Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Saturday, 18 February 2012
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Stop motion animation using urban surrounds as a canvas
I think this is a great stop motion video created by BLU, it
shows imagination, individual response to urban surroundings, linear drawing,
creativity, time, and patience.
Monday, 13 February 2012
Three reasons why fireless cookers are a great idea
1. A
woman can cook beans on the open fire for about 45 minutes, then put the pot
into a fireless cooker and let it sit, unattended, for another 3 or 4 hours. The
heat present in the pot, insulted in the basket, will finish the cooking
process. So instead of the women sitting over the pot of beans on the fire for 4
or 5 hours, minding the fire and trying to keep the children out of the
flames... she can reduce her active cooking time to 45 minutes and free the
other hours for herself. She can use those additional hours to work on other
things, to mind the children, or whatever else needs her attention that day. It
frees her time.
2.
But there is another huge advantage to fireless cookers in a rural
setting - it reduces the amount of firewood or charcoal used in daily cooking.
This means that women will spend less time foraging for firewood. It means they
will cut down fewer trees to make charcoal. They will spend less money on fuel
for the fire. It saves household time, money and energy.
3. In
addition, the use of a fireless cooker means that people will cut down fewer
trees for charcoal production or firewood, thus preserving their natural
habitat. The land can stay in tact when fewer trees are used as fuel. So this
fireless cooker is also a tool to help steward the environment where the
families live. It preserves the land.
Materials: baskets, fabric, raw cotton, string, heavy
needles and the instructions.
fabric, bags of raw cotton and some scissors to
begin...
lining the basket with cotton, tufting it into
place...
the first three fireless cookers we made
together...
Article on “See for yourself” fireless cookers, Grandmothers doing it for themselves and their community
Magazine Article
I produced this brief snap shot of the grandmothers in Uganda that have been working closly with Pefo- Phoebe Educational Fund for Aids Orphans and Aoife Wilson, a recent engineering graduate from Trinity College to produce a fuelless cooker from reeds. This must be the most sustainable way of cooking!
Photo essay
What is a photo essay?
A photo-essay (or photographic essay) is a set or series
of photographs that are intended to tell a story or
evoke a series of emotions in the viewer. A photo essay will often
show pictures in deep emotional stages. Photo essays range from purely
photographic works to photographs with captions or small notes to full text essays
with a few or many accompanying photographs. Photo essays can be sequential in
nature, intended to be viewed in a particular order, or they may consist of
non-ordered photographs which may be viewed all at once or in an order chosen
by the viewer.
People who have undertaken photo essays include Bruce Davidson,
W. Eugene Smith, Walker Evans, David Alan Harvey, and Andre Kertesz.
· An article in a publication, sometimes a full page or a two-page spread. Newspapers and news magazines often have multi-page photo essays about significant events, both good and bad, such as a sports championship or a national disaster.
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A book or other complete
publication.
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A web page or portion of a web
site.
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A single montage or collage of photographic images, with text or
other additions, intended to be viewed both as a whole and as individual
photographs. Such a work may also fall in the category of mixed media.
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An art show which is staged at a particular time and
location. Some such shows also fall in the category of installation art.
·
A slide show or similar presentation, possibly with
spoken text, which could be delivered on slides, on DVD, or on a web site.
·
In fashion publishing
especially, a photo-editorial – an editorial-style article dominated by or entirely
consisting of a series of thematic photographsThursday, 9 February 2012
Graphic Design Practice
Graphics Project
Step 1 – Write a brief
Brainstorm – what kind of an art group are they?
Step 2 – Understanding and knowing the client
Expressing themselves through art
Energetic
Focussed
Dynamic
Creative
Step 6 – Image and text
research
Step 7
Graffiti image found in Limerick – use as back ground
Idea 3 – Collage with stencilling
Flyer 1
Images of studio and process
Finished design
Promote a new local Art Group by producing a design
for a flyer
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Client
A local Art group run and managed by local youth (age: 15 – 21 years) want to develop a design for a flyer to be distributed to local youth in second level schools in the area, the flyer must also appeal to 3rd level Art students and other students interested in visual arts and local students at other third level education centres.
The group are holding an open day and want to encourage, as many local youth as possible to visit their centre and take part in various visual art workshops they will be holding throughout the day and visiting contemporary artists.
