Heros and Heroines

Just a quick link to my other blog filled with artists and such…

Mike — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:48:27 +0000

http://itsinspirational.wordpress.com/

Adele Prince

Mike — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:17:38 +0000

Adele Prince is an Interactive artist, I was told about one of her pieces of work that could relate to the Play project. It is “How to make a bus scultpture”, in which she collected her folded bus tickets over a period of time then photographed them, from visual research I can see alot of people fold and manipulate their bus/train tickets.

Unfortunatley she has worked into printing instrutions on the back of tickets to inspire people into making their own bus scultpture which would of been a good piece for this brief if I had thought of it first.

Interactive Art

Mike — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:14:25 +0000

Interactive art is a form of installation-based art that involves the spectator in some way. Some installations achieve this by letting the observer walk in, on, and around them. Works frequently feature computers and sensors to respond to motion, heat, meteorological changes or other types of input their makers program them to respond to. Most examples of virtual Internet art and electronic art are highly interactive. Sometimes visitors are able to navigate through a hypertext environment; some works accept textual or visual input from outside; sometimes an audience can influence the course of a performance or can even participate in it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_art

Summer 08

Mike — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:38:21 +0000

Throughout the summer I have visited a few exhibitions to try and keep a creative head but I found myself to be just more critical of what I saw because to be honest I didnt really see too much I liked, I visited the Manchester art gallery, Urbis, the Tate Modern in London and more recently the Tate in Liverpool to see the Klimt exhibition.

The thing I liked the most that i saw this summer was Gwon Osang’s life size scultpure in Manchester. I had never heard of his work before and had no idea what they where even on entering the ehibition space, upon closer inspection I found them to be sculptures made from close up photographs of that area. It was a surreal experience as you become unsure on what is a scultpure and what is a real person viewing the work.

I think they are like nothing I have ever seen before and would recommend seeing them as the photographs don’t do the work justice.

John Kascht

Mike — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:51:47 +0000

I really like John Kascht caricatures, I like his style of drawings and his choice of features to exaggerate still make his portraits look like his subject and I feel that they get across his subject’s personality. I have also had a look at his black and white work but I dont think it is as good, I like it but I prefer his coloured work as they look like finished work where as his black and white work just look like sketches, which they may be, I do like his confidence with the marks he makes if the images I have seen are unalterd.

Chris Ware

Mike — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:34:35 +0000

I have already seen Chris Ware works before but not realised it until I saw his work reseacrching for this blog, I bought some of his ACME Novelty comics awhile ago and noticed that Chris Wares style was incredibly familiar to that in the comics so checked it out. I really like his comics, i like his inventive layout and sublte colours which are completely different to the brightly coloured covers. I like how he dosen’t over-do the tone in his work as alot of it is just a plain colour, i also like his simple bold imagery and think he manges to tell the story very well with his images.

Pete Fowler

Mike — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:59:56 +0000

I normally find that I dont like bright simple characters as they seem to be everywhere and used for everything but I quite like Pete Fowlers characters even though they are simple bright charcters, I am not sure why but I think it may be because i think they resemble quite a graffiti style. I especially like his comic strips, I like his odd comibination of charcters and the enviroment they are in.

Gunther Von Hagens

Mike — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:10:49 +0000

I have been to see the Body Worlds 4 exhibition at Manchester and really enjoyed it so I thought I’d write a post on the Professor who invented “Plastination”, the process of drying out a real human body and filling it with rubber silicone so it is preseved forever. Although Von Hagens isn’t really a designer or artist he refers to alot of anatomical drawings and paintings from many great painters in his exhibition and i think his work is worthy to be classed as art, and it is very informative, I learnt what pin and needles are…

I also found the exhibition to be a good little exercise in still life drawing as all the muscles and joints were visable. I liked his creativity in posing the bodies to show how the body works although it didnt feel like they were really bodies as they looked liked they were made of plastacine,

Why Not Associates

Mike — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:32:55 +0000

I am not usually interested in product design but I really like this design for motorola, I think it looks very stylish. I really like the creative use of black on black, I think the images look very good against the black.

I also like a couple of other pieces from Why Not Associates, I like their creative use of type in all their work and just think alot of their work is very nice to look at and take inspiration from.

Vaughan Oliver

Mike — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:57:42 +0000

I like Oliver’s work and his work with the other designers, photographers etc in the various companies he has worked for, 23 envelope and v23.

I really like the type he uses and I also really like his images. I am unsure why but i really like this image, i just think that his type and image work very well together and I think it is most likely my favourite image of his.

I like the last image because i think it is quite an unusual image and quite an odd combination of objects, I dont like how the type is just put into a box near the bottom, it could be to seperate it for the image so keeps the image strong but I dont like it and would of liked to see it intergrated into the image like the one next to it, well not so much intergrated but as more of a part of the image than just in a box at the bottom.