Graphic Design & Animation

Jazzberry Blue, a canadian, self-taught artist creates modern abstract art. He spent his formal years living in India as a painter. Since his return to Canada, digital illustration has become his main form of communication. Blue has created beautifully abstract maps of some of the most interesting cities in the world, including London, Los Angeles, Paris and Milan.  I personally love the way he portrays the maps, using a selection of colours to reveal street patterns, sizes/types of buildings and the general layout of the city itself. The maps also gives the impression of how much urban development there is. I will include his work in my sketchbook as it relates to travel and how different cities can be represented on maps through the use of abstract art.  Looking at other work Blue has created, he uses simple colours to create a skyline using popular landmarks and certain building designs to represent a city. This shows how the architecture is different between cit

Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Affect Effects For our 3rd workshop with After Effects, we explored animation properties using geometric shapes of our designed characters which were created in illustrator. Our character design needed to be 1920 x 1080 in RGB colour. Different assets were on separate layers, we used simple geometry, shapes and vectors. Properties that we covered in this workshop include: scale, position, set up, shape rigging, parenting,  timeline and keyframes.  With our characters, scenes and sets in our own style, we produce a 10 second animation piece. We looked at 'Catch me if you can title Sequence - 2002, Kuntzel and Deygas' in class as it is a great example of pre-composing. Along with 'The Complete Animade Lernz, by Animade' as another example. The Complete Animade Lernz from Animade on Vimeo . http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/catch-me-if-you-can/ I looked for more project references to help me with my ideas. Adobe

Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation. We can explore how systems of signs work to make meaning, through the use of words and images and how we communicate both visually and verbally. Semiotics is about understanding the relationship between messages and meanings. Semiotics is fundamental to an understanding of how words and images are used to make sense of the world along with be manipulated to the benefit of the message. Also how visual communications work and how design choices affects/transform the message being communicated. Good ideas or aesthetics may fall down in the absence of effective communication of the idea through the aesthetic. This is where semiotics comes in, understanding this can ensure we're communicating messages effectively. Signs can be represented as spoken/written language, images, pictures, objects, gestures, codes, symbols and sounds. All which can have an emotional impact, or mean different things to diff

" The physical embodiment of a collection of letters, numbers, symbols, etc. (whether it’s a case of metal pieces or a computer file) is a font. When referring to the design of the collection (the way it looks) you call it a typeface. " – Mark Simonson, designer "The liveliness of asymmetry is an expression of our own movement and that of modern life, it is a symbol of the changing forms of life in general."  - Jan Tschichold Since its initial publication in Berlin in 1928, Jan Tschichold's "The New Typography" has been recognized as the definitive treatise on book and graphic design in the machine age. Herbert Bayer (April 5, 1900 – September 30, 1985) was an Austrian and American graphic designer, painter, photographer, sculptor, art director, environmental and interior designer, and architect, who was widely recognized as the last living member of the Bauhaus. Bayer's 1925 experimental universal typeface combined upper and low

This workshop introduced us to Adobe Photoshop CC, this session was focused on basic montage principles, involving a variety of selection methods and layer properties, whilst maintaining editability, using non-destructive workflows. In this session, we were introduced to 'smart objects' commonly used in shared document contexts. Along with the program Adobe Bridge where we looked at the concept of ‘sidecar’ files as part of this workflow. We needed a new awareness of digital image files types, due to the advent of digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras and RAW files. Looking at Adobe Bridge, using raw image files, we edited photos in multiple ways. Firstly, I was introduced to the 'lens correction' tool, in this case, using an incorrect lens can cause the perspective of photographs to be tilted or skewed, distorting the perspective, especially in photographs that contain continuous vertical lines of geometric shapes. The two screen shots below show the effect of