Monday, April 19, 2010

Trends and Designers

Trends for 2010

remaking movies
black framed glasses
nerdy look
80's fashion style
textured stadiums
EXPENSIVE BRANDS
Dancing showssinging contests
PixelsPop artStreet art
Geometric shapes.

Typography:

Typography is the art and process of setting and arranging types and printi
ng from them. You can arrange type and letters to arrange to form a piece of work which display the principals and elements of design. Type can also been used just as type for a magazine or poster lay out, thats used for body copy. Type can be manipulated in many ways just by using normal tec
hniques like tracking, leading, point size etc. Or it can manipulated in illustrator by creating outlines and manipulating each individual letter. You can also out line the in
dividual letter or stretch it which can make some fantastic effects.


One artist who uses this theme is the New Zealand designer Dean Poole. He had used type to design an identity for these lawyers. The identity is just basically the font helvetica and then further on in the
identity they only use and RGB colour scheme with the letters. I like the thought that just having something real basic can display and make such an impact and be that recognizable, which makes it successful.

Another artist who uses typography is a Melbournian Typographer Wayne Thompson. What Wayne does is that he creates type font families. He creates a few of his families by them just starting off as hand written. Then he scans them in, re traces them
and inks it in so they are all structured. Then he scans them in again an the further manipulates them in illustrator after live tracing them. Then has to kern then and then they get created into a proper font.

Illustration/ hand drawn:

Ghost Patrol: Ghost patrol is a Melbournian artist whose style is very individual, noticeable
and really raw. his motifs are mainly about little characters that he creates which are infused
with animals and his own imagination and creativity. He artwork nearly portrays scenes of fairy tale or children's stories by the way he displays his characters interacting with animals. His style and message of his work also mean that the tools of art can be his canvas of work. as he uses pencils as a canvas. Ghost patrol uses pencil, ink, screen printing, markers and paint as his media for his artwork.

Stuart Campbel
l is an Tasmanian born artist who used to produce interactive programs for the Australian Army Defense. But now creates an online interactive comic, using nothing but his own drawings, talent and skill. Stuart's online comic is called Nawlz where it is a city created by him which is extremely futuristic and really out there. All of the art in Nawlz are Stuart's own illustrations and ideas and work. His illustration style is close to realistic with a hint of abnormality. The like are very wavey and streaky to create movement.

Concept Evaluation:

Robyn Beeche was a Sydney born Photographer who moved to London. Her concepts and techniques of taking photos are unique and are still are mesmerizing today.

Her concept was mainly taking photos of portraits. She had different themes to her work, such and Fantasy, Egyptian, Traveling, 80's, Fashion, Shapes, Geometry, Shadows, Arrows, Geishas and much more. Everything that you see or notice in every picture of hers, was every element was one the model and nothing was ever computer enhanced. They couldn't computer enhance any thing because they didn't have that type of technology back then. When you see her photos you can't believe that they were taken exactly taken in the way its presented. all of the models, props and background were all placed in that arranged position, which were captured as photos.

For example, with the photo straight below, its was taken with the shadows painted on the model. They then later got a got two doubles of the photo then placed them one in front of the other. All the make up was done by a professional artist and friend of hers.

In my opinion I believed she was a successful artist with the amount of photos that she had taken, as well as she started off as a small photographer. Then got renowned to take such magnificent photos, just by her techniques and arrangement of objects that she used and had.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Aboriginal motifs

Functions and Philosophies:

Respect:
Are the rights belonging to indigenous people that’s own and control. This covers Indigenous images, designs, stories and other cultural expressions that should be respected. This means Indigenous art can be shown everywhere and there is no rascism or direpected or no reason for allowing Indigenous art to be produced or exhibitioned.
>Acknowledgment of country
> Aboriginals and Torres Straight Islanders are the original inhabiters of this country which gives them more priority to respect their culture, rituals, art and society.
>Public art acknowledging land. For an Indigenous artist, if they were commissioned to produce art for a government project, they would have to seek approval by the Indigenous community and elders to produce work and ask if they can display their art it public.

Interpretation, integrity and authentication:
>Aboriginals believe that they should have more power and control of what cultural art goes on display for the public.
>Interpretation refers to how cultural information and art is displayed. It means that the Aboriginal community rather respond and inform how at or cultural material should be traditionally spoken about. Rather than have an outsider send the wrong message and interoperate wrong information.
>Integrity refers to the treatment of all the original work, how it it used. Work cannot be tampered, cut, edited, reused, adapting or even enhancing.
> Authentication refers to who produced the art, as in was it a true Aboriginal artist or someone else. Its raises many issues on which art can be displayed. The Artworks and materials can only be displayed if it is issued and authenticated by an Aboriginal elder and if the artist is Indigenous them self. Otherwise it would be massively produced by foreigners and be forging unauthentic art.

Moral Rights and Issues:

> If any material is offensive, should be used.
>Ask Indigenous elders for permission of use and colours to be used.
>Make sure you have a good lawyer just incase and get your logo registered asap.
>Does the work contain anything that has be used for created before?
>Is the work intended for a specific gender.

Bibliography:

Protocols for producing Indigenous Australian visual arts

Australian Council 2007