Exit Through The Gift Shop

Tuesday, July 9th 2013

Today we're going to watch the movieee! Now is about the street artist. The movie titled "Exit Through The Gift Shop". 

We have to make a report and opinion about that movie in A4 paper, Helvetica Light, 8 pts, Leading 10,2 pts, minimal 1/2 page, maximum 1 page.

Here's my sketch:

and here's my report:

Exit Through The Gift Shop

                  “Exit Through The Gift Shop” is a documentary film by Thierry Guetta. A man from no one becomes someone. Taking video is his passion. He loved to record every moment on his family. He has so many videotape because he love to take video everyday. His wife said that Thierry prefer taking video than taking photo. He also becomes attracted to the street artists (and also curious of them). And he always takes a video of them. Start from how to make some graffiti and stick them up in the middle of the night, how to survive from the police officers, what are their activity, and many more. He met such great street artists. From Andre, Shepard Fairey, Seizer, Space invader, until he finally met the master and the most wanted street artist, Banksy. But after taking so much videos of them, he was inspired by them and start to try some graffiti and art until he become more successful than all of them.

                  For me, the film is inspiring. Only from talking and seeing what did the experts do, we can learn many things and we can pass far away beyond them. The film tells us how passion causes an amazing effect to our self. I think if we do well our passion, it can changed you into someone.

                  I also got some positive lessons from the film. First, don’t give up until you get what you want. Always fight for it, and act actively (not passively). Do some acts. Keep trying and again, never give up. Just like Thierry do, he will never stop until he found Banksy. From Los Angels until Paris, also England. He leaves his family just for paying his curiosity about street artists.

                  Second, be crazy, do not afraid. Like the street artists do, climbing the roof, move from other building to the other one. They do this because they want to find the best spot for their creation. So it can attracts people attention and makes people curious of it.

                  Third, you must do something total. If we do something total, we will never being disappointed by the result. So never do something only 50%, the result is only 50%, and you need 100% to see the perfect result.

                  Last, be different. Difference can attracts attention. Like Thierry did. He makes a pop art painting. He also makes a super big monster from televisions. Or Banksy did. He rent an elephant and paint on it. Well, people got attention to that. And people remember.

                  In typography side, graffiti looks sporty and match to the teenager. Graffiti is more identic to boys because girls prefer something tidy and cute. Graffiti looks messy. For me messy means naughty.

                  My solution, the street artists must have a confession and facilities. So they will feel safe. No need to be insecure in the middle of the night. Police officers said that street artist is always wrong. I know. It breaks the rule. It also makes the city facilities looks bad. It’s just because they didn’t have the right place to create their creation. So they keep going on. Many of street artists who have a big talent must be exposed. So the world can see them.

                  Art is never wrong. Street art is not wrong. Everybody have their own world, they own passion. We couldn’t prohibit them to stop. Because it is their world. Again, actually, they only need a facility.

Hue Tint Tone Shade

Monday, July 8th 2013

Today we're introduced to the color wheel. There are primary, secondary, and tertiary colours. Primary coluors are those that cannot be made from mixing other colors. Secondary colours are made by mixing equal parts of primary colors. Tertiary colours are formed by mixing two secondary colors. 

We also learnt about hue, tint, tone, and shade

btw things needed to make your own colour wheel are easy. you just need a pencil, watercolour, brush, and mixing pallete. first start to draw circle, then divide that circle into 12 parts or pizzas :-p (yummyyy), make 3 primary colours then secondary colours. the last is tertiary colour. then you can start to add white for the tint part, grey for the tone part, and black (JUST A BIT, because black is the strongest colour) for the shade part.

I also made my own colour wheel:

We also made Perseus holding Medusa's head!!! Same technique like before.

aaaand in the end sir angga gave us a homework, draw 5 things on your living room

It's supposed to be the 2nd day

Wednesday, July 3rd 2013

So this is the second week but the first day of Viscom in Art and Design Class. So my lecturer, Sir Emanuel Pratalaharja, was absent on the first week. 

On our first day, we learnt the very very basic of viscom in A & D (the theory). From the concept of target audience until the successful design. In the end, we were asked to make a mindmap about "Me and My Dreams"

and the mind map:

Intr-o to Typ-o

Tuesday, July 2nd 2013

today we learnt some history of typography in many countries such as french and america. it was an introduction so only the basic. Ms Uma gave us two homeworks.

1st we need to draw our friend, and fill it with some typos about her. so we must have some chit chat, and ask each other "What is your full name?" "What is your favorite food?" "Did you get scared of something?" and here is the result:

first I tried to draw my friend, Berta, and asked her some questions.

then, I tried to decide what typeface that's fit with the words.

finally I've done my work, here is Berta, made of some words 

the detail

the 2nd homework!! Ms Uma asked us to find 5 words on the magazine, then gives some opinion about that word

First Comping Class!!

