After Effects - Learning how to create animations

Here i have created a short animation of bicycles, they have moving pedals, cranks and wheels. From doing graphic communication we are taught to use different techniques and programmes to create our work. I believe this helps us to explore a more inventive way of working. 

Getting to terms with after effects was easy but it is a programme that will have to be used frequently because there is so much to learn. This would also make it easier to remember the short hands and different uses within the programme.

Tom Eckersley

Famous for his work with with poster design and revolutionising a new form of art. Tom Eckersley is claimed to be the good father of Graphic Design. With the use of bold colours, clean lines and clever layouts to create his poster designs. 

April Greiman

April Greiman is a thinker and artist, whose transmedia projects, innovative ideas and projects, and hybrid-based approach, have been influential worldwide over the last 30 years. Her explorations of image, word and color as objects in time and space are grounded in her singular fusion of art and technology. Greiman has been instrumental in the acceptance and use of advanced technology in the arts and the design process since the early 1980s.

Aprils work links in with my project because of the use of text and where it is placed on a page and how it is use to inform the viewer.

The use of colours and shapes in this piece of work reminds me of Kandinsky's work.

Robert Heinecken

Object matter

Heinecken described himself as a “para-photographer” because his work stood “beside” or “beyond” traditional notions of the medium. He extended photographic processes and materials into lithography, collage, photo-based painting and sculpture, and installation. Drawing on the countless pictures in magazines, books, pornography, television, and even consumer items such as TV dinners, Heinecken used found images to explore the manufacture of daily life by mass media and the relationship between the original and the copy, both in art and in our culture at large. Thriving on contradictions, friction, and disparity, his examination of American attitudes toward gender, sex, and violence was often humorous and always provocative.

Heineckens work fits in to my assignment of 'Point to pixel' i believe this because the context he has put his type into even if it is just written type on a polaroid or printed and created type layered on to an image, he has used it to enforce reaction to the work.

Naomi Games talks about Abram Games

Naomi Games daughter of Abram Games gave a fascinating lecture about her late father. Who was a leading figure in British graphic design. Naomi's lecture included the influences her father had to create his work and also the techniques. 

Abram Games was heavily influenced by his father. Abrams father was a photographer, he taught Abram how to use an airbrush at a young age. This is how Abram became an artist. 

Standing by the belief of - "Write what you will but keep it simple" 

Abram incorporated text and image in to his posters keeping everything very minimal and straight to the point. Often thought of as a head of his time with his work. Abram had an eventful life, with many different career paths. From being in the army and designing war related posters to working for London Transport.

A genius with his work, using minimal colours and witty yet effective imagery. Sometimes his posters weren't always well related to and some did go to pulp. My opinion of his work is that Abram was very clever, his work was well before his time and that is why sometimes people didn't understand it. What i find effective about his pieces  is the use of colour to express the mood of the image. 

Point to Pixel

This assignment is based around typography in an environment. To create and portray a different message through the use of type, in an unusual setting. My idea for the assignment was to take regular signage and remake the type and image as my own and make witty &  comical  signs which will catch the viewers attention. 

Making stickers from vinyl I'm going to recreate signs. I intend to put them in to areas where people will view them and i can get a reaction from them.

The hardest part about this assignment is finding the right front to match the signs. So that mine look realistic.

Talk lecture - Laura Jordan Bambach

"We are all music makers and dreamers of dreams"-  Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Laura Started the lecture with the quote to help us feed into the lecture. The quote is to remind us that as designers we should push boundaries and to go above and beyond to make a change and create something different.

Laura Jordan Bambach is president at D&AD as well as creative Mr President and co- founder of She Says. Which is a global volunteer network which supports women  in the creative industry. 

Laura's lecture today was about how creativity is leaving the creative practice and why marketing needs to be more human. Her talk proceeded to show us award winning info graphics by big named Brands and Icons to degree students.

The lecture was insightful and mind opening. It was well worth the time to view the new creative technologies that could/ have been put in to action to save the world.

"Be the change you want to see in the world" - Ghandi

Passing time

My work so far

After getting to grips with the brief for this assignment. I have chosen to compose a booklet of images that have been transform and distorted from the originals.

Using techniques such a collage and drawing. I am going to re work in to the images, making different copies along the journy. I believe that this in its self is a process and can work within the brief and come under the heading of ‘passing time'.

I have gathered the images from an antiques shop. Collecting images that range from buildings to groups of families. I hope that having a collection of different images will help to create an interesting collection.

A few of the photographs have got type and text on the back which I hope to encorporate into my work.

Typographic Workshop 15/10/2014

Using last weeks work shop images i have distorted and edited the image. By adding text to the image has given the image another depth.

Workshop 1 - 8/10/2014

Limited space

Using the studio and the surrounding area of the university our task was to collect three different photographs. They had to based around there different subheadings:

1. Found object
2. Physical
3. Emotion 

Found object

Here my partner on the project (Zoe) managed to capture an image of an umbrella handle. By using an editing app on my phone, i have managed to crop the image to distort the image slightly. Also by using filters i have changed the contrast and warmth of the photo. 

The composition of the photo is what makes it look so alluring. With the reflection of the university in the background of the picture which is blurred to create shallow depth of field. Meaning the image in the foreground is in focus. Where the viewer can even see the water droplets on top of umbrella handle. 

Physical

To capture this image i put two of the chairs together using both of the patterns on the chair backs to produce pattern and texture. The contrast of black and white along with shadow does give the image a physical effect. The image looks embossed or layered.

Emotion

The reflection of the glass with the pattern of the circles evokes the idea of depth and clarity within the image. Putting the image in to black & white  enhances the steal enhancing the picture quality. The reason i have have used it for the sub heading 'Emotion' is because of the control of light and reflection.

Greg Sand

Greg Sands work is based on the emotions attached to the experience of losing a loved one. Sand works primarily with digital photography this helps him produce work that addresses the nature of photography and its role in defining reality.

Remnants

Remnants is a series about recollection and remembrance. Each ‘remnant’ in the series is composed of three found photos–each from a different point in the subject’s life–that have been cut into strips and woven together to form a portrait of a person who has passed away. Remnants uses cloth as a metaphor for memory.

This project has led me in to researching in to distorted images, this led to my research into Greg Sand . I have chosen to use collage and other forms of distortion in my work because i believe that with 'Passing time' not only does the faces in the image change but so can the image its self. 

Four hand composition

The 'Four hand composition' is a series of collaborative work by Billy Renkl and Greg Sand. They have used drawing and photography to create the pieces.

Sands work in this piece 'Portrait of an introvert' Is made more interesting by adding the drawn and collage aspects to the photograph. By cutting out the image of the young child creates negative space which balances out the busy composition. Throughout the project of 'Passing time' i hope to develop my work through the practise of collage and photography. Taking influences from this artist and using fine art practises to increase the depth of the work.