Research Book:
Influences:
Jasper James Panic Room - Title Sequence Dan Hoopert PEDRO VARELA Game of Thrones - Title Sequence Louis Reith Bianca Chang Why Not Associates - Environmental - A Flock of Words Dan Coffey Aili Schmeltz Peter Crawley James Nizam Kate Powell ZUPAGRAFIKA . Tobias W端stefeld Fuyuki Hashizume Anton Burmistrov
Jasper James:
Jasper James is a China based photographer working in Shanghai and Beijing,shooting editorial,advertising and corporate work.His photography ranges from portrait,travel and interiors to concept driven projects. Over the past decade he has lived and worked in New York, London and Beijing, covering assignments around the globe for some of the worlds leading magazines, design and advertising clients.
Panic Room:
Giant letters loom over the early morning streets of New York City. The environmental typography has been mimicked but never equaled in its effect of dread and looming disaster. I really love this typographic title sequence, everytime I watch this film I find it extraordinary how this was shot and how effective it still looks.
Simon Prades:
He wanted to combine 3 things that he really loves in this project: architectural drawing, typography and the city of Barcelona (which is the hometown of his ancestors). The grid of the quarter around Sagrada Familia consist of square blocks, which are very similar in height and size and represent the Architecture of the city very good in my opinion. I like the idea, that each block is filled with hundreds of very different life’s and opinions, but looks so calm and similar from above.
Dan Hoopert:
Digital artist and motion graphics designer Dan Hoopert lives and works in England. Using Cinema 4D Hoopert created a stunning typography project that re-created the alphabet with virtual 3D wire. This process stripped the serif typeface down to it’s essential architectural elements and forms, revealing line and beauty in what would otherwise be very basic letters. Hoopert also creates interesting alphabet sets where the 3D wire links the letters together in a way that resembles a spiderweb altering the form of the letters until they are an unintelligible abstraction.
Pedro Varela:
The cities Pedro Varela draws are far more connected to literature than to any reference in the visual arts. As if waiting for a text by Borges to accompany them, they reserve large blank spaces on the paper. They could also be mirages seen from afar by a character of A Thousand and One Nights, cities with female names like those by Italo Calvino, or castles from a tale we keep from the infancy of our experience in literature.
Game of Thrones:
The title sequence consists of a three-dimensional map of the world, with the continents of Westeros and Essos located on the inner surface of a sphere. At the center of the sphere is a light source, effectively a sun surrounded by an astrolabe-like arrangement of rotating rings. The details of the title sequence change each week depending on the locations visited. I thoroughly love the Game of Thrones title sequence, I think that this is truly a beautiful piece of work. When I watch the show I have watch the title sequence each time as I find it so extraordinary and really makes me wonder how this is possible to achieve. I know that most people skip through title sequences within films and TV Shows, however I like to take in this part of the showing. I like watching them as I find them to be a true work of art and sometimes it’s hard to believe that something was created in a programme which we may come across and dabble in.
Louis Reith:
Untitled, 2011 Maps folded into mountains, mixed series 2009 - 2011. I like this piece of work, as I find it to be really interesting, and that the colours seem really saturated. I like this because I think it stands out much better, than if the colours were bright and vibrant.
Bianca Chang:
Chang is based in Sydney where she works as a graphic designer, creating her paper art pieces in her spare time. Her works are created by hand-plotting multiple sheets of 80gsm 100% post consumer waste recycled paper – “minimising the impact of paper consumption and consciously transforming a typically disposable medium into a long term piece of art,” she says. “Each layer of paper is hand plotted and cut using a pencil, surgical blade and ruler. The cut-out of each layer gets incrementally larger about an axis to make a smooth void when finished.” Recent projects include this piece for Sydney’s A4 Paper Festival, created from 135 sheets of paper.
Why Not Associates:
A Flock of Words is a collaboration with artist gordon young. 300m typographic pavement in morecambe, England. a flock of words is a path of poems, traditional sayings and song lyrics that all relate to birds. made from granite, concrete, glass, steel, brass & bronze.
