AGIDEAS

Trend and Designers

Designers these days have used different multimedias and techniques for their own designs. We are in the digital world and we are no longer restricted to use our own hand drawn illustrations to create good artwork. The trend I have noticed from most of the outstanding designers are simplicity of their artwork. Illustrators like Apex Lin from Taiwan and Vladimir Chaika from Russia did amazing artwork with the same concept but different types and variations. That shows that even though the concepts are the same, if  it is strong enough, it could have many different kinds of variations and it's still interesting and inspiring for designers to observe.

Concept Evaluation

"The Lost Thing" video clip, original idea by Shaun Tan is the most inspiring and meaningful artwork I've seen from the conference. I like how the video reflects the real life of human beings. One is the way how Shaun Tan's human being character met the lost thing. The storyline of them hanging out at many places killing time with each other communicating, sent me the message that whenever you feel lonely, there will always be someone there for you. The other message I got from the movie is how the appearance of the lost thing has been created. It's a combination of a whole lot of existing tools and items that doesn't mix with each other. That inspires me that whenever a design is in a producing process, anything could be involved and could make a huge different result from ordinary designs.

Reference


http://www.thelostthing.com/
http://www.shauntan.net/projects1.html

Copyright Issues

Images:
Most images are available for free on the internet. Although you can get them for free, that doesn't mean you haven't breech copyright issues. Depends on how the purchaser is going to use the image, the cost of images are going to be different.

Shutterstock Images:
Shutterstock Images is the largest subscription-based stock photo agency in the world. Heaps of royalty-free images of photographs and illustrations are included. Users are able to download them from this website Shutterstock

Getty Images:
Getty Images is a large website for stock photo as well. The advantage of this website is it also includes videos and music as multiple interest for audience to download. It is the first company to licence imagery online.

iStockphoto:
iStockphoto has multiple selections for users to download such as illustrations, flash, photos, videos and even articles to share to worldwide users. There are also categories and instructions of how to function for viewing all programmes.

Example of stock image:
Image 1 This image can be use as poster advertisement of the logo on the corner.
Image 2 This image can be use as the uniform with the logo on the back of the safety coat or on the boat.

Image 3 This image can be use as another poster advertisement with slogan and sponsors in it.

Fonts:
Fonts can be download from internet as well. Free fonts are usually for creating invitation cards like birthday cards and posters for different situations. But when it comes to professional jobs for example: designing business cards, fonts must be purchased otherwise it's breeching copyright.

dafont.com
dafont.com has a massive range of different fonts for users to download. It has many links for instant download. It also contains huge range of categories for users to choose fonts for different circumstances.

fonts.com
fonts.com is mainly base on fonts from Adobe, Linotype, Monotype and ITC fonts. It contains new updated fonts with description of advantage of the font and how it's best to use on.

Terms and conditions of Fonts:
https://www.fontfont.com/terms-and-conditions

Bibliography:
http://www.gettyimages.com.au/
http://www.istockphoto.com/audio
http://www.fonts.com/
http://www.dafont.com/

My Team Logo

Culture in design

Native American Motifs

Team name: Club de Futbol Indios de Ciudad Juarez

Location: Ciudad Juarez  

History: It was a Mexican football team. 2005-06 season after the move of Pachuca Juniors from Pachuca to Ciudad Juarez.

About the logo:
The red scarf on the soccer ball image makes the logo stands out. I think the problem about the logo are the text on it. The top bit of it "Club De Futbol" is way too nearby the soccer ball which makes it hard to read because the logo is going to be small when it comes to jersy and print outs. For the text down below "INDIOS" just looks too common and it's doesn't suit for a soccer team at all. I personally don't like the logo at all because except the red colour scarf represents the indigenous people, other design just doesn't fits a professional level.

Aboriginals Motifs

Functions and Philosophies

Principles and Protocols

Principles and Protocols means respect between each others. Protocols require agreement between a group and the society. Museums and public galleries should follow the protocols when they are deciding which product to sell though their museum shops. Indigenous cultural keeps places promote the work of Indigenous artists through arts projects, commissions, exhibitions, displays and sales. Cultural centres can take on board protocols for the commission of projects, exhibition and sale of artwork.

When curating an exhibition, it is important to acknowledge and consider about the message behind the artwork and how the message will affect the society and the audiences before they’ve been put up on display. Those products or artworks should be consulted by the artist’s family or community and should be recommended by the curator of the museum. Photographs or any other type of presentations should NOT project any aspect about deceased indigenous people. Some communities request to hold the artwork from deceased artist for some time after the artist’s death. And this is one of the example that shows respect to those artists.

