Well I have finished my first week of full time work. Quite enjoyable, the people there are very welcoming and easy to talk to. The business is called All Australian Greetings, a greeting card place. There are two designers including me.
The cards are different to designing a brochure, they use foil on all there cards, so I'm working with different layers, different programs aka CS, not CS4. I use a wacom tablet.
It's weird leaving the building with nothing in my hands, not laptop, no folio and no signing out but the difference is good. It's takes me an hour to get there in the morning but it's worth it.
Shannon, signing out.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Monday, November 8, 2010
Ceramic Exhibition
The ceramic sculptures were quite skillful. There were a couple that really liked such as the candle holders, but there was only one that I had really liked of the paintings. That was the self-portrait the guy with the spaces in his ears. Otherwise, the embosed face with the projecter was very creative.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Ethics
Ethics is a system of moral principles that influence personal and corporate procedure.
(looked at the code of ethics)
Tibor Kalman is a graphic designer that believes have can change people's opinions with his art work, He is quite suggestive and controversial.
COLORS is a quarter year magazine read throughout the world by young adults.
It is published in four languages, and sold in over 40 countries, worldwide.
Some ethically sound corporations are Shoalhaven Paper Mill, they are environmentally friendly. They use pine plantations to make the paper and recycle paper.
Unthical businesses are Syntel, American Mega Trend Inc. Shell servo, destroying lives overseas.
(looked at the code of ethics)
Tibor Kalman is a graphic designer that believes have can change people's opinions with his art work, He is quite suggestive and controversial.
COLORS is a quarter year magazine read throughout the world by young adults.
It is published in four languages, and sold in over 40 countries, worldwide.
Some ethically sound corporations are Shoalhaven Paper Mill, they are environmentally friendly. They use pine plantations to make the paper and recycle paper.
Unthical businesses are Syntel, American Mega Trend Inc. Shell servo, destroying lives overseas.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Melbourne Museum of Printing
On the 14th October, 2010, me and 6 other students went on a road trip to Footscray to participate in a museum tour that David Trout organised.
When we first arrived, when they first opened the roller door it was quite obvious that some people were disappointed, it was as if we had driven half an hour to, what some described as a "garage sale". It was quite amusing to everyone, especially when Laury initially spoke. Didn't seem like he had much planned. Luckily, he wasn't the tour guide, Micheal, tour guide, had thorough knowledge about each item. He introduced himself as a Type Enthusiast, so had never worked with type himself unlike Laury. I thought it was good being able to look around at the stuff for 15 mins before the tour started. It allowed me to make my own conclutions of what each item did before I was told the proper meaning, it helped me remember what each thing was, maybe because I was able to relate more.
When we first arrived, when they first opened the roller door it was quite obvious that some people were disappointed, it was as if we had driven half an hour to, what some described as a "garage sale". It was quite amusing to everyone, especially when Laury initially spoke. Didn't seem like he had much planned. Luckily, he wasn't the tour guide, Micheal, tour guide, had thorough knowledge about each item. He introduced himself as a Type Enthusiast, so had never worked with type himself unlike Laury. I thought it was good being able to look around at the stuff for 15 mins before the tour started. It allowed me to make my own conclutions of what each item did before I was told the proper meaning, it helped me remember what each thing was, maybe because I was able to relate more.
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Shaun Tan
I didn't like the book expedition much, I thought it was pretty basic and amateur. Not to say there wasn't some good artwork there, just stuff that I found hard to appreciate. There were some things that David mentioned that were well worth noting but I noticed that even he found it hard to talk about the art pieces. I was annoyed about that, I was expecting him to fill me in on the parts of the art that I failed to see. Whether he didn't know much about them or there wasn't much to say about them, I was on the same page.
On a lighter note, I went to the Shaun Tan expedition on the 10th of Oct down at South Melbourne. He's a fantastic artist, unfortunately I couldn't go last week when he was personally at the expo signing and selling books.
Shaun Tan wrote and illustrated beautiful books such as 'The Rabbits', 'The Arrival' and 'The Lost Thing' which was also a film and the exhibition title. He illustrates by using real textures in his works, e.g. thickened paint and cracking paint, his imagination is astounding. My favorite book it 'The Rabbits', if you haven't read it, visit the library. It's a story about the invasion of the Europeans onto the Aboriginals using rabbits and banquettes, told in a way that children could understand it. The book 'The Arrival' is also fascinating, I find that he forces you understand how the character is feeling and witness things from his point of view. It was interesting the amount of hard work, the amount of drawings put in to produce a short, animated film. All the different media used to show different thing; as in soft pastels to show the animators how he wanted the light to look and gray led pencil to depict the characters, they had such personality. Defiantly worth going.
