Visual Rhetoric

Response: Task 4

2008-02-21T03:49:00.000-08:00

Show in graphic terms the last time you felt really satisfied.

Photos

2008-02-18T16:26:00.001-08:00

Photo Shoot

2008-02-18T16:05:00.001-08:00

Nu Rave Sunglasses

2008-02-15T08:23:00.000-08:00

New Direction

2008-02-15T08:09:00.000-08:00

After making the first lot of sunglasses, I was given the idea to make sunglasses for nu rave by Matt. Experimenting with colour to make the sunglasses look more interesting and graphic. The idea came from the peg sunglasses I made and the different colours of the pegs.

At first I researched into 'nu rave' and gathered some images I thought might help me when choosing colours to work with. This also helped me to get really creative with ideas and make colours that look horrible together, work well together.

Project Village

2008-02-14T07:20:00.000-08:00

We now have our own design space, which we must treat as our studio and fill the walls with bold visual ideas. Together we have been working in the room to make and develop ideas; this has been useful as we have all been able to give each other advice and help create new ideas.

Research

2008-02-10T13:14:00.000-08:00

I was looking at plasticine animation to get some ideas of how I could improve and develop my growth idea. I remembered a short animation about a penguin called Pingu, which I used to always watch as a child. I have chosen to look at this particular animation as the quality of the character movement is very smooth and fluid.

Daisy

2008-02-10T12:35:00.000-08:00

I have created a quick stop motion animation of a daisy growing. I used plasticine to create the daisy and foam to create the background.

I thought stop animation would be quick and easy to create, depending how smooth I wanted the animation to run. I managed to create this short animation with 12 frames to make the daisy grow.

Animation

2008-02-06T15:09:00.000-08:00

Another animation I found when looking at growth, a comical way of exploring growth.

Research

2008-02-06T12:21:00.000-08:00

I was searching for some interesting videos and found some which I found were useful for the growth task. The videos show different methods of showing growth. As the animation I have to produce needs to be 'quick and dirty' I have been thinking of ways in which I could show growth through illustration and stop frame.

I already had an idea like this, using inks and blowing them into different directions to create a natural growth.

Sunglasses

2008-02-06T12:20:00.001-08:00

Here are the first prototypes of the sunglasses for task 6. I made these sunglasses from household items and materials which can be reused and recycled. I just started making the ideas to help develop further.

I was just experimenting with different materials to see what worked visually and how I could expand from one idea. The light bulbs didn't work as sunglasses but I could use the shape to make another idea.

Inspiration

2008-02-06T11:46:00.000-08:00

I looked at some images of sunglasses to help me generate some ideas.

Getting Stuck In...

2008-02-06T11:32:00.000-08:00

I started by choosing the tasks which I found most interesting and began making very quick ideas to get the creative momentum going...

Compulsory Tasks

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The Tasks

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The Brief

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Select at least five tasks from the list that follows and
exhautively explore the visual possiblilties of
each of them.

You must also select two of the compulsory
tasks and do the same.

The work that you produce must be vigorous
and energetic yet expedient. The machine can-
not afford to lose productivity. You must create
multiple responses to each task (as a way to
reduce risk) — if a single response is made on
its own this response will be deamed invalid.

You may work in groups, as pairs or as individu-
als. In each case production must reflect the
size of the work force.

The visual ideas that you generate can be in
any media. We welcome visual ideas that go
off the page or screen and interupt spacial, con-
ceptual and social realms.

2008-02-06T09:42:00.000-08:00