Sheffield visit: Evolution Print & Art Exhibitions

At start of our visit we visited the Evolution Print company, it was very interesting I found some things I din;t know how they work for instants the staple machine and folding machine. The companies owner was really kind to show us around.

Then we visited the exhibition  Rumble in The Jumble it was so new and old artist work.  I found prints interesting and unusual.

After that we went to Peter Blake exhibition his work is really good, and colourful was sunrise of some prices of pieces hope my we make that money some day.

Next exhibition was Listening brings a group of international artists together to interrogate the act of listening in contemporary art. This pioneering exhibition examines the crossover between the visual and the sonic and their complex relationships to the senses.

Sam Belinfante, winner of the Hayward Touring Curatorial Open 2014,  has selected new and existing work, including drawings, sculpture, prints and video, and works in the exhibition range dramatically in duration from less than a second to six hours. Visitors can hear a clap of thunder that has been stretched in duration and aurally dissected, recreated by musicians and morphed back into a thunderclap; eavesdrop on a cabin in a forest and listen to the almost inaudible sound of a dying star.

Artists include: Laurie Anderson, Ed Atkins, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Mikhail Karikis, Ragnar Kjartansson, Lina Lapelyte, Christian Marclay, Haroon Mirza, Max Neuhaus, Katie Paterson, Amalia Pica, Laure Prouvost, Hannah Rickards, Prem Sahib, Anri Sala, Imogen Stidworthy and Carey Young.

I found this trip very interesting and it was great to be in new city and go places where I wouldn’t go. If next time comes same offer I would go again.

Noma Bar

Avinoam Noma Bar (born in 1973 in Israel) is a graphic designer, illustrator and artist. His work has appeared in many media publications including: Time Out London, BBC, Random House, The Observer, The Economist and Wallpaper*.[2] Bar has illustrated over sixty magazine covers, published over 550 illustrations and released two books of his work through Mark Batty Publisher: ‘Guess Who – The Many Faces of Noma Bar’, in 2008 and ‘Negative Space’ in early 2009.[3]

Describing his craft as visual communication, combining the skills of artist, illustrator and designer, Noma states he’s “After the maximum communication with minimum elements”.

His London Design Festival exhibition ‘Cut It Out’, was selected as one of the highlights of the festival. The project was nominated in the graphics category for the Design Museum, Designs Of the Year 2012. In 2014, he illustrated Chineasy: The New Way to Read Chinese, the visual-based method to teach chinese of Shaolan Hsueh.

Noma’s work has become well known throughout the world, winning various industry awards; more recently the prestigious Yellow Pencil award at the D&AD Professional Awards 2012 for his series of Don DeLilo covers, created with London design studio It’s Nice That.

He creates image using two or one colour, with simple drawings of objects to try get people attention. I really like his work its simple and affective, good for posters.

April Greiman

April Greiman is a thinker and artist, whose transmedia projects, innovative ideas and projects, and hybrid-based approach, have been influential worldwide over the last 30 years. Her explorations of image, word and color as objects in time and space are grounded in her singular fusion of art and technology. Greiman has been instrumental in the acceptance and use of advanced technology in the arts and the design process since the early 1980s.

Using colours and geometric figures and textures and portrait as main image and other objects she created collage and cover for magazine. It’s complicated and colourful very postmodern. Other image uses women’s naked body and image and two women’s face images and a lot science and history images, its confusing but same time very appealing with its complexity and being so open to sexuality.

Saul Bass

Saul Bass (May 8, 1920 – April 25, 1996) was an American graphic designer and Academy Award winning filmmaker, best known for his design of motion picture title sequences, film posters, and corporate logos.

During his 40-year career Bass worked for some of Hollywood’s most prominent filmmakers, including Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. Among his most famous title sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict’s arm for Preminger’s The Man with the Golden Arm, the credits racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of a skyscraper in Hitchcock’s North by Northwest, and the disjointed text that races together and apart in Psycho.

Bass designed some of the most iconic corporate logos in North America, including the Bell System logo in 1969, as well as AT&T’s globe logo in 1983 after the breakup of the Bell System. He also designed Continental Airlines’ 1968 jet stream logo and United Airlines’ 1974 tulip logo, which became some of the most recognized airline industry logos of the era.

Designs are clean and simple and using typography to promote the movies, the posters are very minimalistic which makes them so good. Some of posters are still icon today. I love the simplicity and drawings almost like cut outs.

Stefan Sagmeister

Stefan Sagmeister was born on August 6th, 1962, in Austria. He studied graphic design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He later received a Fulbright scholarship to study at the Pratt Institute in New York. He now has his own company in New York.
Some of Stefan Sagmeister’s work is very open minded. He is not scared use himself as canvas or pose naked front of a camera just to get attention for his work.
Emotion plays a big part in his work. In one of his lectures he mentions how he started a new project ‘The Happy film’, but he couldn’t finish it because during the same year he was making it, his mother died. His own emotions changed around this time and he didn’t feel able to continue with that project.

Scary, but really affective get viewer attention.

Great way to create mesage or calligram to
send a message across, good typograpy and position , simple but affective idea.

Two tongues opposing each other are an obvious symbol for a design lecture called Fresh Dialogue. Since we all have short tongues, photographer Tom Schierlitz bought two fresh cow tongues from the nearby meat market and shot them with the 4×5 camera.

Essay Poster

I created Essay poster for subject calligrams, to create my design I needed handwrite the contents of the essay.

 

Nick Deakin: Manual Typography – Production and Animation.

Today’s session we where ask to get in groups and choose the quote on which we want to work together and choose few letters from each design to make bigger version of Type. And create Time laps video on Typeface.

Cereal Box Design

In lesson I was make design for cereal box.  At the start we where given template of cereal box.

Then we cut out the shape of the box.

After that I added my character design in to box.

Then I added text and colour to the design.

On back of box I put the word puzzle in fox shape with words what you need to find.

I happy with my final outcome and chosen character and design.

Character design for cereal box packaging.

I choose a fox as my character not seen it before on cereal boxes and thought it would be fun to do it.

My fox is wearing red shorts and green shirt with a blue bow tie, this colours go very well together with fox orange colour, try draw it in vintage style and simple not complicated shapes.

Typography – Nicks Lesson Two

For this lesson we where ask to up scale our types.  It took me long time to draw them and colour in because of detail and neon gel pens, in one point I run out of pens need to by new pack, but I happy with typeface.

It look good but I decide it will look better if I cut out the letters and put them on black background it will give a contrast to the neon colours and will be more noticeable.

I think it looks allot better on black background and it made allot difference I am happy with outcome.