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Evaluation for snow board Project

Steps:

First I experimented with colours

·      I made patterns from mono printing. I laid out 3 pieces of A4 paper on top of a large piece of paper. The papers are next to each other. Use a roller and roll it on the 3 paper, each with primary colour. The papers should be stuck on to the large piece of paper. I placed a clean A4 paper on top of the red poster paint that had been rolled on.rub then gently peel it off. This would create a wood surface like structure. I then place it on top of the yellow and then the blur paint. For the second experiment I placed a number (cut out) on the paint then place the clean paper. On the paper, the number would be left blank and the background would be shown in many different colours. Mono printing creates many interesting textures and colours.

·      Then I start to experiment on mark making by biro pen. I was planning about using different type of mark making on the snow board but not with biro pen.

·      I also cut out interesting structures of buildings, colours and interesting mark makings from the magazine.

·      I also want to include my name in front of the complicate background design I got from the magazine. Si Scott was the biggest influence of creating the typeface. First I made my name straight and with san serif. I then make the ends narrow, similar to Si Scott’s work. I added blades at the end to create that sharp and strong looks to name.

·      I started looking at an artist called Kara walker. She is famous for the cut outs she made in galleries. Kara works on negative and positive points by cut outs. She creates illusion well. She makes me feel like she was telling me a story every time I look at her work.

·      I then start to look into cityscapes and start to practice drawing buildings with perspective.

·      I start to go out and do observational drawings from outside instead of making a transcript from the magazines. I start to look in to the 3 main types of architectural drawings: plan (Architectural building plan, floor plan, and site plan), elevation and cross section.

·      I gathered buildings that I’ve got from magazines, pictures I took, observational and perspective drawings all into one A3 tracing paper(photo copy, shade in the part you want to cut out, cut out shaded parts, stick the black sticky paper on to white)

Final design

·      I gathered the experiments I did and start to group them.

·      I put the letters I made (my name) to join with the crazy textured background I got from the magazine.

·      I put the picture of a fashion theme eye with make up with the building I made.

·      The front of the snow board would be my name in white and a thin black outline to shape the letters up. With a contrast the background has crazy bright and bold colours. The bamboo on top and bottom was added. It is black because I wanted it to look invisible, but still joined to my name so the name wasn’t floating around. The colours of the background are bright, bold and mainly in primary colours. I was influenced by Gerrit Rietveld. He uses either tonal colours, bright and bold colours or primary colours.

·      For the other side of the snow board I try to make the colours as bright as the other side so it would still look like it is the same board. The building is no longer black and white but is painted in bright colours. You might wonder why the mouth is still there? Wouldn’t it ruin the whole composition? The reason why I still included the mouth is because I want to look at it and make my eyes look around instead of looking out of the snow board. Because the eyes are round and the building is angular it has that strong contrast from each other, so I decided to put the mouth in.

·      I like my work to show myself and who I am. My work is usually bright and full of colour. Bright colours represent the happy and crazy side of me. I love art and splashing bright colours and I’m sure it shows how much I like bright colours.

·      When making

·      I painted the snow board with acrylic paint because the paint is very thick and vibrant. The problem I faced when painting the snow board is that I find it a little difficult to blend the colour around the eye. When I applied paint around the eye it was very thick and hard to be gentle with it compared to water colours.

Review

If I start this project again I would switch the face the other side, because on this board I was busy painting and drawing that I didn’t look if it was at the right way up. I would also draw the lips differently, maybe by drawing it bigger and turned more on the right. I would also like to blend the colours of the eye shadow a little bit more and also more colour.

I like the blending technique I used throughout the board. I made it clear what is in front and what is behind.

 WRITTEN BY NINA JONES

 

Johaness Gutenberg

When and where did Johaness Gutenberg invent the printing press?

He invented the printing press in the 1440s.He was a metal worker in Mainz, Germany.it was the first machine to spread the rebellion by printing books

What is a PrintingPress, how does it work?

Printingpress is a device to print ink onto a paper, cloth. The device puts pressure onthe Moveable type (individual letters or punctuation), this takes an enormous amount of labour involved in operating thethousands of ceramic tablets. The components he used for his type pieces are froman alloy of lead, tin and antimony.

Whatis Moveable Type?

Moveable types are type pieces that are used in the printing press machinearound 1450.Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press and independently developed a movable type system in Europe. The type base is casted on a matrix and hand mould.thetype pieces are made from an a lloy of lead,tin and antimony.

 

What was the impact of the Printingpress?

The printing press spreads information quickly andaccurately. People start to know how to read, write and use literacy correctly.

Since the books are released, the church then can’tstop spread of controversial new ideas. Scientists spread the knowledge of livingorganism and a lot of people turned against church and religion.

