Alex Earps Earth
Golden Record The Golden Record is a piece of human life which has been planted in a disc and flung out into space concealed inside the voyager spacecraft. The record itself contains sounds such as birds and waves. It also contains messages from the president of the united states at the time Jimmy Carter and the secretary general Kurt Waldhiem. The aim of the Golden Record is to try and get a message out there. Sort of like a message in a bottle. The probability of anyone seeing it is very unlikely and if they found it they would have to know how to use it. However the Golden Record itself is truly a beauty. On the front it looks very much like a simple record but the back is covered in Markings including where we are placed in the stars and are anatomy. Idea’s to take from this piece 1. The use of sketches may suggest could be placed on the box. 2. The rich colour scheme is also a nice touch and could be used.
TV Shows This idea flows well with what I wish to accomplish in my project. I want to design a box made of raw materials from the earth such as seeds and plants and water. I want to make a sort of recipe box of the earth. And looking at tv shows like this really helps the thought process.
In these images it shows the episode of doctor who and the reason I was so keen on using TV is because of the need to cover all areas. This show and the way the had this satellite gave me the idea for the box and to use natural stuff instead of man made. I feel this completely takes away from the Golden Record.
Food Need to look at different ways I could Incorporate food into a space faring message such as the golden Record.
Golden Record Space disk that was sent into space with humanity imprinted into it.
Seeds of the earth Including the banks in which thousands of seeds are placed in case of emergency
Box Designs Look at the different types and styles of boxes which can be used to show humanity in a good light.
Earth Artifact’s
Music Many different types of music in this world from all different cultures and religions. Need to research into the different genre’s including the empires of old like Rome and Mongolia. But I also I need to look at contemporary music such as 1 direction etc.
Films and Tv shows Many Tv shows use the same idea of the golden record including a Doctor Who Christmas special in which they sent up human blood.
Pinterest Idea’s This farm is a lovely idea and also could promote a nice idea for a final piece. This combines the use of typography and photography to create a sort of info graphics on the use of seeds and agricultural farming.
This is another example of info graphics. This looks more at the recycling and human made pollution which we have on the earth and to this point shows the many ways we have messed up the planet. All these idea’ I feel can show a very rounded opinion of earth
This is definitely a idea that I could use because of the way it is nicely laid out in a clean informative way. This picture gets across what I want to show in my work and gives me more ideas on what I can place on the box or as a logo
Shift Waste info Graphics
Botanic Gardens Conservation . The botanic Gardens Conservation international, Is a welfare organisation commited to the preservation of Seeds and other worldy born items. Such as food and plants. They have set up many Seed banks around the county and live with the idea of preserving seeds from each country. The reason they keep seeds and not plants is because of the fact that seeds are a lot easier to store and last indefinitely giving them a edge. they also require very low matinence and can be tested a lot easier and over a long space of time. Botanic gardens in many countries have developed seed banks for the storage of seeds, mainly of wild species. there are currently 235 botanic gardens that have seed banks maintaining seeds in long term and medium-term storage. Several botanic gardens have developed the capacity to store isolated embryos, minute seeds and tissues under conditions of cryopreservation, maintaining samples in liquid nitrogen at temperatures of –196°C. Such techniques offer great potential for the maintenance and conservation of biodiversity, particularly plant species that cannot be stored by conventional means.
Seed Banks The reason I am looking at seeds banks is because of the focus of my project is on the recipe for the world. The seed banks display a good example of what i hope to achieve on a larger scale. The idea behind the seed bank is that evey seed that has been recorded has been catalogued and placed in a large bunker along with every other seed as a sort of library of the earth. This idea is interesing and gave me the inspiration for my project on bulding a box filled with seeds.
Arts for Humanity Arts for Humanty is a place in Boston wich promotes the learning and variety of every peice of art from around the world, no matter what race or country it originates from. The group set out to build a hall of art towards the variey which humnaity has to offer. And they wish to show all different styles. If this was something to put towards the Earth arfifact project I would place in the variety of artists which this project has helped.
Space Info-Graphics Another idea I had was the use of space info Graphics to display where we are in relation to the rest of the universe or atleast are galaxy. I took some pictures which i found of various sites to try and get a idea together for what type of info graphics I should try and relate to including the colour scheme and the way they are layed out. The use of the bottom peice is something I want to add into my final seed bank design for the box. These space info grahics especially the bottom picutre I wish to incorportate into my seed box design, I like the black and white simplicity and I fel it will go well with the box to contrast the wooden feel.
Mark.A.Garlick Mark Garlik is a artist and web illusrator fromt the site space art . His work is intersting to look at because of the way it is developed . It uses lots of rich colours and nice text to build up this sort of portfolio of space. He Developed the site with the idea of building a place to add his graphic work to along with accepting ideas of other artists to build a large portfolio for a wider audience.
David Hardy David A. Hardy, FBIS, FIAAA is the longest-established living space artist in the West, being first published in 1952 From working almost exclusively in water colours and gouache he has gone on to embrace acrylics, oils, pastels, photography and, since 1991, digital art in Photoshop on a Mac. His use of space art is similar to the work of Mark Garlick in the way it uses imagery and typhography in his peices of graphic work. His peices of art are very 90’s as the colour saturation is very off balance however it works in its favour. The ideas i could incorportate into my own work could prove to be very useful.
