My Take On Soft Art - MY WORKS

As I posted below I loved the soft object series. I also love drinking Sunkist orange soda. So it wasn't hard for me to come up with this idea. The logo, pull tab, and fake soda was hand sewn and the soda can body was sewn with a sewing machine. I use it as a pillow now.

Claes Oldenburg - ARTIST

One of my favorite American artist have to be Claes Oldenburg. I love how he creates works of art which are a  blend of reality and fantasy. He took objects from the everyday world such as typewriters, lipstick, a flashlight and lifted them out of their usual context, creating a new look and purpose. My favorite series have to be the soft objects. He took objects from the real world and placed them out of context. Doing this by making objects soft when they should be hard.

Sillhouettes - MY THOUGHTS

Silhouettes tell the viewers many things with less. Silhouettes are the outline or shape of an object. When an object is far away, all you can see is its outline shape. As the object moves closer, you will start to notice graphic break ups and surfacing, and when it is very close, you can see details and texture. A quick glance of an object will likely only give you the silhouette information. But even if you don't see what color or texture the object was you can tell what it was instantly by identifying its silhouette. Silhouettes can be beautiful, if use correctly as proven in the iPod Ads.

Optical Illusions - MY THOUGHTS

As a graphic designer, it is important to train my eyes. Slight changes in color and compositions should matter and know why it works or why it doesn't. I love the the idea of the "golden spiral" also known as the Fibonacci spiral. Most of my designs are mathematical compositions designed to feel balanced and natural. These are famous optical illusions that are sometimes helpful in design.

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1. Which red line is longer?

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2. Which straight line is connected to the other side?

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3. Which red line is longer?

 

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Answers:
1. Both are the same length
2. The bottom line goes through
3. Both are the same length

Super Mario Beads - ANIMATION [VIDEO]

An amazing series of Super Mario stop motion animations.

Color Coded - MY WORKS

To start, I would like to say that I love soda. This series of images I designed is for all the soda lovers out there. My concept was to show how color is as important as the text logo itself. When designing a logo it’s very important to have color since “color sells.” In my design I set each logo in the center, boxed in by a thick border. This is to show the image used in the background and text. The images used are fruits; Coca-cola as cherries, Sunkist as oranges, Cactus Cooler as pineapple, 7up as lime, Pepsi as blueberries, and Fanta as grapes. I tried to make each fruit to match the flavor of the soda. Logo designer need to create logos that are can be remembered by both the color used and the logo itself.

Signs In Action - MY WORKS

In my work I wanted to show the signs we see every day as if they were one of us. Having the idea of a two dimensional design in a three dimensional world. I made all three works to have the original sign in the image as if the silhouette character just got out. I made it in to a series where you see the walking sign traveling to meet the others in the end. The first two images are of the walking sign and the third has; children crossing, handicap, walking, construction, exit, and trash signs. I wanted to make all three images as real as possible, making a convincing image of the signs in the environment.

L’Imagerie Gallery - GALLERY

I went to L’imagerie Gallery which housed over a thousand movie and rock concert posters. At first look I didn’t expect the gallery being filled with posters in such a small building but I was wrong. The gallery is filled with the original print posters of movies and rock concerts from the 60s to the 80s. Under each poster there is a number which is the price of the poster. In this gallery it is possible to buy any of the posters in the building if it has a price on it. With all the posters priced from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. There are also American movie posters in Japanese and Japanese movie posters in English.

Won Park - ARTIST

Not a famous artist but I wanted to post about him becuase of his awsome dollar origami.

Tim Noble and Sue Webster - ARTIST

Timothy "Tim" Noble and Susan "Sue" Webster, two British artists who work as a collaborative duo, and are associated with the post-YBA generation of artists. I will be introducing a series they made that I thought was very interesting.

Shadow Sculptures:
This series uses trash to create shadows that look like people. They hit a spotlight to things that usually are hidden from us.