A Talk with Designer: Lawrence Azerrad

    Lawrence Azerrad was a passionate design. I was interested that his design is highly related in music such as album cover, or posters. He talked very friendly, and his presentation was easy to understand with videos. His talk was impressive because he shared his experience about design specifically and he had a rigid belief what creativeness is. He emphasized that the creativeness is from experience and life. He also said that the connection and purpose of design is significant part of design. His design is practical, which actually apply in many places. His story of designing was unique but it is thing that I can do it. I was very interested in his supersonic plane poster works because he made the poster after he actually took the plane.

Project 2!

I began my project in a panicked state as I rattled my brains for a theme that could be somewhat related to my artist models Karl Benjamin and Cassandre. Lego was the best I could think of so I rolled with that. I took a lot of inspiration for my drawings from Cassandre's posters and also from the Bauhaus movement which was coincidentally around the same era that lego was made, 1932. 

I am really happy with the way mine turned out after battling with gluing and having to re-do one. 

clockwise from the top left they are movement, balance, proportion, emphasis and economy.

Words come to life..

Finally our class project on Movement, Proportion, Emphasis & Economy, and Balance is complete! I am so relieved to be done with it after over 100 sketches and numb fingers from cutting all the designs. I decided on a concept of "Words come to life" through endangered species. Here are the final pieces and some sketches from along the way. 

The entire set...

Design Principle of Movement...

Design Principle of Emphasis & Economy...

Design Principle of Proportion...

Design Principle of Balance...

Creativity of Simon Doonan

Creativity of Simon Doonan

    I did not know about Simon Doonan and his career until I participated in this art talk. In addition, it was a first time that I was in art talk. So the art talk was unique itself to me. He was professional in fashion which I am not interested in, and he was not only creative designer but also speaker. I was impressed that he developed his style in window dress which only few designer did. He stated in art talk that there is no 'good taste' because it is subjective concept and always better idea with better reason. I did not think about this before but his saying was firmly logical. I was inspired and touched in the importance of establishment of one's style from his art talk. I think that is the most interested and inspired explanation about success of designer. 

The Art of Clean Up

I've been meaning to post the link to Ursus Wehrli's artwork for a couple of weeks now. He's a Swedish artist with a book called "The Art of Cleanup"

It's unbelievably satisfying and I thought I'd share. I've posted some examples and you can find some more here. 

Brewery Art Walk

I just found out about an event called the Brewery Art Walk which takes place downtown on October 25-26.  The Brewery where this is has actually been converted into a massive art space which houses over 100 resident artists and their studios.  The art ranges in everything from sculpture, to photography, to fashion, and anything else imaginable.  Needless to say there will be plenty to see, and admission is free!
http://breweryartwalk.com

Andy Warhol: Shadows at MOCA

Two weeks ago, MOCA welcomed Andy Warhol's Shadows, a 102 part painting series. The series consists of silk screen and handpainted canvases featuring two different compositions. The collection was inspired by photographs of shadows taken in Warhol's NYC studio. The positive and negative imprints feature a stunning range of hues with canvases alternating between a black positive on a colored ground and a small colored form on a black background. The overt repetition seen in the series is very Warhol, while the abstract subject and form strays away from his typical use of cultural icons and products. I encourage everyone to attend the exhibition, as it exemplifies many of the design elements we are studying this semester. Shadows runs through February 2, 2015.