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DRAWING IS THE BASIC BEDROCK AND CORNER STONE OF MAKING ALL VISUAL ARTS. LEARNING TO DRAW IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY OF LEARNING. THE WORD DRAWING IS UNDERSTOOD TO MEAN TO DESIGN.
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Dead and colourless orchids
on this page you see drawings with black ink using pen and on the right using matches.
Drawing
ink, water, brushes and matches
Drawing is the basic bedrock and corner stone of making all visual arts. Learning to draw is an alternative way of learning. The word drawing is understood to mean to design. It does not matter if you are observing, planning or doing architecture, sculpture, graphic design, industrial or fashion design, painting or anything else that ask for visualizations... then drawing is helpful and necessary.
Therefore drawing is a special way of expressing yourself. You can choose among many different kinds of substances like acrylics, oil paints, pastels and many more. Start playing with them, mixing them and you will find out things you have never imagined that existed there;shadows painted in blue and yellow, green points in the sky..
Colourise your days and those around you
on the left you see a scetch with oil pastel and on this page a drawing with acrylic colours.
black and colored inks, acrylics, water and brushes, watercolors
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GATHER AS MUCH MATERIALS AS YOU CAN FIND FROM ALL THE CORNERS OF THE HOUSE, MATERIALS THAT SEEM USELE SS TO YOU AND POINTLESS TO USE ESPECIALLY IN DRAWING...
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Get dirty and enjoy
inks and collage with a variety of materials such as net, papers and thread.
Patterns Gather as much materials as you can find from all the corners of the house, materials that seem useless to you and pointless to use especially in drawing. Put them all together and see how they can “glue� with each other. Use imagination, loud music volume and free your mind... You never know what you can achive!
sugar, colourful inks, papers, newspapers and passion
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DESIGNING BUSSINESS CARDS IS A WAY OF EXPLORING THE PERSONALITY OF A PERSON OR A BUSSINESS, YOU ARE FINDING OUT WHICH IS THEIR PAST, WHAT DEFINES THEM...
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Find your identity
E: ifi.doura@gmail.com M: +30 6972028054
bussiness cards and logos.
Ιφιγένεια Δούρα Ιδέα|Διακόσµηση
Identity design Designing bussiness cards is a way of exploring the personality of a person or a bussiness, you are finding out which is their past, what defines them and what they are preparing for the future; you are starting to create some kind of image in your mind about them and thereafter you have an “identity�, special and unique for them to seperate them from the rest people...
words, brands, background search and synthesis
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IN EVERY CORNER OF A CITY IF YOU START OBSERVING THE SIGNS ON THE STREETS, THE SIGNS ON THE SHOPS, THE GRAFFITIS ON THE ABANDONED BUILDINGS…
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photos of typography in every little corner of the city.
Observe and capture it camera, lots of snaps and shoots and observation
Typography on the streets
In every corner of a city if you start observing the signs on the streets, the signs on the shops, the graffitis on the buildings and on the empty houses, the posters that are covering the columns, on the shops and on the walls; all of these and many more you will realise that your world is surrounded by typography! The subject of this project is to capture kinds of typography that can drow your attention...
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THIS PROJECT WILL START INVESTIGATE THE EXPRESSIVE POSSIBILITIES OF TYPOGRAPHY, BUT CONSIDERING THE LETTERS INDIVIDUALLY AS GRAPHIC FORMS AND HOW THEY CAN CREATE IMAGES AND CONVEY DIFFERENT EMOTIONS.
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cut and glue together letters in orded to form the name of a neighbourhood of Porto.
Imagine how a building would look if it was formed with letters
Letters as shapes This project will investigate the expressive possibilities of typography, but considering the letters individually and graphic forms and how they jointly can create images and convey different emotions; form unusual shapes in comparison, such us buildings, strange landscapes.
letters, photocopies, synthesis and scissors
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THE TREND INCREASINGLY ORIENTED TO THE VISUAL IS A REGISTERED PATENT CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY, WE ARE A GENERATION OF READERS WERE MOVED BY HEDONISM, THE RUSH AND THE IMMEDIACY…
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play with the forms that letters make in combination with pictures so as to make a poster.
