Development Photos

I have went on to collect some more images of Famous London attractions Culture and notiable landmarks whilst doing this I found that it drew me closer to those that have been photographed and also that of the buildings involved. It makes you stop and think who they are, what their lifestyles are, in terms of the landmarks it makes you wonder how they where made, who's the architect, what difficulties the builders faced. I found this with most the buildings and Landmarks in London it makes you think deeply into the history behind it and I discovered this whilst taking pictures as a result of this making posters with these images will give my outcomes that much more meaning it will also make the viewers think a little bit more deeply in trying to find a Meaning.

Proposal for exam piece

For My exam piece I hope to design and create 5 posters around my chosen city which is London as I have access to this city very easily. I hope to create these posters with a variety of different materials and mediums. each poster will have its own meaning to it e.g. Work London, Play London, Enjoy London, View London and Hear London. each poster will be based around the theme of the word it is given. there will be a series of designs created that have London Landmarks and properties exclusive to London that will be recognizable in the designs.The techniques I hope to take forward are Lino printing, Computer aided designs in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, Line drawings that are finished in Illustrator and a form of 3D design which maybe be tangled 3D or of that which can be seen in 3d with 3D glasses. I hope to make my designs in a way that it makes the viewer stop and take a moment to appreciate it and ask questions on how it is made. I will be experimenting with these designs and techniques to help me prepare for the Exam as it will not be easy to create all these designs in the short space of time without practice and precision to time keeping.

Intial Ideas

These are my initial designs whats important about these are the Artist that I have looked at and developed an interest for. For the development of my Ideas I wish to make more than five different outcomes to develop my ideas that I can then take forward for my Finalised designs I found that these tasks where free to my design even though I have developed them using another artist. these task where very time consuming and I will have to take this into consideration when doing my development of ideas so That by the Time I get to my Final outcome it will not take alot of time to complete them. I believe that this will be the key to my success when producing the final outcomes in the exam as I am creating five different outcomes of the same city in different mediums and Materials.

Chris dent analysis

 At the pick me up art fair I came across Chris dents work and it seemed to grow on me in such a way that it was the only form of work that I can remember from the entire exhibition vividly, I spoke to Chris Dent and found out that his composition where hand drawn and it toke a long while to sketch out the scenes of the entire city scape, he also informed me that the city scape is based around new york city. I believe that Dent's work works so well and relates to what I want to achieve for my final outcome however the sketches are very time consuming and to produce 5 posters like this will be goal that would be very hard to achieve in the small time limit available. i believe that I will bring these studies into my own design and develop it to produce a final outcome to the highest possible standard.

Pick Me Up Exhitbition

I found the pick me up art Fair to be very useful. It had a lot of insight to it that helped me to decide on my final design. I found that their was a lot of art work that fits with the illustration brief the 3 artist that stood out for me where Chris Dent, Zelbot and David Sparshatt. I had the opportunty to meet some of the artist how produced these wonerdfull outcomes and had some first hand information on how these outcomes where made. there was a variety of techniques, and theme to the art work on display I found that the style that suited me the most was that of Chris Dent I believe that I will use his work to develop one of my own outcomes.

David Sparshott
Slum Rule for new statesman

David Klein artist analysis

I was researching new techniques and came across David Klien's work that he did for TWA jets for flights to New York City the artist has thought hard about the elements that he has put into the poster e.g. he has put the statue of Liberty and an abstract scene with lights and alot of movements these are symbolise that link directly to New York as it's about the Famous Landmark and the saying that the city never sleeps. In the images above. These posters are made using gouache and mixed media. I think the poster works well as the bright gouache colors are brought out on the dark surfaces causing it to contrast i also find that the posters are not painted lifelike and there is a lot of symbolism in the typography e.g. the typography in the first image is the shape of  New York. There is a lot more to understand in this image I believe that the target audience of these posters would be to that of late teens to adult/ people who are more likely to travel; the New york city destinations are of that, that wouldn't generally  interest kids. after viewing these images for a while they start to make you feel like you should be on a tourist trip to these places as a more mature form of Leisure.
i believe that these poster work well as they get straight to the point with their audience the types of activities that will be available and it shows some in sight as to what to expect from the Visit, however I didn't like the fact that the target audience was so limited but this could be becuase of the fact that the company these posters were made for is a private jet company and as a result you get the idea of the type of Lifestyle the individuals that use these services would be interested in. I would like to use this artists work to develop my final design as i love the overall poster it gives some many emotions just from the look of it.I believe that this type of design on my final design would bring about a high standard final outcome.

Lino analysis

The characteristics of Lino are:

Smooth, Durable, Bendy, Tough, Flat, hard, Thin, Reinforced, You can cut it, Carve it 

how to make a print :
after cutting the Lino you choose from a selection of inks, roll the ink onto the Lino block, Place it on the albion Press as accurately as possible place you choice of paper on top of you Lino Block place the sheet connected to the albion press, press the Lino block against the paper using the albion press remove the block and peel off the paper and your Lino print should be on the Paper.

The potentials of Lino cutting is that you can carve into it with various gauge tools very easily, too make your image and make Prints, emboss and rubbings and has the ability to make reduction prints. the quality of the Lino was very tough sturdy and has been reinforced on one side for extra sturdiness. The Lino prints onto a variety of different surfaces. It is easy for simple designs or big sized pieces, however using Lino does present a few limitations, cuts made on the Lino are not reversible you are not able to print on a 3d surface, a lot of preparation has to be done to get the right texture to work on into the Lino, it maybe hard to cut at times depending on the tools in use allows without a bench hook this made cause safety hazards as the tools are sharp and may easily cut human skin. Post using the Lino the cleaning process is very demanding and it does take some time to clean up, if the barrier cream isn't applied properly then it may be a task to get off your hands and it gets under your finger nails and takes a while ti get it off.the white spirit fumes may cause breathing problems if the room isn't well ventilated. it does take along time to dry wen using oil based inks it is also time consuming but at the end of the day it produces beautiful prints.