Dan Coffey:
The London Underground map must be one of the most recognisable maps in the entire world, and it has been used as inspiration for public transports all over the world. Now, thanks to London-based designer Dan Coffey we can also appreciate this less busy version made out of multiple colourful string, check out the make-of video below.
Aili Schmeltz:
Her current body of work in process, Psionic Generators, combines an interest in utopic architecture and philosophy to investigate forms that claim to be ‘ESP activating’ from a 1970’s New Age book about psionic generators. Psionic generators are devices that propose to activate the energy streaming from your eyes with specific proportions and relationships to induce paranormal phenomena. I manipulate the patterns and proportions of these psionic generators as neither a believer or a critic, I think of them as fascinating tools to generate form and question the resulting function.
Peter Crawley:
Peter studied and continues to work in the field of Product Design. He also creates Stitched Illustrations. The illustrations are created by hand piercing various stocks of paper with a pin and then stitching the paper with a needle and cotton thread. The first piece was inspired by a road trip across America, and the desire to illustrate the journey. The illustrations have been used commercially by world leading brands, publications and advertising agencies. Illustrations are held in private collections in the UK, Europe and North America. Peter’s work has been featured in leading art and design publications and exhibitions.
James Nizam:
“Trace Heavens� is a series of light pieces by James Nizam. To create these images James made incisions into the structure of a house to capture and manipulate sunlight into light sculptures. I really like this piece of work, I think that they way that it has been created is really fascinting.
Kate Powell:
Kate Powell is an 18 year old amateur artist from West Yorkshire, UK. She is studying Foundation diploma in Art & Design at Leeds College of Art. Later on Kate started to take her artistic career more seriously in 2012 and produced a number of popular illustrations with the reoccurring motifs of flowers and butterflies. Since then she has experimented with photography, mixed media, and paint, but she still works mostly in pencil, although she now aims to create more personal and emotive portraits.
ZUPAGRAFIKA:
These are a Hispano-Polish creative design studio constantly in search of the purest forms of expression. The studio was founded by a Spanish graphic designer out of his passion for the Polish Poster School. After over 10 years of designing in Spain, we continue our work in Poland. Zupa`s realizations stem from conceptual simplicity, purity of form and content coherence. We have a special bond with architecture and typography, we are good at poster, editorials, branding, design applied to architecture... "Blok Wschodni / Eastern Block" is a collection of paper cut-out models representing various modernist buildings in Warsaw, Poland. The series is made up of iconic examples of functional architecture (Rotunda PKO), some less classic buildings, however, familiar to the city dwellers (Za Żelazną Bramą, Smolna 8, Mokotów), as well as "Wielka Płyta" prefab bloks from the outskirts (Tarchomin). The whole set is eco-friendly as it is made from 100% recycled paper and carton. Each building is hand-drawn and includes a short technical note on its architects, year of construction and exact location.
Tobias W端stefeld:
Alcatraz is originated in the Bay of San Francisco, California.The freezing cold water and the trappy drifts made "The Rock" an ideal place as a Prison. Because an escape seems impossible. There is no known escape. 5 Refugees are missed till today. They probably drowned in the cold sea.
Fuyuki Hashizume:
redesigned the railway map of Tokyo by extracting as alphabet shapes. The concept of book design is an accordion book referring the image of the connection of the rail line. I aimed at combining the humanism and minimalism, in other words, the combination of two different elements, to express its “CITY� complexity. The cover is a hard image in black and white, and the body is soft which used gentle-textured paper in full colour printing.
Anton Burmistrov:
Black Apple is a magazine about what I saw and what I learned. It may sound stupid and perhaps useless to some, but hopefully it will give you another perspective to see the city from, as opposed to running around, nose buried in a tourist's guide in search of nearby attractions
Idea Generation:
Idea Generation 1: String Maps / Route Maps Idea Generation 2: Game of Thrones Idea Generation 3: Pop Up Book Final Idea: My route around the City.