70’s Art
20th Century Art
Our world Its a good idea to include the different types of enviroments we have on planet earth. In this slide i have placed the more harsh and inhospitable enviroments to show that it is not all happiness on planet earth.
Artic
Woodland
Eco-System Displaying a diagram of the eco system is also a good idea to look at. Its a mixture of graphics and in some way it is rudamentary info- Graphics which is something ive been wanting to look at for a while. This picture is quite basic but for someone who isnt from this world i feel that its what we want because it easy to explain and shows what we want it to.
Image From Visual L.Y
Historical Art
The reason for this page is the fact that in any golden record we would want to keep a record of past art or famous peices. I feel like the mona lisa would be included in this as for many of us it is the pinnical of art. This page will include a few peices in which i have selected ad would go in the time capsule. Including Van Gogh, Leonardo Da Vinci and others.
Vincent Van Gogh To look into art from all parts of history i have decided to add vincent van gogh into the mix as he was one of the most inpsirational artists in human history. His paintings went beyond the normal human eye as they used a mixture of colour which apparently only he could see and it shows in his many paintings. He was a genius and a madman he ended up taking his own life. But his paintings live on and he is one of the most well known painters in the world. Thats why if a golden record was created he would be on it.
Bas Jan Ader Ader created a handful of photographs as well as several short black-andwhite films in which he is the sole performer. I feel that this could be intersting in my work because of the way his photographs capture the facial features of feelings. To anyone not from this world this could be very intersting as it captures what a human is and what they look like. These two pictures I have used on my document show humanity in facial expressions. Yes these two generally have a very sad vibe to them., But thats the idea of showing humanity in every light. These pictures show a different side and for research purposes they show a good example of facial expressions.
Human Anatomy In the actual golden record it contains drawings of human anatomy in order to explain how humanity works and how we live. I think this is a nice idea to go off because in order to explain the way the human race works we need to look at the way we are sculpted and how are dna works. For other races to cattalogue maybe a sample of blood from every race. These drawing which I have placed in the document give a nice feel for how humans have evolved. And In my opinion the reason we have advanced so far is because of are hands, as it has given us the tools to make a better planet.
Micheal. M. Hensley Micheal is a artist of the human anatomy. He focus on bone and muscle and draws every part of the human body in detail. I think it will be nice to use his work in my project because for the same reason as everyhing else it shows what a human is. Looking at artists who study biology give us a good start point for developing idea’s on how best to represent humanity. Definitely stripping us down and showing off what are anatomy is, is a good place to start. However i do feel that some of his work gives a moodier side to the way we look and many of his drawings are quite sinisiter.
Facial Expressions Facial Expressions are a key part of humanity. The face shows more than we let on and the way we move are eyebrows and mouth determines what were feelng. I feel that this needs to be added to the project as it would give a idea of how we feel and function.
Image from Fourhourworkweek
Male Age 19
My own Facial Experimination
Female Age 19
Info Graphics face Now that Im starting on my experiminatation I am now looking into info graphics with the face. I’m going to use it to explain how the face works and what it is made up of. The use of facial info Graphics is mostly used when looking at the effects of drugs however i feel i will use these as an example for experimintation.
Experimintation into different ways i should create my info graphics for the final peice. This is the first look and for this I looked at a more human approach to the document however I feel it is quite bland.
Type Art
For one of my final projects I looked at type art, and I looked at how I could y owqn photography to create something that Linked in with message I wanted to send. I wanted to use my own photography and combininig everything I had been taught to design a poster for the aliens which basically sums up earth.
Anthony Burril
Burril developed a poster called Oil and Water do not mix, which I feel is
quite, I chose to work on this because of its closeness to info- Graphics. For this he mixed oil and water together as the ink and showed how when they are mixed they create a horried brown colour, This was to show the impact that oil spillages have on the enviroment. I feel that this peice has a very strong clear message that I will will be wanted to get across In my final peice.
Extended experimintation into facial expressions,
Ideas and experiments The first design I looked at was the idea of a new earth. I looked at the idea of transporting human DNA up into space in small wallets which I would later WWWWWWW
Design for Wallet
Vile or Jar’s Aquired for project These jars where the first steps i took towards the start of this project the nice typhopgraphy and the way they were sealed made me think that these would work well in the scientific vibe I was trying to create
Jar Package Re-Design This is the new package design for the box. It includes 3 types of text including Arabic, French and English. It also includes brail and is made up of quite a simple design
Seed Pouches These are the basic Seed Pouches for the design. What I want to do is completely re- design the package so its easy to understand for someone who is not from this world. This packaging is very easy on the eys and explains what It needs through the packaging. However for a alien race who havent seen earth before it may be more difficult to understand so I am going to re-design the packaging to show a more explained verison of the product which can fit in my box
This is the Re-design for the packages and as with the top it ahs two languages and the look of the planet and how we look. its easy to understand and looks good.
Designs
These designs were developed as a sort of concept for where we were in the galaxy.
Seed Box
This is the seed box which I will be using for the final peice. I am now going to look through the different materials that I will be using to engrave my designs on to.
Final Peice Design The images I used for my final peice, I wanted to chose photos that I felt displayed the human race in a nice angle. I picked topics to focus on such as sport and food, And looked at the different ways I could Design this poster and I will show my production below.