Final Images

This is my visualisation that I handed in yesterday. 

And as I've been working with both knit & print with regards to furniture, I decided to use this as my strong image.

VISUALISATION

For my visualisation I knew from early on I wanted to create a light piece for somewhere where there was the most light in the structure of the new build. After having a tour of it I realised the perfect place for this would be the lanterns at the top of the building, as the light from the rising sun sends cascades of light through the entire building, which would fully utilise the pieces that I made. They would likely be made out of either etched glass or mirror, and since I didn't have the facilities to do this, instead I used clear perspex to show what they would look like.

Screen Images

I ended up giving Mary 5 images and she told me that she is going to choose between them which two to put on the big screen. So the images I gave her are:

Nearing the end of the blog...

As the end of the blog is fast approaching, I thought it would be a good idea to discuss what our final posts are going to be of. These will be the ones that appear on the first page & I think it would be useful for all of us to show our end points, so what it is we're finishing on as individuals.

This could be similar to what we're giving in for the screen output.

If anyone has any suggestions just say!

Making your own vectors

As requested by Vanessa & for anyone else who might be able to use it, here is a little, hopefully simple tutorial on how to create your own vector images using Illustrator.

If anyone would like any help, feel free to ask!

This is just a piece from my inhaler that I photographed because I liked the shape! To draw over it, use the pen tool from the left hand side.

I find that drawing in a bright colour helps, you can always change it afterwards. Drag the line into position & click on the middle point to start drawing the next line.

Draw all the around the shape until you're happy with it. And continue for as much of the image as you would like.

If there's parts that you don't want, just miss them out or if there's parts that you want to add then just use the same method!

Once your image is complete you can change the colour. Personally I like adding an outline to my own drawings as I think it makes them stand out more.

Vector Images

As Vanessa has mentioned using vector images to help with visualisations, I thought I would show a part from one of my own visualisations in which I have made my own vector images of people and objects.

Vector images can be created really easily in Illustrator using the pen tool, it creates smooth lines and clear images. The vectors can also be imported from Illustrator into Photoshop as a smart object. I hope this might be of help to people when creating your own visualisations!

Visualisation - Vanessa

Hey guys, this is my most current visualisation. Although it looks simple, it has actually taken me quite a long time to make it. I just thought I'd mention something that was quite useful to me whilst I was making this. The black images of the people, tables and chairs are called vectors. I didn't know this until I went to the digital workshop drop in with Mary Stark. If you wanted to find any vectors (solid black images/silhouettes) there are hundreds for free on Google. I searched for things like "People vector" "table and chairs vector" but you can search for anything you like. If anyone wanted to know how I made this visualisation just ask and we could meet up and I can show you!

Labels (Vanessa)

After our Unit X lecture, I have been thinking that we should introduce some more generic labels to our blog, for easier access to blog posts.

For example how about condensing our current labels to:

• Visual Research
• Events
• Lectures
• Ideas for Group

Perhaps we could add/change these labels on our current blog posts? Just a suggestion, if there are any other ideas for labels put them on here!

Vanessa

Christopher Pearson - Animated Wallpaper Installations

Like Steph I've been looking at various types of wallpaper too, mostly the interactive kind.

Christopher Pearson uses high definition movie files and projects them on to walls.

This is a section from 'Hickory Landscape'.

Osbourne and Little

 

I've put these on for you to have a look at Mellisa, because I like how they create the atmosphere of the whole room and don't just show the wallpaper. Thought it might help when you were thinking about creating the atmosphere of your room.

Also these little bird houses reminded me of your duck houses.

David Thope

After seeing your drawings Isaac I thought of this artist he creates all these images from cut up paper, I think they are really interesting. Hope they'll be useful for you.

Tracey Emin DVD

This week I rented a DVD from the library called "TRACEY EMIN"

It is a short video interview of about 25 minutes long.

I found the video to be quite inspiring because Tracey Emin talks about her work as though she is referring to a limb of her body. She is very much intune with her work, and it is very much a personal thing to her. This, to me, is a positive attitude towards your working practice.

She states "I Always say if I didn't make art, I'd probably be dead... But let's be more realistic about that. If I didn't make art and I'd done well in life, then I might have gone into retail. I would probably be the person in the shop that would be always prganising the display, and always making the noticeboard look nice in the canteen, stuff like that. I'm a genuinely creative person."

Before making this statement she talks about the troubles she has been faced with in earlier chapters of her life, such as having no money and suffering from depression. She talks about how these dark areas and low times have affected the work she has produced, such as "My Bed" which she says she produced only for herself, as a statement to herself and as a wake up call. To help her to move on from those troubled times and to turn those dark and low times into a positive. She reflects that she felt particularly vunerable when creating "My Bed", and one of the most worrying aspects of the piece was that people she knew and cared about would see "all those things" cluttered in and around the bed.

After renting out this DVD I think I will definitely rent more in the future. I felt that I understood the meanings behind the words more hearing it straight from the artist. I am a visually driven worker physically seeing and hearing helps me to connect with what is being said, rather than reading from a book. I found it very useful, and would advise others to rent more DVD's from the library.

Carnovsky RGB

(Steph)

Peter Pichler - BS

architect like this project in particur of his- casa puglia. a lot of thought about manipulation of natural and artifical light. idea for stephs blinds

http://www.peterpichler.eu/

nobuhiro nakanishi- BS

very origional way of displaying her photographs. creats a hole new landscape in a way.

Clarissa Hulse- BS

Designer that does fabric, wallpaper, cushions and lampshades.

i saw this pictures and thought of malisa project due to the natural wood contrasted with the comfort aspect.

                                                    
                                                        http://www.clarissahulse.com/

Clair-Anne O'Brien - BS

Totally different approach to chairs and stools using chuncky knit for a fresh enticing look. Add a sence of fun and comfort

Melisa- might work well with the natural feel seating you was talking about if they was in your colour skeem.

 

http://www.claireanneobrien.com/

inspire me now

As you know, the idea for my project is to create a space. So while looking for different ways of creating spaces, I came across this 'Book Igloo' by Miler Lagos which I think is really inventive.

It lead me to a blog called 'inspire me now' by Szymon Błaszczyk (which can be found here - http://inspire.2ia.pl/page/3). 

It's a blog purely dedicated to inspiring images and artwork. As I suffered from a lack of inspiration at the start of the project, I thought it could be useful for everyone at some point!

DIGITAL VIDEO - IWT

We did a workshop with Mary Stark, an artist who did a degree in Embroidery at MMU, and then moved on to an MA in Photography, working with analogue techniques and combining them with aspects or processes of textiles, about how we can move our work into a more exciting or unexpected place, by using digital software and video. We got shown various types of videos,  advertising using stop motion animation, art fashion show videos, and video artist practitioners videos, showing the large variety of videos that can be shot. We were then taught about the various techniques that are utilised, such as various lengths of shot, (close up's, point of view, long shot) and camera movements like a pan across the screen. We also learnt about storyboards and how they are used to give an idea of what each shot will look like of the video, and we were then asked to create a storyboard for a video we would film in a few days.

We had a theme, which was just to film a certain place, the idea being it was to get us to link it to the general place and arrival theme of Living It groups tasks and also as a simple way of introducing us into video as a format. This was a useful task, as it meant that we are more capable of being able to work with what will be the final outcome for this project, a digital proposal for a piece of work for the new build, be it photography, a maquette or model which is then photographed, or as we've been shown even a video.