Idea Generation 1: String Map / Route Maps:
I was researching into a few artists and designers there were: Peter Crawley, Kate Powell, Dan Coffey and Aili Schmeltz, also James Nizam uses the same technique, but with light which I found very interesting. I was thinking of creating a series of subway // bus // train routes using string to connect the points. I really like this as a series of images or even a piece of footage as I think that this shows the city in a different light. I think that seeing the way people go on their own journey around the city is completely different to another person, and I would like to show this. I was also thinking of using different coloured string for the different parts of the maps. I was thinking I could ask people where in the city they have been, and then create a map of their journey, and incorporating it into my project.
Idea Generation 2: Game of Thrones:
After the watching the hit TV Series, A Game of Thrones based on the best selling book series by George R.R Martin, I was thinking of creating my own built up town, in the style of their title sequence. I would create a smaller, less grander scaled version of their immaculate title sequence, but have it tie in with the city of my choice. As Game of Thrones is based around the mythical land of Westros, and their cities are built up from one major Cog. I would create the same, but using Yorkshire cities as my main focus point. So first, it would start off in Halifax and I would create the Piece Hall, then carrying on until the town of Halifax has been completed. Then I would move onto Huddersfield and create the University and other landmarks from major cities and towns.
Idea Generation 3: Pop Up Book:
For this I was influenced by Air Pano, on Behance. I was thinking of creating a pop up book, of the various buildings you associate with that particular city ie: York - I think of York Minster, Lincoln - Cathedral, etc. I was also thinking of maybe creating the pop up book, to start off with nothing and then gradually show the difference of the city growing, then what it would look like in the future? I was thinking of doing it an Alphabet formation, so for every letter of the alphabet, their is a town or city for that specific letter. So, A would be Aughton which is in South Yorkshire. B, Bradford. C, Clifton, etc.
Final Idea: Route Map:
For my final idea, I was thinking of creating a map, of my journey throughout the city. Here, I would document my visual journey by using the Nike+ Running app, for Android and iOS Devices. By this, I would open up the app, on the home page of the app, click on the little man running in the top right corner. Then, I would leave it as a basic run, with no music, it being outside and the phone in portrait mode. I would then select start run. Even though this will not be a run, it will still track me walking throughout the city. I would start this at around 7:30AM, so that it tracks me walking to the bus station, then when I get on the bus, hopefully it should still track it with the satellite navigation. Once I have got into Huddersfield, I will be stopped off at the Packhorse Shopping Centre and walk to Uni. Here I will keep the “run� going all day, hopefully with regular intervals of charging my phone, as this runs out the battery. After Uni has finished I will still have the tracker on, tracking my walk up to the bus station, then get the bus. I will be stopped at Brighouse to catch another bus home. Hopefully my phone will have managed to get all the track so I can then create my map. Once I home, I will end the run. This should probably last around 8 hours walk as it will have been on for quite some time. Once it has ended I will go onto Nike+.com screenshot each map.
Geometry Artists & Designers:
Zachary Norman Olafur Eliasson Antony Gormley Gego (Gertrude Goldschmidt) Metatron’s Cube David Mesguich and Valentin Van der Meulen. Pae White Zhu Yi Yong Katsuyo Aoki
Zachary Norman:
I really like Zachary Norman’s work, I particuarly like the way that the colours are in each of his works. My favourite piece by him is “Everything is Anything Else”. // I really like this piece because of the way the work is layed out. He has a piece of text to the left of the page, and then the works are to the right, and when you scroll the images go behind the text. This piece is also, a collaboration between two other artists: Jason Lucas and Aaron Hegert.
Olafur Eliasson:
This piece, Station to Station, Olafur Eliasson’s drawing machine is connecting cross country with a line, 2013, sketched a series of drawings as the train made its way, cross-country, through the United States of America. These drawings were made by an ink-coated ball, which rolled around the tray as the railcar sped through the landscape. When a drawing was finished, the paper was removed from the machine and inscribed with the number of the drawing and the place and date of its execution. The person operating the machine decided subjectively when to initiate a drawing, responding to the layout of the land; the rocking, lurching, and pitching of the railcar; or the name of the immediate vicinity. All of the drawings have been framed in round black frames, reminiscent of the train wheels whose marks run across the pages. Nine poems composed by Olafur Eliasson have also been printed on the same paper as the drawings and then these hung together with the drawings. Each bump, hiccup, and lurch of the railcar expressed itself upon the paper; the train and the natural terrain made the drawing in concert. In a sense, the work was site specific to a site that was constantly changing. It is an artwork made by the land. To the above work, I think that this piece is quite relevant to my work, so it was a really nice surprise to find this beautiful piece of awe inspiring work.
