This is part of Gavin Lucas' work on 'The Layzell Brothers'. This is his work in the creative review of which he has been rewarded by the front cover for his illustration for a 60s psychedelia-influenced film for Adam Buxton. This is his article in te creative review.
Saturday, 11 January 2014
Thursday, 9 January 2014
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| David Hockney Highway |
David Hockney is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer. He lives in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, and Kensington, London.
Hes an important contributor to the Pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century.
He has won many awards for his work such as;
Johnmores painting award (1967)
Companion of hounor (1997)Royal Acedemic
Order of merit (2012)
Wednesday, 8 January 2014
Product Design
This a great product design that many people will know of and probably use day in day out. Mouses are used for the common computer and should fit your hand in order for its primary use the search, click and use the computer. This in particular mouse is ergonomically made for great comfort and use for the user. It's unique shape and design fit with the average hand to make sure of complete comfort with use and ensure a non long term affect of use of the product towards the hands development.
Other things that are made purposely are taken as a natural thing nowadays due to there being a current need for complete comfort and max use and potential for users. the chair is a good example for it having a supporting back when in use and usually a comforting layer or cushion.
I in particularly like the ergonomics of a iPhone due to it being able to fit easily into someones hand and the thumb to be able to reach every part of the screen on the iPhone.
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| Book covers designed by Penguin Books |
The design of these book covers incorporate a landmark or trait of a particular city such as the 'Leaning tower of Pisa', the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the 'big red bus' of London. The use of one of the letters to make an image stand out from the others makes this piece easy to the eye, yet show how the letter looks or portrays and image iconic to the place and shows a simple use of design to move the letters and change the shape and length and angle. The change in colour also makes the images more understandable.
I really like these book covers because its so simple yet many people would never have thought to have done so, it uses simple colours laid out on a blank page to clearly have the full affect of the tittle.
Cover designs are probably the hardest thing for designers to design because it should show the heart and the soul of the book in one single image. Amazing book cover designs make us think, laugh, cry, smile, or contemplate about life. We all know that in the past 75 years, Penguin has created some of the most iconic book covers in history. They've pretty much covered everything in literature. Such as old classics like 'Sherlock Holmes', 'Robin Hood' and many others.
Tuesday, 7 January 2014
I believe ten steps to this piece of work were;
I think that the first step was too get appropriate models for the cover and photograph,
after that create a suitable background for the style in 1996, he did this by probably using the gradient tool on photoshop,
he would have also added another layer for the background for the black.
After that he would have probably used the gradient tool probably to make the model women rainbow coloured.
But probably during this the photo shoppers had to merge other images taken such as the front woman and the man of which have been adapted from different images.
Also from the original photo there are boxes underneath the bad as a stand and have been taken out by using the lasso tool.
I think he would of taken the photo of the man in colour and then thought that changing the contrast of the picture, he would of done this by selecting the image and editing the colour of it on the 'image' selection.
When Saville had created the image he would of got to the part of incorporating the text, first he would have chosen a type face that the band had chosen already and would have used for there career, the other piece of text was developed by the pen/pencil tool probably last minute to show the CD cover name.
after that create a suitable background for the style in 1996, he did this by probably using the gradient tool on photoshop,
he would have also added another layer for the background for the black.
After that he would have probably used the gradient tool probably to make the model women rainbow coloured.
But probably during this the photo shoppers had to merge other images taken such as the front woman and the man of which have been adapted from different images.
Also from the original photo there are boxes underneath the bad as a stand and have been taken out by using the lasso tool.
I think he would of taken the photo of the man in colour and then thought that changing the contrast of the picture, he would of done this by selecting the image and editing the colour of it on the 'image' selection.
When Saville had created the image he would of got to the part of incorporating the text, first he would have chosen a type face that the band had chosen already and would have used for there career, the other piece of text was developed by the pen/pencil tool probably last minute to show the CD cover name.
Monday, 6 January 2014
Illustration Artists
Illustration Artists
Chris Dent
This illustrator is
fascinated with urban environments. He graduated from Camberwell College of
Arts, soon after he became the co-founder of a new collective HYBRID BUNNY this
was formed from students of the College get to show off their portfolios. He
has worked with many different well-known companies such as XBOX and PUMA.
He now works within England, London while he
works for Noise. He has also done 8 solo shows in London and Paris.
Tommy
Penton
As an illustrator he is best
known for his cover artwork in the music industry. Most of his work is
promotional such as advertisement posters. He has done work for British
Airways, Virgin, Kenco, Fabric, CIMA & Edinburgh Film Festival.
He published Pentagram ‘Pen and Mouse’ the
picture book. His fresh but intelligent approach to perspective art shows a
bright and vivid style with a gentle sense of humor.
Olivier Kugler
London based reportage illustrator. Born in Simmozhiem
in the Black forest. Interests include French/Belgian bande desinees and Otto
Dix. He visited Birkina Faso to view the African village’s way of life by doing
this he draws their lives showing he is a observational drawer. He then
developed and presented a guide to the royal wedding.
Most of his work is very realistic and is taken from real life
situations.
Alexander Calder
He is an American artist who mainly creates sculptures from wires. He
mainly develops human faces in the form of wires but only one wire is used per
face he also creates animals and many other things from wire.
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