Where the Wild Things Are

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Obsessive Consumption.

Well, let me start with what I have been up to lately....
My school just started last week with many anxieties ... lol cause so many things going on to our campus. The government cut the ( I would say "BIG") budget from our school, actually the whole CSU. Which means, the CSU schools have less money to spend on the education and everything. Therefore, they have to cancel bunch of classes and close the school every other Friday.....what ??? close school every other Friday ???? Yeah.....BUT, not completely close...but close HAHA whatever !!!!

So, is that affect me and my other design students including undergraduate and graduate students ?? Oh hell yeah !!!!
First of all, we have to pay 10 % - 20 % more for our tuition fees but there will be less class than it was !!!! make so many senses huh ?$!@#^#%
Second, the school will not accepting new and transfer students until Fall 2010.....Oh my, we have to face to same design students, dame ideas and styles from them for another one more year !!! We need new students for sharing and opening our eyes with the fresh and new ideas....

By the way, I do not want to complain more about this...I would let it just .......Sigh

Hey!! since the first line there was nothing to do with obsessive consumption !!!!
Alright, here is the thing, I have to come up with ideas for my thesis which I have to propose in the Winter 2010.
Since, I took a class with Prof. Jimmy -Information Design, I am kind of interested in the information design. I would say I am obsessed looking at the visual information no matter how complicated it is. even more, I could not get the massage or the content from that design. I still appreciate the beauty of the color, the composition, the letters and the background.... Background ?? Yeah, Background... why is the background? Because, this canvas gives the balance to the design and to the information underneath that design....take a moment and look at every single design around you, you will see how important of the background and the color of it.
Ok, let's get to the point of obsessive consumption. I will talk about consumption in the capitalism society. I will be documenting and collecting the data of what I consume for a day in a year and might be able to manipulate those information to some sort of and visual graphic which could tell all my story and and contribute to some other prospective international design students.
Hopefully, this idea might be interesting and might leads me to something in the end of the project.... It might be something totally different from the thing that I have mentioned before...Who knows ?

These images caught my attention !!!

weekly wrap up + slash: paper under the knife

whew! it has been a long week so i’m heading out a tiny bit early to work on a side project for d*s (news on that soon!). so i thought it would be nice to start and end the day with beautiful paper projects. these images are from the upcoming exhibition, slash: paper under the knife, at the museum of arts and design. starting in october, the MAD will feature the work of about 50 contemporary artists from 16 countries, including sculpture and large-scale installations. and the best part? during the first week of the exhibition, visitors will also be able to watch several of the artists working on-site to install their piece. so cool- click here for more information. until monday, i hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

from Design Sponge

August 14th, 2009 - 12:30pm

Romanian Traffic Police

Advertising Agency: Mercury 360, Bucharest, Romania
Art Director: Ionut Rusu
Copywriter: Alexandru Malaescu
Creative Group Director: Liviu Turcanu
Published: April 2009

Typography Inspiration Showcase

Typography can be one of the most fascinating elements of design. Whether it’s web design, album art, posters, or any other type of graphic design, typographical inspiration can be a great resource for designers. With that in mind I’ve compiled this collection of beautiful typographical works.

Unloveable

รัก....คำที่มีนิยามและความหมายแตกต่างกันออกไปขึ้นอยู่กับว่าใครเป็นคนให้คำนิยามนั้นๆ
ในที่นี้ผมจะไม่ขอกล่าวถึงรักจากครอบครัว...ซึ่งนั่นแน่นอนว่ารักจากครอบครัวเป็นรักที่บริสุทธิ์ ไม่มีเหตุผลใดมาโต้แย้งได้

บาง คนพยายามเข้าใจความหมายและนัยโดยแท้ของรัก แต่กลับกลายเป็นว่ายิ่งทำความพยายามเข้าใจมันมากเท่าไหร่กลับยิ่งเข้าใจมัน น้อยลง....เหตุผลเหรอ ? หรือใช้เหตุผลกับมันมากไป >>>นั่นก็อาจจะใช่...หรือในทางกลับกัน ในบางสถาณการณ์ เหตุผลที่จะรักก็เป็นสิ่งที่ถูกยกมาเป็นปัจจัยและกลับกลายเป็นประเด็นให้ถก เถียงกัน!

บางคนเข้าใจและให้ความสำคัญกับรักผิดออกไป รักกลับกลายเป็นเครื่องมือ, มาตรวัด หรือดัชนีบ่งบอกค่าอะไรบางอย่าง เช่น การที่ถูกรักโดยคนมากมายนั่นบ่งบอกถึงคุณค่าของตนเอง...!!!!!!!!

Food meets Fashion

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TYPO

The color of your memories.

