‘The World Between’ Animated Posters - Simi Zeko
Beautiful examples of Typography and animation combined.
Agreed with the comment above :)
In this section I shall summarise my personal progress this year. This year has been quite a daunting and scary year. The reason for this is because I was not expecting the level of difficulty and I really had to focus. I found the year challenging and had to raise my game to ensure I kept ahead of my tasks. I have learnt a lot about myself & about design this year and have done things I have never done before. This has been extremely interesting for me. I have been sparked with new ideas and created visual pieces that reflect the work at hand. At the same time I have also been keeping true to myself which is an achievement and I feel is very important to my personal and professional journey.
There are a number of key highlights this semester. Even though the holocaust brief was a very delicate subject for me, I found a way to stay true to myself & work hard on the task. At first I was overcomplicating everything & did just need to slowly figure out what I wanted. I took my time and allowed my ideas to shape and develop naturally. This was crucial to the design process and I allowed myself this luxury as the brief was one of great intensity. I feel I was in a slow thought process but overall was still happy with the finals I have achieved.
Challenges are to be embraced and feel I faced them head on. Being scared within my work designs is a challenge knowing if it’s right. I often feel dread, not wanting to show it to others when it’s not finished. I feel as though it has to be finished because I don’t want to show something that still is in thought process. I think it’s just being judged or underestimated with what I am capable of doing by other people. I feel still this is a challenge for me and I aim to grow in confidence to overcome this challenge.
The strengths I would like to highlight are having had much food for thought; I can create what’s in my head & be proud of what I have done. I do work hard & should really give myself the benefit of the doubt. I think I can come up with ideas & show my individual design flair naturally on paper. I also feel as though people can catch onto my style of work & can stand out in a non boring way. I guess I’m still on a journey to find who I will be.
Weaknesses I’d like to discuss are that repeatedly, I find typography hard to use in my work. I create such an image that in my eyes, I don’t know how to use hierarchy with type. I know slowly I am finding my way with type but still I can do a lot better with how I place it.
Recommendations for areas to improve on are to focus on skills with typography, doing more research & really getting involved with how to use it combined with graphics.
What are my hopes, fears and opportunities for the upcoming year? I am in fear about finding a placement because I don’t know if I am ready for the industry or maybe not even capable. I don’t want to be rejected & would be disheartened on actual designers not liking my work because it might not be up to date with the niche that’s going on trend “right now”. I do hope to try & get feedback, good & bad, which I can work on. I know what I need to work on right now and I do feel as though I try but can be tweaked to be how I feel as though is best for me to get hired one day. I want to become more confident with my work and let go of insecurities but I don’t want to be defined by the negative. I should know I am good because I am moving on to the third year.
I have learnt about my own professional practice to be able to present myself confidently to people in the design industry. I feel by visiting the Pick me up festival gave me a massive boost of opportunity to be able to talk to agencies and designers. As I did an interview with one of the members of we are fatherless was a great experience in itself, as the work struck out to me I was eager to compliment and talk about how I felt towards the work. I think to have a normal conversation with designers really creates what a person holds and a real life experience which is communication, this helps to get too understand a designer for who they are. We are fatherless were happy to help me do my interview and interested in what I had to say, I feel as though I portrayed myself confidently which helped me critically in the creative industry. I experienced a huge learning curve during the experience of the interview, because an involvement coming from a design practitioners view is something that the designer has practiced himself, while also embracing and appreciating the opportunity at hand. Overall I really enjoyed taking part in the interview, as it has allowed me to communicate with professional designers, on a professional basis.
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Blog two
The ‘Pick Me Up Festival’ is a graphics arts festival in London is an overview of 17 international up-and-coming illustrators and graphic artists. I had a great experience visiting and viewing all of the work and saw some exceptional pieces from various artists such as Jean Jullien, Hattie Stewart, You Bryun & many other upcoming artists. I was visually overwhelmed with all the different kinds of styles and different methods of working from designer to designer. The work in itself creates a diverse set of styles, methods, techniques and application which individually makes every piece in itself its own work of art. As I was walking around, I spoke to various designers who had agencies around England & it was interesting to see how they worked and what they had come up with. Just complementing their work and being excited to have them in my presence was an experience as well as seeing the artists for who they are. I believe by getting myself involved and interacting with my whereabouts has taught me to be confidant. Maybe next time, with the completion of my portfolio, I should perhaps just go around exhibitions showing people how I work. I was very interested in some of the companies and they gave me their business cards so I could email them my work or maybe just network. I enjoyed a great experience of a variety of work from all over the world, with some very interesting concepts.
