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Projection Art
With my personal background being in computers I have always has a strong interest with the possibilities of projection art. With my programming skills I hope to create projection art system, much like the works of Glass Bead Collective and Dataton’s Projections.
Many projects and performance consist of art installations as continuous operation, semi-permanent events. Projection can operate...
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Nigel Grimmer
Nigel Grimmer, such an artist that many people don’t know about or dismiss, looking into his work more perfectly the creation of “Road Kill” a take on his earlier family portrait.
Having the fortunate of having a private viewing of his work is Southend and the chance to meet himself gave be a better understanding in to the images.
With the back-story of the Road Kill gallery, gave be a better...
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Non Format
The creative duo Kjell Ekhorn (Norwegian) and Jon Forss (British) both with their working partnership non-format work on a range huge range of projects including art direction, design, illustration and custom typography for
arts & culture, music industry, fashion and advertising clients.
As with before I have had the privilege of meeting Jon Foss, the UK side of the partnership, Kjell Ekhorn...
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Si Scott
Your have to appreciate the work and talent that this man has, the capability of freehand typography and illustration is something to be admired.
The respect I have for his freehand illustration design without computer aided design and this is something that I will aim to progress with next semester for some of my projects.
I have had the privileged of meeting Si Scott on my foundation, the...
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Daniel Eatock
Looking at Daniel Eatocks book Imprint, I have devised the concussion that our work is quite similar.
Talking the look at some of his strongest graphic design, yet still much unknown such as “Christmas & New Year Greeting Card 1997 / 1998” I look at this will the same intent I did with my personal project “wish you were here”.
Daniel’s outstanding work looking in to function over form and...
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World Travel Market
The brief for this project was to visit the Excel Centre for the “World Travel Market”. We had the choice of three photographic projects that were to be completed by 2:30pm for everyone to show their work to the group. Our main priority was to be a part of a crowded audience as there were loads of people who were attending this event.
Here were the three options that we had the choice of:
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High School Musical
FIRST YEAR HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL No Limits!
UEL
Level 1
Graphic Design
Tutors: Ed Gill / Pete Nevin
End of Term Exhibition / Performance
‘High School Musical 2’
No Fear.
After a terms worth of fairly restrictive projects this brief throws the ball back to you. It’s a project about unity, about pushing yourself, about taking risks, about creative interpretation, about coming...
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Artists rooms
need to view n first: www.tate.org.uk/collection/artistrooms
Although many artist present there work in many other ways, for what I would term “old media” to develop and change there views on what a museum should be. Although not throwing off every part of the museum design, which as not changed much since the Victorian times.
I believe they have made the next step in hitting the...
“Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.”
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Modernism
Modernism is seen today with the works of Campbells Soup Cans by Andy Warhol, 1962 any many others alike such as Jasper Johns, Keith Haring, all of there work broke the trend of the pervious era, braking boundary’s and challenging copestones, but the word Modernism it’s self has defined many different eras. Each era having a new rage of modernism dating for the early 1900’s to present day. Link to...
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Semiotics
Definition : The theory and study of signs and symbols, especially as elements of language or other systems of communication, and comprising semantics, syntactic, and pragmatics.
Semiotics covers a wide range of things from type, imagery communication and many more things from the text prefix of WWW. To the worldwide known image of a bike.
I look as semiotics a way of communication with...
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Crystal Ball of Doom
Pete and Ed have given our next brief this was given from a ball full of people’s names on small strips of paper and he asked use to pick from random a person which we had to produce a bit of work based on that person. In other words, we were asked to produce our own brief so it was up to us on what we should produce only to be based on that person.
I got Billy Wilder
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Billy Wilder
Well i have been looking into the history of billy wilder for some time now and some of the best that i am most interested in is the time when he moved from france to USA after world war 2, some of the scrips that he created were very with the times and the unspoken events, still with the humor he shows in his better know later work.
A point to make out is that most of the scrips were refused and...
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Surreal Typography
For this I set to stick to the rules of the project.
Only using type wherever possible and not using background to distract from the type, making shore the type is readable and that the point was quick and simple.
My personal view on this work is that I have tackled this project the correct way and the out come was of a high standard.
Although this was not the view of Ed, saying that the work...
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EXCUSES
Brief: Creatively express an excuse as to why you have not done a project using only typography.
Think up the best possible excuse as to why you have not done a project / might not do a future one.
Then creatively express your excuse typographically.
You are encouraged to hand draw, sculpt, collage, photograph, paint or use a computer to create your chosen phrase but you must only use typography –...
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Paid to Play
The second graphic design lesson, where were asked to produce a piece of work based on a pound coin. The group were able to design a piece of work of any of there choice such as scale, materials, anything that has a pound coin in it.
This was a day project so we needed to hand our pieces at the end of the day which was 3pm. It was a competition, so all the money that was donated, would be won by...
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One day Drawing Project
we have been set the task of drawing 30 drawings in one day, the first half of the day was observational drawings and the second half were drawings from our imagination. What a task. Sprung on us. with no drawing utensils. Still i made do, but im not happy with the out come. if only i was more papered.
here is the list of the drawings we had to create.
Part 1: Observational Drawings 10.30am -...