Origins of the western alphabet

·Phoenician alphabet

>It is originally from the ancient Middle East about 3000 years ago.

>It is the ancestors of western Hebrew, Arabic, Tibetan and many Indian letter forms

>The Phoenicians were Mediterranean people.

>The biggest influence is from the area that is now Syria in 1050 BC

>The letters used to be drawing of animals or objects for example the letter ‘A’

>In 1050 BC letter ‘A’ was an ox,when time passes by the alphabet got rotated and simplified.

 As shown below:

 ·800 years later(600 BC)in ancient greece the alphabets have been either;rotated,simplified or completely changed.the way the alphabet is read is also different,the text is read from left to right.

                                                                                             ·100 AD about 1800 years ago the ancient Rome have carved the capital letters in to stones.

>It is capitalized because it is easier to carve straight lines on hard surfaces like stones.

>For the lower case(non capitals)they are written on paper by ink.

>Up to 1440 AD all books and documents were hand written(eg.Lindisfarne Cospel  750AD),until the invention of the printing press.

·When Henry VIII (the 8th) took control of the church and made everyone to be a protistant.It was the new religion that henry the eighth made everyone and every  priest to be a protistant.

>The reason why he changed and made a new religion is because he wanted to devorce and marry a new wife.

>the only people that could read or write in those days were the monks and the priests.

>Because no one knows how to read books,they believe everything the priest says and think it is right.

·In 750 AD: The irish hand written bible was released.They were written by monks.

>The style changed from serif fonts to san-serifs.

· Printing used to be very expensive and the only organisation that could posibbly get hold of them are the government.They used it to be in control of people’s ideas by propaganda.The books that are printed were all checked by the government,so no body speaks against them.
 

>Go back about 200-300 years,different font style eg. TIMES then become digitallised and people starts to design their owm fonts.

·  In 1450 AD: Gutenberg bible was printed.

>Johaness Gutenberg:the invention and impact of the printing press.

>Gutenberg invented the printing press in the 1440s.

>he was a metal worker in Mainz,germany.

>The printing press was the first machiene to spread the rebellion(knowledge) by printing books.Personally,Printing press machiene was a success and had produced the first gutenberg bible in the 1470s.

>In 1470, germany starts to spread their knowledge around europe.Italy, france, England, poland, netherland and spain were interested and start to use the printing press.

>By 1500,People all over the world were interested on the facts;People starts to read and write;universities,scientists,professors and teachers starts to write books and documents to spread the knowledge.

>Thousands and million of books have been printed.

· In the 18^th century literatures around the word starts to write books.1 Billion books were printed in europe that year.Huge amount of ideas and knowledge have been shared.

>all the documenturies made the church have no longer have the control of their knowledge towards the world.

WRITTEN BY NINA JONES

Brief history of western alphabet list to talk about

History of the western alphabet
Where does our alphabet originated from?
What are the ancestral forms of out alphabet and how long ago can out alphabet be tracked back?
How has it developed over the centuries?
How have specific letters developed over the centuries, as as the letter ‘A’
Use the links on study space. Start roughly putting evidence together as notes with images.

• Origins of Western Alphabet

• Ancient Middle East 3000 years ago

• Phoenician alphabet - Ancestor of Western, Hebrew, Arabic letterforms

• Ancient Greece 2200 years ago

• text is read left to right

• Ancient Rome 1800 years ago

• Carved in stone capitals similar to today

• Non capitals originate as letterforms written in ink

• Phoenicians – Syria 1050 BC

• Ancient Greece – 2200 years ago

    Rome 120 AD

• Irish Hand written Bible 750 AD

Invention of the printing press

enables mass production

Gutenberg Bible, Germany – 1470

‘Letter press’ – print on paper from a raised ink surface

• Gutenberg Bible
First printed book 1470

Gutenberg extract 1470

• England 1560
Power of the Printed Word

• Printing press used for propaganda purposes

• Government controlled Sermons for reformed Protestant religion printed out and distributed nationwide from a printing press in the Tower of London.

• Modern Numbers
introduced to Europe around 1400 from Islamic world
(Arab numbers originated from earlier Hindi forms)

• 1470-1930 Development of different Typeface styles in Europe for Print industry

Garamond 1540

(Created for the King of France)

Baskerville 1757

(Birmingham England)

Times New Roman 1930

(For ‘The Times’ newspaper, London)

• Early 20^th century newspaper metal typeset – same basic print technology as Gutenberg Bible

   Early 20^thCentury Newspaper Typeset

1970s -Photosetting

1985 –Digital type

1990s –Web Design

Frank Gehry

-Born in Toronto

-Moved to Los Angeles with family in 1947.

-Became us citizen

-First architecture course on a hunch

-First he found himself lack of skill as a draftsman.

