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Week 2: Illustrator workshop

During this workshop I was given an image in which I would have to use the pen tool to trace and recreate the image/typography.

I started out by dotting the points on a piece of paper, which would be the points I would mark with the pen tool to create smooth curve.

I then traced over the letters with the pen tool, using the anchor point tool to create handles in order to adjust and smooth out the curves/line.

 

Outline of the shapes

To finalise the shapes I had drawn I decided to try and recreate the original image/typography as it appeared. I filled each shape with a slightly different tone of grey, I changed the opacity to the two shapes at the top; therefore you could see underneath the shapes and how they overlapped, just like in the original image.

Overall I was happy with my outcome as I felt my shapes had clean curves and lines, and resembled the original image closely. 

I enjoyed this workshop as even though I was already quite experienced using Adobe Illustrator I learnt a new skill, which was using the handles with the pen tool to adjust the shape of the line/curve. This will help me in future to create a more professional standard of work, as this improves the aesthetics and creates correct proportions with a shape.

FMP Research week 1

As part of my initial and contextual research I went on a Gallery visit to the Tate Modern. I looked at the Texture & Photography and Gustav Metzge displays, along with other displays such as Andy Warhol, Modern Times, Barbra Krurger and Cildo Miereles.

Gustav Metzge- Liquid crystal environment 

Five projectors which each contain a single slide of liquid crystals. The projectors are equipt with rotating polarising filters and a cooling and heating system, which cause the the liquid crystal to liquefy or freeze, resulting in a constant change in the appearance of the crystals which are being projected.

I did not really see the purpose in this display, except for it's aesthetics.

Cidlo Meireles- Babel 2001

A tower of radios all playing at once, in order to convey ideas of information overload and failed or thwarted communication.

I thought this display was slightly more relevant to my project as it incorporated technology from different eras, as the radios ranged from new modern radios, to old retro radios. It made me think about other ways I could display my work, rather than just producing a visual in a digital format, and instead produce a visual installation. 

Andy Warhol- Marilyn Diptych (1962)

Brabra Kruger

Overall I did not find the displays very relevant to my project, therefore the research wasn't very helpful to me in terms of inspiration, however I did help open my eyes to different mediums/techniques I could consider working in.

Project Idea

We live in a world where technology is forever evolving. Some forms of media such as videos and tapes have been forgotten in the past, as we now use DVD’s and CD’s; and even those are beginning to come outdated.

For this project I would like to look at the way technology has effected the way we produce graphics and other forms of media. The aim of this project will be to produce a set of visuals to advertise a season about the effects of evolving technology being used in graphics and media, which will be broadcast on BB3.

I plan to produce outcomes in the form of both imagery and film as I feel this will give me the opportunity to have a more diverse range of outcomes in terms of aesthetics and technique. I will be exploring both traditional and digital animation processes, as well as how analogue and digital processes can be be combined and how this contributes to the aesthetic qualities.