Date: Saturday 21st January 2012
Venue: Limerick Arts Centre, Edward Street, Limerick City
Time: 10.00am to 5.00pm
Back ground Information on the Art Group
The group formed 6 months ago and have had little press coverage, their name is unknown in the Limerick area. They are currently developing their marketing strategy to promote the centre and encourage more youth to get involved. Currently the centre is open two evenings a week and all day Saturday and Sunday. They acquired funding from the Department of Social and Rural Affairs to set up the group and buy equipment. The group supports the development of personal and group expression through visual arts. They provide space, IT and digital equipment, various art materials, an exhibition space, visiting artists, support and training.
The group is energetic, vibrant, enthusiastic, young, and experiential.
Step 3 – Who is the target audience
Target
Audience
Young people between the ages of 15 – 21 years in the
limerick area
Step 4 – Design specifications
Design
specifications
Design style:
contemporary, interesting and energetic, appropriate for age group, to include
all relevant text
Size:
Between A4 – A6 (Graphic designer to decide)
Colour:
(Graphic designer to decide)
Amount:
5000, to cover all secondary schools, colleges and universities in the Limerick
area
Paper type:
Glossy, matt, recycled, OTHER: (Graphic designer to decide)
Paper weight: (Graphic designer to decide)
Printing:
(Graphic designer to decide)
Distribution:
Hand delivered
Budget:
€500; Printing costs to be kept to a minimum, Design costs charged at €50.00
per hour, average time to design a flyer 5 hours.
Step 5 – Descriptive words
associated with the group
Individual
Young – youthful Expressing themselves through art
Energetic
Focussed
Dynamic
Creative
Research
Contemporary web sites,
blogs, youth groups, art groups around the world
Step 7
Ideas
Idea 1 – Pic
Idea was to print on readymade
text – chosen carefully – text from dictionary
Art – definition
Contemporary – definition
Design – definition
Graphic - definition
Stencil cut and glued to page
Text onto the stencil
Problems:
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Stencilling not satisfied
with the shape and line of the flower
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Text – need to
think about what message I want to get across to the public
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I don’t think it
represents the activities of a contemporary young art group
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The background
text has no meaning and does not convey a message
Experimental sheet
Use materials that have
designed for another purpose as the canvas to design on to, incorporating the
design into the finished flyer. Using readymade playing cards for a base, they
are cheap and can be printed on to both individually and on mass.
I wanted to create a layered
design, to a give the viewer the sense of having to peel of the layers to
discover the design, combined with geometric shapes.
I didn’t feel this created an
exciting, new, energetic or contemporary design – so back to the drawing board.
Experimented with different
types of geometric shapes & pattern
Idea 2 -
Word search – combined squares and letters and can be cut easily with a knife
Graffiti image found in Limerick – use as back ground
Collage of images from Time
magazines, word search stencil layered over the top of the collage includes the
details of the flyer – time, place, event, name of art group
Collage images were
restricted to either hand drawn illustrations, original art works, or
contemporary images.
Description of process:
Card as the base, images
selected from magazines, cut out the images carefully, and stuck them to the
card, being mindful of where the gaps in the stencil were. Stencil – printed images
using the computer, carefully cutting out the blank spaces, glued the stencil
to the collage, scanned and printed on to photographic paper.
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| Flyer 1 |
Flyer 2
Text – Font style – searched for
fonts to fit in with design
Stencil
Font
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| Finished Design |
Studio work by fellow students
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| The black paper stencil on yellow card is used to great effect in this sign. The designer has also incorporated humour, movement and teaching into his design |
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| The choice of black and yellow to draw attention to a campaign is striking |
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| I like the patchwork effect, the clever use of stitching, pattern, shape, and text combined |
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The composition, use of coloured
paper - yellow receding and blue standing out from the page are very effective.
The rolled up paper and the 3D effect created gives an extra and exciting dimension
to the work
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I like the creative idea of
using a 2D/ 3D mobile to explore the idea of
art appreciation, it breaks with tradition and creates a visually
pleasing and interesting platform to launch a series of books from on art appreciation
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The stunning book covers that
show a level of expertise and professionalism that I aspire to.
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| I like the simplicity and variety of book covers displayed, the designs would suit printmaking either lino print or a woodcut |
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