oz's metaphorical content here. The 1 hour and 40 minute film is short but sweet with some intense political commentary that is not readily noticeable but incredibly portrayed.
" You could be another Lincoln if you only had a brain. " - Scarlett to the Scarecrow Stefan Sagmeister, Austria-born designer and typographer, has been a huge influence to me since I first started becoming interested in design work. I had the privilege to attend his lecture at SCAD in 2014 with my mom. He made whale boner jokes. It was awkward. Professor Carson gave us complete freedom with who to research and present so as they were a visual artist of some kind. My decision was fairly easy. I kind of fell in love with him in the process of learning about him. His particular focus on bringing the human back into design is appealing to me because I try to include heads or bodies in a lot of my work but need to get better about figure drawing. If you can relate to a good design, it has accomplished its job. The inclusion of the human body is extremely relatable. The fact that he is text-driven in his work is a huge inspiration, too. If nothing else, I want to use words to convey a message, to highlight typographic forms, or to work in conjunction with visuals in my work. I think text is sometimes forgotten in the creative process of fine art or design. I try to bring it to the forefront, figuratively and literally, even overlapping bold letters on top of drawings. His partner in crime and design, Jessica Walsh, is a badass business woman and artist and I could only aspire to be half of her when I grow up.
Thanks, Stefan. presentation How are you? Hope you're doing well. For this project, I brainstormed a lot of events in my life that may be considered important or mildly interesting so as to not form a terribly boring timeline. Below are the ideas for content/events and design/layout. I call these pages that form inevitably with every project my "shit show, in progress" pages. Click for larger. I had to narrow down my options in order to keep a clean and simple final design, so I chose eight events:
This project's objective was to create a large-scale photo ID with a new design and specifications. I started by researching non conventional ID designs like: ...took the rainbow motif, expanded on that, and fell into the rabbit hole of 80's design: From there, for the sake of my sanity and limited time, I found a text generator in the depths of the Internet that perfectly matched my intended aesthetic, added my full name, and voilà: Then, I started on the back of my design. I wanted a darker background that maintained an 80's high school feel so I found the image below and used the colors throughout my design. I added the text from the back of my actual SCAD ID in fine print on the lower portion ("If found, please return to SCAD..," "This card is non-transferable," etc.) This detail along with the strip of black that would be used to swipe the card gave it a realistic touch. I included my actual student ID number, major and minor programs of study, graduation date, and the quarter I am currently enrolled in. This way, the design could easily be translated for any student in any major/year. I decided to add more to the front of my ID as the back had more going on than the front and there was no real image of myself to show my identification, the whole purpose of an ID card. Because I had started with this idea of a futuristic-but-retro school, I didn't want to just slap a picture of my face on the design and call it done. In my opinion, this badass of an institution would be much more inventive with their methods of security. So, every student is therefore identified using facial recognition software rather than photographs. I am limited in my knowledge on this particular subject and technology in general so instead of constructing my own virtual mock-up of my head, I took to the Internet again. I began by searching the golden ratio in the female face, as we studied this in class before and it's the first thing to come to mind. From there, I stumbled onto this image of Facebook's DeepFace scan. Here's the article: some pretty fascinating stuff about how Facebook is becoming more advanced in their ways of facial recognition, even more so than the FBI.. My futuristic 80's school could benefit from a bit of Facebook's insight. I took this into Photoshop, colorized it, adjusted the contrast and levels, took the same colors used in the palm trees on the front of my ID and color dropped them onto the heads to match perfectly; below is the final product. As our fourth design challenge, each student was to thoroughly research the golden ratio, or golden mean, and how it appears in nearly every masterpiece, major works of art, and in nature. Then, we had to make three separate compositions focused around the golden ratio: one with primary colors (red, yellow, blue), one with secondary colors (purple, orange, green), and one with complimentary colors. I centered my primary color composition on Wes Anderson's film, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Below are a few examples of the golden ratio occurring in the film. I focused on the above scene, taking each section of the image and changing the color balance, hue, and saturation, adding filters and compiling them onto a new canvas. I flattened the image and posterized it to give it a sense of unity while maintaining the variety formed from the different colors.
