The Chase

I have just researched The chase and found them to be mostly graphics, packaging, logos etc which I am not particularly interested in, much of there work doesnt inspire me although I did like a couple of their pieces of work but I didn’t really find anything special for me.

Arnulf Rainer

I have just been shown Rainer’s work by my girlfriend who is doing fine art. From first seeing his work I liked it, he takes original illustrations and photographs and works over them. I like how his images look quite gruesome from most likely a harmless normal photograph, I think it is a very good idea and may try it one day.

 

Ian Pollock

I like Ian Pollocks style because it is very odd looking and freaky, even though his style is very odd his portraits still look like his subject. I also like his sense of humour as I think it shows in his portrait of Charles and Cammilla.

  

I like his use of the media as I think it aids his style in looking odd, I think it looks quite sketchy in how he uses the media as he has left white space. I also like his type, also looks very sketchy and looks like it was done with a brush just quickly.

I like how he uses different mark making techniques for the skin, the background and the beard, like how he uses the media alot.

Jonny Hannah

I quite like Jonny Hannah’s work because I like how he uses type so originally, I dont recall seein anything like it before. I also like the type he uses as it looks hand drawn and quite sketchy. I dont really like his style of drawing but I think it works with his type.

    

I dont like this last image as I dont like the image of the man playing the saxaphone or the images in the background but I still like the type he uses.

Designers Republic

Designers Republic is a group of graphic designers who make various things like CD covers, typography, web design, packaging etc. I don’t really like their work as I find it to be to computer based for my liking and I don’t find it to be anything special. I quite liked their work that they did for the video game Wip3out, logo, cover, instruction manual and the game interface, I’m not sure why I like this but don’t really like any of their other work.

  

David Hughes

I quite like David Hughes work, I think it is quite freaky looking and odd. I like his way of working as in alot of his images his marks are very sketchy and look like they have been made quickly with not much thought, I think that probably aids the oddness if his work. I also like his use of colour as he only uses bland colours in almost all of his work, although he seems to have another style in which he works which looks alot cleaner and simpler, I don’t like his other style as much as this one.

    

 This is his other style and I don’t think it has the same effect or is as powerful as his other work but I believe its for children’s books so works well for that as it is simple and easy to look at. I like how his work seems so different from alot of others illustrators, on his website he has a selection of complaints received about his work which I like as he seems to find it amusing that he has offended people which i think is good as he doesn’t care what people say about his work, although I think some of his work isn’t great but I wouldn’t go as far as to complain about it.

I like his caricatures of people as they are in his very sketchy style but still manage to fully resemble the person. I also really like the last image, I like the image and I like how he has used the type at the bottom of the page, it looks like he has used a type writer and typed the same words in the same space repeatedly, I think it works really well with the freaky image. I also really like the background of the images as it sends the eyes funny and give the whole image another layer of oddness and it makes the figure in black seem closer and possibly moving towards the reader. The whole page seems to have a blurriness to it and I really like it.

  

Michael Gondry

Michael Gondry is another designer that works in film, although he seems to work more in ads than film titles but he has done a few. I like the work of his that I have seen but not quite as much as Cooper. He seems to use more computers in his work and more special effects, I think it is cool and looks good but I don’t think I like it as much as the effects Cooper uses.

Kyle Cooper

Kyle Cooper designs opening credits for films and I probably wouldnt of been as interested in his work but I saw that I had seen some of the films he has made titles for, Spiderman for one, I wanted to see other that he’s done. I really like his style and how he makes the titles reflect the film so well. If I was ever to have a go a film making I would like to try some of the effects that Cooper uses. I like how he doesnt just have the names in a conventional way in the titles, like in the titles for ”Along came a spider” and the names drip down like webbing, I can’t find it on Youtube to put it on here though. Also I really like his titles for the new “Dawn of the Dead”.

 

Joel Stewart

Again I’m not sure whether I like this style but I like Joel Stewart’s imagination as I think his ideas are great like “Underwater Farm”, I think his style works well with his ideas but that maybe just because I have only seen his style on these ideas so have nothing to compare it too. I like his images about a nose with legs and how the background is made so the image looks like a face, but I still don’t like his style and how hes done it. Some of his images were done with a carbon monoprint and I’ve never heard of them so I would like to find out what they are.

    

     

Lauren Child

I have seen Lauren Child’s work quite alot and I’m not sure whether I like it or not, I like how simple and colourful it is, I also like how she includes the type as a part of the image making the reader look at all the image, but I’m not sure whether I like just how simple it is, I know she makes children’s books so they have to be simple and colourful, and I think they work very well as children’s books but I am still unsure whether I like her style or not.