Production and Outcomes 'influences and reactions' (Week 7)

As a practitior you would have to learn about interpretating your work has it has been found that many pieces of work have been edited as the years went on. Artists enterpret their work by using the zeigeist method. This is where it depends on the time and place of a piece of work to what it looks like. There could of been a piece of work made by one artist, that has then been interpreted by a different artist.
For example with these Alice in Wonderland images by Lewis Caroll.

In this original image i can see that there is a lot of emotion in it. The image looks quite old so you can tell that it is an original. This example differs from the ones created now, The Disney versions in a lot of many ways. The facial expressions on the original version vary from the newer version as they seem angry and the media they have used to create it, the dark lines help to assist the angry theme. Whereas if the designer was trying to create a happy feeling in the picture and they used this dark line work it wouldnt really work.

This image has been interpreted in a more modern way to fit with the more modern times and so it looks good in a film. For example in this picture to the right.

This imaeg has been changed by making the colours brighter to interested the audience (children) more. As i feel that the original version wouldnt of attracted many people of my time. There are facial expressions present on this image but they are more shocked than angry. The main way this image has been interpreted is through the changes and quality of colour over time. This shown in the image below.

The colours are stronger than the oringial but doesnt look as good as the more modern version.

Testing

All artists test their work and show it to people before its published using blogs and then it goes into galleries. The blog helps the artist to get feeback on their work so they can improve and make it better.

This is an example of a blog which links with the artists i have used in my thrid project.

This is Tim Marrs Blogs and enables the audience to comment on his work.

Production for vis-com week 10

The experts
Here is a list of experts which i know about: Zuzana Licko, Erik speikermann, Chris Ware, Stefan Sagmeister, Paul Rand, Neville Brody, Jonathan Barnbrook and Malcolm Garett.
My favourite expert would be Paul Rand becasue when i looked at his work his typography and the way he lays them out attracted me straight away. I think he stands out more from the other experts because of his originality of his work and that he does use typography but he also combines images in this too whereas the other artists mainly just focus on big lettering taking up all the page.

These examples show his work and i find that he uses a cartoon like theme and i find this looks interesting and fits in with modern day. I find it good how he can change basic shapes into a recognisable image.


 I find Paul Rand better because i found that when i looked at all the other artists work it didn't really appeal to me as it looked quite dated.
For example:

 Paul Rand has more experimentation with his colours and he knows how to make things stand out more, for example by putting bright coloured images to a black background. He has made this look effective.

Brief history of production
right about how there has been a big jump in time. describe images
Throughout time, there has been a major jump in production. There is not a company, or designer that has got better. For example


This is the world first book to date and is called the Diamond Sutra, which is an indian text that was translated to chinese in AD400.



There was then a big jump to:

This is the book of psalms in 1940 and this was the first published book in North America. This differs from the image above as it is all in black and white rather than on brown materials.
The next big jump was:

 This is when Benjamin Franklin created the very first print by carving into wood. He became a famous American artist for his style and his work was viewed at the London print shop.
Until the end of the 18th century the only way you could actually print was by using wood cuts but these lacked the finer detail in which are present in our art work now.





Etching was then introduced but to create an image like his you had to complete your images and texts separately and then put them together after. This would take time and effort.


From all of this printing and etching in history came along Bewick, who today still carries on the tradition of carving into wood, but there are other engravers who have found other ways to do it. For example carving into floor tiles. Finally these engraved images from way back to 16th century would now be put into Photoshop to add colour to them.

Text can change an image week 9

Practitioners work in different ways but you always find that the use of words can change the meaning on an image or how people see it. Adding words can also influence or change our emotions/ thoughts about something.
For example,
1) A practitioner that adds words to change the image is Stefan Sagmeister.

Without the text this image would just be a fence with no story behind it, and it would just look like a piece of photography. So to make people understand the meaning of this image and what he was thinking when taking this, he has added a word in front. The word 'trying' says to me that  the fence could be surrounding a prison and its showing that the people inside are 'trying' their best to get out. OR that people are trying to get to the other side as it made be freedom. Without the text you cant actually tell what the image is as your mind doesn't think things through as much.

2) An example of text being used to influence or change emotions;

When you first look at this image you may not understand what its for (without the text), and you dont really feel an emotion for the teenager as it doesn't look like anything is happening to her, but then when the text to the tape and around the image is added your emotion starts to change and you look at the image again and feel sorry for her wanting to help. This proves my theory that text changes emotions because without the text you wouldn't realise that help was needed.

Bibliography- http://www.designboom.com

image from http://muse-of-art.blogspot.com/

Development of creative thought and structure (Week 8)

Developing ideation fluency
There are many different ways in which to express your ideas. These being brainstorms, mind maps, classification, tables, through images or just though words. The way you do it, depends on the type of person you are and how you like to work. If your a more theoretical person then maybe you like to use tables and words, but if you are a visual person then you may use brainstorms or mind maps where you have to physically draw something. The ideas you put down are for your designs and can tell a story. The more ideas you have the bigger the mind map etc will be. The idea of brain storms and mind maps is to see how far your ideas can go by thinking about associations, these would be to do with the specific topic.
Mind maps help an practitioner or anyone to write down there ideas visually so there brain will physically remember whats been written. They help to break down ideas into smaller parts. My thoughts on mind maps are that they are very helpful. I always use these when i am writing down my ideas because i feel its better than writing text in a paragraph. They give me the ability to sketch images around the map too.
A practitioner that is also fond of using brain storms to put down his ideas is Rob Ryan. He creates all of his images through the use of brain storms. I feel that most of his images anyway do look like brain storms themselves. So i think that the idea of brainstorms does inspire him too.

Managing a creative environment
Every practitioner has there own working space or studio. They make it their own by putting up their work on the walls around, filling their desk with there art supplies and generally knowing where everything is, makes them feel comfortable.

This is a Disney practitioners workspace. This image shows how they have put up their own work on the walls. I feel that this is stimulating as it would make them proud to see how far they have gone and how much they have improved. You cannot really see how things are arranged on their desk but i can see that it is very full. I would have to store away items to give me a big clear space on my desk to work on.

This image shows the arrangement of art supplies that a practitioner has on their desk. I feel that this is a very good way to sort things because you can see clearly where everything is.

I don't really have anything that i collect, but i do have many books which show artists work and advertisement work. I feel these are important because they help me improve my ideas as i can see whats existent already.