Jason
I was a pupil in Uru Mānuka and this blog is where I shared my learning.
Monday 15 August 2022
Art - Update and Week 4 Do Now
Monday 25 July 2022
Art - Catch-Up Blogposts (Blog post 7)
Repetition
Positive and negative space
Framing
Cropping
Scale
Layering
Tuesday 28 June 2022
Art - Pragnanz and Closure (Photoshoot)
Here is an Art blog post that showcases my photoshoots. These photoshoots are to help me gather real-life inspiration for my design work. I tried taking photos that related to my art theme somewhat. Here we have photos that are mostly landscaped with some photos featuring the road, as that is an element that is present in my design work. I choose landscape cause I thought that might help with the theme of being abstract as it is somewhat minimal, and doesn't seem to convey any messages behind the picture. Although editing might've helped convey the feeling a bit more.
Anyway, let's talk about the Pragnanz and Closure aspect of these photoshoots.
Pragnanz essentially means the law of simplicity and order.
I tried conveying this by creating a 4x3 grid with each row having its own 'theme'. e.g. in the top row we have pictures that depict the countryside, in the middle, we have a beach, and lastly, at the bottom, we have a town surrounded by water. Every single picture also features the sky as well. This was my way of trying Pragnanz. I don't know if this is a good example but yeah.
Closure Is where if there's a break in a object, our brains try to fill in the empty spaces for us to create a smoother object.
I don't know if closure really applies to any of these photos. However, maybe the white background for the pictures might be. The background creates a grid because the placement of the pictures is even and symmetrical.
Friday 20 May 2022
Art - Annotated Examples (Blogpost 5)
This blog post shows my annotated sketches on select artists from different periods of time and an artist from New Zealand. We have Traditional, Contemporary, and Aotearoa works which I have roughly sketched and annotated.
I have annotated these on the notebook itself, but I think it may be hard to read, so I'll rewrite them (better) here
- The focal point of the work would be the Japanese letters. They contrast the other typography on the artwork because it is bigger and bolded.
- I don't think they are exactly leading lines but, there are these outlines of these boxes that contain the text. This is probably to draw our eyes to the text within them. The outlines of the box also contrast with the background
- The color choice of this work is white and then a bunch of vibrant colors. The white makes up the typography and the outline of these boxes for the text. The vibrant colors however make up the background. The vibrant colors on the background feel very unintentional as it looks like a spill of colors. The white also contrasts the background to make the text pop out more I think.
Traditional: Saul Bass
- The focal point would be the clover in the middle as it's centered and contrasts everything else.
- There are only two colors present in this work, Red, and Black. Red is most likely the main color as the red element is in the center of the work and it does contrast everything around it. The black is the other 2 designs on the work which surround the red to create a stronger contrasting effect.
- The repetitive element could be the hearts within the outline of the clover. The 3 different hearts are just different variations of rotations to make up the outline of the clover.
Aotearoa: Stuart Geddes
- The focal point of this work would be the lines on the right side guiding us to the center of the artwork.
- The colors used in this work feel 'realistic'. The color palettes sort of make a cold environment with lights and shadows.
- There isn't really a repetitive element in this work, but maybe the use of lights and shadows can be one.
- The typography used in this has a very minimalistic theme. The font and the color choice help with the minimalist feel. There are two texts 'groups' in this work, and they are very vastly spaced. One at the top of the work and one at the bottom; this might be a use of hierarchy as the top would capture our attention first then the bottom.
Wednesday 27 April 2022
Art - Catch-Up on Do Nows
School Holidays let's go. Homework time
So in Art class, I'm quite behind on some tasks (Do Nows). Since the school holidays are in progress; I'll use this chance to do some catch-up work.
Week 6
- Redraw your company name in different styles
Here are some initial quick concepts of trying to draw my company name (Abstracity) in different styles. (These were already drawn pretty early on but I had not shared them until now). To be honest I reckon that the drawings above are quite bad and can be improved. Although I believe around this time I was still trying to figure out the identity of my company. I will probably revisit this and draw more up-to-date and higher-effort concepts.
- Take Notes on Aaron Draplin's Logo Design Challenge Video
This was actually done as a separate blog post, I believe it's under this exact blog post too. Probably won't repost it here as it does take quite a large amount of space.
-Redraw the First letter of your Company Name in different styles
This goes the same as the other drawing task above. It had been drawn around a time when I was still trying to figure out what exactly my company is. I would like to revisit this in the future and improve it. For now, I'll keep this here to remind myself what I had started with and ended with.
Week 7
Here is my recreated Moodboard in Google Drawings. I don't think I've shared my previous mood board though. The previous mood board was pretty bland and boring as it was just 3 separate google slides. For this one, I just kept it simple enough while still being somewhat pleasing to look at.
Here is what I'm currently working on. I'm just to incorporate what you would see in a Cityscape/Urban setting into something that reflects apparel-related. My idea here is to sort of make a suit shape out of shapes to keep in the theme of being abstract. However, my teacher had suggested an idea where I make the center of my design which is supposed to be the suit's tie into a centerline. This centerline also takes perspective into account for a more engaging design. My next steps for this are probably trying to refine it. The side shapes of the logo also look like buildings which is a potential design choice as well.
-My Portfolio with the addition of the mood board
Week 8
Here is all the illustration work I've done so far. It's just logo design at this point, and very early concepts as well.
Week 9
Week 10
This tasks ask us to draw 6 new logos again. This is probably because we now have a better understanding of what our company is. Since I have developed/illustrated a potential logo; this would probably serve as further inspiration for me. I do like Numbers 1, 3 and 6 though.
Wednesday 13 April 2022
Art - Aaron Draplin Notes
Previously in Art, we had watched a video from an established designer. We watched his process of designing to learn/ get some hints on how to create an effective design. I have taken some notes that I'll like to share from the video of Aaron Draplin explaining his design process.
Here's the Video: Aaron Draplin Takes on a Logo Design Challenge
Here's my notes:
With Logo Design start off by writing your company name over and over in different ways like lowercase and uppercase. This is to get a feel of what you're working with. Knowing what your client/business does can give you a context of what kind of color palette would be appropriate to work with. It can also give you an idea of what your design would also look like.
After sketching around in your fields notebook to generate ideas you then create them by designing software. Starting off simple can help create the foundation. Once you have developed a design; you should duplicate it as you may want to go a step back just in case or to remember how you started off. After you made a prototype design that you like you should experiment with its size to see its feel from different approaches.
You should also work with other designs you sketched in your fields notebook rather than work with the one you've gotten. You could even incorporate the two together to create more variety-wide designs.
You should also work with other design elements like the background/materials the design is going to be on. Working with typography is also another element you should experiment with.
Friday 8 April 2022
Art - Poster Concept
In Art, We had begun to research the poster component of our designs. This can be seen in an earlier blog post which shows 6 different posters that I had manually selected due to preference. That was essentially an 'inspiration' to help us find a type of design we would want for our posters. From that research, I'm most likely going to stick to geometric shapes with bright vibrant colors, and a theme of minimalism and potentially contrast too. I'll upload my concept designs on posters when I believe they are at a level where I'm satisfied with for concepts.