http://www.all-things-photography.com/learning-to-see-creatively.html

2 page magazine spread

My magazine spread is based on photography. While i was sketching my thoughts out I came up with two designs, i tried both designs separately and felt they did not look great so had the idea of combining the two. The film negative is there to separate the two pages, it was drawing using the pen tool and all the little squares were drawn and put in individually. The camera on the right side is exerting pictures which go from black to colour, this was done to show the evolution of photography. In order to do this i work on photoshop to put all the pictures individually. The camera lens was original a 3D image which I played around with on photoshop to make it look like this. The text coming out of the camera lens shows that your imagination of a perfect picture is coming to life through the help of the lens.

my inspiration

This piece inspires me because it is simple yet very attention grabbing. The layout of the text is symmetrical to the position of the lady’s dress. There is a lot of contrast and it has lots of negative and positive space which inspired me to do the same for my spread.

My article

The article I chose to do my magazine spread on is called “ Learning to See Creatively” by Ken Caleno. It is based on photography and the ways you can think creatively when taking pictures. The reason I chose to do my spread on this article is because I am intrigued by photography and always wondered what I can do to make my pictures look more appealing to the eye instead of the typical, everyday picture. This article inspired me and also gave me a wide range of material to work with when it came to designing my own spread for the article.

dogs

Letter

PAINT

Poster

Sketch

Inspiration

The piece that inspired me was made by the famous Russian painter, Wassily Kandinsky. He is well known for his abstract work. He also taught at the Bauhaus school of art which relates to his passion of abstract. Bauhaus also has many shapes and lines and this piece is simple yet strong with its use of colours, shapes and lines which inspired me for my piece.

My poster is based on racism. Although many think it is not something that is still existent, it is. My idea was to show that equality should be a concept everyone lives by and racism should eventually fade away as it is the shadow. My target audience is to the entire population, everyone should take the time to accept every single individual as they are. Everyone belongs to the same race which is the human race. This poser will be seen in public transits and schools so it is seen on a daily basis so we can get a quicker response and conclusion to the problem.

Ice Cream

Dream Forever (illustrator)

ABCD- Raoul Hausmann

Raoul Hausmann was born in Vienna on July 12^th 1886. He was a very well known artist who was also a writer and inspired many.   He was influenced by his father’s interest in art as he was a painter. He made photo collages and was part of the Berlin Dada which was an art movement of the early twentieth century. Hausmann liked to use many different materials such as clippings, posters, photographs and other materials in his works which were meant to be symbolic.

His work is very interesting and appealing but I found the ABCD-Hausmann very interesting. It use in many similar tones of reds, orange, pink and yellow give the piece a monochromatic look. It uses images and words together to form a symbolic piece. It is a self portrait of himself. ABCD was influenced by the avant garde throughout world war 1; a reference to individuals or pieces that are original when it comes to art, culture and politics. This collage includes a picture of his face and below this is a flyer that is advertising his presentation of a poem “The Soul of Maragarine”. The letters ABCD is a dada poem which is in between his teeth in this collage. To the left side of his face you see the word “voce” meaning voice. This piece gives the voice of wanting a revolution.