but with a strong link to the Genre.
See what you think
Monday 13 June 2011
Vasavar Artworks in Barcelona
These posters came to my attention and they are both simple and effective, retro
but with a strong link to the Genre.
See what you think
but with a strong link to the Genre.
See what you think
Tuesday 7 June 2011
Wonderful Graphics for Exhibition and print
This caught my eye
and the colour, choice of style and outcomes really did attract my attention.
and the colour, choice of style and outcomes really did attract my attention.
Wednesday 1 June 2011
Tuesday 31 May 2011
Sunday 24 October 2010
The future for students as I see it
Graphic Design. The Course you choose.
When you chose to investigate and practice a career in Graphic design, did you
know what it was, and actually meant?
Now, what do you feel about the choice you made?
Confused? Excited?
The journey has begun and is changing almost daily, but realistically, year on year.
The changes in technology can throw up more and more questions.New methods of communicating visually with a wider, moor global audience ( and all from a central source, is now possible).
All these new technologies, digital, viral, dimensional and constructional, all are added 'tools' that are new and exciting mediums we can add to our 'toolbox'.
The future will add more and more 'tools' that we can (but not must) utilize in our
practice. This can be demonstrated by the expansion of the film industries, films like Avatar, Lord of the Rings,The Incredibles and others. These all threw up certain 'wants' by the communicators, that were not actually available 'off the shelf' and had to be engineered and created to supply the outcome. The want becomes a need and followers could then create communication that could use this new tool.
This, to quote Disney, 'Imagineering' has expanded our creative envelope and if we
can consider all manner of mediums. From dipping our hands in animal blood and making images on a cave wall, we now communicate in the third and 4th dimensions. Image and sound, sense of smell and more so the sense of touch make the interaction between the communicator and those to be communicated with a more integrated experience.
You may say that this is not the 'heart' of Graphic Design or it's fundamentals?
Maybe not, but that depends on the kind of communication you are considering
and to whom? Being a Graphic Designer does not mean we should solely concentrate our practice on marks on paper, but, if we doe wish to concentrate our practice to printed matter…so be it. That I see as specialism.
To be aware of the other mediums is a bonus, and we can communicate to clients the alternatives to a 'poster' or an item of print, if the alternative medium will communicate more effectively. The times I have had a client ask for a 'leaflet' without actually thinking through the actual outcome required. Then being pleasantly surprised when I have suggested another solution that would communicate the required outcome in a more effective way.
With all of this in mind, I am not suggesting that we must all gain total expertise in all fields of communication, but that we should not only be aware of other mediums (tools) and that we see the uses that they can have in our practice and as we look around and see the world and it's content on which we build our 'cerebral database' to fuel our professional practice.
Being aware of this, we can, ourselves, concentrate our personal choice of practice
and position ourselves as professionals in that area. From there we follow the practice
of fellow professionals that we consider interesting and exciting. These are the
practices that we should communicate with and to consider working with.
That is the identification of your career path and that is the point we in identifying
the methods that we can communicate with our peers in the profession and in which tone to integrate ourselves within our chosen sphere.
Although I hate the expression 'outside the box', this is what can make one creative
different from another, combined with professional expertise to see the bigger and wider picture on behalf of those who employ that expertise to achieve a specific
outcome, either commercially or artistically.
You may, by all means beg to differ. If so good.
When you chose to investigate and practice a career in Graphic design, did you
know what it was, and actually meant?
Now, what do you feel about the choice you made?
Confused? Excited?
The journey has begun and is changing almost daily, but realistically, year on year.
The changes in technology can throw up more and more questions.New methods of communicating visually with a wider, moor global audience ( and all from a central source, is now possible).
All these new technologies, digital, viral, dimensional and constructional, all are added 'tools' that are new and exciting mediums we can add to our 'toolbox'.
The future will add more and more 'tools' that we can (but not must) utilize in our
practice. This can be demonstrated by the expansion of the film industries, films like Avatar, Lord of the Rings,The Incredibles and others. These all threw up certain 'wants' by the communicators, that were not actually available 'off the shelf' and had to be engineered and created to supply the outcome. The want becomes a need and followers could then create communication that could use this new tool.
This, to quote Disney, 'Imagineering' has expanded our creative envelope and if we
can consider all manner of mediums. From dipping our hands in animal blood and making images on a cave wall, we now communicate in the third and 4th dimensions. Image and sound, sense of smell and more so the sense of touch make the interaction between the communicator and those to be communicated with a more integrated experience.
You may say that this is not the 'heart' of Graphic Design or it's fundamentals?
Maybe not, but that depends on the kind of communication you are considering
and to whom? Being a Graphic Designer does not mean we should solely concentrate our practice on marks on paper, but, if we doe wish to concentrate our practice to printed matter…so be it. That I see as specialism.
To be aware of the other mediums is a bonus, and we can communicate to clients the alternatives to a 'poster' or an item of print, if the alternative medium will communicate more effectively. The times I have had a client ask for a 'leaflet' without actually thinking through the actual outcome required. Then being pleasantly surprised when I have suggested another solution that would communicate the required outcome in a more effective way.
With all of this in mind, I am not suggesting that we must all gain total expertise in all fields of communication, but that we should not only be aware of other mediums (tools) and that we see the uses that they can have in our practice and as we look around and see the world and it's content on which we build our 'cerebral database' to fuel our professional practice.
Being aware of this, we can, ourselves, concentrate our personal choice of practice
and position ourselves as professionals in that area. From there we follow the practice
of fellow professionals that we consider interesting and exciting. These are the
practices that we should communicate with and to consider working with.
That is the identification of your career path and that is the point we in identifying
the methods that we can communicate with our peers in the profession and in which tone to integrate ourselves within our chosen sphere.
Although I hate the expression 'outside the box', this is what can make one creative
different from another, combined with professional expertise to see the bigger and wider picture on behalf of those who employ that expertise to achieve a specific
outcome, either commercially or artistically.
You may, by all means beg to differ. If so good.
Saturday 15 May 2010
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