Uncategorized 10:42 pm
The image above is an example of the students work at the Billy Blue College of Design in Sydney. This school looks like it has a great design program, all of the students pieces look very interesting. It’s intense program that focuses on Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
Source: billyblue.com
Uncategorized 10:29 pm
My Static Image professor, Jeff Thompson, is the artist of this piece, “Every Song I Own”. In it, he combined the audio of his entire music collection (1,104 hours worth) into one track. For the cover, he compiled all of the album cover artwork to make one image (above). It’s interesting that this many images can be stacked on top of one another, and some spots are still completely white, and some areas are darker than others. Very interesting piece. Link to audio below.
Sourec: jeffreythompson.org (permalink WON”T work!!)
Uncategorized 10:14 pm
While researching the different formats of website flowcharts, I came across a lot of very interesting charts. It almost makes me wonder if it was worth the artists time…but they did make me laugh a little! These charts use only text, which makes it very easy to follow, getting you to the end point pretty quickly. Since we will be representing the flow of the websites with only symbols for our assignment, it will be a little more challenging. Here are a few examples of the humorous charts:
Uncategorized 12:50 pm
Infography is the art of visual explanation of complex or potentially confusing information. The graphics usually stand alone, and are a universal language, as some do not include any text at all. ”The perfect infography must synthetize complex information in a simple visual representation, which is not easy.” (Mirko) Below are a few examples of infographics, that make their information very clear with graphics.
These images are interesting to me because they don’t just give you information in text, but they make it easier to understand with the graphics. It’s like using a graph or a pie chart to show data. Mirko says in his blog that he has never had the opportunity to make an infography for a client, but says it’s one of the more challenging tasks of a graphic designer.
Source: www.designer-daily.com & www.infography.blogspot.com
Uncategorized 12:42 pm
Philadelphia’s art community has been looking for an opportunity to make an impression in their city. The Philagrafika 2010 is an international printmaking festival, which is specifically focused on the graphic arts and graphic processes. There are 88 venues participating, including museums, galleries and art centers, most located with the city. About 300 artists, many from outside the United States, are participating. The festival is not only displaying the art of said artists, but is describes how the pieces were made. It aims to describe how new technologies have extended the expressive range of graphic art. More important, it seeks to demonstrate how integral to contemporary art graphic methods and strategies have become. The Philigrafika organazation was founded 10 years ago as the Philadelphia Print Collaborative.
I think it’s great that the Philadelphia community has an opportunity to express themselves. It gets people out, to experience the art world as artists see it, just like we have First Fridays, or what they call the “Art Hop” back home in Colorado. Every city should have something like this.
Uncategorized 9:32 am
Located in Downtown Omaha, this art studio houses over 80 artists, making sculptures, loken forge, and crystal forge. It’s located in an old mattress factory. This would be a really interesting place to visit, as they let any artists use the studio space.
The Hot Shop Art Center is the first art center of its kind in the Omaha area. The Art Center includes the three anchor Hot Shops, 50 art studios, four art galleries, and many exhibition spaces.
The studio spaces, which occupy the four story structure of the two brick buildings, are available to artists of all disciplines. A place where artists can work and interact establishes an atmosphere for creative art discourse. This will not only be an energizing influence on development of art, it will ultimately create relationships with other artists fostering a sense of community.
Source: hotshopsartcenter.com