Advertising Agency: JMC YR, Caracas, Venezuela
Executive Creative Directors: Daniel Ascención, Jairo Gudiño
Creative Director / Copywriter: Maeca Gomez
Art Directors: Francisco Marín, Daniel Ascención
Illustrator: Francisco Marín
Published: July 2008

Glue, Paper, Scissors

Collage-based work by 15 artists from Los Angeles

During April 4-May 23, 2009 at California State University-Los Angeles, the Luckman Fine Arts Complex exhibited a collection of collage-based work by 15 Los Angeles artists, “Glue, Paper, Scissors”. The exhibition included artists Dan Bayles, Mark Bradford, Kent Familton, Joyce Lightbody, Candice Lin, Jason Meadows, Justin Michell, Aaron Morse, Eamon Ore-Giron, Meaghan Reid, Nils Schirrmacher, Alexis Smith, Frances Stark, Rosha Yaghmai, and Brenna Youngblood. “It draws attention to the many-sided ways in which contemporary artists continue to employ collage techniques, juxtaposing objects or images to create new meanings. The collages represented here include experiments in formal composition, the creation of personal narratives, a way of challenging or re-imagining political events. It included popular culture as a way of reflecting upon the juxtapositions present in the Los Angeles landscape.” (www.luckmanarts.org) It was such a great opportunity for me and other students to perceive collage-based works by these contemporary artists in the different techniques and different approaches. Moreover, the exhibition was presented at the Luckman Gallery on our campus and was FREE!
In my opinion, this exhibition was marvelous and impressive. There were diverse styles and techniques used to produce the works of art. Each style represents personal experience and personal preference to communicate its meaning to the audiences. Dan Bayles explores the relationship between art and architecture by mixing photographs, tape, paper, and painting into semi-abstract works. “Eamon Ore-Giron’s engagement with music and sound is a central force in his visual work. By manipulating the graphics or record covers that accompany music, or by appropriating and manipulating lyrics, he draws attention to forms of cultural resistance and improvisation in both music and visual art.” (www.luckmanarts.org) Above all, the art collection from Joyce Lightbody completely grabbed my attention and dragged me into her collage world. “Her collages reveal her long-standing interest in world travel, map-making, music, and poetry. Her pieces often involve national structures—musical, cartographic, and linguistic.” (www.luckmanarts.org)
Joyce Lightbody is a current faculty member at Otis College of Art and Design. She was born in Providence, Rhode Island. She got a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1974. Her works has been selected to exhibit since 1975 in California, New York, Nevada, Texas and Illinois. (www.acmelosangeles.com) After I had walked throughout the exhibition, I had the opportunity to speak with the woman sitting at the front desk of the gallery. She told me a little bit about Joyce Lightbody. The most interesting part was that Joyce Lightbody is also a music composer and stamp collector. Her parallel interests clearly reflect her style and the media that she had used for this collection. Stamps have been collaged to cover the majority part of her works with several meanings depending on what she wants to say through her works. There were seven pieces of collaged work from Joyce Lightbody in the exhibition including Anchored In Deep Water, 2002, Colliope Song, 1998, Play Both Sides, 1997, Tea For Two For One, 2001, Central Hearing for Olivier Messiaen, 2003, Untitled, 1990, and More for the Poets, 1998.
Anchored In Deep Water, 2002 (mixed media collage) is displayed at the left side of her collection. Obviously, the first thing that struck my eyes is the use of several postage stamps to cover the bottom part of the artwork. Numerous shades of blue stamps are used to represent the color of the ocean. In addition, different shades of orange and brown stamps are collaged to be an anchor and chains. These stamps make me think of a journey to different places in the world. Joyce Lightbody used stamps to represent the journey of this beautiful ship. The ship transports from one location to another by dropping the anchor in the ocean where the ship is stopped. Joyce Lightbody wrote the name of the artwork in the middle of this piece with her own handwriting. The fact that she wrote the name of the artwork in this style of lettering makes me categorize her handwriting as one of the typefaces.
Again, in Play Both Sides, 1997 (oil, ink and postage stamps on paper, mounted on wood), she wrote something in the middle right of her artwork with the same typeface. The composition of shape and form in the piece makes the artwork look like a birdhouse. The circular hole on the top of the artwork and the perch in the central part is reminiscent of a birdhouse. Joyce Lightbody also used several bird stamps around the artwork to create a collage. The bird stamps are not only the decoration of this piece, but also provide and imply the meaning to the audiences. I viewed Play Both Sides as a wonderful combination of the colors. I wondered how she combined and collaged different colors from the different stamps so beautifully without competing important element. Further, I realized the meaning of using the stamps of different birds around the artwork and also the composition of the small elements. All the elements were placed in the appropriate position to form a birdhouse. Position in the middle of the artwork, she had painted with blue color and a similar orange color in, Anchored In Deep Water.
Colliope Song, 1998(mixed media) is one out of two pieces that Joyce Lightbody did not use stamps in her artwork. Nevertheless, the audience is able to tell that she created this piece as well. Due to the style of typeface and the combination of the colors, I would give these two apparent factors as her style. The story in this piece is all about her personal interests, which include music and notes. Every single element is a part of the musical symbols. Such as, note lines, quarter note, half note, whole note, bass clef sign, and treble clef sign. Personally, I could not read the musical notes, but I totally believe that the person who can read it will understand the meaning from this piece. I cannot imagine that the musical symbols could be composed beautifully with color and decorations.
By and large, the style of the artwork comes from individual and personal interest. However, the style will be different even if the artists are focusing on the same topic. It depends on their experience and the media that are selected to create and construct their works. Many artists communicate the meaning directly through the elements and pictures. Nevertheless, some of them hide the meanings behind those pictures in order to make the audiences pay special attention to them. In conclusion, I would like to give credit to our University gallery that exhibited an excellent collection from contemporary artists located in Los Angeles. Also providing us an opportunity to appreciate these collections at our university for almost seven weeks. The exhibition was impressive and the collections in the exhibition were varied. We were provided a chance to observe and learn more about fine arts from contrasting views and from different artists.

