WHAT IS A LINE // GENERAL RESEARCH

WWW.FFFOUND.COM

I HAVE SELECTED THESE IMAGES TO GET A BASIC AND GENERAL LAYOUT STRUCTURE FOR MY DESIGN. I FEEL THAT THESE DESIGNS ARE UNIQUE AND WORK WELL AS THEY ARE BASIC AND THEY MANIPULATE IMAGE.  

BASIC SHAPES : I FEEL THAT THESE IMAGES WORK WELL AS TEHY ARE COLOURED MATCHED. THE USE OF HAVING A DIFFERENT SHAPE WORKS WELL.

PATTERNS IN LINES ARE ALWAYS CREATIVE AND SEEM TO DRAW ATTENTION.

I REALLY WANT TO WORK WITH GRADIENTS THROUGH MY IMAGES. BLENDING COLOURS AND SHADES IS QUITE A A NUETURAL DIVIDE AND CREATES A BLEND OF INTRESTING IDEAS. IT MAKES THE IMAGE SEEMS QUITE RELAXING AND VIBRANT AT THE SAME TIME.  

PATTERNS ARE UNIQUE TO DESIGN. THE USE OF LINES WITHIN THIS IS VERY EFFECTIVE AND FOR ONE SECTION OF MY BOOKLET I FEEL THAT I WILL BE ABLE TO DEVLOP COLLAGE THROUGH THIS. 

THE ABOVE COLOUR I THINK IS VERY GOOD. AND WOULD LOOK GOOD I COLLAGE DEISGN.

LINES WITHIN COLLGE!

WHAT IS A LINE // LAYOUT RESEARCH

LAYOUT DESIGNS:


Simple layout, i feel is the most effective form of layout. I feel that when designs are quite complicated like collages are, that simple designs and layout is effective. Heres some basic layouts i have elected from various websites such as fffound.com // studio8.com and others. 
http://www.studio8design.co.uk/project/graphic-magazine-issues-10-12

WHAT IS A LINE // RESEARCH - COLLAGE

MARIO WAGNER

http://www.mario-wagner.com/

I have chosen to focus on Mario Wagner's work as i feel that the way he designs is extremely creative. He uses collage is a unique way that incorporates line // image // colour // texture and pattern very well. the use of adding old vintage images also creates these designs to look specific to collage. 

LINE:

Using line in in his collages separates the design and allows for a focus on the designs. The use of line in all these designs also helps to create an outline or background image. 

Most of this design seems to be controlled by line. This applies a sense of sectioning within an image and breaks up the design a lot because it is full of colour and imergery. 

Grid lines - Within this image Wagner has developed the lines into a grid shape and i think it looks quite effective.

I feel that Mario's work is quite effective in portraying collage. He is one of my favourite designers and I feel that he works really relate to my project that i am doing for what is a line. The terms of design are quite complicated and i would like to make my designs more contemporary and feel that if i decided to create collages i would want ten to resemble this. 

Checklist

OUGD401 

1. Task - love/hate

five examples that you love and five that you hate

2. Task - image analysis

find info on propaganda, look on wikipedia for 20 characteristics

3. Task - modernist/post

examples of each, look at Malcolm Barnard

4. Seminar task - bibliography

5 books harvard referenced and why each book is useful to the essay

5. Essay

change colour for revisions

6. 21st February - briefing

design brief, 50/50 marking

7. Jo's tasks

- designer speed dating

- design aesthetics

- public media

- 10 questions about me

8. Lecture notes

9. Find five designers that are relevant to each lecture

include examples and articles

Lectures to respond to


1. MODERNISM
(Bauhaus, Swiss, Muller-Brockmann)
'The Grid'
Smearedblackink - timeline

2. POSTMODERNISM
(Carson, Sagmeister)

3. GRAFFITI/STREET ART
(Blu, Shepard Fairey)

4. FILM THEORY  - from all eras
(Saul Bass)
designers who have worked around design for film, posters etc

5. HIGH/LOW CULTURE
(Elitist/kitsch, Eckersley)
throwaway culture, graphic design history, 50s American kitsch

6. A HISTORY OF TYPE
(Nicolas Jenson, Caslon)
typographers

7. MEDIA SPECIFICITY
(Richard Eckersley, Allen Hori)
constraints/rules, people who set books weird, media determines design, designers who's work plays with medium

8. ADVERTISING
(AdBusters, Milton Glaser)
examples of effective ads

9. COMMUNICATION
(Carson)

What is a Line? - BRIEF

COLLAGE:

 A collage (From the French: à coller, to glue, French pronunciation: [kɔ.laːʒ]) is a work of formal art, primarily in thevisual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.

