Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Letterform: Progress

Making more flowers out of news paper.
got locked out of the house so there was some delay :(

Almost ready to assemble!

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Letterform: Visual Resarch







TEXT ART
Message about saving animals from pesticides, run off etc.
http://www.advertolog.com/chesapeake-bay-foundation/print-outdoor/eel-cbf-14107955/

Letterform: 3rd proj visual research

Students Spell Out Messages on Immigration
 http://atomicshogun.com/





Sticky Note Art installation 
-debt owed by New Zealand students on their tertiary loans
 -each note bears a student's career aspirations, their current student debt total, and how long they expect it will take them to pay it off.

http://www.odt.co.nz/campus/university-otago/121523/otago-students-make-note-debt

Sheep Spelling "Spring"
http://cherylrainfield.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/27/a-creative-way-to-spell-out-spring/




De-motivational Poster:
http://forums.denverbroncos.com/showthread.php?t=145895

Change the Thought
-Poster font is the same font used in his previous Obama poster..... 
http://www.changethethought.com/changethethought-message-posters/



Pollution Kills
digital rendering of text in the sand.....
http://www.amsa.gov.au/marine_environment_protection/Educational_resources_and_information/Teachers/Protect_Our_Seas_Educational_Kit.asp





???? cool concept though....
http://www.bathroomsoftheworld.com/random-images.html

Communication: Instalations/masks





http://www.assertivemagazine.com/2008/05/05/pixels-go-mad-the-celebration-of-pixel-art/

http://www.tektonten.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Communication: Protesters

Protest in Barcelona (animal rights activists)
http://dalje.com/en-world/naked-animal-rights-activists-protest-in-barcelona/118259

PETA : protesting against the fur trade in Helsinki, Finland



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PETA_body_paint_protest_in_Helsinki.jpg

protesting underwater: where they can clearly state their ideas???? more easily??

http://ayman.iyobo.com/jsvnLzfw3Ns





green peace protest:Greenpeace activists send out a message as the climate change talks end in CancĂșn, Mexico. Photograph: Elizabeth Ruiz/EPA

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jan/30/climate-change-climate-change-scepticism



Greenpeace Whale-defenders





wear your own mask of a few defenders of the issue. and help spread the world....
"We also have a letter that you can download and adapt, to deliver to the Japanese embassy or consulate nearest you. Peaceful protest is not a crime - we do not expect you to get arrested for making a polite and respectful request at a Japanese embassy!  But please do keep it polite and respectful: the embassy staff are not our opponents.   "

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/oceans/whaling/ending-japanese-whaling/whaling-on-trial-120508/

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Letterform: Text Work





http://lbabb-design.blogspot.com/2009/08/typography-3-font-family-history.html


Ref 34: http://reanimagic.deviantart.com/


 John Christenson, Nuzzles-wooden name puzzles (2010)

 Sofie Platou,You know slab (2010)

 sofya ozdozkurt,crazy keyboard (2010)

 Howard Jones,Gliding is our passion(2010)

Letterform: Water on Pavement.

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/2mzMFN0ptelIcRYbEembIQ


http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/sgrais/line.htm


http://iainmasterton.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/China-Image-Gallery/G0000LVWflI43QBo/I00009AH2yncmth4

http://www.art.com/products/p14126598-sa-i2868406/phil-weymouth-man-doing-water-calligraphy-on-jingshan-sun-yet-sen-park-pathway-bejing-china.htm


Popular hobby in china. Brushes made from sponges and water bottle. Non permanent art.

Letterform: Calligraffiti



 Shinichi Maruyama: japanese artist. Spells out images/ japanese characters with water and captures it in photographs.  

http://www.livingdesign.info/2010/09/27/shinichi-maruyama-writing-in-the-sky-kusho-water-sculpture/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Livingdesign+%28LivingDesign%29

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Letterform: Mask Research





http://www.3dexport.com/img-chinese-opera-masks-7012.htm


http://perfnova.com/blog/2008/05/chinese-opera-mask-ji-liao/




 
http://www.zoshop.com/q/chinese+feng+shui+opera+mask


http://www.earlywomenmasters.net/shobogenzo/r/raihai_tokuzui/index.html



http://www.zazzle.com/tattoo_mask_design_hooded_sweatshirt-235075101455857927

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Letter form: m/m

Billboard—Taken from ‘Malaga’, An Album Of Covers (Fragments of Future Histories)
2005
with Liam Gillick 4 colours silkscreened billboard poster

Cool Lustre
2003
65x50cm 9 colours silkscreen on Vélin BFk rives 250gr printed by Eric seydoux at L’atelier, paris







The Alphamen
with inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh matadin 2004



Witness Screen/Écran Témoin (François Curlet)
2002




Texte court sur la possibilité de créer une véritable économie de l’équivalence (Liam Gillick)
2005




 Poster – Taken from ‘Malaga’, An Album Of Covers (A Factory In The Snow)
2005

Communication/Letterform: 8 research material

One Child Policy Propaganda.
http://www.thelancetstudent.com/2009/08/page/2/


Images from: http://skrapnel.com/2009/04/


Chinese Revolution Communist Propaganda


Russian Propaganda?




Korean War Propaganda 



Anti Japanese Propaganda from Texaco gas company.
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Propaganda

ARTICLE: Chinese propaganda in Tibet 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rebecca-novick/chinas-propaganda-in-tibe_b_142642.html


IDEAS:

Against Coffee
Join Wushu
Pro Windmill Power.





http://guity-novin.blogspot.com/2010_05_01_archive.html



STYLE
(NOT A PROPAGANDA POSTER)


http://questionentertainment.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/31-top-money-makers-of-the-decade-the-incredibles/


Italian Poster:
http://www.bakati.com/s~q-italian-propaganda.aspx






This is a fine example of modern propaganda, this i guess, is supposed to scare us into the "terrorists are everywhere" mindset.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/86292073@N00/55784847/





http://petchvris2010.blogspot.com/2006/10/propaganda-way-to-convince-people.html