Week 3: Quality

During week 3 of our word of the week, the word is “QUALITY“. Quality can mean a couple of things such as, the standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind; the degree of excellence of something. It can also be a word to describe something amazing. For my research into […]

3-D Workshop: Frank Gehry

Our lesson this week is based off Frank Owen Gehry, who is a Canadian-born American architect. A number of his buildings, including his private residence, have become world-renowned attractions. He studied at the University of Southern California and Harvard University. Gehry, based in Los Angeles since the 1960s, is among the most acclaimed architects of […]

Week 2: Embrace

Embrace can have a couple of different meanings, it can mean a lot of different things and there are many different ways to express the word embrace. Such as, any kind of touch, embracing someone can be very intimate such as holding hands, hugging someone, coming into contact with an item or a person in […]

Flexagons

In geometry, flexagons are flat models, usually constructed by folding strips of paper, that can be flexed or folded in certain ways to reveal faces besides the two that were originally on the back and front, For example, a hexaflexagon with a total of six faces is called a hexahexaflexagon. There are many different varieties […]

Week 1: Figure

http://blankposter.com/ Is a website where a word for the week is chosen and you create a poster based off of that word. This weeks word is ‘Figure‘. Our task for every single week is to generate ideas and design them in either illustrator or sketch them in our sketchbooks. Every Thursday evening is the time […]

3-D Workshop: Sonia Delaunay, Marcel Duchamp & Futurism

In today’s lesson we have a new task where we will be experimenting with creating 3-dimensional shapes that are inspired by human form. Doing this we had the choice to use whatever we wanted either being, a single piece of paper, coloured paper, multiple sheets of paper, newspaper etc. It was up to us. We had […]

Photographer: Dan Flavin

Dan Flavin was an American historical minimalist artist and photographer famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures. Dan was born on April 1st 1933 in Jamaica, NY of Irish Catholic descent, and was sent to Catholic schools. During military service in 1954–55, Flavin was trained as an air weather meteorological […]

Photographer: Michael Kenna

Michael Kenna born in 1953 is an English contemporary minimalist photographer best known for his unusual black & white landscapes featuring ethereal light achieved by photographing at dawn or at night with exposures of up to 10 hours. His photos concentrate on the interaction between ephemeral atmospheric condition of the natural landscape, and human-made […]

Art Movements: Minimalism

Minimalism is a style employed by many 20th Century artists, using a minimum amount of components such as colour, shape, line and texture. Within the art world it is considered an extremely subjective concept, leaving interpretation and meaning up to the viewers perception of the work. Minimalism began in post–World War II Western art, most […]

Graphic Designer: Saul Bass

Saul Bass (May 8, 1920 — April 25, 1996) was a historical graphic designer and filmmaker. He began his time in Hollywood in the 1940s, designing print advertisements for films. Perhaps best known for his design of film posters and title sequences. For Alfred Hitchcock, Bass designed effective and memorable title sequences, inventing a new type […]