Project 1 Que Sera Final Works

My name is

coursingriver-6-6And I am a Coursing River


My name is

typhoon-3-8And I am a Great Typhoon


My name is

fire-4-6 And I am a Raging Fire


My name is

moon-3And I am a Mysterious Moon


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To summarise this project, it was indeed a tough yet beneficial challenge to tie in messages to visuals.

The final over arching message for my visuals would be “it doesn’t matter if you’re male or female, you can be anything you want to be“.

I have made use of song lyrics from a song titled “I’ll Make a Man Out of You”, that came from Mulan, the animated feature. The particular verse goes like this:

[men] WE ARE MEN
We must be swift as a coursing river
[men] WE ARE MEN
With all the force of a great typhoon
[men] WE ARE MEN
With all the strength of a raging fire
Mysterious as the dark side of the moon
I am relieved to have eventually found a message that resonated with my stand. smile
Evidently, each of my design showcases the elements and are united with the use of the same colour schemes and side profiles. Equally proportioned Male and Female faces, represented by colours, were used to represent the equality between the genders.
As a believer of teamwork, I also see a sub-message that goes, “if everybody would work together, they can be anything they want to be” in my compositions.
In Coursing River, action is implied with flowing hair and air bubbles forming my names.
Similarly, in Great Typhoon, action is implied with the rotation of the faces, the background and my name.
In Raging Fire, my name was formed with fire and smoke is presented in both the foreground and background.
In Mysterious Moon, my name was ambiguously hidden and it replaces the eyes of the faces.
Agreeing to the feedback I have received, I believe I could have explored more with using colours in the Typhoon and Moon compositions as I did in the River and Fire compositions. Also, exaggerating the pull of the alphabets in the Typhoon composition.

The other feedback received includes the good use of proportions and unifying colours.

The reflection for this project can be found here, in the Progress update.

Project 1 Progress

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Me vs Project 1. Me as Mulan.

My four jobs:
Coursing River, Great Typhoon, Raging Fire, Mysterious Moon

Since the last consultation, it has been concluded that I needed to tie my visuals more to the message I was trying to convey.

I started off with re-looking at my message, “Women can be these things too” and rephrased it to become “It doesn’t matter man or women” which I found resonated with my neutral stand better as I wouldn’t consider myself a passionate feminist, and gender roles is such a grey area to me.

From here, it was coming up with new designs that would convey the message.

With my previous female-centric stand, I found it tricky to not fall into the confines of gender bias as I thought usage of colours or body forms stereotyped to genders would become a oxymoron with my message.

I preferred the neutral stand as the usage of colours would simply be a representation of the genders instead of a stereotype. Typing “feminist” into the search bar and seeing a variety of designs being pink also helped realign my thinking.

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http://amyspalding.tumblr.com/post/123298737557/soleuna-proud-to-be-a-feminist
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http://amyspalding.tumblr.com/post/123298737557/soleuna-proud-to-be-a-feminist

In the above designs, pink was used as colour to help convey the message better and I found that designs with the pink help the feminist message stand out better as compared to the designs in other colours.

Instead of a ‘stereotype’, colours can be used as a signifier, a semiotic mechanic to drive the message as blue and pink could be considered indexes that connects the message – pink commonly represents females and blue commonly represent males.


Secondary Research
(Brainstorming has been documented in sketchbook)

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Saw this during research / brainstorming for the visuals and thought it might be helpful

 

Let’s get down to business ?

Relooked at the Mulan video for some inspiration!

Like most animations, Mulan’s face is rather minimal and I think that influenced my style.

Also, I really like artist, Henn Kimm’s minimal lines and colours.

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I love how despite the restricted (but strong and contrasting) flat, solid colours and clean lines, she could deliver her illustrations minimalistic-cally. I also like how clean and solid the backgrounds look with no textures, just one flat color.

 


Redesigning:

After brainstorming, I came to using faces of a man and a woman. They provide a focal point, and are straightforward, effective and obvious enough to carry my message, rather than using hands or the whole body which could end up in things being unnecessarily complex.

