MAGAZINE 3

Magazine 2

Second magazine design made in photoshop

Landscape Final Piece

My final piece for landscapes was inspired by Andrew Wyeth and also David Hockney. 

Andrew Wyeth:  I really liked the techniques that Andrew used, mainly how he would use a simple backwash for the background with a very detailed drawing as the main image. I wanted to include this in my final piece and use the simple backwash so I didn't over do the painting. The colours he used were very dull and earthy sort of colours. I liked this because he used naturally colours and objects to create this colours. 

David Hockney: 

I really like the way David Hockney tried to look for all the different colours with in the colours he sees. It gives the picture more meaning and I think also looks better. I found it very interesting how he also used a modern form of technology to help him produce some of his landscape final pieces. Another thing that I was inspired by was how he works on such a big area, and how many canvas he uses for one painting. 

For my final piece I decided to do a similar landscape piece as these two artist. I really wanted to show used of colour in piece so used an artist movement called Fauvism. I loved how the colours are all different, none of them match up to the correct colours but this makes it abstract and a fun way to shows modern art.

John Barnbrook

 Barnbrook is one of the most well known creative studios in Britain, specializing in producing books, CD covers, custom fonts, websites and magazines.

The work here is very different from each other. Barnbrook doesn't create the same sort of product as you can see from these different examples here. They still all involve typography, and two of them have much more colour.
The work here is more similar to Ed Fella and David Carson, with the bright colours and the curly bubbly typography.

Adbusters Magazine

Adbusters magazine are very different compared to 'Face' and 'Wet' mags. More of these magazine are much dark and show conflict a lot more. Each example here shows a maing image with typography. The best one to show conflict would be the one with the american dollar in the back, with factory towers with smoke coming out. This perhaps shows some form of conflict between America and pullution. This is the impression i get from just looking at the cover. But i can also tell its a dramatic story, due to the colours used and the image of the face isnt very happy.
Comparing this work with Ed Fella and David Carson it is also very different. These two graphic artist use a wider color range, but also is mainly just typography.

The Face Magazine

The face was a British music, fashion and culture magazine, started in May 1980 by Nick Logan.

The typography of this magazine is the same in most editions, but there a few different kinds of logo for 'The Face' These magazine are really good to study for 'conflict'. The colours used for the two covers here are very similar, both the photographs are black and white, but the one with Madonna on has red lips. Conflict mainly shows in this one, as you can tell by her facial expression, with her lip up showing perhaps shes angry, or has attitude. Also how her hands are, as if to protect her self.

The image here on the front cover is also a good way to show conflict. The way there isnt really much expression on his face, but you can see he is angry. There is blood coming from his nose, which gives me the impression that he has been in a fight. The typography underneath 'Want some?' anchors the image and looks as though it is meant to make Robbie look like a 'hard man'

Johan Thornqvist

 

Johan Thornqvist-

Is a graphic artist who adds graphics based images to really photographic images. He draws in little cities and characters around lamp posts and even plants.

 

The two images here of a lemon plant, before and after. You can see the real image he used to draw on, and then added his little augment world. I think its really clever and I like the style of his work. I am very inspired by this artist and will use his style of art to create my own augment world.  

Using Adobe Photoshop CS3 I added a photograph that i found on google. The image i chose was off lily pads on a pond. I decided to draw a bridge on the leaves and also add a hammock from each flower. In the top left corner there is some object which i added in a ladder. Next i could add some little houses or more pathways to create an augmented world. I created this all computer based but I could also draw images, and scan them in to the computer and do it this way.

Brighton Fringe

Brighton Frings is the largest art festival in England and what makes it exceptional is that it is set in a city with a unique heritage that has set the pace, diversity, creativity and innovative thinking in the city and beyuing. It sets out to stimulate, educate and entertain a wide of audience by providing a showcase for diverse art forms.




I will be gathering information and pictures from the Brighton Fringe Festival, to create 6 different postcards. I will be creating this in Photoshop and using different effects and variations to create this post cards.

Wet Magazine

 

 

Wet the Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, was originally published between 1976-81 in Venice, California by Leonard Koren. The art of the magazine came from the idea of Leonard art work, of what he called 'bath art'. WET covered a range of cultural issues and was widely knows for its graphic art. It started as a simple one man operation that included artwork and text from friends and acquaintances which eventually grew in to the magazine company.

 
I find the graphics used for the covers of WET magazines are very abstract, or Pop Art like with the bright colours used.


They all include photographic images of people and also graphic images perhaps added from the computer.

The typography used is all pretty similar and doesn't vary much other than the colours used on the different additions of each magazine.

Ed Fella

Born in 1938, Ed Fella is a highly influential graphic designer and artist whose work has made a huge impact on contemporary typography. A commercial artist in Detroit, Michigan for thirty years, Fella received an MFA in design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1987.
Since achieving this, he has spent a lot of his time teaching at the California Institute of the Arts. Fella’s work has been described as “highly personal yet enormously influential” using unusual typefaces and almost obsessive drawings to mark the obscure quality of legitimacy in his work.

The typography here is very artist and colourful. The look as thought they are created by computer base but perhaps templates and free hand was used for some of it.  The colour shows movement in each letter and it is all very decorative Apart from the collage of text above the rest of the work is quite hard to read what it says. They re all very abstract but aesthetically pleasing.

David Carson

 David Carson born September 8th, 1954, was an American graphic designer. He was best know for his innovative magazine layout. He was the art director of  Ray Gun magazine.  He was perhaps the most influential graphic designer of the 1990's. With his main style include 'grunge typography'

 I like the graphic work here, and the typography that he uses. With the letters being different sizes some is in your face more than other words. Each piece doesn't involve much colour but mainly just blacks and white with the use of one bright colour . The one to the left reminds me more of a magazine cover, and I think its a good layout so i might try and include a similar layout within my magazine covers.

Graphic Design Techniques

Graphic Design Techniques

Graphic design is a creative process, which refers to a number of artistic and professional disciplines that focus on visual communication and presentation.  The field as a whole is often referred to a Visual Communication Design.

Graphic Illustration: Combining hand drawn illustration and take it in to a software program like Photoshop. Mix media 

Graphics and Photography: Combination of photographs and graphic. Using a photograph and incourprating graphics.

Package Design is when art and technology are used to create products for distribution, storage sale and use.

Advertising/Marketing: Advertising is a form of communication used to encourage or persuade an audience (viewers, readers or listeners) to continue or take some new action 

Print Publication Design: This covers a wide range of formats such as newsletters, magazines and books. They have to be a certain size and format.

Logo/Typography Design a mark of an emblem used by commercial enterprises and organizations. Logos are either purely graphic (symbols/icons) or are composed of the name of the organization (text) typography. 

Web Designer: This is the process of planning and creating a website. Text images, digital media and interactive elements are used by web designers to produce the page seen on the web browser.

I-Media Design- Apps: Application software, also known as an ‘app’ is computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks.

Games Designer-  Game development is the process of designing content and rules of a game in the pre production stage. Also the design off game play, environment, storyline and characters. 

Software that I have used: CS3 Photoshop while I have learnt the principals of graphic design. Balance is what gives a design stability and equilibrium. It distributes visual “weight” throughout space making the design seem fluid rather than lopsided or heavy. The image to the right is an example of symmetrical balance. Rhythm and unity are the design principles that bring everything together. By repetitions of a visual image rhythm imparts a sense of organization that brings a graphic together. The design principle of unity dictates that everything on the page is visually joined to something else thus giving the work a feeling of wholeness or “oneness”.