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.