//Artist research//Kate Forester//And//Jess Hirsk//

(((Kate Forester)))
Kate Forester is an illustrator who works with type and image, she often does work for companies such as Macdonalds, Tiffany, Harvy Nichols and many more, Her work is relevant to my project as she does a lot of typography, my aim is to produce my own type to use in my final piece, her work is very stylish and detailed, i hope that my own work can have a similar style to it.  Here is some of her work from the last year.

Kate Forrester's work looks like it has been hand rendered, this style works well for me, especially her Calligraphy one, it is perfectly done and almost looks digital, her work is very feminine and most probably appeals to more women than men.

(((Jess Hirsk)))

Jess hirsks work has also been very influential though out this project her work is more Digital but still look every feminine a lot of the time and is mainly based on typography. The colours she uses are always simple and no more than three at a time, usually Black and another. The typography is particular delicate and very detailed.

 On ce again her designs are very Feminine, they have swirls and often a romanticised type face, they are Dream like and look like they would be in a Fantasy story. This was one of the reasons why They link into my project

 

This piece of work was made for a Article on "the real housewives of Atlanta" the Font is made up of illustrated Rhinestones, showing the type of audience she works for.

 This is my favourite piece of Jess Hirsks work, The colours are so effective in advertising this particular font, its light and reminds me of 1950's recipe books which links to the name of the font "buttermilk- Its very Suburban housewife ask.

This piece of typography is has given me a great amount of inspiration, the way the letters are all different a makes it so individual and breathtaking, the colours she has used are vibrant and unexpected but all work together even thought there is no particular theme or even set of colours. Every single letter is totally different but they all work tougher as a piece. 

  

//Luminated Letters//Message and Delivery//

Lumiated letters are Letters which are at the beguiling of a chapter in any old book or many children's novels, they are highly decorative and very visually pleasing. they used to be used in old books but were only ever in gold or silver, they were most popular in the middle ages. They are also used in Islamic manuscripts and other religious books and writings.

Jo's Task//2 good pieces of illustration, photography, typography and Logo's

The task Set by Jo was to find to pieces of Illustration, typography, logos, and photography which we liked, we were also asked why we liked them and who they were by. these are my 8 images.I really liked both of the pieces of illustration many because of the face that they combined hand drawn and digital, i love how you can tell that both have been done by hand, but yet they still have a clean finish, i particularly like the image by Rafael Pereira, it is confusing, yet intriguing, and the colours he has uses are also very appealing.

I chose these pieces of photography as i love how they have a vintage look to them, the photograph by Jennifer Su is playful and looks "in the moment", the image seems to be alive in the sense that the girls looks like she is moving towards to camera to give a kiss. where as the other image by Dan Mountford provokes more thought, it shows a girl looking down to the floor, as of she is in deep thought. both images are double exposure so they both have two images within each, I like this as i think it shows more of a story behind the photo.

I have always really enjoyed this particular brand of hot chocolate, hey do strange flavours such as chilli and mint. The product its self is quite expensive and so probably appeals more to those with a higher budget. I love the colours and the Designs by Gil Elvgren in the back ground. 

I also chose this Logo as I drink a lot of Pukka Tea , the bright colours and the logo make it unforgettable. 

I liked this piece of Type as it uses simple layout and a simple palette of 3 colours and 3 type fonts, making it successful.

After showing these in the workshop on friday, we all looked at other people's work and different ways of interpreting and describing, We referred to DIET in order to evaluate each piece of work.

D- Describing, What is it?

I- Interpreting- What is it about? 

E- Evaluation- How good is it?

T- Theory- Does it solve the problem

We then came up with 10 Effecting questions which we would use in the future to analyse a piece of work, these were our ten questions:

1. In what context would you find it/ where would it be?
2. What does it communicate?
3. How was it made/ what technique is used?
4. Why the colour palette used?
5. Does the colour palette work?
6. What does it try to do?
7. Does it successfully do this?
8. What was the inspiration behind it?
9. Do you like it?
10. Is it similar to any other artists work?

//Visual Research for//Message and Interpretation//

Here are some toilet signs used in countries across the world, they are legible by anyone from any country as most of them don't have any words in them. they are clever in the sense that they portray a crude message with out being crude and if they are crude then they are humorous at the same time. The first image Links to the story 'little red riding hood' and is more illustrative then the others.

 All are effective in showing a male toilet from a female toilet, it is important for them to do this without using type so everyone using the toilet can understand. looking into toilet signs has been very us full, for my project signs will be used in a simple way to communicate something. 

