Rochdale used to be one of the main producers of cotton in the For this project I want to take pictures like this but as it is now and north with its wide range of mills going along its canal providing easy compare how Rochdale has changed since the industrial revolution access for the economic trade of britain back when we produced the and show people what it is really like. most cotton in europe. Ever since then Rochdale has been slowly dying o with the cotton trade gone from its canals it has slowly became a town known not for its achievements but its wrong doings.
City In Flux: Rochdale Research
Rochdale used to be one of the main producers of cotton in the north with its wide range of mills going along its canal providing easy access for the economic trade of britain back when we produced the most cotton in europe. Ever since then Rochdale has been slowly dying o with the cotton trade gone from its canals it has slowly became a town known not for its achievements but its wrong doings. For this project I want to take pictures like this but as it is now and compare how Rochdale has changed since the industrial revolution and show people what it is really like.
Under copyright protection so if I want to use these images in a pro- I have picked these images because they are from Rochdale the In this project I want to portray the changes that have happened and fessional job or my project I would have to email the copyright own- place where I want to base my City in Flux Project. what has made Rochdale what it is today. er and ask him/her if I am able to use these photos for Educational uses. These are all ideal images for me to use because they all have something that has some sort of importance to how Rochdale has grown in the past 100 to 200 years.
City In Flux: Rochdale Research 3
These are examples of two of the images that I am going to get myself and combine them slowly combine them to reveal the difference between both the images to show how the buildings and then enviroment around them have changed over time. I will have to contact the owners of the images to make sure I can use them if I do decide to do this as my final idea.
City In Flux: Rochdale Research 2
I have been looking at dierent images about nature and I have decided to gather a few about overgrown places which are literally like jungles. While researching the general term “Jungle” I came across the term “Concrete Jungle” and from that I thought maybe of how a jungle grows and thrives no matter what sort of situation it is put in.
City In Flux: Jungle Research
I either want to create something to do with how one seed over sev- For the final idea with nature and the term “Concrete Jungle” I could eral centuries turns into a vast and lush forest. literally turn the term upside down and create a “Concrete Jungle” that has been reclaimed by nature and completely overrun by vines, Or even something to do with how animals and insects aects how a trees and all sorts of dierent animals. Each of these images relate jungle thrives with its life and creates its own natural city providing somehow to what I want to create in the end and what sort of ideas I food, water and shelter for the creatures that dwell there. want to help generate my final idea for this project.
After my previous idea about the atoms I was thinking about what happens when they are split and what sort of outcome is achieved when that happens generally somethin bad. But when they divide and multiplay something amazing normally happens like cell division which will divide and divide and eventually create a living being.
City In Flux: Atoms Collide Idea
I think just the process that happens is amazing and the amount of I think this idea would be very good especially if it is set in a dense ideas and general information I can gather about this one topic is city with long straight roads like New York or paris because of all the vast. The main focus of this idea will be about the atom colliding with really long roads so things can go fast and slow to collide with each another atom and then that becoming a molecule and releasing an- other. other atom like how to parents create a child and then two cells can go together to create a tissue and release a cell sort of thing and so on and so on.
I was looking at certain images of animations moving and I came across a animation of an atom just like the one above and I started thinking just generally about atoms and then I remembered a Simpsons episode that I have watched multiple times where it starts of zooming out of homers head then goes to atoms, to cells, to tissues, two hair, (Pardon the pun) to a house etc. etc. and I want to do a similar thing.
City In Flux: Atoms Research
Flux is movement and no matter what we do we are always moving I want to show this by doing a few different animations or even just even when we are still. Electrons are always spinning, blood is alwaysashort video about it, just showing that everything is in a state of flux pumping and the earth is always spinning! So no matter what we are (Movement) no matter what is happening. doing we are always moving somehow.
This is the main idea that I have come up with, I want to combine the old images with the colours that are used in the new photos and try to bring them to life. If I do use this idea I will be using Photoshop and Illustrator which we are slowly being taught how to use each Thursday. I know how to add the colour now but I could use some other effects to try and mix it up with the images.