I started off with sketching some composition ideas, and then coming up with the faces, the new main attraction of this series, tracing the carefully deliberated and handpicked side views of a male and female faces.

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I traced the images instead of drawing them from scratch because I felt like the forms and contours matter. Despite the fact that there are some very pretty Korean boys, men generally have different facial features and structures as compared to women.

I snuck in the differences using minute variations in angles in the brows, lips and blusher.

I thought thick and straight eyebrows would be cute and would stand out, instead of basic and legit eyebrows, since they’re stylised drawings anyway. I feel like they complementing the equally outstanding blushers and help make the design more stylised. Plus, Mulan has thick eyebrows too. (And as everybody already know, thick eyebrows are in trend)

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I love including blushers in my works. They’re cute. Especially as seen in local artist Lyyeow’s works:

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From here, I guess it is pretty obvious that the overall style for these pieces would be more graphical and stylised – fitting to my major in animation, as well as the origins of the concept, an animation feature.

And with my previous design as a base, I fit in the faces

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Drew blobs of water for hair because the imagery of ‘swift as a coursing river’ reminds me of hair gloriously flowing in the water.

(It always does, just like in this piece from my Ego project:)

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But I used blobby hair this time to match the flat, vector look, and also…

Since the last update, I have decided that the lasso tool is my go-to for this series. It is a secretly powerful tool that if often overlooked as I try very hard to digitally draw smooth flowing shapes. I first came across it while I was watching one of Feng Zhu’s (a concept artist) digital painting videos. Look at what it can achieve!!! It is a secret weapon and I was going to try and make use of it more.

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In the compositions above, the type wasn’t working out yet, and the background was still messy – I received some suggestions to try using the bubbles to spell out my name.

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Also considered using different kind of foam / bubbles but nope, just nope.

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Though there is rather rhythmic movements in the above composition (it was intended for the bubbles to look like it was flowing down the hair to suggest action), I thought the negative space on the right side seemed awkward so I tried to switch it around.

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Adjusted the layout, then tried to remove some elements of the original designs (Brush strokes in the background and testing out different colour schemes and opacity).

Eventually the brush strokes were removed to achieve a flatter and cleaner look, taking into consideration that brush strokes /textures might not fit in the other designs as the they were placed initially to help mimic the gradience of water.

So there, swift as a coursing river, the swiftness is demonstrated in the flowing hair, bubbles and blobs of water in the background.

Originally, I wasn’t going to use dark grey for my all the background, but figured that it was fitting as it helped make the faces stand out as I was working on the Typhoon design:

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In the first draft, I used Green and Blues because that’s how a typhoon is seen from outer space (as researched last post). I also thought that the contours formed by the faces made the middle section look like a continent.

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But the colours didn’t work out and black worked much better, especially in promoting a style and unity between the four pieces and breaking the predictability of the colours used for my four jobs.

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Tried to use the concept of random neon colours (from the previous designs) again but it didn’t seem to work out. Then, I drew my name instead of using a commercial font and attempted for it to look like it was being sucked into the middle.

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Played around with different ways to signify the typhoon as I thought the first one really looked quite like people smoking.

Force of a great typhoon, straightforwardly signified by the circle of people around, as typhoons are just rotating and rotating and rotating and rotating….

Using the idea of covered fonts form my previous designs, here’s mysterious moon.

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I didn’t mention in the previous post, but how the name was hidden (in this version) was inspired by the moon phases.

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I didn’t realise, but feedback said that it looks like solar eclipses!
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The side profiles were fitting to dark side of the moon. Even more so because the colour scheme is near black and the type being backed by shadows. Researching mysterious men/women, I came across these pieces which stood out to me:

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Wellllll I couldn’t smudge a minimalistic illustration like this and it wouldn’t fit into the look and feel of the series, so the eyes were removed to help exude mysteriousness.

Lastly, raging fire was really quite challenging.