//Visual research for Proverbally Yours//Message and Interpretation//

The idea which is going to be used as the final piece is slightly controversial, the idea is based on transvestites, The Proverb is 'Not everything is as it seems' meaning that transvestites can't always be recognised as transvestites, there were many ideas which could have gone with this proverb but due to this one being unusual it seems to be more interesting.

 These images are stock images, royalty free, and show a man dressed up as a women, they are very feminine and if you didn't know that the figure in the picture was a man he could easily be mistaken for  women. they are cleverly taken as they are angled so that the body is covered and only the face is being shown. The colours are very feminine.

 Ihope to use these images as inspiration for the final piece, they are subtle yet intelligent in the sense they portray a controversial message with humour.

//Poster Research for Pro verbally yours//Message and Interpretation//

My research for the project Proverbially yours//Message and Interpretation, started by looking at poster design across America and the Uk. 

Both of the poster designs below are from the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, they both advertised events and are both very colourful and stylised. The one below Is from a poster art exhibition and its by Jake Early, the second advertised a gig at the museum and uses screen print as a method.

Vintage propergander posters are also something which are relevant to my work, By looking into propergander which tries to portray a message, hopefully this will help me with my work and help me understand ways in which particular messages can be presented.

 This image was designed by Shepard Fairley, he has designed many posters like this one in order to gain support for president Obama, These posters have become very popular since they were produced near to the time of the Election.

 These posters were produced by a designer called Steve Thomas, They were made to help people remembers to do things such as "wash their hand" and not to open unknown files from the internet. they are humorous in the sense that they try to remind people to do simple things but at the same time they are very visually pleasing.

Lecture Notes 1,2, and 3

Lecture one- Modernity and Modernism


"MODERN" - JOHN RUSKIN

• Modernity is an improvement on the old, its a progression, consumer culture exists because of this. For example Fashion exists due to consumer culture.
• Paris was one of the most modern place that existed in the 1900's, it was the " place to be"
• Urban life was fundamentally different from life in the country, William hunts image shows this.

URBANISATION/ INDUSTRIALISATION = NEW THINGS

• The change from farm life to urban life was huge, pace was quick, people now working in factories and have more of a routine. For example facto roe workers had " work time" and "leisure time", they had more of a structure to their lives.
• Trains and other public transport, Cinema, and telephones were invented, meaning people were much better connected with each other and the rest of the country, The world becomes smaller, and people are brought together. Electricity was invented
• Trottroir Roullant- The more affluent wandering the streets in paris whilst the less well off, gaze into the distance, this shows the different life styles and how people spent their time.
• Effel tower was created in 1889, many hated it and didn't like to look at it
• Race for modernity between Europe, especially Britain and Europe, they would race for the newest and best technology

SECULAR SOCIETY- PEOPLE TURN TO SCIENCE INSTEAD OF RELIGION

• The city is a social hub, it becomes palace of new experience, and a place to study
• Modernity is becoming more and more popular, e.g the Effel tower uses modern materials and doesn't try to hide it, where as other new buildings at the time were made by modern materials, but were disguised to look "old"
• Life is changing, pace of change and life is quick, many don't like this change.
• Fashion is becoming the key signifier to show who you are
• Many people feel isolated by this new pace of life

PARIS - HAUSSMANISATION 

• Center of paris was a slum
• Napoleon knocked it all down and employed Haussmann to build Boulevards and "clean up" the city
• becomes the centre for the rich, the poor are pushed to the outskirts
• city is changed physically by Haussmann

Postmodernism  Lecture 2 
 postmodernism is a follow u of mdernism
Modernism was often horrible as designers followed the rule of form over function
Modernist art pushes experimentation, it pushes new painting tecniques and new types of architecture, it aso pushes new innovation and inspiration, as well as individualism
Its progressive and pushes purity, as well as turning to nw methods to finding inspriation.
Posrmodernism is characterised by
-Exhaustion
pluralism
postmodernism is a reaction to modern life , tecnology and new innovation


MUSEUM FOR MODERN ART


Jean Tinguely- peice of podern art against the type of modern ar, a machine which breaks itself as entertainment, showing tecnology is flawed and is negotive towrds progress
1917- German writers mention postmodernism
1960-Beguining
1970- postmodernism was established as a term
1980- recognisable as a term and style
1990- less fashionable
Todat- people think less of it and it is questioned as a theory
PPOSTMODERNISM
- after modernism
-history following modern
-contrastiong modernism
-Equivilent to late capitalism, Jameson
- Artistic and stylistic electicism
-Global village, globalization of cultures
CHARLES JENKS
 postmodernism dies at exactly 3.32 on 15th of july 1972, aftre the demolation of pruitt Igoe  development in st Loius.


