GRAFFITTI

Brief description:
Graffiti is a kind of public art in which the artist drawing images, icons and properly impressive font on such public surface like wall along the street. This term first came from an Italian word about the practice of posting message, news and announcement on wall in the part, when technology has not support even a fax machine.
My argument:
Graffiti should be considered as an art form. Talking about this, it is suggested to recall how it has been developed to the present. It is thought to be an antisocial behaviour of some individual or group in order to gain attention. Then, during the 20th century, graffiti again emerged in relation to "gangs" in Western... There are more and more stories about this issue, however, from my point of view, graffiti is an art form because it is one's or a group's expression drawn with real inspiration. There's no client, no specific purpose because it's all about feelings and the need of expressing something via drawing. So, it's art.
Yes, it has become very popular all over the world nowadays. However, people notice graffiti as a western style and it still stays as its origin. It can be well known but it can not be applied to other countries or used for representing other culture because the intertextuality is already stable when the audience looking at a graffiti work. I agree we can use it to draw on public place as an international style of wall decoration but it won't be able to represent any of our Vietnamese culture it could only be an imitation.

Reference:
http://www.answers.com/topic/graffiti
http://www.lifescapesmagazine.com/article.php?subaction=showfull&id=1160785512&archive=&start_from=&ucat=28
http://www.graffiti.org/

Doodle and Color

Once chatting with one of my friend, he chose the IM called "Doodle"...and i just "Wow", it's a painting interface in which you can draw whatever you want and Y!M will send every single line and curve you make to your friend immediately, moreover, you and your friend and paint at the same time. I love this one, you can find it the same with the painting tool in you computer.

And, yes, it raise some feeling and inspiration in me, then i've drown some image like you see above.^^

I like all types of color, there's no color is "not beautiful", the problem is that how you can make it presents its beauty! So, i love playing around with them, i like the contrast and colorful. Sometime, i recognise that, putting colors randomly does produce "something" nice. Maybe, that's the reason why, looking at the image painted by little children, i was shocked because of their choice of colors, innocent but really nice and impressive!

Updated Logo for my brother...

Content: Clean and Neat represent the credibility. Circle represents the guarantee in service with the letter "T" in the middle is the beginning letter of the owner's given name.

Color: Contrast between Red (hot) and Grey(Cold).

Shape and Typography are complamentary.

Contrast

If you're one of my friend, you should have known that i'm kind of "addicted" to editting my own photos. From the very first steps of cutting and arranging, now i have more and more experience to go much further. Yes, i can somehow make a picture cautch by an average mobile look like as if it's cautch by a well technical camera...It's all about photoshop. ^^

Recently, i start looking at the sense, taste and feel of each photo. Then, i find out, technical aspects can help develop the idea. For instance, these days, i especially like the idea of make all the photo in black and white or almost B&W, then put one bright color as a emphasis within the image. It does make contrast and make the photo more interesting.

How i did it:

-Image>Hue/Saturation>Brightness/Contrast/Color Balance

-Tool>Select>Brush>Blur>Burn

LOGO design (Part 1)

PLAN
Team Name : Wild Team
Company Name: Haragei

1. Daily Blogging to keep track of what's going on in the team work.

2. What to do:
+ Research relevant terms in the paper
+ Answering these question:
- What's the company?
- What're their characteristic?
- What do they sell?
- Who are their competitors?
+Brainstorm to come up with a Slogan
+Create a matrix table of relevant symbols (Nguyen & Dung)
- From the table, think of as many logos as possible (Group)
- Choose the best at last (Group meeting)
- Illustrate it! (Lam)

3. Presentation suggestion:
+Make real samples of Logo

4. Deadlines for each aim:
+Research complete ( Monday week 8)
+Meeting, define and solve problems (Monday week 8)
+Logo complete (Wednesday week 8)
+Practise for the presentation (Thursday week 8)

My music

This is a piece of music i've made recently with Garage Band software. I like its rythm though, it makes my heart beats much faster.
Audio: 256 Kbps, 44,100 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo.
4/4 beats.