My attempts at taking elements from my previous designs like the other pieces were no good as it didn’t fit in with the other three visuals and they had too much red in them:

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How to represent fire with faces????

I remembered that the sun is a ball of raging fire

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So why not give it a shot:fire-1

Which didn’t work out. There are waaay to many faces and it doesn’t show any signs of a fire.

I looked at the three other visuals as a whole and came up with a composition for the faces that is different from the other pieces.

I also thought of using smoke and silhouettes to help signify fire. A raging fire would mean lots and lots of smoke.

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Initially I collected this as a reference to write out my name: 
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But I wanted a flatter layout to resonate with the other designs.

Since there are some colours in the coursing river piece as compared to the other designs, I thought of similarly including colours in this piece to help balance the pieces out as a whole.

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Tried different colour combinations and eventually decided to include the lines for the faces to help read them clearer and also harmonise more with the other pieces.

Still rather unhappy with the design, I explored with drawing my name differently, this time making use of Photoshop’s liquify tool.

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Base drawing (before Liquify)

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How the name was drawn was inspired / referring to animation of flames that I have encountered before (while doing research on another project):

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Also ended up using orange because it made that fact that this piece is about fire, obvious. Tried out other colours in the process and they just didn’t work out.

The GIF below also shows the process of trying to integrate the type more into the design. Within the composition, I also tried placing the name in different places but they didn’t work well. Eventually, I found that varying the opacity of the smoke in the background helped a lot. It also gave a better impression of a raging fire, or an impression of smoke in varying distances.

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I also switched the male and female faces around so that in the combined presentation, the gender of the faces will mostly be alternated.

 

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Reflection

Initially, I really found it a struggle to have to include a message within my visuals. It was tough for me and really something I thought I was quite bad at. In hindsight, I think it was a good struggle to have to have meaning in my design. After all, I came up with a message I thought was quite special, and I think the end product speaks.

I also found that in my end products, there was a sub message that really resonated with me. With both the faces of men and women, other than genders not playing a part, it could be seen as men and women working together, just like eventually in the video of the sound track. After all, they were all coming together to defeat the Huns, so why would genders matter as long as they are willing?

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Because I am so neutral (or some say indecisive) person, more often than not I find myself not being able to pick a side, I often fall back onto the solution of people working together. I love it when people work well together. Half way through designing I realised this sub message in my designs and felt like it really worked out. Despite my works usually not being personal and being more general, I like how the end product was still mine in the end because of it’s neutral tonality and sub message about working together.

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In last semester, I mostly tried to use traditional mediums and methods which were mostly very time consuming. Using a digital medium was in contrast much more effective. Butttt, I thought I should be more particular at the beginning especially if I was going to use the same illustration for all four pieces. Because I was not so particular then (I thought I was just testing compositions), I duplicated the illustrations into other designs though the strokes were uneven and not clean. I had to go back to each design and touch up afterwards.

Also, with the digital medium, it was convenient to explore minor tweaks but I think I might have fell into the trap of easily settling on a composition. My usual work process was – find something to start with (in this case the faces and my previous design), lay them around, find something good, and work on it. I thought I could really have explored more compositions by sketching first before diving in digitally. When I explore digitally, the compositions would usually differ much less.

Tying in with exploring more compositions, I would also like to build up a better habit of doing more research, especially according to specific artists instead of related words. When I get too excited, I tend to come up with my own ideas and work from there. I find that this results in limitations in my designs, especially since the visual library in my head can in no way compare to the multitude of resources and references, I can find out there. I could probably have pushed my research more, and earlier, instead of being too anxious and diving into test designs – which I ended up settling on (too) quickly. This was evident when I was stuck on my raging fire composition. By then, I was already more or less done with the other three designs and searching related words (like fire, fire typography) wasn’t able to help much. If I had researched more and explored more compositions in the beginning, maybe I could have come up with something better.

