Thursday, 19 December 2013

Coming up- Suede

Peter Saville's album cover for the band swedes album Coming Up.

1) Select a background image for the album and add it to the 1st layer.

2) For the second layer, find a mattress and remove the background using the magic wand tool, magic eraser or the eraser.

3) Add the Band name using the text tool.

3) Find the image of a man and use the brush tool to colour it in with pink, orange and yellow and use the spray paint tool to blend in the colours.

4) Add the image of the man laying down on top of the coloured man and change it to greyscale, then use the spray paint tool to add the red colouring to his knee area.

5) Add the image of the woman to the image and use the magic wand and eraser to remove the background.

6) Use the brush tool to add the colours to the image and the blend tool to help them fit together.

7) use the pencil too to create the title of the album.

8) Change the colour of the line to yellow used on the album title.

9) Use the gradient too to add the yellow to black effect on the background of the image.

AMV stands for Anime Music Video, they are a big type of video on youtube that are created using scenes from anime to form a montage. They often use many different anime and they also use one specific anime. They tend to use songs that match the feel of the anime used, for instance if it is a sad or slow song they will use scenes from emotional anime whereas if its a fast paced song with little emotion it will use action scenes from anime. This is not always the case like the one linked, the song can mix it both types into one fluid montage. These are a big thing on Youtube with nearly any song has its own AMV with channels dedicated to making them.

Fireflies AMV

Monday, 16 December 2013

Web-Friendly

The second Article is Web-Friendly which is about

Vincent Morisset who created the breakthrough interactive video for arcade fire. He has wowed audiences with his ability to bring film alive on the web. The article describes how Morisset set out the video-website and includes some quotes from Morisset himself, he says that presenting content online allows new parameters to play with, which i agree because there is a extremely wide range of technology to use. Its describes some of the works he has done for arcade fire, Emilie Simon and a future project for the national film board of Canada. The Articles also bring up a good point which that music videos are still not broadening onto online feature like Morissets. It tells a small bit of his background, he studied cinema and animation, alongside multimedia and older media.

Tommy Penton

Tommy Penton is a London based illustrator who is currently working in Sidney. This artist works in the music industry (posters, album covers etc…) and has had various clients such as: Embrace, New Order, Morcheeba and Talvin Singh. He also does advertising work with companies such as The British Airways and the Edinburgh film Festival. He has also published Pentagram’s ‘Pen and Mouse’ and ‘The Picture book’.

His ideas are intelligent but fresh approach to perspective art. His work is often a bright and fluid style with a gentle sense of humor He also has a unique style of doing his vector illustrations with one line.

Chris Dent

Chris Dent is an illustrator who uses energetic visions of life to create city environments. He has recently graduated from Camberwell College of Arts in London and had gained BA in illustration.
He now bases himself in London and works for Noise and has various clients such as Puma, Playstation, Mazda, Nike and Xbox. He has done 8 solo shows presenting his work in London and Paris The hand drawn work of Chris Dent takes a fresh and unique approach on all forms of architecture, often focusing on the modern metropolis. His truly original and informative drawings combine reality and an original point of view to create engaging and charming representations of the world.

http://printclublondon.com/artist/chris-dent/

Olivier Kugler

Olivier Kugler is a German illustrator who studied graphic design in Pforzheim. He was born in Simmozheim in the Black Forest, and his influences include French/Belgian bande desinées and Otto Dix Ever since his childhood he always wanted to create comic books or graphic novels because of the influence of his favourite artists such as Herge who created Tin tin.

However his father told him to use create his own ideas rather than copying others. Later on in his life he did join the Navy but decided to go back to illustrating since he found the Navy boring. His work is mainly based on real life photos he has taken while on his travels but also incorporates elements of comic book to make them his own rather than someone else’s style.

The Trophy

My first article is about The Trophy from ICON. The article goes into what the trophy has become in the modern age compared to what it originally stood for. It started with hanging the Armour of dead enemies from trees to clearly show the winner of the battle. It goes on to say that the symbol of victory had gone through a evolutionary decent and had turned into a billion dollar business. You can walk into a sports store anywhere and see mass produced cups and figures. There are awards for nearly anything, from science and sports awards to employee of the month awards. As the rise of cultural trophies grew like the noble peace prize, Oscars and Emmy, the award industry grew. The article reminds us that it isn't just in recent times that awards have been given out, as early as 6th century B.C they crowned winners in the Olympics. Even with the business becoming this big it very doubtful you will know the names of any company's that make awards, company's like medallic art company, RS Owen or recognition products international.

Terry Jones

Terry Jones, born in 1945 in Northampton, England, is the Editor-In-Chief, Creative Director and Publisher of i-D. He studied graphics at the West of England College of Art in Bristol but left when a favorite tutor (Richard Hollis) resigned. Terry married Tricia in 1968, later becoming the father of two children, Kayt and Matt, who are now professional photographers themselves. For more than 30 years Terry has established himself as one of the most experimental creative directors of his generation, from the covers of Vanity Fair and Vogue, where he was art director from 1972-77, to the innovative designs of i-D magazine, which he founded in 1980. The first issue of i-D was created at his home studio and published in the form of a hand-stapled fanzine with text produced on an IBM golf ball typewriter. He has also edited and art directed numerous books including Catching the Moment, Smile i-D and i-D Covers: 1980-2010 and has curated many international exhibitions and advertising campaigns. With a personal approach to art direction he often refers to as ‘controlled chaos’, Terry continues to discover and nurture creative collaborations with photographers, writers, stylists and graphic designers. After thirty years in print, Terry’s enthusiasm is unfailing and his energetic artistic vision continues to inspire.

Neville Brody

Neville Brody is perhaps the best known graphic designer of his generation. He studied graphic design at the London College of Printing and first made his way into the public eye through his record cover designs and his involvement in the British independent music scene in the early 1980s. As the Art Director of Fetish he began experimenting with the beginnings of a new visual language that consisted of a mixture of visual and architectural elements. Later he was able to put these ideas into practice and to set new precedents through the innovative styling of The Face magazine (1981-1986). It was his work on magazines that firmly established his reputation as one of the world’s leading graphic designers. In particular, his artistic contribution to The Face completely revolutionized the way in which designers and readers approach the medium. Though Brody rejected all commercialization of his graphic style, his unique designs soon became much-imitated models for magazines, advertising and consumer-oriented graphics of the eighties. Brody also won much public acclaim through his highly innovative ideas on incorporating and combining typefaces into design. Later on he took this a step further and began designing his own typefaces, thus opening the way for the advent of digital type design. His pioneering spirit in the area of typography manifests itself today in such projects as FUSE, a regularly published collection of experimental typefaces and posters which challenges the boundaries between typography and graphic design.

https://www.fontfont.com/designers/neville-brody

David Carson

David Carson was born on the 8^th September 1954 in Corpus Christi, Texas. He went to San Diego State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. He became the art director of Transworld Skateboarding magazine in 1984, and remained there until 1988, helping to give the magazine a distinctive look. He was hired by publisher Marvin Scott Jarrett to design Ray Gun, an alternative music and lifestyle magazine that debuted in 1992. Ray gun made him well known and attracted new admirers of his work. He was also features in publications such as the New York Times and Newsweek. In November 1995, Carson published his first book, End of Print. In 2004, Carson became the Creative Director of the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston. He is now married and has two children, Lucy and Luke. And continues to lecture throughout the world.