The instruments used here are almost guitars with a drum as a paln for the whole track.

Emotion and feel: well, i was thinking about a visual clip while making this, the time should be around noon... on an empty street ( messive with stuffs)...some guitar player holding their guitars under the rich sun...Some thing like that ^^. After all...it's hot!

An art work of Michael Dudok De Wit

An art work of Michael Dudok De Wit

FATHER and DAUGHTER

My opinion? The soundtrack says it all...

No subtitle, no words are said but the viewers are really given a story with real feelings as well as the emotions. At first, when i saw this one, i was almost crying. Don't ask me why but this piece of movie really does Something!

Good experiences seeing this though...

I like the music, ofcourse! The movements are so fine and smooth, the colors raise many senses in me. The feels of oldness, sadness, emptiness but they're all memorisable.

Running Time: 8 minutes 30 seconds

Year of Release: 2000

Production: Cloudrunner Ltd, UK, and CineTe Filmproductie bv, Holland

Techniques: Pencil, charcoal and software application

ANIMOScript, Design and Animation: Michael Dudok de Wit

Other Contributors: Normand Roger (Composer), Claire Jennings and Willem Thijssen (Producers), Arjan Wilschut (Main Co-Animator), Jean-Baptiste Roger (Sound), and Alistair Becket and Nic Gill (Technical Directors)

Awards include: Independent Film Award, Ottawa International Animation Festival, 2000; Grand Prize, Cinanima Animation Festival, 2000; Grand Prix Narrative Films, Holland Animation Film Festival, 2000; and Best International Animated Film, Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, 2001

Source : http://www.awn.com/oscars01/animfather.php3

Art nouveau vs Psychedelic art

Art nouveau (c.1880 to 1910)
Art nouveau is considered as the first modern style in 20th century. The way this school work is to stop looking back to the previois style happening and leaving tracks in the history. More over raise its own inspiration from things and creatures around, particular in the natural world. It features sinuous, curving designs, usually based on an image or theme taken from nature. A central motif of art nouveau is the 'whiplash' curve.

With the elegant expression in design, Nouveau is widely applied in the architecture.

Style:
-Sinuous, elongated, curvy lines
-The whiplash line
-Vertical lines and height
-Stylised flowers, leaves, roots, buds and seedpods
-The female form - in a pre-Raphaelite pose with long, flowing hair
-Exotic woods, marquetry, iridescent glass, silver and semi-precious stones

Some examples:

Designed in 1899, the Porte Dauphine station exhibits Hector Guimard's only surviving enclosed edicule of the Paris Métro.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_nouveau
The Peacock Skirt, by Aubrey Beardsley, (1892).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_nouveau

After Mucha (Kelly Haggard)

www.kineticarts.org/images/nouveau_irises.jpg

P22 Art Nouveau Cafe

www.identifont.com/samples/p22/ArtNouveauCafe.gif

Psychedelic art

"Psychedelic art is art inspired by the psychedelic experience induced by drugs such as LSD, Mescaline, and Psilocybin . The word "psychedelic" (coined by British psychologist Humphrey Osmond) means "mind manifesting". By that definition all artistic efforts to depict the inner world of the psyche may be considered "psychedelic". However, in common parlance "Psychedelic Art" refers above all to the art movement of the 1960s counterculture. Psychedelic visual arts were a counterpart to psychedelic rock music. Concert posters, album covers, lightshows, murals, comic books, underground newspapers and more reflected not only the kaleidoscopically swirling patterns of LSD hallucinations, but also revolutionary political, social and spiritual sentiments inspired by insights derived from these psychedelic states of consciousness."( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_art)
Ok, that's what they theorically say. Overall, Psychedelic art and design is the term represented to a brand new shool of art which is the mix of the previous styles. It's partly considered as an early art model in Post-modernism period. So, we can realize the complxity and surrealistic in each artwork. Most of the artist when stepping into this school have to force themselves to be "psychedelic" in order to truely express the spirit of this school. However, as its tendency to collect the oldies and turn them into a new whole, there's usually more repeats than new ideas.

