Nadia Larashari Shabrina

Wednesday, 6 November 2013

Idea Farming & Kitchen Utensils Tracing

Wednesday, October 30th 2013

This day was started with a new material, its about Idea Farming

But before that, sir Em told us about this...

Airdrop: Transfer files via local wifi
PDF: Portable Document Format by Adobe
Applications Used in this Class: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

Idea Farming

To utilise your computer to get materials for your design
1. How to save IMAGES (Screen Capture, Save from Web)
2. How to save Web Pages (PDF or via certain app)
3. How to Save Video (Youtube)

1. How to save IMAGES (Screen Capture, Save from Web)
SAVE IMAGES
Screen Capture (try):

Cmd + shift + 3 = Whole Screen
Cmd + shift + 4 = Selected Area
Cmd + shift + 4 + spacebar = Active Window

Save from Web:

Right Click > Save Image As / Save to Downloads
Click & Drag the Image to Desktop or intended place

2. How to save Web Pages (PDF or via certain app)
SAVE WEB PAGES (Offline Viewing)
Goal: To keep the article as text document, so we can copy the content or we could search the content. All links are also active.
Example: Tutorial on the web

Web Browser > Print > Save as PDF > fill in the necessary boxes > Save

Application for Saving Web Pages > Evernote, Pocket (all free, download from AppStore)

3. How to Save Video (Youtube)

Via Browser: Safari-FastestTube
Via 3rd Party Web Services: KeepVid, SaveVid

Then, we were discussing about last week's homework

and finally I know the function of option button :) so lets take a look!

so when it happens like this, don't worry, you can use the option button to modify the handle

after that I learnt how to trace kitchen utensils ;) so here's the steps

1. You have to open the image first, so click File > Place and choose your file

2. your picture will be appear on your artwork

3. I want to make my art board's divided into 4 parts so I'll use ruler as the divider. click View > Ruler

4. make the line from the ruler. you have to drag the line from the ruler until the blue line appears

5. take a look to the layers box, and double click

6. it will be appear layer options. I changed the name of the layer from "Layer 1" into "Reference 1". This layer's function is for the object (the image) that you want to trace so make sure you've ticked the Template box and Dim Images to box (this box is for image transparency).

7. I made the second layer. This layer is for my artwork (place for tracing)

your image will be like this

8. I started to trace the spoon. Make sure you use the "Artwork" layer while tracing

9. You can use wood texture by clicking Windows > Texture

10. you could also use gradient ;)

i tried tracing another kitchen utensils:

started to colour it!

Tada!

done ;-)

Tuesday, 5 November 2013

The Influence of Modern Art

Tuesday, October 29th 2013

Today we learnt a new things! It's about "The Influence of Modern Art"

But, before that, sir Angga gave us the reviews about what we've learnt from last week.

So, graphic design is divided into view parts, one of them is Typography. The background of typography (or alphabet) is people wants to be able to communicate. After that people started to make some symbols (like what we see on the cave) and it keeps developing until finally alphabets were invented! Automatically, language was found, then followed by manuscript, and the last was print.

Then it appears Image/Illustration. Two of them are Ukiyo-e and Art Nouveau (19th-20th century).

Lets get started!

20th Century European Posters

so this is the continuation of the 1890's poster. This was influenced by Cubism and Constructivism. Communicative imagery and design form generates the excitement and energy of pictorial graphic.

Plakatstil (Poster Style)

Plakatstil was emerged in Germany in early 20th century. Lucian Bernhard considered one of the most influential graphic design figure for this movement. Once he entered a poster contest sponsored by Priester matches. When his poster was being judged, the judges doesn't like his poster and put it on the trash bin. After that the one who works on the company sees there was that poster on the trash bin and the person toke it. The person liked it, and chose Bernhard as the winner. Bernhard developed style that use simplification and reduction of naturalism into a visual language of shape and sign. He was (only) using flat color shapes, the product name, and product image for his poster:

Artist like Hans Rudi Erdt, Julius Klinger also uses this techniques. Together with Lucian, they were contracted for Hollerbaum and Schmidt (lithography firm) to make german posters. Bernhard was a pivotal designer. His work might be considered the logical conclusion of the turn-of-the-century poster movement.

Some of Bernhard's works.

Hans Rudi Erdt's

Julius Klinger's

Julius Gipkens'

Poster Goes to War

Poster had been considered one of the most effective medium for mass communication during World War I. Governments turned posters as a significant medium of propaganda and visual persuasion. In Austria, Hungary, and Germany, war posters uses the simplicity of plakatstil pioneered by Bernhard. British and americans uses posters for army recruitment.

Ludwig Hohlwein's Posters:

I really like it. It's simply creative. Especially the way he made the man's outfit and the background connected.

Image on the right is Hohlwein's poster for Berlun Olympic 1936. Why the man is facing up because it means victory.

Post-cubist Pictorial Modernism

I really like the idea and the concept of this poster. The left poster means while it's winter, if you use London Underground, it's warmer there. So people could travel comfortably. And when it's summer outside, you could feel cooler at London Underground. Why the square on the left is stand up and the one on right is tilted. The tilted one defines snowflakes, and snowflakes means cold. So creative, isn't it?

Alfred Roller's:

Koloman Moser:

Peter Behrens:

Frank Pick

He's the one who created London Underground logo (and it was manual) and he's the inventor of coloured line mapping system:

THE INFLUENCE OF MODERN ARTS

Cubism

The one who made cubism era was Pablo Picasso. After that continued with Juan Gris and Fernand Leger. Based on the film I've watched about Picasso, Picasso is a super talented painter. And his paints ' style always changed. Sometimes he paints accurately, sometimes cubism, and sometimes just abstract painting. It was based on his mood. He has some periods, some of them are blue period painting (when he was upset/sad) so everything is blue on her paint, pink (rose) period painting (when he was in love/happy), cubism, and black day. When he made the cubism painting, architecture and fashion sector was inspired by Picasso, so they started to make cubism in their sector.