Movie cycle dedicated to David Fincher
typography, pictures and movie action
Event Identity The trend increasingly oriented to the visual is a registered patent contemporary society, we are a generation of readers were moved by hedonism, the rush and the immediacy. The motivation for reading and understanding of a message varies - different graphic arrangements cause different reactions. This reaction determines the success of the work of the designer.
-on this pagea poster for personal development groups -on the right pageentry for the second competition of the Greek Typography Museum
“Romeo & Juliet for 2 “ is the name of the theatrical play that I was called to design it’s logo, advertisings, banners. That play is based on the story of Romeo & Juliet written by Shakespeare but the play is deformed according to the exquisite improvisation of the two actors and their director; the scenes, the costumes are all made from scratch and most importantly every role is performed only by the two actors.
play with the transparent colorful forms, concept pistures and typography and create the desired advertising.
typography, pictures and transparent forms
“Romeo & Juliet for 2� Theatrical play
Form and
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JOY DIVISION DISAPPEARED FOR 30 YEARS AFTER THE SUICIDE OF LEAD SINGER AND GUITARIST IAN CURTIS. AS PART OF A SET OF EVENTS TO REMEMBER THE ARTISTIC DISCOURSE OF JOY DIVISION...
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Joy Division -No love lost-
picture used in the book and on the right a two pages from the book.
content Where to look for ideas for a design? Power will use the same approach to all challenges? As the use of typography, color, photography, scale and materials can influence the message? This project will be asked to creatively the relationship between the contents of a message and visual form that expresses it. Joy Division disappeared for 30 years after the suicide of lead singer and Guitarist Ian Curtis. As part of a set of events to remember the artistic discourse of Joy Division, will be a publication created by different authors and is distributed free on the streets of Manchester. This action comes as a provocation against the widespread cultural a silent and uncritical society.
pictures, collage, typography, lyrics and music
She shuddered instinctively
No life at all in the house of dolls
Through the wire screen, the eyes of those standing outside looked in at
her as into the c
cage of some rare creature in a zoo a page from the book No love Lost of Joy Division
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JAZZ IS MUSIC THAT INCLUDES QUALITIES SUCH AS “SWINGING”, IMPROVISING, GROUP INTERACTION, DEVELOPING AN INDIVIDUAL VOICE AND BEING OPEN TO DIFFERENT MUSICAL POSSIBILITIES
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TRAVIS JACKSON
“Jazz is freedom” Thelonious Monk
Book illustration Start with a phrase. Continue with a senario, a short story. Draw a single picture out of it. Now make a story with characters, plot, beginning and end. That story is the book i made “Travel with Jazz”. Illustrated from beginning to end, through it’s pages you travel in time to see the beginning of jazz music and get to know how people first experienced that music genre.
watercolors, black ink, colored forms on illustrator
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Τα μουσικά όργανα που έδεσαν μοναδικά με τις μελωδίες των τραγουδιών τους ήταν το σαξόφωνο και η τρομπέτα, όργανα που το άκουσμα τους θύμιζε ανθρώπινες φωνές. Η επιτυχία που σημείωναν ήταν μεγάλη και το κοινό τους αυξανόταν, καθώς κόσμος από τις γειτονικές πόλεις άρχισε να ε λη πισκέπ τεται την πό
illustrations from the pages of the book “Travel with Jazz”. Illustations, original scetches concept and story. 16
να τους α για κού σει.
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THE POINT OF THIS WORK IS TO REALISE THAT THEREFORE THE MARGINS ARE THERE WHEN YOU WORK, YOU ARE NOT OBLIGED TO KEEP YOUR TEXTS AND PICTURES IN THEM…
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New layout for newspaper pages and the advertising of a theatrical play for the newspaper
Take a newspaper and make it again in your way
Margins and gutter In the previous project we have been asked to visualize a song by making a book. In this exercise, we are gonna draw our own margins and columns and give our gutter so as to create two double pages with a main theme. The point of this work is to realise that therefore the margins are there when you work, you are not obliged to keep your texts and pictures in them; it is there to help you and not to keep you prisoned. Remember to set the waste line on the pages and use your creativity.
margins, fotos, articles, scissors, transparent paper and synthesis