I was thinking about creating several posters for the nal product then I do not know how I am going to do this but I am looking forward to I am not thinking too far ahead and then I still have time to do all the learning how to do the idea that I want. I will probably look at some posters I want. I have another idea about putting a slider in the image YouTube tutorials to gure out how to do it because that is the sort of showing the transition between black and white images to the new thing that I like to do in my spare time. image with the colours.
City In Flux: Black and White Research
Michael Kelly is a photogrpaher who is based mainly in America and has done a mini project on photography by taking pictures of buildings and sets in the morning and then at night when the lighting on the scene is different and it shows a different side or story that the lighting helps potray.
I want to do the same as this and because he has included a slider I could even show the change with several sliders and each one so you can move it from left to right to see the two different images, slowly shows the evolution of the city over a certain amount of time but I want to do is use a black and white images and then move themand each one shows the next stage of the city building process. left and right and then the image on the right is going to be colored in by myself and then I will use the slider to show the change between the images.
City In Flux: Michael Kelly Research
This idea for the project City of Flux is based on how the stars have been mapped out over the past few thousand years, I want to link this into a city showing how someone is moved around a city throughout their life. The idea came to me when I was thinking about dierent quotes that people use and I came across one, which says, “Destiny is written in the stars�. So from that I thought well what if I create a 3D model of a city using Cinema 4D to create it.
City In Flux: Star Research
I got the idea from the different star maps that I have gathered from various websites around the internet of different stars being put together to make dierent shapes and then them combined with a model of a city that I can place these star maps above each of the specic buildings to show how someone’s life has been played out in this concrete jungle. I am hoping to use Cinema 4D for the design of the city.
I currently do not know how to use this program but I am hoping to slowly teach myself by watching dierent tutorial series that are on YouTube/vimeo etc. Until we are learning about the programs and processes that I could use on these projects. Hopefully I can create a dense city to use for this project, which will most likely be a dicult job, but I am looking forward to the challenge that it is going to provide.
Chris Hubble’s love for photography started at the age of 10 when Andy Frazer’s original night photography website started in 1999. his father gave him a Polaroid one-step for Christmas. “I would do Many people told him they loved the design of the original site. Unextra chores and spend all of my allowance on Polaroid lm. “I feel so fortunately, the double-indexed, double-linked hyperlinks became a fortunate that I’m able to do what I love for a living” at the age of 19, nightmare to maintain. Eventually, he realized that it wasn’t keeping he took his rst international trips as an assistant with a travel phothe website updated simply because it was too difficult to maintain. tographer. After that experience, travel photography was in his blood. Since then Chris has travelled, photographing in 33 of the United States including Hawaii.
City In Flux: Artist Research
Peter Saville (born 9 October 1955) is an English art director and graphic designer. He came to fame for the many record sleeves he designed for Factory Records, of which he was a director. He has recently become over the past few years the most famous graphic designer in Britain. Thanks to his work with the wide range of dierent types of media that he has created.
Peter Molyneux began his career in 1982 by distributing and selling oppy disks which contained video Storm Elvin Thorgerson (28 February 1944 – 18 April2013) was an English graphic designer, best known games for Atari and the Commodore 64. He believed that including games on the disks would improve for his work for rock artists such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Scorpions, Peter Gabriel, sales, and later decided that the games were the main selling point. Genesis, Al Stewart, Europe, Catherine Wheel, Bruce Dickinson, Dream Theater, The Cranberries, The Mars Volta, Muse, Biy Clyro and Rival Sons. Peter Douglas Molyneux, OBE (born 5 May 1959) is a British video game designer and game programmer. He created the god games Dungeon Keeper, Populous, Black & White, as well as Theme Park, the In 1968 along with Aubrey Powell he founded the graphic art group Hipgnosis, and between them they Fable series and Curiosity – What’s Inside the Cube?. His new studio 22Cans currently works on Godus. designed many famous single and album covers, with Peter Christopherson joining them for their later commissions. In 1983.
City In Flux: Artist Research
Muller Brockmann was born 9 May 1914 Rapperswil, Switzerland. Brockmann was known for his clean use of typeography, shapes and He also became very well known after this series of books that he He is a very famous Graphic designer and teacher and eventually in colours which still affects graphic designers now in the 21st century. produced over the years: The Graphic Artist and his Design Prob1966 he was appointed to be the European design consultant to IBM. lems, A History of Visual Communication and Grid Systems in Graphic Design which he is known mostly for.