Postmodernism ther are no rules
SEAGRam BUILDING NEW YORK  is a good example of moodernism
Park hill flas in sheffield, were very unpopular amougsts its residents, it was cold and very unhomely, good example of a failed modernist design
PHILLIP JOHNSON- at and t building in new york 1982
Guggenheim museum- Frank Gehry
metanarrative-one explaination which seeks to encompass everything, for example totalising beleif systems= this results on a crisis in confidence, the idea that the world must imprve or why are we living? people start to question their beleifs in god or something greater. Untopian ideas
POSTMODERNISTS CONSIST OF
-COMPLEXITY
-CHAOS
MIXING MATERIALS
-REUSING MATERIALS AND IMAGES LIKE MIXED MIEDIA
roy litchenstien- :this ust be the plac” 1965 very sarasic
the divide between high art and low art was greatest at this tme than ever in history
1960- NEW YORK was the best place to be, the most cool and hip place to spend time 1970’ the collest place to be chaged to Las Vegas, where it was acceptable to let differnt styles and designs clash.
 the Postmodern city is called distopia instead of utopia its now all mixed up and e.g Blade runner


Andy Warhol - not an attempt to produce a portrait, it was a mediation in which society creats a star, its not a celebration of tecnology, tecnology is flawed
he produce a paintig with copper paint and urine, which took the mick out of Kacdon pollocks modern painting
Piero Manzoni- produced cans of his own shit and sold them for thousands of pounds, the curiocuty was in the face that noone knew wether it was real or not and so the owner of the “art”  would have to open the can in order to find out wether its real or not.
Fredric Jameson- nobody benefits in anythin, we have a sarcastic culture and it has no depth or meaning, society just recycles eras, Flat culture, Warhols work as no depth, try to be as shallow as possible


Postmodernist art is accessable to everyone, all differnt types of people understand postmodernist art,
Memphis Group- postmodernist type is much more humourous than modernist.
Jamie reed- sex pistols posters 1981
IN CONCLUTION
POSTMODERNITY QUESTIONS CONVENTIONS SUCH AS MODERNISM
POSTMODERNISM- ANTI PURITY, ITS ABOUT COMBINIG EVERYTHING
POSTMODERNISM - BELIEVS THAT THE WORLD IN NOT IMPROVING LIKE MODERNISM BELEIFS BUT IT IS IN FACT JUST  THE SAME IT IS NOT OPTIMISTIC.


Lecture 3 -Graffiti and Street Art

• Caines in France- real caves closed up, as oxygen was making the illustrations n the walls deteriorate, fake ones made so that the public can view.
• Ancient roman graffiti, Pompeii 
• Kilroy- WW2- COMIC VALUE-  shortage of food 
• Paris- may- 1968- strike for 2 weeks for all factory workers
• New York-1970's- spray can graffiti, hip hop culture, groups of people who are ignored so turn to graffiti with political messages behind them. Joan Naar- 1973
• Jean- Micheal Basquait-SAMO- same old shit, moved to Neo expressionism, he worked with Andy Warhol and then later on he died of a Heroine overdose 
• Kath Harvey- subway graffiti art, Paris, Berlin, Melbourne, good example of campaigning. "pop shop" celebrity hang out. 
• Jenny Holzer- times square show 1980- berlin wall came down, which divided two areas eastern from western, it expresses their view on politics,
• TATS CRU- took away the meaning of graffiti by using in in advertising.
• Invader- french artist, born 1969, location is significant "attack of Montpelier"
• Bansky- Graffiti moves to art galleries 
• Shepard Fawrey-2008 president Obama posters  red white and blue, 
• Jr- photographs in Rio de Janeiro, photographs on the sides of run down buildings.
• Blu- (Italy) and Os Gemeos (brazil) in lisbon 2010
• Corsa Advert 2011
• 123 Klan,- collaborated with Adidas and Sony
• Paul Kurtis- Reverse graffiti, uses power washing to make an image.
• Sam 3 - spain, black paint
• VHILS
• Faith 71- Amsterdam
• FAFA- France- manga cartoon style, over sexualised 
• Miss Van- overt sexuality to images 
• Herakut- german artist 
• Swoon- doyle like white paint, female artist, more interested in the content than the appearance
• Palistine wall- art of resistance, its political 
• Exit through the graffiti shop.
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