San-serif an serif



Typography ranges from the history of the western alphabet to different fonts. Fonts come under san-serif of serif.
San- serif is the type of font which dosen't have little curves or extensions on the letters.
The reason that there is sans infront of it is because the word means without.

 

There are also different areas which come under fonts. Things which relate to letters such as x-height, acsenders, decsenders, and kurnings.

 

 

Final evaluation x2

Final Evaluation-City Scape

We as a class were given a task to develop and complete a fully mounted city scape. The finished product would be a negative and positive cut out of a city design. The first thing we had to do was trace out of city designs. We could trace anything we found we liked. I found this task a little hard because of the composition of each building. The inspiration we had were the images in magazines. We also had our past work to refer to. I used perspective from my past work to influence my composition of my city. The idea was then to photocopy the tracing paper with the buildings.

After the photocopying was finished in A3 size we were able to start cutting out our images. We did this as if we were going to make a stencil. The goal was to cut the photocopies while they were on top of the black sticky paper. The black sticky paper was shiny but also smaller than photocopies. We had to then trim our original designs to fit the shiny black paper. For the positive and negative cuts we had the option of mounting them on black and or white paper, but for the photo copy cut we could use colour paper. The hardest part of the task i found was cutting the copy and black sticky paper together. this was because of the small detail were difficult to cuts. My paper cut was the only cut which i  felt failed. This was because after cutting the photocopy I felt it was to rough and not presentable. I thought my other cuts succeeded quite well in the end. The only thing I didn't like, at all throughout the project, was the amount of time it took to complete. If I was to change anything to make my city scape better would be the buildings. I think that I made the city scape harder for myself to cut with the composition.

Final Evaluation-Snowboard


The project goal was to make two snow board designs that could relate to us and some of the work in our sketch books. We were given examples for snowboard designs. I found that  the designs were quite bold and mostly words. For my experiments for my snowboard design mixed ideas together. We were told if we were to mix more than one thing we were to merge them together. For the start of my snowboard designs we made designs through magazine cut outs and drawings in the shape of snowboards. We also made prints which we cut for design ideas. The design for my 4 by 4 board design reflects a little of my snowboard design. I put the saints logo on the top front side of my snowboard. For the rest of my board I chose to incorporated a far perspective of a road going into a tunnel. This was an idea from my sketch book. For the bottom side of my snow board I chose to make a bold and simple design. This was because I felt most snowboard designs are like that. So I chose to design an opening which can seen as a zipper, but also can be seen as a reflecting city scape. For making our snowboard we were given a rough cut out of a snowboard made of foam. We used wood carving tools to shape the board correctly. First to prepare the board for painting we had to put a base coat of white piant down. We had to apply the white paint thickly so it could do its job as a base coat. Using acrylic paints I painted the design on the snowboard. Using a fine brush to paint it. For a realist snowboard touch I had the idea of applying a coat of lacquer to my snowboard for a hard plastic look.

 

 Orticoodles is the name of the work of Alita and Wally. They are pair of Italian graffiti artists who produce very amazing stencils through which they generate pop art influenced images that decorate urban walls, skate half-pipes and canvases. Most of their work being graffiti their art looks very professional. There work is quite expensive. It would be great to see them produce a set of silkscreens based on their stencil work, I might be able to afford one of those.

Sometimes the content of their work has the possibility to offend people. They know this as a fact and have the no intent in of ending anyone.

 

For more information on this group you can visit thier website

http://www.urbanpainting.info/2011/05/orticanoodles-pensando-alla-morte-in.html

Zoe More O'Ferrall

 

 

Zoe More O'Ferrall

 



Zoe's ink drawings are drawn with fine pen and ink. In most of her work she incorperates photography and screen-printing. She looks at ordinary things such as architecture, objects, packaging and possessions to find inspiration. .She completed her foundation at Wimbledon School of Artwhich led her to do a BA at the University of the Arts LCC and a post graduate course in Illustration at Central Saint Martins.

 

 

This illistration is a ink drawing to advertise the show Skins. I like this piece of Zoe More O'Ferrall because of how she has incorperated everyday objects and patterns which relate to the characters on the show. She has also worked for other companies to advertise there work.

