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 be...

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...