Blog one
The Studio Franchise book, with work of Ryan McGuiness, has pages full of development, innovative ideas and final bits of work. I would say the title speaks for itself, creating a concept of what goes on in McGuiness’s studio. I feel attached to the style of work and the methods of fun and colour and being in the mind of the artist. With this he creates an abundance of work and processes to show a production to one final piece but he, as an artist, chose to show his flaws with his style of work. The pictures taken in the studio are messy and vibrant, which instantly give you a picture of McGuiness, as he proves in the ‘Studio Franchise’ book that he isn’t afraid to show the ins and outs of his working methods and has ideas on how work can be produced just by one idea and the many things that can come of it.
Ryan McGuiness has always inspired me as a designer, his working methods to producing has always inspired me and kept me going as an individual artist. Even though my work isn’t up to the standards of McGuiness, I would aim to be as great as him simply by way of production and mass amounts of good work. From this book he shows his way of exhibiting his work and the methods and processes he uses. Creating something from scratch and developing his mind in a small space, I think, shows his work effortlessly.
PDP
Interview with a Professional Practitioner: from We Are Fatherless
Who have been your significant influences & inspirations?
Friends and co workers have been a great impact on my work. I feel as though I have my own artistic flair. Another thing that influences me is native patterns, I feel as though it creates a new spin on my work.
How in which way has this changed your work?
Patterns in general inspire me, I feel experimental work is important to me because I like to be brave and to see what works and what doesn’t work.
How do you develop your ideas?
Chaos and screen printing develops my design work, old magazines and medias have a great influence on my work plus I work in a method of pop culture. By doing this I think my work comes alive with colour.
How do you prefer to work?
Screen printing brings joy to me and I enjoy using this method with my work.
What motivates you?
The desire to produce work.
What specific challenges have you faced in the industry?
Time is hard to get a hold of as I work full time. This is more of a hobby, a feel good aspiration.
What are the highlights of your design career?
The Pick me up festival, after submitting the work we produced and it being accepted is a big deal. The reason why we are here in London is for this event.
Which 5 words would you use to describe your work?
Colour, pattern, chaos, randomness and pop culture.
What innovative ideas have you given to the graphic design industry?
Image replication, fun and personality.
Would you like to share anything else?
I am enjoying my time here in London- second day of the show and it’s been great so far. Further information on us: We are Fatherless on twitter, Facebook and tumblr.
Soy Cuba, Goodman & Sotolongo
1) El Soldado Alejandro Matroux - Union Sovietica. 1965
2) Poland express, Germany, Raymundo Gracia Parra. 1964
3) Sivio Gayton, Transport to paradise, Czechoslovakia. 1965
Addison Gallery of american art. Anna Gaskell
Kiki Smith - Her memory, Fundacio Joan Miro. Barcelona
1) Wood with flowers, 2008
2) messenger III, 2008
3) Crows, 1995
4) Dandelion puff, 2005
The essence of smiths book is “Alive” & “Haunting” in my opinion. Great work.
Be YOU. With the ideas at hand, I created a non finished booklet with my ideas, I thought about shapes + ways that i can use the imagery + interviews.
I used different concepts to portray these but one idea.
how is a average person effected by a street corner?
Talking corners. How a corner effects you?
I started to photograph & interview people on a corner of a street + these are the images I came out with.
I was focusing on textures I saw and manipulating the photographs the way I thought looked best.
I had a lot of fun with this + was inspiring to meet these people and gaining a new experience.
Catalog supplements - 1944 - 1945. Carson Segura.
Artists featured work - Pizzicato, Unica, james closs - Lunar twist, Luil Da Lomba - Lomba, Adam Roe - Dumpster, Dennis Duluse - Plastic man, Marcus Burlile -Six Gun Shortout + Telegraph Junction