Moral Rights and Issues

The Moral Rights Amendments to the copyright were introduced in December 2000 and provide some new ways to challenge inappropriate treatment of Indigenous artworks.

Artists has moral rights of integrity and attribution to their artwork. The moral right of integrity means that the artist can take action against inappropriate treatment of their artwork. Under the moral rights provisions of the Copyright Act, the right against false attribution when reproducing the artwork. It is a good idea for artists to check design proofs of their work carefully before reproducing and publishing them.

Clash of the Titans

Please watch the movie in class and answer the following questions regarding the film and Greek mythology. Publish your answers in a blog entry titled: “Clash of the Titans”.

1) Who are the Titans?

The Titans are the parents of the twelve Olympians.

2) Are the any interesting motifs you see frequently appearing (Eg. Lightning bolts)? How do you interpret their meaning? Can you name a modern version, of this motif, used today?

Yes. It is the eagle appeared in the movie when Zeus was having a conversation with Hades. It was also a transformation from Zeus. 

3) Is your Greek character in the movie? If so, does the film’s interpretation match your research?

Yes, but the Poseidon isn’t one of the main characters in the movie. 

4) Are any of the characters, in the movie, related (Eg. a mother or father, wife or husband, brother or sister) to your Greek myth? If so, how?

Yes. The Poseidon is one of the twelve Olympians. He’s brother of Zeus and Hades.

5) Is their a constellation of stars named after your Greek character?

No.

6) How is Medusa killed? Does your Greek character have a weakness?

Medusa was killed by Perseus by using the Olympian sword to cut her head off.

Yes. Poseidon is moody and warlike. He gets angry easily and once he does, he’ll cause massive damages like tsunami and earthquakes.

7) Sketch at least 3 ideas for your logo and add them to this post.

Melbourne Sports Museum Critiques

Tokyo Olympic 1964
by Hara Hiromu and Kamekura Yusaku

Well done on using positive and negative spaces. The color combination matches the design. But the point that might have made a mistake to this design is the spacing between the Japanese flag and the Olympic rings. It might be better if there are more spaces between them because it looks like they are one logo.
I like how simple the logo it is. By only adding the red circle represents the country Japan, it won't mess up the composition, the simple san-serif typeface works well on the positive spaces. I think although the image isn't complicated, but less is more, I think the logo has a strong message to the audiences that it represents Japan and it's truly attractive.

Critiquing Tools

Art Vocabulary List

Stroke - The connection line between a dot to another dot.

Hierarchy - Definition of how the design been placed (Levels)

Cross Hatched - Any objects or forms repeated, overlaid or located at the same place but slightly different angle, direction.

Transparent - Opacity of the object been reduced and it can be see through.

Blur - Object that are in pixels that cause the image is not showing clearly.

Adjective List

Line - The length of the path.

Color - Humans visual perceptual property.

Shape and Form - How objects are presented/ located.

Texture - The rough surface from objects that forms irregular shapes and shows in different formations.

Style Time Line

Name: Arts and Crafts Movement

Style: Arts and Crafts are International design movement. Bbjects were in simple plain form. They look complicated with objects repeated but it’s still visible. This style was taken up by American designers with their different styles of results. The Arts and Crafts style was also known as “Mission style” or “Aesthetic Style” in the United States.

Date: It was popular between 1860 and 1910

Artist: William Morris/ John Ruskin

http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/british_galleries/bg_styles/Style09a/objects/objects_home.html

Name: Graffiti 

Style: Graffiti is a artwork style that has been done on walls and public surfaces by using many different techniques like drawing, scratching, scribbling, spraying, painting etc.

Date: 1985

Artist: Banksy/ Inkie

http://www.banksy.co.uk/

http://www.inkie.co.uk/

Name: Rococo

Style: Rococo is an 18th-century artistic movement. It’s also known as also known as “Late Baroque”. It includes different art techniques like painting, sculpture, architecture, interior design, decoration, literature, music and theatre. Sources like creamy, pastel-like colours, asymmetrical designs, curves and gold has been applied a lot to most of the designs. 