~Yothsaran (Natt) Rermraksakul

Where is this lovely girl who wrote this poet ????

I can't believe you could make me feel this much.
I can't believe it's like another time I have a crush.
You totally make my day and my night.
I don't know...I just don't want you to be out of my sight.
This might sound weird.. but hopefully it does sound right.

You made me coming a happy girl.
You made me forgetting about all the bad things in the world.
It would be nice if you are around.
This is what is on my mind right one.

Inspiration

Inspiration is the first factor that drives artists and designers’ imaginations and creativities. Artists in a different era have their own and individual ways to get inspired. . Apparently, every single inspiration affects the style of their artwork. For instance, the artists from Baroque were inspired by a religion, their faith and their belief. On the other hand, the natural surrounding inspired expressionists to express their feeling through the canvas. Pop artists were inspired by a consumerism, which refers to an economic and emphasizes on consumption. From decade to another decade, artists have been changing the way of making and creating artworks base on the inspiration and the way they want to communicate to their audiences in term of “ Style”. Why did they change? “The fact is, it wasn’t just another decade. Something did happen.”(Kim Levin 1) If a social structure or activity were changed, it would affect and inspire artists to produce their artwork differently as Kim Levin had written an article a transition from Modernism to Post-modernism. “ Farwell to Modernism”
“We are witnessing that in the past ten years modern art has become a period style, an historical entity.”(Kim Levin 2) Kim Levin mentions about modernism in the very beginning of her article. Modernists emphasized on the methods and principles of science to produce and create art. Most inspiration in this era came from the society and human being. Artists denied the past. They tried to construct new forms by experimenting different ways of painting and designing. Besides, modernists believed in the technological future, believed in scientific objectivity. For instance, art was produced in factories from blueprints. Many museums around the world exhibited several exhibitions, which is mainly about machines and technology. Kim Levin also gives an example of the modernists’ inspirations in 1960s which is considered a period of Pop art. Pop artists embraced the processes of mass production and Minimalism. They showed the audience about the consumerism through their work of arts. Despite of Vietnam, Woodstock, peace marches, and violence, modernism fell apart. (Kim Levin 3) Modernism was slowly replaced by Post-modernism.
“It began with a return to nature. The future has become a question of survival.”(Kim Levin 4) Post-modernists started replacing the steel and plastic objects in the art magazine by natural substance, Photographic images, and real time system. The artists refused nothing from the past and compromised them together. They concerned about moral responsibilities of life. Moreover, technology is not necessary for life anymore. Audiences appreciate art differently depend on his/her own experience. Therefore, post-modernists created art through the context instead of style. Grid, formality, repetition, and ordering were not used to create art in post-modernism.
Whereas, arts from late modernism and post-modernism were the combination between these two styles. Kim Levin mentions about separating late modernist works and post-modernist is not easy. Similarity, late Roman and early Christian art, or late Gothic and early Renaissance, at this junction of period the styles coexisted. (Kim Levin 5) Audiences could have seen arts from late modernism similarly to arts from early post-modernism because the artists shared the same inspirations. Early port-modernists began to be interested in the new way of seeing the world and represent it to the public. They tried to give new experiences of appreciating arts to the audiences. On the other hand, modernists tried to avoid the traditional way of depicting and presenting their opinions by mimicking and reflecting the society. They reminded the audience to think and realize about their society.
Obviously, inspiration is one of the main factors that shape the style of the artists to create arts in the different period of time. As we can see from the significant artists in the history, Johannes Vermeer was inspired by his mistress to paint Girl with a pearl earring, Vincent Van Gogh was inspired by the nature. He painted Starry Night to express his feeling and present the way that he saw this world. The church gave the money to Giotto in order to paint Madonna and Child. This would be his inspiration to paint this painting. However, from the past to present, artists have different inspiration to produce and create arts which depend on what are they interested in, it might be nature, society, religion, education, or human being life. Meanwhile, in the next ten years we might be appreciating a new style of arts in our local gallery.

