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Colour and Material Tests for my FMP.

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Working on a digital wireframe for my FMP, to the make the storyline more clear.

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The start to my Final Major Project with a storyboard to tell of story questioning dreaming. 

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Everything in this story from framing to the mood of illustration throughout the film was inspiring and aspirational to communicate stories this way.

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Went to the Edward Bawden Exhibition and absolutely loved his use of colour, sense of composition and humor in all his work. 

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A wonderful animation in lino cut style, by Tate Modern, London.

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Lino cut experiment of an old sketch from the dream project.

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Screen printing experiment of a travel sketch.

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Meeting the animator of this beautiful movie, who took us through this journey of making this film, has made me realize the potential of collaboration, the outcomes of mixing styles and more importantly the need to noting down ideas.

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Collaboration Unit -Zine Project

This collaborative zine was an opportunity for me to work with a group interested in subjects closer to my topic of interest - Dreams.

The interesting aspect of making a zine is that there are no set rules to it, hence the makers decide as to how well the content can be communicated. Zines are naturally designed in a way to look casual and closer to the marker, but with this assignment, as we had more contributors to the same book, we found the need to keep it a lot uniform as it could distract the reader from the content of the zine.

We decided on a theme that represents all topics equally and just by changing the internal topics by different colours. The cover was also designed representing all topics on a broader viewpoint and also leaving it a little intriguing like the topics are.

As a team, we faced a few challenges in communication since my collaborators aren't fluent in the english language, but good teamwork, quick learning abilities and respect for creative freedom helped us execute the project with ease. Also, since one among my team members came from a printmaking background, her understanding in the subject helped us make faster decisions on how the final output looked.

The cultural diversity made for an interesting dynamic as design and art is approached differently too and to bring that into a group project definitely teaches you how it adds value and more importantly you learn a lot from your teammates through this process. No amount of reading.

Especially in creative industries where larger projects have bigger teams, there are people with different work ethics and views that work towards a common goal. Small exercise’s like these help you understand how to best utilise time from the resources we have within the team, which builds trust and confidence between members of the group.

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On the 8th of March, a friend and I visited a show of Andreas Gursky’s Photography, at the Harward Gallery near South Bank Centre in London.

It took me back by the scale at which the photographer helps us experience the world. It makes you realise how just by zooming out a little we see the vastness of this universe we’ve created for ourselves and nature has to offer.

These photographs are definitely something that goes beyond just having a good eye and more importantly leaves a hard-hitting impact on the viewers and maybe even make them question their contribution to this unending planet. 

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Internet:

Popp was born in Nuremberg. His work often uses technology,[1] resulting in interdisciplinary ventures which reach across the boundaries of art and science.[2] An example of Popp’s work is Bitfall (2005):[3] a machine which displays words selected from the internet via drops of falling water in precise configuration, each word visible only for a second.[4] A bit.fall installation was at the London 2012 Olympic Park under the footbridge between the main entrance and stadium, the words generated using water from the Waterworks River were chosen at random from internet news feeds.[5]

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An interactive light and sound installation that I saw at the winter light’s festival at canary wharf 2017. The concept behind this was just so simple yet indulging.

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The shape of content ( Book )

I had the pleasure of reading this wonderful book and below are a few things that really stuck with me:

One's education naturally begins at the cradle. But it may perfectly well begin at a later time too. Be born poor...or be born rich...it really doesn’t matter. Art is only amplified by such diversity. Young people to both origins may or may not become marvellous artists. That depends upon factors having little to do with circumstances of birth. Whether they will become significant artists seems to depend upon a curious combination of biology and education working upon each other in a fashion too subtle for the eye to follow.

Attend a university if you probably can. There is no content of knowledge that is not pertinent to the word you will want to do. But before you attend university work at something for a while. Do something. Get a job in a potato filed, or work as a grease monkey in an auto repair shop. But if you do work in a field do not fail to observe the look and feel of the earth and of all the things that you handle. Yes, even potato. Or in the auto shop, the smell of oil and grease and burning rubber. Paint of course, but if you have to lay aside painting for a while, continue to draw. Listen to all conversations and be interested in them and take all seriousness seriously. Never look down upon anything or anyone as not worthy of notice. In college or out of college, read. And form opinions! 

                                              Wonderful Conclusion

The potato field and auto repair shop remain without quality or awareness or sense of community until they are turned into literature by Thomas Wolfe or into art by a Van Gogh.

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Chroma by @samtaylorillustrator at the house of vans.

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Was at @samtaylorillustrator installation at the @houseofvans the other day and man, was it amazing. He experiments with colour, sound and space through a ball put for people to play around in and also a few illustrations that change colours which make the whole space a extremely stimulation expericne. I for one, took back so much both as a viewer and a designer.

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Everything that we could see was made out of atoms. Everything. And if we understand that,we could begin to be artists.- stuff matters