Date: 1700 - 1760

Artist: Antonio Bellucci/ Carlo Carlone

http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/c17th-mid19th/rococo.htm

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/his/CoreArt/art/ancien.html

Name: Shock art

Style: Shock art includes disturbing imagery, sound or scents to create a shocking experience. It is a contemporary art that has used the way to disturb “smugs, complacent and hypocrite” people. 

Date: 1917

Artist: Andres Serrano/ Tracey Emin

http://andresserrano.org/

http://www.emininternational.com/

Name: Net Art

Style:  Net Art refers to artists creat artwork from internet. It means the internet is the only way to create this type of artwork. Sometimes line art might look simular to net art but it has no attach to it. Net art can be used to spread a message

Date: 1994

Artist: Caterina Davinio/ 

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/cprezi/caterinadav.html#net-poetry

Name: Abstract Art

Style: Abstract art is art pieces that has a form of composition by using color, form and line forming objects in separate different angles and directions. It’s a visual composition with wide space and contrast. They could be formed by shapes in different colors in wide space or objects in same color but presented in different movement.

Date: 1945

Artist: Pablo Picasso/ Piet Mondrian

http://pablo-picasso.paintings.name/biography/

http://paintings.name/piet-mondrian-biography.php

Name: Magic Realism

Style: Magic Realism is a form of magical elements or imaginations combine with the real word. It’s presented in fantasy objects or backgrounds but at the same time it carries the feeling of realistic.

Date: 1940s

Artist: Ivan Albright/ George Tooker

http://www.cegur.com/html/frameAlbright.html

http://www.dailyartfixx.com/2011/03/31/george-tooker-1920-2011/

Name: Ukiyo-e

Style: Ukiyo-e is a Japanese painting technique on artwork been done in a floating style, it can also be called “Japanese Woodblock Paints” or “Woodcuts”.

Date: 1620s

Artist: Toshusai Sharaku/ Kitagawa Utamaro 

http://www.viewingjapaneseprints.net/texts/ukiyoetexts/ukiyoe_pages/sharaku3.html

http://www.ikon-gallery.co.uk/programme/current/event/367/kitagawa_utamaro/

Name: Dada

Style: Dada has many variations. It includes visual arts, poetry, art manifestoes, art theory and graphic design. It has used anti-art cultural artworks to clearify the anti-war politics. Its was also anti-bourgeois and anarchistic in nature.

Date: 1916

Artist: Louis Aragon/ Tristan Tzara

http://www.enotes.com/louis-aragon-criticism/aragon-louis

http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/dada/Tristan-Tzara.html

Name: Op Art

Style: Op art is a method of painting that includes illusion and picture, also between understanding and seeing. It is also known as Opitical art. Op art works are abstract artwork that have only used black and white. When the audiences looks at them, it gives out the feeling of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibration, patterns, or alternatively, of swelling or warping.

Date: 1960s

Artist: Yaacov Agam/ Heinz Mack

http://www.aejv.com/agam-bio.htm

http://www.kettererkunst.com/bio/HeinzMack-1931.shtml

Greek God - Poseidon

Poseidon

History

AKA “Earth-shaker“. Grew up in a flock of lambs. One of the top 3 of Greek gods that rules the sea. God of the Sable Locks. He controls thunder and earthquakes. He was the ancester of the royal families(Thessaly and Messenia).

When he’s in good mood, he will create new lands. But when he’s in a bad mood, he’ll causes volcanoes eruption, massive waves from the sea and earthquakes.

Symbols/Represents

Trident, waves, water, ambiguous, unstable, extreme, emotional, powerful, violent

Advantures

Poseidon brought in and introduced the first horse in Greece. He lost the contest of taking over Attica to Athena the goddess.

Laomedon failed to pay Poseidon for building the walls of Troy, Poseidon sent a sea monster to ravage the Troad.

Relationships

His wife is Amphitrite. He-maid: Triton. Daughter: Rhode. He’s brother of 2 other gods Zues and Hades and goddesses Hera, Demeter and Hestia. Father of Pelias and Neleus

Appearance

Mature, muscular man with dolphins, and the trident. His carriage was a huge shell and it’s drawn by horse/sea-horses.

Sports/Symbolise

The Chief Festival

Neptune(From Romans)

Bibliography

http://www.casawomo.com/essays/a-history-of-poseidon

http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/poseidonmyth/p/Poseidon.htm

http://www.history.com/topics/poseidon

http://www.greek-gods-and-goddesses.com/greek-god-poseidon.html

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0881990.html

Here's my own illustration of Poseidon ↓↓↓↓↓↓↓

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