Friday, June 29th 2013

Do you know what is comping?

Comping is...

What we learnt on the first day of comping class is how to make a foldable book.

and I tried to make some:

Haha it's fun guys!! worth to try ;-)

"Helvetica"

Tuesday, June 25th 2013

Today we only have to watch a movie titled "Helvetica" and Ms Uma asked us to give some opinions about the typeface.

We also have to write some quotes from the famous designers. So here is my report:

while I watched the movie, I also took some notes

Helvetica

            Helvetica is one of a thousand typefaces and Helvetica was born in Switzerland. Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann developed this typeface in 1957. It was initially called Neue Haas Grotesk. Neue Haas Grotesk didn’t sound very good for a typeface that was intended to be sold in USA. Alfred Hoffman, Eduard Hoffmann’s son, said that Stempel suggested the name of Helvetia (the Latin name of Switzerland). But his father was not agreed; he said “you cannot call a typeface after the name of a country”. And he suggested, “Why don’t you call it Helvetica”. In other words this would be the Swiss typeface.

                  “Helvetica” a documentary film by Gary Hustwit, shows some typographers, artist, and designers’ opinion about Helvetica. Some of them love it, and some of them don’t. Here are some quotes from the designers:

·        “Type shouldn’t be expressive.” –Massimo Vignelli

·       “Helvetica is more neutral, that’s why we love Helvetica very much.” –Wim Crouwel

·       “…it’s a typeface of socialism.”

“Helvetica: perfume of the city.” –Lars Muller

·       “Just because something’s legal, it’s not mean to be communicative.”

“Helvetica sometimes not work well in a few word.” –David Carson

·       “Typefaces are a brand.” –Erik Spiekermann

·       “Typography give a personality.” –Paula Scher

·       “The biggest thing in design is got some emotions in sort things.”

“Helvetica: it’s just a beautiful font.” –Michael C. Place

·       “It has a certain style in Helvetica.” –Manuel Krebs

·       “...And the choice of typeface is the prime weapon, if you want, in that communication.” –Neville Brody

                  For me, Helvetica is a good typeface, indeed. What I love about Helvetica is that typeface works well in many of things. It’s just…fit. Just like Lars Muller has said, it’s a perfume of the city, because we can find it everywhere such as in a restaurant, store, road sign, and even on the trash bin. Not only on the city, many companies, brands and organizations use Helvetica as its typeface such as EPA, NASA, Panasonic, BMW, TOYOTA, American Apparel, Lufthansa, American Airlines (the one which is consistent using Helvetica from the first time until now), and many more.

This typeface also has a personality, people can easily realize that is Helvetica. Helvetica is simple, but quiet efficient in giving information to people. It’s easy to read and the composition is perfect. I mean the space from other letter to the other one is not to close and not to far.

                  But I’m agree with David Carson. Helvetica sometimes not work well in a few word. For example you write “Sunshine” using Helvetica it didn’t shows the real Sunshine. That word doesn’t have a sense of Sunshine. Take a look to another example, “King Kong”. Does it describe King Kong? Do you feel the sense of King Kong there? Where is the sense of scary, big, strong, and brave King Kong using Helvetica?

                  And Helvetica doesn’t give a characteristic to some brands. Here is it. Lufthansa and American Airlines. What makes it unique and different each other? Different with Coca Cola. Coca Cola has its own typeface. It gives a characteristic. Every time we see that typeface, we remember Coca Cola. So, it also gives a benefit to the company.

                  In conclusions, we have to choose a typeface depends on the purpose. I think if we want to share information, choose Helvetica as the typeface will be a good decision because it’s clear and easy to read. But if we want to make the word more alive and have a characteristic, just take a look to the word, and decide what typeface that fit in and also give a sense to the word. So we can feel the word. 

and here's my homework:

1st day of college

Monday. June 24th 2013

We were having Sir Angga Gumay's class about Drawing Technique & Process. Drawing technique is divided into 3 types. (1) Gesture Drawing (2) Line Drawing (3) Contour Drawing. In gesture drawing, you only have to draw the outline about 3-5 seconds. Line drawing, is draw the outline with line. and contour drawing is drawing without seeing your paper, so we only focus on the object. And we only have to draw in one line.

Then we try to draw 10 things in f(x)

After that, we tried to trace an image

And in the end, Sir Angga gave us homeworks

1st about mark making technique

2nd is about 3 types of drawing (Draw 5 objects in your room!)

Late update

Im sorry I didn't update or post anything 2 weeks ago (since i have been in UIC on June 24th)

Soooo, I'll show you what did I do in the past 2 weeks on the next post

Thank you,
Adia