City In Flux: Josef Muller Brockmann
Wassily Kandinsky was born in 1866 in Moscow, Russian Empire. He Even now after a century and a half from when he was born his work That it was a haystack the catalogue informed me. I could not recogwas a very inuential painter and theorist. Kandinsky mainly focused is still being shown and is inuencings peoples design choices and is nize it. This non-recognitionwas painful to me. I considered that the on producing abstract art which included awide range of dierent still evolving into something else even though he is not here anymore. painter had no right to paint indistinctly. I dully felt that the object of forms, from paintings which only included straight lines basic shapes the painting was missing. And I noticed with surprise and confusion and bleak angles to ones that included a wide range of colours that the picture not only gripped me, but impressed itself ineradicably mashed together to create an really interesting very intense piece of on my memory. Painting took on a fairy-tale power and splendour. artwork. Wassily Kandinsky
City In Flux: Wassily Kandinsky Research
After WW2 had ended Henry focused on producing more statues Henry Moore was a artist born in 1898 in Castleford, Yorkshire, Great Henry produced many dierent sculptures like all these that are around the edge of the page, I like every single one of them and each devoted to family since he lost his mother two years before the birth Britain. He was a famous sculpture who became famous between of them I am sure will have a fascinating story behind each of them. of his daughter Mary Moore which greatly aected his life and the way 1930s to 1980s for his reclining sculptures that he had created of he designed and produced his sculptures in the future. human-like statues which are exactly like their name in an reclining position. During world war two he became famous producing powerful drawings of people in London in the shelters during the German blitz of WW2.
City In Flux: Henry Moore Research
Futurism started in Italy in the early 20h century and from then it grew I would love to incorporate this into my ideas but I do not think I and slowly evolved to what it is today. Futurism is mainly composed would be able to do it without making the end product to simple and of straight lines arranged in a way to create a that would compromise on the design stages of layered effect. the project. I like Futurism because it is still being used today and even back in the 20th century they was using the straight lines to create beautiful pieces of artwork and adding dierent layers to make it look 3D.
City In Flux: Futurism Research
Futurism was largely based in Italy but along side the other two movements in Britain and Russia it slowly help transform the way alot of the industry saw and designed things in the future, including painting, sculpture, ceramics, graphic design, industrial design and alot more.
Constructivism was an artistic and architectural movement that start- It was mainly used for political propaganda in lms and posters in I could combine this with an Art Deco posters of Rochdale and turn ed in russia in 1919 just after world war one. This art movement cameRussia. I like the simplistic design and uses of colours in each poster them into a Constructivism/Art Deco combination, I would combine together during the Communist reign over the USSR from 1917 to each of them mainly making use of black and red and each of them the basic shapes of Art Deco with the basic colours that have been 1992. seem to make use of angles or triangles in the posters which is nor- used in the Russian posters and see what sort of product comes out mally trying to send a message about a certain product or movement of it at the end. to speak up or support something.
City In Flux: Constructivism Research
Art Deco has been something that I have not really bothered with before and since learning about modernism and the development of art after the rst world war Art Deco has popped up quite a few times. Since then it has slowly been one of the many types of art that I have been looking forward to incorporating into my work.
City In Flux: Art Deco Research
I really like the simplistic colours and shapes that are used in the design of the posters from the Art Deco era, I wouldn’t mind working on the seven sisters of Rochdale and turning them into some sort of iconic poster series and maybe doing the same for other iconic places that have played a role in the development and history of the town.
The idea of a series of Art Deco posters based on Rochdale might be too basic of an idea so maybe if I combine the art deco design with a bit of animation, quite alot of the posters make use of spotlights in the background maybe I could animate them turning each of them from a poster into a small stop motion animation with just a few frames and then loop it to create a small gif.