Additional research according to the style I was going for could have been more beneficial, though the research in the beginning did help as I was so inspired by David Carson. I really enjoyed his style and tried to use some of his methods, though eventually I veered away because of the change in design concept. Despite that, David Carson’s interview inspired me to be more personal about my designs, which I felt at least this pulled through because this series was something related to animation, and the concept and design were still things that were in my style. It feels/seems like something I would do, and I am happy with that, especially since I almost just gave up with my stand when people suggested that a female-centric message would be easier to convey.

So there, in this assignment, I overcame the great barrier of marrying the message with the visuals. I think the compositions could have been better, but I am happy with how the end product speaks, is united, and the main colour scheme.

Project 1 Updates

My first consultation concluded that I was off track as my initial concepts had no messages behind it. I came up with a few other ideas, and am going ahead with idea A!

A:
Concept: What makes a man
The four jobs: Coursing river, Great Typhoon, Raging Fire, Mysterious Moon
Message: Women can have these qualities too!
Tone: Parody of Mulan’s “I’ll Make a Man Out of You” 

B:
Concept: What makes a housewife
The four jobs: Caregiver, Chef, Housekeeper, Teacher
Message: Housewives / mothers are everything. They are multi-talented, and they seem to be able to juggle everything.
Tone: Cheerful / appreciative?

C:
Concept:  Shortcuts to be rich
The four jobs: Tai tai, Bank Robber, Drug Lord, A Rich Character
Message: Everybody wants to be rich, but is there really a shortcut to it?
Tone: Satirical

D:
Concept: The hidden work behind an animation
The four jobs: Producer, Pre-Production Artist, Production Artist, Post Production Artist
Message: People so easily enjoy the work they see on screen, but most don’t know how much work and time is put into it.
Tone: More serious?
– I am also considering adding a twist to make the above concept more ‘me’ by using ‘Jack’ as my name (ironically). Because of the phrase, ‘Jack of all trades, master of none’, because I am a generalist.

Since this project was more typography based, I thought about how I could make use of types to express the various verbs (swift, force, strength, mysterious). I decided to experiment with using the formatting of the fonts, such as bolditalics, and stuff like that.

Swift as a Coursing River

Hmmmm how to express coursing river? Italics was used in hopes to express movement, like swoosh. I started off with the imagery of river contours in mind, using blue as a base colour, and eventually delving more into using hints of turquoise and teal.

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I also experimented with moving the alphabets around, as if they were carried by the water current. However, I thought that it wasn’t expressing ‘swift’ and ‘coursing’ enough as the visuals seemed calm instead of quick.

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Eventually, I tried to overlay various images of water, and drew some bubbles, attempting to make it seem more like a coursing river, at the same time complementing the alphabets and filling some negative space to make the visuals more interesting and less plain. 

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As I was working on this, I also saw this video: https://www.facebook.com/culturacolectivaplus/videos/1583477421669715/

and super loved it. Went back again in hopes of finding some references and inspiration and noticed how effective the use of the oil/ink/soap videos was. Yyyyes, oil, ink, soap imagery is bae.

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So I grabbed this one and overlaid it on the existing design, experimenting with different blending options.

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More experiments with the movement of the alphabets. coursingriver-pg2s

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This one is my favourite so far. I thought the ink helped to represent movement as they looked like the bubbles you would see in the movement of water.

Force of a Great Typhoon

Don’t have much for this yet, except some possibly relevant imagery.

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screen-shot-2017-01-27-at-5-21-45-pmtyphoon-pg1Thought of using trippy neon colors coming into blend because typhoons remind me of a huge blender that blends everything (represented by a mish mash of random colors) up. The base colours blue and green would represent the sea and land in this case. This is still a mess, have yet to be developed!

Strength of a Raging Fire

fire-pg1The text is in bold because well, strength of a raging fire. Didn’t want to use a typical fire imagery for this and used bold and expressive brush strokes as inspired by the ruggedy-ness in David Carson’s works. Half way through, I thought of how the brush strokes reminded me of Red Indians’ face paint and I did some research and experimenting with that, as Red Indians are commonly known to be fierce and strong warriors. 
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Mysterious as the Dark Side of the Moon

Experimented with hiding the type for this, because, mysterious means not revealing everything easily. Also tried different ways I could hide the types. The drawing of the moon was from an old work. Played around with using different colors and I preferred a dark moon because of the contrast it gives plus it could better represent the dark side of the moon better. The cropping around was again inspired by David Carson’s works.