Peter Doig

I chose the painting Red House by Peter Doig because I found it to be one of his better landscape  paintings. This image is uses colours which compliment  each other, red and white.  I like the painting because of the message that I gather from it.  I feel the image is all about the history of the house, the shadows of the people walking by have no significance in the painting to me.  The fact that the weather in the image is snowing  adds effect to the painting. If the weather was sunny and ground was covered in grass it would give off a different effect. Peter Doig has a variety of  landscape images which do have buildings in them. I feel the that the houses are done in the same style. The paintings cold winter nature gives  the red house a warmer feeling to it. The red house is being representing as warmth and the white snow being freezing cold. There is depth created  in the painting as the house is placed on hill and a path curving down with peoples shadows place around. The smaller the shadow the father it is.

The image was made in 1996. It is a oil painting. The painting is currently for sale . The estimated price- for it 1,3 million pounds. Peter Doig presented the art  to an auction with Charles Booth-Clibborn in 1997 .

Peter Doig has a very multicultural background living in three different major countries. He can paint landscape pictures in different sizes of depth, in different perspectives, with different colours which reveal different atmospheres. He sometimes paints his memories of snowy scenes of his childhood in Canada. His work has been said to contain ideas associated with the new epoch in art called 'Metamodernism’.

Richard Hamilton

Richard Hamilton was born in London on the 24th of  February 1922 and died on the13th of September 2011. He went to the Royal Academy Schools for two years at the age of 16 to 18. He then studied engineering draughtsmanship at a Government Training Centre in 1940 to soon move to working as a 'jig and tool' designer. He then returned  to the Royal Academy Schools in 1946, where he was sadly expelled. He then went on to attended the Slade School of Art from 1948 to 1951.


Hamilton was  inspired by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson work. It influenced some of Hamilton's early work. D'Arcy's influence led to Hamiltons exhibition of his engravings was held at Gimpel Fils, London, in 1950. Hamilton devised and designed the exhibitions Growth and Form at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1951, and Man, Machine and Motion at the Hatton Gallery. He had  his work exhibited at the Hanover Gallery in 1955, and participated in This is Tomorrow at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1956, for which he produced a collage entitled Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? for the poster and catalogue. With Victor Pasmore in 1957 he devised and organised an Exhibit, at the Hatton Gallery and the Institute of Contemporary Arts.
Hamilton was a member of the Independent Group, formed in the 1950s by a group of artists and writers at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. They had the sole purpose to contributed to the development of Pop art in Britain.  Hamilton interpreted this as meaning that 'all art is equal - there was no hierarchy of value.

Hamilton taught at the London Central School of Arts and Crafts and University of Newcastle. He gave up teaching full-time in 1966. He designed a typographic version of Duchamp's Green Box and published it in 1960. Keen to embrace certain types of technology within his art, Hamilton began creating computer-generated works in the 1980s. He has had a long career as a print-maker. In 1983 he won the World Print Council Award. In 1991 he married the artist Rita Donagh.

Gerrit Rietveld

                                      
 Gerrit Rietveld

Gerrit Reietveld was born on the 24 June 1888 and died the day after his 76th birthday on the 25 June 1964. He was a Dutch architect and designer. He was also apart of the De Stijl movement, which mean The Style in Dutch. His work also relates to cubism as his work is mainly made up of one shape. Most of his furniture was designed and manufactured to accompany his architectural designs.

His long and eventful career began as a young boy in his father’s carpentry shop in Utrecht.  He left the shop in 1917 to set up an establishment of his own. At that point he was able to make a new start for himself and also design.

The Amsterdam School.had some influence in his first attempts of his own artistic type of work. Rietveld re-invented the structure of chairs and other objects and built them as constructivist sculptures. Before Rievelt changed the designs of chairs they were very fit to the human body. The main use of the chair in the olden days was to keep the person who sat in it protected from the wind as they sat next to the fire. In 1918 he designed an early version of his Red and Blue Chair. It was published in the De Stijl Magazine which he soon later became a member of  in 1919. Through the magazine Rietveld came in contact with various architects associated with the modern Dutch movement. These artist all had the same idea as Rietvelt, to get rid of  old designs. He was also able to build the Schröder House in 1925, which was a well known piece of his time and today.

Rietveld’s work had gone smoothly until 1943 when he was barred from practising as an architect. This was caused  because he refused to join the Nazi-controlled Kulturkammer. After the war, the country and Rietveld gradually returned their normal lives, and Rietveld continued his work until he died.

The Red and Blue Chair and the Zig Zag chair  seem to the chair designs which will always be in style and iconic  designs. Gerrit Rietveld’s designs for the red an blue chair where the ones I looked at. We had to replicate his design on either a one to three scale or one to four square model. I chose to make mine a one to three square model. Using card board and a hot glue gun I was able to re-create the chair.