On a lighter note, I went to the Shaun Tan expedition on the 10th of Oct down at South Melbourne. He's a fantastic artist, unfortunately I couldn't go last week when he was personally at the expo signing and selling books.
Shaun Tan wrote and illustrated beautiful books such as 'The Rabbits', 'The Arrival' and 'The Lost Thing' which was also a film and the exhibition title. He illustrates by using real textures in his works, e.g. thickened paint and cracking paint, his imagination is astounding. My favorite book it 'The Rabbits', if you haven't read it, visit the library. It's a story about the invasion of the Europeans onto the Aboriginals using rabbits and banquettes, told in a way that children could understand it. The book 'The Arrival' is also fascinating, I find that he forces you understand how the character is feeling and witness things from his point of view. It was interesting the amount of hard work, the amount of drawings put in to produce a short, animated film. All the different media used to show different thing; as in soft pastels to show the animators how he wanted the light to look and gray led pencil to depict the characters, they had such personality. Defiantly worth going.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Photography Quiz
Wow this was very interesting. I now know the mysterious origin of the philosophy of people seeing the world upside down, before our eyes correct this.
- Sir John Hershel first used the term photography in 1839
- The term ‘camera obscura’ means: dark room
- The earliest writings about the camera obscura were
written by Leonardo da Vinci.
- Who produced the first photograph in 1827? Nicephore Niepce
- Daguerre’s invention in 1937 was called the Daguerreotype
- In 1884 George Eastman introduced flexible film
- Eadweard Maybridge is famous for recording what? Motion photography
- What did Thomas Eakins invent? A camera that could record several sequential exposures in a single photograph.
- ‘Migrant Mother’ is the title of a famous photograph by Dorothea Lange
- What was the first major world disaster to be recorded
on a photograph? The Hindenburg disaster
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Posted with a night left and a couple of beers
I thoroughly enjoy using this blog as a vehicle to express myself. I found prior to this experience i did not understand the purpose and value to social media (being the one person who would annoy others by never checking their facebook )
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Paula Scher- Design is serious (not solemn)
I picked the video that looked most relevant, it was, by my luck, one of the longest movies there, but I persisted! and I think it was worth the viewing.
Paula Scher spoke about the difference in being serious and solemn min regards to design. It was a little hard to keep up with when she spoke about the comparisons in a quoted essay, but by the end I think I had a firm grasp on what she was trying to convey. The difference, from what I can understand, is that serious is when one is, not only dedicated, but passionate about a certain problem, i.e. gambling is serious because it can make or brake finance. On the other hand, to be solemn is to be proceeding with a job that is a necessity which doesn't need one's undivided attention. The analogy that I closest related to was "there is no other job matters", her dedication to the theater job, although she had other jobs, was her highest priority, she lived and breathed it. On Saturday, I played the preliminary final of rugby and we hadn't beaten the team yet this year. My coach said to us before the game "this the game, this is your last game. Next week doesn't matter so leave nothing on the field." That was the difference, that game we played seriously where as the others we played solemnly.
Paula Scher spoke about the difference in being serious and solemn min regards to design. It was a little hard to keep up with when she spoke about the comparisons in a quoted essay, but by the end I think I had a firm grasp on what she was trying to convey. The difference, from what I can understand, is that serious is when one is, not only dedicated, but passionate about a certain problem, i.e. gambling is serious because it can make or brake finance. On the other hand, to be solemn is to be proceeding with a job that is a necessity which doesn't need one's undivided attention. The analogy that I closest related to was "there is no other job matters", her dedication to the theater job, although she had other jobs, was her highest priority, she lived and breathed it. On Saturday, I played the preliminary final of rugby and we hadn't beaten the team yet this year. My coach said to us before the game "this the game, this is your last game. Next week doesn't matter so leave nothing on the field." That was the difference, that game we played seriously where as the others we played solemnly.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Tim Burton expodition
The most obvious description of Burton's work is scary. Scary by the way he depicts his characters, skinny, sharp teeth with mutated/ dis-proportioned figures. I noticed that everything is exaggerated, a skinny person will be a stick where as a fat person is drawn with rolls of fat. Other areas that are consistently exaggerated are facial features, limbs and the atmosphere he creates.