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Tried to use an image of the moon like this one but it didn’t really work out.moon-texture

Moving forward after the group consultation, I am going to try to think of other possible messages these four ‘jobs’ can indicate as well as how I can better tie my visuals to my message.

I should also be thinking more about helping the type fit in with the designs instead of looking like it’s overlaid.

If all goes well, I can start test printing soon!

Que Sera Research

For the homework of Week 1, we were tasked to conceptualise / research in our Visual Journal and decide on 4 jobs.

Also, we were to research on any of the following artists: Hannah Hock, DADA and Russian Constructivists, David Carson and some methods such as How to reconstruct; Using unconventional tools; 2D to 3D to 2D; Photomontage and Collage; Paper cut-outs and layering.

So, here’s my research!

  • Hannah Hock
    screen-shot-2017-01-15-at-3-44-17-pmShe is a German Dada artist and one of the pioneers of photomontage.The Dada art movement is that I’ve often heard of but never really got to understand what it is. Apparently, it started with the outbreak of World War 1, where “many Dadaists believed that the ‘reason’ and ‘logic’ of bourgeois capitalist society had led people into war”.

    The movement “consisted of artists who rejected ideas of logic, reason and aestheticism dominant in modern capitalist society, instead expressing nonsense, irrationality, and anti-bourgeois protest in their works”. Unhappiness was portrayed with violence, war and nationalism by Dadaists.

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For reference because this word kept appearing.

So, here are some of Hannah Hoch’s works:

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Cut with the Kitchen Knife “Hoch’s title for this piece illustrates her critique of the “bloated and heavy handed” nature of the male dominated Weimer republic and German military.” https://utopiadystopiawwi.wordpress.com/dada/hannah-hoch/cut-with-the-kitchen-knife/
Hannah Hoch: Indian Dancer: From an Ethnographic Museum Hannah Höch (German, 1889–1978)
Hannah Hoch: Indian Dancer: From an Ethnographic Museum Hannah Höch (German, 1889–1978) https://unefemmefap.wordpress.com/feminist-artist/

 

Das schöne Mädchen [The Beautiful Girl]
Das schöne Mädchen [The Beautiful Girl] https://www.artsy.net/artwork/hannah-hoch-das-schone-madchen-the-beautiful-girl
Ohne Titel (Aus einem ethnographischen Museum)
Ohne Titel (Aus einem ethnographischen Museum) https://www.artsy.net/artwork/hannah-hoch-ohne-titel-aus-einem-ethnographischen-museum

Researching on the above works, I read that Hannah Hoch often touched on gender issues. Perhaps this is why many of her artworks are expressed using the juxtaposition of body parts and machinery, to tie in to her feminist agenda.

At a glance, it seems like Hannah Hoch often used complementary colours, such as yellow and blue tinges. It could be related to the limitations or trends in printing technology during that era, but I feel like the contrast resonates with her message and juxtapositions. Juxtaposition and bizarre compositions are also often seen in her work. It feels like she is very daring in her expressions, many times making use of exaggeration.

  • David Carsonscreen-shot-2017-01-15-at-4-40-19-pm“David Carson is an American graphic designer, art director and surfer” widely known for his “innovative magazine design and use of experimental typography”.

It is said that “In 1983, Carson started to experiment with graphic design and found himself immersed in the artistic and bohemian culture of Southern California.”.

When he first started, David Carson was heavily influenced by Hans-Rudolf Lutz, one of his former teachers. Hans Rudolf Lutz was an experimental Swiss designer who, like David Carson, often experimented with typography.