Say Yes! To USSR UNIfication
Say Yes! To USSR UNIfication This is some constructivism artwork that I designed myself based The constructivism artwork always used basic shapes to create their This is the outcome that I came up with and I think they are perfect around the posters that I could find around the internet and from propaganda art work and used the same two main colors of yellow and suit the constructivism look exactly how they should and I think what I found I managed to pull these two together. I kept the stand- and red normally. they would of been used at the time this was in fashion. ard bland colours that are used in most of these posters and kept the scheme very simple as well as the colours.
City In Flux: Constructivism Experiments
This is some futurism artwork that I designed by looking at images from the internet.... I found the basic light shapes very interesting and then I wanted to do my own so I decided to go back onto youtube and learn how to do it myself which in the end I did and I managed to create these two different ones based on the light boxes around the seven sisters.
City In Flux: Futurism Experiments
Most of the fonts for art deco posters and similar posters from that time have the type layout all over the place and do not have a certain place that the text will be every time. From what I can tell the placement of the text depends on the placement on the image and then the text is placed in a corresponding area on the poster that is not stopping someone from seeing the image that is the main thing for the poster.
I am going to place the type on my posters in certain areas depending on where the main attention point of the poster is then I can put it in the opposite spot to make sure it doesn’t obscure anything on the image and to make sure the text is not stopping someone from seeing the poster and to make sure it doesn’t interfere with the message that is going to be sent by the posters when they are placed around Rochdale.
City In Flux: Type Layout Research
These are a few different Art Deco or font from a similar time to when The only one that I am definetly not going to use is the bottom left it was around. I am currently looking towards using the very top left one because it is more of a retro American diner font or something one but I am going to ask a few people and see which one of these and I do not want to create a poster using a font like that unless the fonts would look the best to be placed onto a promotional poster. buildings that are in it are based around an Retro-American design.
City In Flux: Type Experimentation
Once I get some consumer research on these fonts I will make my decision on which one/s I am going to use and then further experiment with them to see what sort of thing I can come up with in the end.
There isn’t any I don’t really like I just prefer the ones that I have statThese are some of the typography designs that I am going to use on I kinda am favoured towards the one at the top left with the lights inside it and the outline so it is easy to read and then it also incorpoed above and the only one that might have a problem with the color my posters depending on what colors are used on the poster im gobut other than that it should be fine. ing to change them and maybe invert the type or I could even make rates the lights that are going to be used in each of my posters. the type out of the lights that I am going to be putting into the image to highlight some of the areas like I have done at the top right but I will have to be careful due to the color and make sure it stands out enough for people to see it and being easy to read.
City In Flux: Type Final
This is the final Type design that I am going to be using on all of my It also has an Art Deco look to it but also a Retrofuturism look as well I am going to create posters of the buildings that were created in posters that I am creating around Art Deco and Rochdale. Each one which will be really good on my posters if I do decide to go through the 20th century in an Art Deco style and then if I have the time I am of these titles can be changed color to match what ever background Iwith the modern poster Idea. going to take pictures of where these buildings used to be or where need to put it on. they are now and create modern posters that would be used to promote them in this time.
City In Flux: Type Final
These are some texts layouts that I’ve tried and as you can see some All of them but the bottom right one could work if I tweaked the text I think I might look at some more types of these posters and see of them work and some of them completely don’t, Most of them a bit more on each image to make it stand out more and with a little what other possible buildings or objects that I can base on my next just do not fit into the part of the image because of the colours that bit of magic I could place the text inside the tram maybe going into set of posters. are used in the bacground and some just don’t really fit into the slot the background of the image to try and make the incorporate the text because of the the center of attention on the iamges like the tram into the image a bit better and make it look a bit more streamlined and the tram station and some of the text placements just completely like Art Deco tries to do. blocks the main point of the image and it would not look very good if it was used like the one at the bottom left...
City In Flux: Additional Experiments
Black Box Art Deco Rochdale
Rochdale
Rochdale
I have reveisited my original experimentation for Art Deco and decid- In the end I am quite happy with the final one and would like to carry I am also going to be looking at other designs that have been created to go a bit futher into development on it and since it is called the on doing this and turn it into one of my final pieces. ed in this style and then see if I can follow the process they used to “Black Box” and it wasn’t exactly right since it was blue ish green ish create their different end results and see what they look like. and not black so I decided to swap the colour schemes round with the building and then text which in the end I thought made it look alot better and I even decided to take a font from the internet and put my own light and dark effects on the typography.