Burton draws in a grotesque fashion demonstrated in his line work, it is scribbley and rushed, large eyes with minute pupils and lack of attention to the common amount of teeth. Most of his illustrations are drawn in black biro then water colour applied over top. The water colour is applied roughly using flicks and quick strokes. Burton suggests similarities between his drawings and clowns, they both exaggerate bodily features, Burton with less pretense and more physical distortion.
Burton enjoyed incorporating puns into his work like 'Bob enjoys holding hands with Sarah', two people holding severed hands. Burton plays on black humor, joking about death and the monsters inside people.
I have concluded that Burton had an odd childhood judging by, not what was written but, the collection of works featuring a child and movies he's directed. These works really gave the vibe of a poor relationships with his father a terrified little boy who saw the dark side in everything, including a toilet.
I quite like his style of art, it's different and distinctly unique.
Burton draws in a grotesque fashion demonstrated in his line work, it is scribbley and rushed, large eyes with minute pupils and lack of attention to the common amount of teeth. Most of his illustrations are drawn in black biro then water colour applied over top. The water colour is applied roughly using flicks and quick strokes. Burton suggests similarities between his drawings and clowns, they both exaggerate bodily features, Burton with less pretense and more physical distortion.
Burton enjoyed incorporating puns into his work like 'Bob enjoys holding hands with Sarah', two people holding severed hands. Burton plays on black humor, joking about death and the monsters inside people.
I have concluded that Burton had an odd childhood judging by, not what was written but, the collection of works featuring a child and movies he's directed. These works really gave the vibe of a poor relationships with his father a terrified little boy who saw the dark side in everything, including a toilet.
I quite like his style of art, it's different and distinctly unique.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
First Official post
Time is flying by with 4 things I must juggle, learning to use this blog, writing my report, GUI assignment and still got to go clean the gutters of the chook pen.
The first artwork I'm discussing is Stephen Bush's 'Hawkweed'. It is the first work I noticed upon walking in. The effect on the work was quite engaging. A large, green shack that was an accurate representation (detailed) of reality was painted in amongst a landscape of uncontrolled drips and strokes of paint. This created a large contrast between the reality side of the piece and the indistinguishable. I believe this represented a conflict of realities that, what seems to be a little girl, is facing. Although, after discussion with peers, the girl may symbolize the common man at it's most vulnerable state, a small female child. Considering this and the possibility of the background marks representing nature, the meaning may conclude that the man, the girl, is overwhelmed and can't fathom or concur the system of nature. In a phase, man is nothing in nature, nothing but a minute element that cannot alter or prevent what is to come, eg tsunami. At the end of my analysis, it was pointed out to me that depicted cave at the bottom of the work also showed a light source at the end, meaning there is a way out. To justify this, there were people like figures that seem to be progressing to the front of the cave from the lighter part. I guess this means the potential of overcoming the problem previously mentioned.
Another work I enjoyed was Daniel Boyd's 'No beards coat of arms'. The meaning of the work is base on an harsh opinion towards the acts of the first fleet and settlers. Boyd wanted to offer and alternative another perspective on Captain James Cook. In the plaque description suggests that Boyd is depicting the first fleet as violent pirates. The form of the work is the elements Boyd has used to portray this meaning, he has incorporated a coat of arms with the motto 'He left nothing un-attempted'. He incorporates David R. Hortons Aboriginal map of Australia that perhaps suggests Australia should still be like that and not divided into only 7 states. Boyd's message is quite clear when the Latan slogan is interpreted, saying 'Stupid white man'. I think he is making a statement, he believes that it was wrong to convert Australia to a European country and that the land is by rights owned by the Aboriginals.
Ben Maddock- Mail
The composition of the work was balanced and aesthetically pleasing but I struggled to see any meaning in the work apart from a bit of history. The postcard were to a certain person from the 1800's. From what I can understand, the artist was just practicing the elements and principles of art. Even that was a bit of the light side, the visible principles were balance and contrast between the plain letters and the worn background, but I like it.