Antony Gormley:
Gormley's career began with a solo exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1981. Almost all his work takes the human body as its subject, with his own body used in many works as the basis for metal casts.
Gego (Gertrude Goldschmidt):
Gego’s most popular works were produced in the 1960s and 1970s, during the height of popularity of Geometric abstract art and Kinetic Art. Although these genres influenced her somewhat, Gego tried to develop her own style and break from the popular art of Venezuela. Her artwork is commonly exhibited with artists like Lygia Clark, HÊlio Oiticica and Mira Schendel. Dying in 1994, she left a collection of writings describing her thoughts about art which adds to her legacy as a Latin American artist.
Metatron’s Cube:
Metatron’s Cube is a name for a geometric figure composed of 13 equal circles with lines from the centre of each circle extending out to the centres of the other 12 circles. Some New Age teachers call a variant of this figure the Fruit of Life.
David Mesguich and Valentin Van der Meulen:
The piece participated in 2 exhibitions, first was in ‘Maison des Arts de Malakoff ’ art centre in 2009, second was during the ‘Art Paris 2010 event. All made of polypropylene. I really like this quirky and unique piece of geometric design, when I first saw this image I was really drawn in to the main focul point which is the skull in the middle.
Pae White:
This piece is called “Too Much Night, Again�. I really like this installation of work, I think the main reason I was fascinated with this piece is that it is all entirely made out of string / thread, also it crosses from one side of the room to the other.
Zhu Yi Yong:
These “Red Star” paintings are depictions of children rendered in a highly realistic style. The use of a monochrome colour palate to paint the children is offset by the vibrant string of red that forms the red star in the children’s hands. The children by turn are shown alone, as well as amongst family. Each child’s red star varies and is very unique. The game of cat’s cradle is played all over the world existing in many different forms and under many different names. It shows of an age of simplicity and innocence, a time when a child’s imagination is being molded and all the weight of China’s revolutionary past. This is shown as a wry juxtaposition, that the children are holding a powerful symbol of China’s collective memory, in their tiny hands.
Katsuyo Aoki:
The decorative styles and forms that she alludes to and incorporates into her works is that each contains a story based on historical backgrounds and ideas, myths, and allegories. Their existence in the present age makes us feel many things; adoration, some sort of romantic emotions, a sense of unfruitfulness and languor from their excessiveness and vulgarity. And on the other hand, they make us feel tranquility and awe that can almost be described as religious, as well as an image as an object of worship.
Pinterest:
Design Geometric City in Flux
Design:
My Pinterest pin board for Design is everything that I value in design. I love the bright neon lights and the glow of art. I also love how dark some design can be which is relevant to the first image, I love every piece of design on this board. Over the next three images, you can see that I look / like a varied structure of design. I like quite minimal pieces of design, like on the bottom left image, in the bottom right hand corner, there is a circle, this is made from some sort of metal, however the significance to me for this piece of design is rather beautiufl. To me, this circle represents wholeness, completion, something that has no end.
Geometric:
On this board for Pinterest, I named this: Geometric, as my final piece is to do with geometry and I have researched into this. I think that there are a variety of different pieces of work on this board. I really like the work on this pin as it is all very unique and very inspirational to me. This is obviously to do with lines as this is about geometry, and how different artists can create something very unique with lines to the previous artists. My favourite works, from this board is the poster which says Uhr. This is a German phrase for hour, and has the image of a clock near the top of the poster. I like this for many reasons, first being that it is German which I have studied, I really liked the colour scheme of this particular piece. I also found the layout of this to be really interesting.
City in Flux:
This board is all to do with the City in Flux, which is based around our brief. For this board however, I pinned any relevant interesting cities, to help guide me for inspriation. On this, I have many photos ranging from London, Tokyo, San Fransisco, etc. The photos pinned helped guide me to find what is beautiful or interesting in each varying city.