Most of the research below is based on the following interview with David Carson by designboom: http://www.designboom.com/design/interview-with-graphic-designer-david-carson-09-22-2013/

David Carson spoke about his approach to design as “experimental, intuitive and personal”, and trying to “reinforce visually what is written, spoken or sung”. He aims to “connect with people on an emotional level”.

 

It seems to me like most of his designs are bold and telling. Striking and in your face. His layout designs also are also often breakthroughs of traditional layouts. I love this because it is always about doing something different. One memorable example of this would be the following picture:

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As mentioned in his interview, it was a magazine cover that was designed with no cover lines because he felt that the photograph of Keith Richards’ says it all. It turned out to be the biggest selling issue. I also feel like this cover is exactly what David Carson described his design approach to be – experimental, intuitive and personal. Experimental being the risk taking to do something different. Personal and intuitive being how he knew the photograph spoke emotionally, like there was a really interesting story to tell. It is simple, direct and eye catching. I love hahaha.

As mentioned above, in the interview, he also spoke about how “growing up primarily in Southern California [gave him] a somewhat more experimental, liberal and open minded approach to design and life.” This goes to show the cultural impacts and how individuality is brought into design.

At this moment, it seems so empowering because it would mean each individual designer is capable of delivering their own unique designs according to their especial stories and footprints. Perhaps with this, I could be inspired to bring more individuality into my designs, something that is more me, something that speaks more about how I have been brought up. I have never really thought about it this way. More often than not, it was about what looks good, especially since I find that I struggle with abstract concepts.

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David Carson is savage he put the whole article in dingbat because he thought it was boring and so ‘why not?’

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Apparently the outcome of this page was due to something more ‘automatic’, he was working on a concept but saw that “there was somethign nice happening with the 4 single pages laying on [his] studio floor, as they were – so [he] used them in that way.”

I feel like David Carson’s work are very liberated and screams design freedom. I find that it is definitely a challenge to be able to have so much creative freedom, but at the same time ensure your design communicates to it’s audiences and have your clients approve it.

I have never really heard of David Carson before this but now I feel more inspired to break out of my design shell, to hop aboard a voyage to experiment more, break boundaries, be more flexible, chill out and less particular.

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He mentioned that “[his] work uses very few software tricks, or even color. it’s about font choice, cropping and basic, often intuitive design decisions, ones that are appropriate for the client, audience, and myself.”

This paragraph is on pointe. I want to be more special.
This paragraph is on pointe. I want to be more special.

When asked about online design resources’ influence on graphic design these days, David Carson said that “it’s made everything less experimental, less memorable, less unique and less effective. its homogenized the work overall and made it easier to forget, with less impact.” – This sounds true. A lot of designs nowadays follow trends, though they look good and receive well, it is less memorable. Once again, on the upcoming projects, I hope to be much more experimental than I was last semester.

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Really no idea what the above posters mean (I think there might have been information too small to be seen in this resolution), but I think they look gooood. I love the use of the colors. I love the colors. It was done for Austin Institute for Graphic Awesomeness spring 2014 conference.

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Love.


Speaking of unconventional design tools, recently we painted with our fingers and twigs in Foundation Drawing class and I really liked the outcome of my drawings:

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OSS likes to rotate my pictures??

But i quite like the outcomes and it sounds out a possibility of expressing better with unconventional drawing tools.

A quick trip to Pinterest and I saw this: https://www.behance.net/gallery/3595975/Milky-Way

Draw with milk..whoa!:

Drawing with milk!

Unconventional tools would probably remind everyone about the mark making nightmare. Anything can be used as an art tool, anything.


From 2D to 3D to 2D totally reminds me of Alexa Meade who does awesome stuff like these:

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Which could be considered unconventional tools too?

She basically transforms the 3D world into a 2D painting, and then recapturing them into 2D photographs or films. It seems pretty epic to me because there’s a base 3D canvas to work on, as compared to a flat 2D canvas. It is innovative and at the same time could mean possibly easier workflow and extended possibilities.

There’s my research for Project 1 for now, will possibly do more research on methods while ideating!