Mandy Martin- Big Boss
I hate the style of this work, it is blown up elements from magazines and other people's works. It is a high contrast work that doesn't seem to be balanced in regards to colour. Although it is balanced in regards to composition. The meaning was something about, what I can gather, civil war. The it was formed with images of the city scape, cars and a large image of a man with a cigar, being a ruler of some sort. I think the work delivered the a message but I was unable to decode it, if I knew a little more about history then I think it would have been easier for me to decipher.
Brett Whitely- Sacred Baboon
This was an interesting work, I have studied Brett Whitely in the past so I instantly recognised the work as one of his.
The work depicts a collage of an angry baboon behind bar with distinct human eyes. The eye's were cut and pasted from a magazine. It was said that the human eye spark a sense of recognition which in relation to it's snarl, a common occurrence of going through the motions. The work had a fact written on a plaque in front of the baboon. It said that the baboon used to run around villages in groups and destroy everything in the local houses. although this happened, the Egyptians viewed them as sacred animals. I believe that giving them human eye's represents intelligence and the ability to plan which would give reason for their rampages around town.
The first artwork I'm discussing is Stephen Bush's 'Hawkweed'. It is the first work I noticed upon walking in. The effect on the work was quite engaging. A large, green shack that was an accurate representation (detailed) of reality was painted in amongst a landscape of uncontrolled drips and strokes of paint. This created a large contrast between the reality side of the piece and the indistinguishable. I believe this represented a conflict of realities that, what seems to be a little girl, is facing. Although, after discussion with peers, the girl may symbolize the common man at it's most vulnerable state, a small female child. Considering this and the possibility of the background marks representing nature, the meaning may conclude that the man, the girl, is overwhelmed and can't fathom or concur the system of nature. In a phase, man is nothing in nature, nothing but a minute element that cannot alter or prevent what is to come, eg tsunami. At the end of my analysis, it was pointed out to me that depicted cave at the bottom of the work also showed a light source at the end, meaning there is a way out. To justify this, there were people like figures that seem to be progressing to the front of the cave from the lighter part. I guess this means the potential of overcoming the problem previously mentioned.
Another work I enjoyed was Daniel Boyd's 'No beards coat of arms'. The meaning of the work is base on an harsh opinion towards the acts of the first fleet and settlers. Boyd wanted to offer and alternative another perspective on Captain James Cook. In the plaque description suggests that Boyd is depicting the first fleet as violent pirates. The form of the work is the elements Boyd has used to portray this meaning, he has incorporated a coat of arms with the motto 'He left nothing un-attempted'. He incorporates David R. Hortons Aboriginal map of Australia that perhaps suggests Australia should still be like that and not divided into only 7 states. Boyd's message is quite clear when the Latan slogan is interpreted, saying 'Stupid white man'. I think he is making a statement, he believes that it was wrong to convert Australia to a European country and that the land is by rights owned by the Aboriginals.
Ben Maddock- Mail
The composition of the work was balanced and aesthetically pleasing but I struggled to see any meaning in the work apart from a bit of history. The postcard were to a certain person from the 1800's. From what I can understand, the artist was just practicing the elements and principles of art. Even that was a bit of the light side, the visible principles were balance and contrast between the plain letters and the worn background, but I like it.
Mandy Martin- Big Boss
I hate the style of this work, it is blown up elements from magazines and other people's works. It is a high contrast work that doesn't seem to be balanced in regards to colour. Although it is balanced in regards to composition. The meaning was something about, what I can gather, civil war. The it was formed with images of the city scape, cars and a large image of a man with a cigar, being a ruler of some sort. I think the work delivered the a message but I was unable to decode it, if I knew a little more about history then I think it would have been easier for me to decipher.
Brett Whitely- Sacred Baboon
This was an interesting work, I have studied Brett Whitely in the past so I instantly recognised the work as one of his.
The work depicts a collage of an angry baboon behind bar with distinct human eyes. The eye's were cut and pasted from a magazine. It was said that the human eye spark a sense of recognition which in relation to it's snarl, a common occurrence of going through the motions. The work had a fact written on a plaque in front of the baboon. It said that the baboon used to run around villages in groups and destroy everything in the local houses. although this happened, the Egyptians viewed them as sacred animals. I believe that giving them human eye's represents intelligence and the ability to plan which would give reason for their rampages around town.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
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