Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Blog/Social Media
Weighting of Task S2 (T20%)(A20%)
Course: Visual Art Type 2
Unit Title: Graphic/Art Design for the Web A/T Due Date: Week 16

IDEAS
As you know blogs are a great method to get your message out to your clients. Tell the public about your recent projects.Share your creative work with other students, show the process and experiments and ideas you are exploring - upload images, photos, videos, documentaries, interviews, animations and more. Your task is to include your ideas, in a written, typographic, drawn, digital or photographic form. Then post it on your blogs. You can upload your classroom design projects, illustrations to your blog. Your work on blogger should reflect ½ - 1 hours work per day.
What can I do at blogger?
Create a profileMake your own profile page so others can learn more about your interests and see what you are creating!Upload/DownloadYou can upload your own work whether it’s text, audio, image or video and download other people’s work to build upon or remix.

Assessment Criteria
· Generation and synthesis of ideas
· Visual literacy
· Aesthetic judgements
· Effective communication
· Problem solving skills
· Critical analysis

Links For Research
http://delicious.com/LTCGraphicsANDGlass
Password Thumbnails 1
1000 journals
www.1000journals.com
U TUBE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=klnFtLGrKWU
NSW HSC VAPD
http://www.hsc.csu.edu.au/visual_arts/requirements/body_work/visualarts_process_diary/13342VAPDCDoc4.html

Due Dates. Week 16

Graphic Designers of note

Reza Abedini
Alan Aldridge
Otl Aicher

Banksy
Jonathan Barnbrook
Saul Bass
Harry Beck
Neville Brody
Jon Burgerman

David Carson
Wim Crouwel

Tom Eckersley

Shepard Fairey
Friedrich Kurt Fiedler
Vittorio Fiorucci
Alan Fletcher
Shigeo Fukuda


Milton Glaser
April Greiman

Christoffer Hald
Baron Barrymore Halpenny
Steven Heller


Susan Kare
Chip Kidd


Walter Landor

Martin Majoor
Oscar Mariné
Bruce Mau
Josef Müller-Brockmann

István Orosz


Paul Rand


Peter Saville
Stefan Sagmeister


Storm Thorgerson

Rudy VanderLans
Massimo Vignelli

Tuesday, August 4, 2009



Due Friday Week 6
Handed out – Week 3
Tertiary 1000 -1500 words T&A 20%
Compare and contrast the graphic design by the modernist El Lissitsky with the post modernist (after 1980) David Carson using description, analysis interpretation and judgment. Discuss the relationship of the artworks to modernism and post modernism in graphic design and the design elements and features of the works.


Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge (1919) El Lisitsky



David Carson




Accredited Students please write 2 x A4 pages. Using Description, Analysis, Interpretation and Judgement. Discuss each of the artworks copied on the sheet.

· Description, describe it as though the reader was unable to see it but you want to give them as clear an idea as possible. Include title, artist’s name, date, techniques & material used.
· Analysis, discuss design features like composition, style, ideas, use of text, repetition, what the proportions within the work are and the size of the work etc. Remember our theory or read the text listed below.
· Interpretation, discuss the meaning of the work, what was the reason for making the artwork, and is there any unintended message? Does it relate to any social, political or stylistic period?
· Judgement, based on your observations discuss the degree of success of the work, and the ideas behind the magazine cover.


Resourses
HIRSH E.P. Writing about Art
WESTON .N. Kaleidoscope of Modern Art
FELDMAN Varieties of Visual Experience
Please insure that you include citations and a bibliography with your work. Particularly from the above sources