Looking at Technique
Anthony Burrill
Anthony Burrill is a typographer, he has done many projects creating type but in this one he specializes in using a letterpress to create his work.
Anthony Burrill sells these sorts of prints, each one has a story behind the phrase, and he even devised a book full of these posters all explaining the stories behind them.
My favorite is the phrase is ‘I like t what is it? I particularly like this one because it sums up a lot of what we see. We say we like it but when asked why we can’t really pin point it. It was just likable, aesthetically appealing to the eye.
The idea of using a letterpress appeals to me, it’s not something I have done before but the effects that can come from it are really interesting. It’s something I want to try and incorporate into my work, for example I have the idea of stamping phrases onto my work to do with what I am producing, to do with the need for acceptance.
Perhaps creating a number of posters and the link being the title every human needs acceptance’
Craig Ward
Craig ward is a typographer who has done a lot of work for commercial use. I wanted to look at his work because I think the diversity of the techniques he uses is brilliant.
I myself want to create a type of awareness campaign about how we are seeking acceptance from other constantly and it defines what we do no matter who we are and what we believe in. My idea is to have different posters showing this message however different they are they will be joined by the phrase ‘every human seeks acceptance’ in typography. I want to look into his work as I want to try some of his techniques in my experimenting for example, printing, cut outs, using materials and digital photography.
I saw the upraised typography and although digital I thought about the possibility of doing this in reality to show the desperation for acceptance, reaching out to grab it. Being big and bold in your face to make sure viewers understand the idea.
Josh Brill
Great series of animal illustrations created by Josh Brill; under the art and design label Lumadessa.
“The Flora Fauna collection is a cataloguing of the design identities of plants and animals from around the world. Examining the visual character differences and similarities of species. A field guide of discovery, beginning with birds.”
The reason behind the artists creation is not what I want to focus one here, the way in which these vector digital arts have been put together is something I really like the look of, and I defiantly want to try this in my experimentation, I think this way of working is contemporary as well as fun and it could work in favor of what I have in my head as my final piece.
Recently I have started to really like this digital vector way of working and this is something I want to have influence my work even if its not in my final piece I feel I can benefit from it.
Matie Franchi
This type of vector is slightly more detailed and more messy and undefined. I prefer this vector style, I think it makes things look better actually because the lines look more realistic that straight refined lines.
These pieces by Matie Franchi are part of a series called OXBOW & ROXY. There wasn’t much information on the reasoning behind the work however its obvious its about the life and activities these two characters have and do. I think the backgrounds and added texture is a really nice touch and could be influenced into my work easily.
I also like the pastel colour pallet here; the colors are less saturated than the ones previously by Josh brill. I can say I like both styles but I think this one gives an appropriate look for the location they are in.
In my work I want to make sure the colour are reflective of what I want to portray.
Infographics
Info graphics isn’t something I thought of originally, but looking at some inspiration on various sites I found that they popped up a lot, they could help me with the idea of portraying 7 different characters, and looking at a variety there are many different ways I could do it, more illustrative or with more information etc. although I would do it with less information and more graphics because of the group I am thinking of aiming my work at.
Genis Carreras
This artists take a completely different approach, its something I want to try out to see if it gives the right effect to my final idea, although its simple for some concepts could be really effective but used in the wrong way the effect ad message could be lost and the posters become meaningless and lost.
There were a lot of these in the sequence and I think some are more effective than others, I think the reductionism poster works well because it’s being reduced to 1 circle. The concept is clear where as some were a little harder, these 4 are the ones that were more obvious to me the ones on the other page are some that were harder to relate to and pin down.