A collage may sometimes include newspaper clippings, ribbons, bits of colored or hand-made papers, portions of other artwork or texts, photographs and other found objects, glued to a piece of paper or canvas. The origins of collage can be traced back hundreds of years, but this technique made a dramatic reappearance in the early 20th century as an art form of novelty.

The term collage derives from the French "coller" meaning "glue".^[1] This term was coined by both Georges Braqueand Pablo Picasso in the beginning of the 20th century when collage became a distinctive part of modern art.^[2]

MARIO WGANER

PATTERN:

A pattern, from the French patron, is a type of theme of recurring events or objects, sometimes referred to as elements of a set of objects.

These elements repeat in a predictable manner. It can be a template or model which can be used to generate things or parts of a thing, especially if the things that are created have enough in common for the underlying pattern to be inferred, in which case the things are said to exhibit the unique pattern.

The most basic patterns, called Tessellations, are based on repetition and periodicity. A single template, tile, or cell, is combined with duplicates without change or modification. For example, simple harmonic oscillators produce repeated patterns of movement.

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STAMP IT - General Research //

Brief B: World with a Future
Design a set of stamps as a means of encouraging consumers to make positive environmental changes and educate future generations with regard to energy conservation, low-impact transport, zero-carbon housing, and reducing water over-consumption.  

The digital templates of the various stamp sizes provided are to assist you in your design work. They are shown at 400 percent but the actual sizes of the stamps are 27mm x 37mm portrait, 35mm x 35mm, 37mm x 35mm landscape, 30mm x 41mm landscape.

As described in the Submission Details for this project, one of your presentation sheets should show your set of stamps at actual size, and a second presentation board should show them at four times larger than actual size.

The templates include a blank outline, an outline with the Queen's head and first class value, and an outline showing the two alternative positions that the Queen's head can take, together with the alternative positions that the first class value can take. 

"A variety of environmental problems now affect our entire world.  As globalization continues and the earth's natural processes transform local problems into international issues, few societies are being left untouched by major environmental problems.
Some of the largest problems now affecting the world are Acid Rain, Air Pollution,Global Warming, Hazardous Waste, Ozone Depletion, Smog, Water Pollution,Overpopulation, and Rain Forest Destruction.
Every environmental problem has causes, numerous effects, and most importantly, a solution" - http://library.thinkquest.org/26026/Environmental_Problems/environmental_problems.html


GOOGLE IMAGES: 

Environmentally Friendly Logo's:

1. Old bricks, worthless? No, those bricks can be recycled, and are very valuable to some people!
2. Use reclaimed wood for your next projectat home. Use your own, or find some on freecycle, Craigslist, at your local transfer station, or recycle.net.
3. There are many places you can exchange or recycle your old electronics.
4. Sell off or post an ad for free metal scrap to be recycled.
5. If you have enough, your old VHS tapes can be recycled
6. Packing tape and stickers cannot be recycled, so use these sparingly in the first place.
7. Tools are very valuable items on eBay. Try selling them in lots to save time, shipping waste, and energy.
8. Empty propane tanks may be able to be taken as scrap metal, or properly disposed of at hazardous waste facilities. Reuse these whenever you can!
9. Even large items like BBQ grills can be recycled as scrap metal once the propane tank has been removed.
10. Kids toys have a new life when they're donated to thrift stores like Salvation Army or local churches.
11. Recycle your old prescription bottles, they have a million uses.
12. After they've been used up, recycle your old batteries.
13. How about other plastic numbers, what do those mean? You may be able to recycle some of them.
14. Flip flops can be recycled and repurposed a number of creative and unique ways.
15. Can't figure out what to do with your old lamps, wall decor, or knick knacks? If you can't eBay them, donate them to a thrift store for charity purposes. Craigslist and Kijiji are good alternatives, too.
16. Recycle your shipping styrofoam or reuse it.
17. Window treatments have the chance to live again as you recycle your curtains into pillows.
18. Carpet can be recycled if it is clean and usable.
19. Donate it, sell it, or recycle your television.
20. Stop by an Aveda location to recycle your bottle caps.
21. The rumor has been floating around that aluminum can't be recycled. While the rules may differ per town, you can still reuse it a few times by giving it a cleaning.
22. Reuse your old jeans in these 25 ingenious methods.
23. Why trash it? Your shower curtain is a great drop cloth or apron.
24. Your ink cartridges are accepted at many different locations online and in person, like Staples.
25. You might be able to trade in your old printer for a credit on a new one. They'll recycle it for you. There's always earth911, too.
26. Tires are a must to be recycled, and it's very easy.
27. Learn how you can recycle your roof shingles to become part of our roads.
28. Make sure when installing a new car battery that the mechanic will recycle it.
29. Cardboard boxes can be taken at your local recycling station, or sent curbside if they're small enough in most instances.
30. Save your old packing peanuts and recycle them by giving them to your local shipping company. They will gladly take them off your hands.
31. Your gently used clothing can be resold on eBay, or donated.
32. Good news! #5 plastics can be recycled at many Whole Foods locations.
33. Potato chip bags and those other foil packaging that often are used to wrap up junk food can be recycled at Terracycle.net.
34. Used (many times) ziploc containers and similar disposable plasticware can be recycled usually as #1 plastics.
35. Shaving cream metal cans are accepted in most recycling facilities with other metal cans.
36. Can tabs can be recycled with your cans. Don't pull them off, that kidney dialysis machine time rumor is false.
37. You couldn't have enough options to recycle your cellphone
38. Blankets can be recycled by donating them to animal shelters (if clean).
39. Recycle your own scrap wood and furniture by reusing it, or donate it.
40. Save that box and make some Pizza box art, or maybe just recycle it if you follow these instructions.
41. Mattresses, aerosol cans, even washing machines can be recycled.
42. Bread twist ties will be your new best friend after you read these creative uses.
43. Reading glasses can be recycled and donated, and are always in demand.
44. Old books can be sold on Amazon, donated to thrift stores, donated to schools, and to hospitals. There's always the yard sale option, too.
45. Freecycle your old sports equipment.
46. Did you know your old aluminum siding could be worth a lot of money?
47. Your old greeting cards can even be recycled creatively.
48. Wrapping paper is just paper and has many ways to be reused or recycled.
49. Don't forget all types of glass bottles can be recycled -- wine bottles, jelly jars, colored glass... these are all accepted at most recycling facilities.
50. Your old screened doors have many ways that they can be recycled.

Asthetics Task Cont...

Aesthetic qualities in design that are most important to me

1. Layout

2. Collage

3. Colour

4. Presnece

5. Structure

Experiences that will enhance my aesthetic judgement of the world around me

1. TRAVELLING

2. EXPERINCEING

3. NO CREATIVE BOUNDARIES

4. GET INSPIRED

Communication is a virus // Research Cont ...

CHNAGE OF IDEA:

Presentation Designs:

We are now going to create a CHARITY APPEAL FOR ST. GEORGES CRYPT. We will generate a campaign for rainy tins of things - which will help the homeless and will be a good live brief to undertake and less dangerous for us. 

Exploration of Design // JO's Brief session //

Show mediation between theory and practice - 
Exploration of ideas - Task then allows you to gain a choice of piratical output - small group crit system in todays session. 


Explore edit and select ideas:


add photos  ( here )


Secondary and Primary research - other peoples imergy// language and quotes - Reference and credit


Creativity --------------------------------------------------- layout/ intension of project - function of audience etc//


PRODUCE A PUBLICATION - 


RELATIONSHIP OF THEORY AND PRACTICE - consider (theory) producing something original how you will make it different and unique and the function can preform in a different way. 


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PRESENTATION (POWERPOINT) 30TH MARCH - 5 MIN PRESENTATION ON RESEARCH // RESEARCH FOR IDEA THAT ARE GENERATED. 
CLEAR RESEARCH 
VISUAL EXPERIMENTS
EXPLORATION OF WHAT PUBLICATION CAN MEAN - DEFINITION OF PUBLICATION
PRIMARY SECONDARY RESEARCH 
FOUND INTRESTING / WHAT I HAVE DONE ETC ECT 

TASK - CONTEXT OF PRACTICE BRIEF

- GRAFFITI Lecture; I feel this would be useful because it is an interesting focus and there is a lot of designers and information with a lot of colour and development.

- Focus on 5 favourite aesthetics, I found simple designs and simple block colouring etc and find images and develop them either to focus on the subject.

-  Advertising - focus on the adverts?
-  Turning the 'Shark in the Tank' into a graphic design publication?

- What you want to do - Focus on the things you want to do in life etc.
- POSTMODERNISM/

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