-He won scholarships to the University of Southern California.

-Graduated in 1954-degree in architecture.

-Gehry went to work full time for the notable Los Angeles firm

-He was the student of victor gruen .

-He had to go and do military service. 1 Year in United States army.

-He then entered the Harvard graduate school of design (studied city planning) he did not finish his course and went back to Los Angeles.

-Joined Pereira and Luckman firm before returning to Victor Gruen firm again.

-In 1962, he established his own firm. Known as Gehry Partners, LLP

-He worked in the established international style. Years after he began to look for an opportunity to express a more personal vision in his work.

-He designed and built some furniture using corrugated cardboard stacked together.he line of furniture is called Easy edges.

-He built imaginative houses for a number of artist friends eg Ruscha in the 1970s

-His larger works were conventional buildings such as the rouse company headquarters in Columbia, Maryland, and the Santa Monica place shopping mall.

-He rebuilt his own home. He called “A dumb little house with charm” it is a new style of domestic building. He showed his house around.

-He took common, unlovely elements of American home building, such as chain link fencing, corrugated aluminium and unfinished plywood, and used them as flamboyant expressive elements, while stripping the interior walls of the house to reveal the structural elements.

my oppinion:

His designs are fascinating. The materials he uses for his machetes are all recyclable materials. One of his techniques that he uses is stacking and repetition. This is a great technique to use when you are designing a household item or a striking building. One of my favourite pieces that he designed was the chair that had a side view looking like the river nile.The repetition and the stacking of the material he uses makes the chair extremely strong and compacted. The object would stay no matter what the shape is.what i would say is although his designs are not truely ergonimic,the use of materials and shape made the objects stand out and be special.

 

EVALUATION

 

 

 

 

 

 

Evaluation

This mural is about “My Self” it should contain the things that represent me. I looked at Richard Hamilton’s work. He made pop art collages. The images were all in one room. Personally I adore vintage furniture, so I cut out a vintage wooden room from the magazine. I then added objects that represent me e.g. light bulbs, painted nails, motor bike, flowers, jewelry, model and also a dog. The images are all taken out from magazines. I made 2 collages, which I combined them both to make the final collage design. I then searched up an artist called Michael Craig Martin (Contemporary conceptual artist).the main technique that he used was with bright colours and no tones, which it gave me an idea on the collage.

I decided to use the colour wheel to help me decide where to put warm and cool colour.i do not want the colours to be realistic as in I don’t want the Sofa to be the boring old brown colour,I want it to be exaggerated. This is because I am an optimist like things to be all colourful and happy.

I also blended some objects to give a sense of perspective e.g. human’s skin or the tunnel.

The font design that I made was based on Si Scott. I made the font to be quite cursive, because personally cursive fonts represents the flow of water like the flow of love. I was going to make the font in red because it would create a contrast, but when I learnt about Kara walker I decided to make it black and white (negative + positive points).I also extended the ascenders and descenders or else it would look too small for the mural.

Techniques

I do not blend the paint by brush I usually use my middle or the index finger to blend the paint, this is because when I blend paint with brush I cannot feel the paint directly and when I blend it’s a habit that I have got to feel the paint and the movements as I blend.

 I also use sponges to blend or to spread large surfaces. The sponge usually gives a rough effect.

I also outline some of the images by black permanent pen/paint. I did not outline every image because some of the image should not look flat or in one dimension.

As I said earlier that the technique I use to pick the colours is based on the colour wheel and my personality. As u can see; the colours are mostly cool and soft e.g. sky blue, soft lilac, cream, turquoise etc.

The paint I used was mostly poster colour. This is because if for some reason I dropped paint on the mural I could wait for it to dry, dip some water and rub it in circles and the unwanted paint would disappear. I mixed all the colours. It was not squeezed out straight from the tube. This would make your work stand out if it was being presented with other people’s work.

For the composition, the focal point should be the women with black glasses. This is because I want to look at it and make me look at the work in circles instead of out of the board. To make the women with glasses to be the focal point she must be somewhere near the middle, dominant colours or something near her should make her stand out. This concludes to why I put the tunnel there.

 

What would I do differently?

I would definitely blend the paint more between my board and my partner’s board. The thing is; it is really hard to decide how to blend or what colour to blend together because my colours are really bright, but my partner’s colours are dark (‘forest like’), but board actually shows that people could have a dark side and a good side.

What I like about this?

I am happy of the outcome because it doesn’t look too crowded or deserted. It looks like everything is joined together. The most important thing is that it actually represents me. It represents the happy me.

 

What I dislike about this?

I don’t really like the fact that the lady was being covered, because all the good details are covered up. If I would change anything it would be the lady and also the font (my name) should be a little bigger to should it out that THIS IS ME.