ERIN MORGAN

Image sourced from: https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/lighting/table-lamps/tahiti-lamp-ettore-sottsass-memphis/id-f_674793/

Post-Modernism

In Friday’s lecture we looked at post-modernism design, a response to modernism and a controversial art movement from 1970 to 1990. It brought about news ideas of freedom in design and consisted of bright bold colours, asymmetry, pattern and geometric shapes as key elements and principles. It especially focused on ‘form over function’.

The Memphis group were a group of Italian designers and architects that made a series of highly influential products in the 1980’s, led by Ettore Sottass. The Memphis style lamp above, as an example of a product with form over function, focusing more on the design, colour and patterns rather than the functionality of the lamp itself.

After looking further into post-modernist designs, I realised that a lot of the designs I had made were heavily influenced by this period, which is really cool and interesting to see. I really admire the use of bold colours and geometric shapes in order to make a really effective design.

Image sourced from: https://www.artsy.net/artwork/robert-rauschenberg-this-is-a-portrait-of-iris-clert-if-i-say-so

Conceptualism

The concept is more important that the artwork itself

We also shortly looked at conceptualism in the lecture. Conceptualism is considered to be extremely important in contemporary artworks and design, where the meaning and intention behind the artwork or design is more important that the artwork itself.

An example of this being Robert Rauschenberg’s ‘This Is a Portrait of Iris Clert If I Say So, 1961’. A plain telegram with the phrase ‘Iris Clert 28 Ruedusthonore Paris’, with no actual portrait of Iris Clert.

The whole idea of conceptualism is really fascinating as we become interested in the artists/designers intention behind their work, rather than the work itself.

Eric Kessel’s ‘Photography in Abundance’

Image sourced from: http://www.kesselskramer.com/exhibitions/24-hrs-of-photos

References:

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/p/postmodernism/

ASK ME ANYTHING - Part 2

EYE OF THE BEHOLDER 

My god this was a bit of a stressful one. With my interviewee, Ricardo Cavolo, only replying within a few days before the assessment’s due date, this one was close. 

I went back to roots for this assessment.  Since Ricardo strictly only uses his hands to create his illustrations I thought that that it was only fair to keep this theme going throughout his interview. All pages have been handwritten, hand-sewn, and hand-cut. Imperfections are Ricardo’s perfection. An interesting man to say the least. 

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Final!

Like, finally. 

So, the main concept is for my zine to look handmade because I always view my creative’s works as very crafty and organic. I tried to communicate my creative’s world by using lots of colours and mixed media too such as the textured papers and the different colour concepts for every question. I wanted to make my zine interesting and interactive by giving each question a concept.

For the front cover I used square cutouts to highlight each colour, so there’s yellow for question one, orange for question two, blue, red, green and purple to represent the following questions. 

As the first question’s concept is yellow, I used blue to create a contrast and also used an image which has yellow as it’s most vibrant colour so there will be that yellow focus. As this question talks about THE key moment, I used a circle to focus on that key moment and the words on the blue page creates a contrast with the emptiness (in terms of space) with the yellow (like narrowing down to that key moment).

For the second question, I used orange as the main colour. The image I chose includes orange, red and yellow which provides the harmonious tone with the colour theme. As this question talks about her past and she did not want to talk in detail about it, I used the two plastic sheets in front where she doesn’t talk about it but the answer at the back reveals her brief answer to the question.

For the third question, I used an image which has a lot of red highlights so it suits the red colour theme. I chose the folding technique for this question because she gave a layered answer as well so the main answer is only revealed when you open up the whole fold. 

As for the fourth question, I chose blue as the colour theme because the main answer is about the ocean and I thought that the colours would match the dolphin image. The next page visually shows her other inspirations which are movies, books and people. I used her paintings and handmade book to represent these elements. I also used a cutout concept here so that it can be seen as one whole answer but at the same time the ocean image cutout is at the front because its her main inspiration.

Although the fifth question’s colour theme is green, I used red as the background to create a contrast. The foldout part also includes colours from the background, to create that harmony. As her answer talks about how she wishes to give hope and joy to other people, the foldout contains comments from her followers where she did bring joy and hope to them. 

The last question is behind and it’s special because its a bonus question that I’ve been wanting to ask her. The colour theme for that question is obviously purple. I placed it sideways because the question needed to be viewed from both sides. Placing the question sideways gives the readers space to view it from both angles. 

All image credits go to Annette Labedzki. 

Ask me anything project! Final presentation, ’Let’s talk Brydie Mack’.

Well, after losing my WHOLE document because silly me didn’t save it.. who would have thought printing was going to be the worst / hardest part!! Unfortunately I didn’t acknowledge that i needed to ‘flip and alternate’ my design so the pages matched up when printed landscape double sided. This meant the guidelines included on each page to display the hole-punch placement were not meeting up. :(