Style:
-Kaleidoscopic, fractal or paisley patterns
-Bright and/or highly contrasting colors
-Extreme depth of detail or stylization of detail.
-Morphing of objects and/or themes and sometimes collage
-Inclusion of phosphenes and other entoptic motifs
-Repetition of motifs

Some examples:

Santana's Abraxas (album) cover by Mati Klarwein

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_art

Land of Psychedelic Illuminations: example of fractal influence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_art

PNP" 2007 WILLIAM JAMES TAYLOR JUNIOR

http://www.psychedelic-art.net/gallery-album_Kaleidescape.html?PHPSESSID=d1e119d1c0c8b2c6ec67a0882fdcf514

Conclusion:

Each of these two shools of art did not Only occur in one specific field but generally cover all the fields of the period it appeared. In my opinion, they are the two independent shools of art but overlapping each other at the point of expression style. Both shools base on freedom in expressing the artists' ideas and quite complicated as the use of curves and free lines. However, Art Nouveau gives the viewer the feels of comfort, gentle and neat.On the other hand, Psychedelic seems to be more complex and headache. This is partly based on their choices in color, while Art Nouveau tends to uses light and bright colors to show off the feels of modern, clean and neat, Psychedelic prefers using the group of hot, heavy to create some kind of obsession (maybe in both positive and negative ways), overall, to design an impressive experiences.

Nouveau and Psychedelic arts' elements could be applied in the contemporary design tendency, anyway, just as some length. In my opinion, i like the clean, neat and gentle feelings of Nouveau and extremely shocked with the "insance" expression and impressively hot colors of the Psychedelic. The combination of these characteristics should produce a new interesting school, i guess.

Expressionism

If design is to give information, may it be also the medium to express self feeling and emotion? Because i think the expression in some cases can be read. So, it gives information as well.

Here are the two image i made to post on my personal blog recently: one with the real image of meself editted in Photo shop and one is an illustration of what coming and staying in my mind these days.

Both of them, in term of emotion and feeling, are the expression of empty, loneliness, cold and the desire of hiding from something. I've created them in the same mood. Most of the time, i love to find myself at some specific most emotional situation to base on it and give an expression via graphic design both in editting and creating new stuffs.






Strings Of Pearls


Does this sound "weird"? This image has been appearing in my mind for full week, though there's a lot of things to do, i can't wait to make it real. And this is what you see, exactly what i've thought of. So you can say, seeing this, seeing my mind.


Some words i'm thinking of this:
...aristocratic...
...elegant...
...cold...
...mysterious...
...confusing of hiding or showing...

but still, i feel very comfortable looking at this...

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What is my main interest?

I have a lot of interests from listening to all kinds of music, seeing movies on TV alone, reading books and imagining, walking down town and seeing new things, going online to explore such a colorful illusive world being updated everyday...Well, it seems like im about to follow an artist way because i prefer doing things in a different way and i'm not very happy following the others' opinion, really.

In design, i truely love graphic designing, it's always such a huge new world for me to find out more. This wonderful field is really influenced by my other interests, they obviously can raise in me new ideas.

Illustrator is my favorite tool.

If there's any influence from other to me, i would say, it's my brother and japanese manga. My very brother was the one who taught me how to draw my very first lines. And, then i kept practising very day imitating those japanese manga style in comic books i used to have. After a few years, i can draw properly fine. Next, as my bother gain his skill into a more realistic way of drawing, i did the same thing and developed my skill also. It was such a long time...Until now, i find out through cartoon movies i've seen, websites i've visited, books i've read... cartoon is a really interesting field and start getting inspiration.