Inspiration & Motivation

Have you ever thought about your inspiration?

Have you ever thought about your motivation?

Have you ever thought about your imagination?

Have you ever thought about your perception?

Have you ever thought about..............................?

These questions came up to me last week about my inspiration and imagination. I am wondering that one day, I would not able to be inspired by any things. That would be the end of my career and my life.

I need inspiration not only to work and communicate my ideas, but also to live in my real life.

I definitely need inspiration and motivation to do it !!!!!!

Will talk about my motivation later. /:)

I would say.....

This is our second meeting, yet it feels like my finest memory.
You are sweeter than honey. Have you been eating sugar? Syrup? Honey? Sweet&low?
Hey ! I love your ears. They seem so soft. And your hair. It’s like really really nice hair or something.
And your hands, they are like really really small doll hands.
It’s like you live in a doll house. …. Or a small box on soft sand….
I would say…. I fall in love with you….Do you know what I mean ?

Ostrich

Ostrich. The meat that everyone wants to be

The skill designers lack and other small tips

1. What are the basic elements of design? Are there any golden rules?

The three basics are type, image and space. The golden rule is to understand clearly what you intend to communicate. Although it doesn’t sound “graphical,” more design fails for lack of a clear purpose than for any other reason.

2. How do the elements of layout interact? Do you look at headline styles in isolation from, say, image size? Does the relationship depend on the medium?

Nothing happens in isolation. Every element in a visual field is related to every other—this line opens into that space, which is like that shape. The mistake is to not perceive that everything you see is related and interactive.

3. How important is consistency, and what are the best ways to ensure a feeling of identity without becoming boring?

If you’re painting a picture, there’s not much need for consistency. If you’re communicating a company brand, consistency is gospel—same elements, same typefaces, same colors, same relationships, every time they appear in every venue (above). You’ll get bored, but your brand will be strong. Resist the urge to fiddle.

4. What skills do designers lack most?

The most common weakness among all designers is knowledge of typography.

5. What are the differences between laying out a single page and a spread? And how about a longer section?

A single page is about the size of the human head, so everything’s right in front of us, and we see it all pretty much at once. A spread is too wide to see all at once, so our eyes must scan side to side. Same is true of a tabloid and a big computer screen. You must design a big space on two levels—global and local.

6. How do you use layout to control the reader’s eye?

Do you mean . . . . . . like this?

7. What part does color play in layout and typography?

Viewers identify color more quickly than any other attribute. They’re also attracted to or repelled by color more readily than any other attribute. Repellent colors on an otherwise brilliant layout will ruin it and vice-versa.

8. How important is the use of full color?

Full color is how we experience life, so the more “alive” that you want your page to feel, the more important full color is.

9. How do you accommodate for images if you have to plan a layout before you’ve seen them?

Use a grid. Without the actual photos you can control only the size and shape of an image. This is usually a heavy compromise, suitable mainly for newspapers.

10. Are there any errors that would give someone away as not being a professional layout artist?

An amateur is likely to use more fonts or more decorative fonts or apply embellishments like shadows and outlines. An amateur is likelier to put borders around things. An amateur is likelier to even out the “gray,” making the page elements similar in size and spacing. From a pro you’re likelier to see very bold moves and high contrasts of color, size and position.

From Before&After magazine

http://www.mcwade.com/DesignTalk/2009/04/the-skill-designers-lack-and-other-small-tips/

I Believe in Advertising

I saw these printed ads on the website " I believe in Advertising" which is really good example for advertising design students. For some reason, these ads remind me to think about how hard to create a super awesome advertising, Also, how hard to come up with a perfect copy to communicate the image of the ad.

45 Amazing Type Faces

Typography is not just about choosing a nice typeface, actually it's much more than that, it's how we arrange the types in the layout choosing the right size, weight and type of font to transmit the message in the easiest and more understandable way. Now, imagine some designers take that to a next step, mixing typography with portraits.

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My works from Information Design-Winter 2009

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