While there are primarily (ha!) reds, yellows, and blues in every section of the composition, I wanted to accentuate only one of the colors in each area. How to be a successful artist/designer : make the grade + portfolio/resume + community service + connections Creativity is the ability to come up with new, original, unique solutions to problems or ideas. Creativity makes use of divergent thinking, which is solving problems with many possible solutions, as opposed to convergent thinking, which is solving problems with a single, correct answer. (Study.com) ge·stalt [ɡəˈSHtält/] noun PSYCHOLOGY an organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts. Design strategy 1. Define problem : community service project 2. Do research : word & place 3. Determine objective : what will you create or do? 4. Devise a mission statement : branding - what do you call yourself? 5. Execute the strategy : make the model or concept drawing 6. WEDNESDAY 2/7 present results I) Team Leader - Rachel Kimbrough II) Technical Genius (IT) - Hao Wang III) Designer/Creator - Sarah Schwager IV) 'Wild Card' - Sung Jun Chi Undivided artist collective team design collaboration : group of artists 'Undivided' from around the world construct an interactive installation at A-Town Get Down 2017 music & arts festival. the installation will be based on uniting humans through where they're rooted and where they aspire to go / installation : 12 foot polyurethane body printed with a world map sits on the ground, multicolored pins and white yarn is provided, guests are encouraged to place a tack on the location they were born, where they were raised, and where they would like to go. yarn overlaps and entangles over time and wraps the body. / timelapse is created from a video camera filming the entire installation process and interactivity / prints, shirts, stickers, and other products are sold with A-Town Get Down, Undivided Collective, and installation specific designs / all proceeds go to state, local, or world charity of the buyer's choice at the time of purchase. Click for a PowerPoint presentation on our installation ideas. Similar to visual design analysis III (nature micro/macro), this challenge was based around a motif with recurring shape and form, but rather than a naturally occurring outline, we were to focus on man-made objects. Considering most everything is made by man in today's world, even nature is being transformed into synthetic or unnatural objects and products. My thought process for this design composition began with nature remade by man, i.e. cut wood, paper, coffee. I found this to be too broad of a subject for my art. I also lost interest in the idea quickly, considering I'm not very interested in the matter. I brainstormed things that I like - music, film, television, design, typeface. Shirt patterns, beer, bottles, labels. From this, I came to the conclusion that I wanted to include text in my project, as I almost always do. I could form a word, or a phrase, or have the entire composition include letters. The movie poster for The Undead, a 1957 fantasy film about a therapist who visits the Dark Ages with a reincarnated prostitute, showed up on my feed while I was scrolling through Facebook trying to come up with ideas. I was immediately drawn to the type displayed so boldly and the creepy imagery on the poster design. I investigated further and came across Wrong Side of the Art, "horror, sci-fi, exploitation, cult, trash, B-movie posters." I swam through the high resolution posters with wide eyes and flowing inspiration. I had no other choice but to delve into the weird world of vintage horror and science fiction for this project, a subject I had always wanted to explore. Below are the files I ended up saving and I used twenty of them cropped into tiny, individual squares in my final grid. Inspiration for my phrasing "SCARE YOU" / art by tittybats
Contour line drawing has been a warm-up exercise for some and a finished product for others, making it a subjectively used form of drawing. It is done with very little detail, virtually no use of shading, with heavy focus on outline and shape. Andy Warhol, an artist best known for his silkscreen prints and Campbell soup cans, began his extensive artistic career with contour line drawings such as: A less well-known artist that focuses on contour lines in their work is Ian Sklarsky. Sklarsky is a Brooklyn-based artist who uses pen, ink, and watercolor to bring his subjects to life through portraits and still life drawings. For this in-class exercise, after studying Warhol's sketches, each student composed at least twenty line drawings of various objects that Professor Carson provided; everything from feathers to an ear of corn. The sketches could have been blind contour or not - that is, drawn without looking down at the paper and keeping focused on the subject rather than the pen, resulting in some interesting lines and compositions. A few of my sketches were blind, and it was significantly easier to draw without looking at what was going on beneath my pen. My preferred style of drawing is mostly very uptight and clean, so letting go and allowing my sketches to be messy and flawed was hard for me. My renderings were much more complete and visually pleasing once I started drawing blind. The irony. Click on each thumbnail to view larger. Use arrow keys to select images. From these twenty sketches, I created a little design from my handbag drawing. I uploaded it to Photoshop, played around with filling surfaces with color and line, and then this happened:
As our third design challenge, similar to the point project, each student took a number of photos depicting natural micro and macro objects (small and large). The objective was to enhance visual awareness and discover the simple shapes within complex forms. There was a single motif to the piece: nature, but other than that, the design and photos were up to each student's interpretation. Each picture had to have a main similarity to every other picture, and I chose to focus on naturally occurring lines in the human body. Without noticing, we make beautiful compositions during mundane tasks through only the lines of our bodies. I chose to take this to a further extent; I didn't take the pictures myself, but had people send me selfies. I was interested in the way that twenty-somethings portray themselves to the public eye through the lens of a cell phone and how they pose or act in the photo causing different lines to form. From this, I posted a Facebook status with a "call for entries" along with asking some of my best friends personally. I received about thirty different selfies. Some were poor quality or didn't show much skin at all, so I couldn't use all of them. I narrowed down my choices to twenty photos. Here is a few of the submissions: I uploaded each selfie into Photoshop, cropped the photo to an interesting composition with body lines as the focal point, and inserted the cropped frames into a grid of twenty rectangles. To fulfill the micro/macro concept, I focused on small creases of the skin as well as the overall shape of an arm, or a butt in this instance. Below is two versions of the final product. Click below for larger images of the work in progress and final versions: I am happy with how these images turned out despite running into a few problems when putting this together like how far to zoom in and crop, what pictures to put next to each other, and how to arrange the composition overall. There were infinite possibilities and I had ideas to arrange them by skin tone, how close-up they are cropped, certain body parts in specific rows or columns, and which photos worked perfectly in the design and which to throw out. I couldn't have made this without the contributions of all my wonderful friends.
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