City In Flux: Final Experiment
Rochdale Trams
Seven Sisters
RochdaleSt. John’s Church The colours I am thinking about just using the basic Breamcatcher This is my text that I have created to be used on my posters and I font that I have used and manipulated here on its own so it is simple have put it in different sizes to see what it will be like on the actual poster to make sure it is readable and to see if there is any problems and easy to read but it will still go with the art deco theme that I am with it the only problem that I have found with this text is the fact that going for... when it is really small at the bottom of my posters it is really difficult to read because of the outline.
City In Flux: Type Properties
I think the font that I have chosen suits my posters since they are both based around an art deco theme and they will go well together and I really do like the effect that I have put onto the type to make it look like there is spotlights going over the text lighting it up like there is on my posters that I am going to create.
Once I had the image I went into Illustrator and started drawing basic Then it was time to add the background with the gradient tool and I recently created this Art Deco poster and I thought it would be a lines around the edges of the buildings but to make it so I could then I also added a rectangle to the bottom to hide the lower part good idea to take screenshots throughout the process of it being colour each of them individually I had to make sure they were all their of the building because I didn’t like how it looked. Then I added the designed so other people can see the stages I went in to create something like this. The First stage of the design process which I had own shape. Once I had the basic outline of the image done I had to lights with the pen tool and then set them to overlay and I had to reto do was go and get an image of a known building that is situated start adding colours making them darker on the sides where the sun duce the opacity because they was making it unrealistic bright. Once couldn’t light up to give it a 3D Art Deco effect as I have done in the I had that done I took the image into photoshop and added a Film in Rochdale, I have already done most of the well known ones so I Grain and Poster Edges effect to create the Old paper look and then had to do a bit of digging to find out that this is one of the most well screenshots. took it back into Illustrator and added the text back onto the image known religious buildings in Rochdale so I decided to do this. and thats how I reached the final design on this particular image.
City In Flux: Step By Step Experimental
This is my final poster design for the City In Flux project I have shown I had to do a simple line drawing of shapes round every single part So thought since it had links with Britain and our involvement in the the stages that I took to create it because I thought it would be good of the image that I wanted to be in a different colour since I was usingwar I thought it would be a good idea to attempt to use colours from as evidence to be used in my final overall project file so as usual I illustrator to stop it from going pixelated incase I needed to blow it up the British flag and then I thought why not make it look like the actual went and got a picture of the Memorial Gardens in Rochdale which or even make it smaller for any reason in the future. Once I had the flag itself, so I did. At first I didn’t think it would work but eventually was built in rememberance of the soldiers that participated in the basic outline done and the shapes in the middle it was time to start after a bit of experimentation and hoping that it would look good in two World Wars which were from the North-West of England and the adding a bit of colour my plan was to just make it different shades of the end and even if it didn’t I could use it as evidence to say why I Rochdale area. grey but in the end that was a bit to simple and boring. didn’t do something like this so it would of worked out in my favour either way. But in the end I think it looks quite good since it all links together and the Art Deco style.
City In Flux: Final Development
Memorial Gardens Rochdale
I feel like my selection of posters that I have created answers the brief because I am combining the art style of the time that they were built with how they look now and you can hardly tell the difference and this shows that most buildings are not in flux with the city unless they are knocked down and rebuilt, so once a building is finished it will not be in a state of flux untill it gets knocked down again and something is rebuilt in its place.
City In Flux: Evaluation
Rochdale
If I could go back and do this again I would definetly look at other op- Also since so many people was doing an overgrown idea which was tions at the start and try not to get stuck into one idea like I did here one of my very first ideas that I wanted to do I decided it would be because of this I ended up having to base my project around Roch- better to do something like this since there was so many different dale somehow because of all the research and time I spent at the overgrown ideas being developed and I didn’t want to get caught in start of the project learning about Rochdale and the different build- that, I wanted something that hadn’t been done before and is a bit ings and taking pictures of them, which had really limited my options abstract and different from what everyone else is doing which made when I got into the idea development stage. it my own unique idea which is what I really liked about this idea. In the end I think it came out really well.