Collage

Friday's Image class we learned about Collage.

This class was so fun that we were told to cut and paste from newspapers to a postcard size paper.

In the first try, tutor gave us some themes which were: Composition, Editing, Contrast, Rhythm, Texture, Repurposing, Juxtaposition, Surrealism, Narrative and Humour. I chose Surrealism for my first collage.

 My first try: Surrealism

In our first try, most of us didn't give too much "white space" in our collage, so that themes in the our collage may not stand out easily, so under tutor's direction, we made our second try with more white space.

The idea is much more clear than first one! amazing "white space"!

In the third try, we were told to made 5 collages which were using one, two, three, four and five pieces of pictures in each collage. ( Time limited )

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My working process was did 2, 3 and 4 at first, and then 5, the last one was 1. 

I found it wasn't easy to do collage by limiting how many piece of pictures to put in a collage. Because with the limitation, we have to think about the space and what kind of image is necessary to put or not. The most hardest one for me was working on the collage with only one picture on it. Simplest is the hardest, how to made an image to be standing out and also consider about its meaning with just one picture is not easy. It took me some times to keep finding the perfect one to put, finally i ran out of the time and as the result you can see, I'm not satisfied with it. :p

I really had a great time in this class. After class, we even kept talking about how fun we had today. I love the working process and sharing works with each other. Although i found that "Simple is not easy!", I like the challenge and I will keep trying!

In the end of the class, we were told to collage 100 cards until the end of this term, how excited! cant wait to put myself in the collage world!

Text and Image

Today's VCT class was about text and image. We did a little game which was to combine some texts and post cards together, and then described to other groups why we made them connect with each other.

Through this game, we realized that we all read the texts first before finding the images to match with.

  

I found it interesting because i never thought about text was so important for graphic design. For graphic design, the first thing i would come up with was "color", i never thought about text was the soul to transmit the massages to our audience. Text is the medium that graphic designers communicate in.

In next weeks of this class, we are asked to bring an example of a text and image combination that we find interesting, so I did some research on the Internet, and i found these designs which inspired me a lot below:

This one is interesting because when I looked at it at first, i couldn't tell that there were 4 Chinese words combined with together to become this image. The illustration in the 2 red Chinese words is what the meaning blue ones about! 

This one would be my favourite! The image we see is totally combined with texts!

:)

Cooking

Cooking is a sort of art...i think....

Elegant

Shot @ Hyde Park, 30/9

Tent London Exhibition

Exhibition: Tent London Exhibition

Date: 23/9/2010

Location: Brick Lane

This was what i found the most interesting design in Tent London Exhibition.

The designer is from Japan, she used different colours of non-woven cloth to bring out this series of wall decoration.

Very impressive!! :)

5/10 Afternoon Task

The task on the first day of class was to work with a group to find an image and a URL of something related to graphic design that inspires the group, we also had to give a short piece of writing analysing the image and justifying why we chose it. ( members of our group: Kyu, Tracy and me )

Below is the image our group chose for today's mission:

Rainbow Church by Tokujin Yoshioka

Here's the mock blog we set up for today's task

click me :)

The toughest thing for me in this task was that we had to analyse and describe the image in English in a short time, we tried very hard to come up with some words, but i had a great time and experience working with my group. Helping with each other and sharing different opinions and ideas, even though our description in English was not so good but i think that's the main point of team working --- to help and support with each other! :)

I'll keep trying!

1st day of my FdA class

Today was my first day of FdA class, because of my limited language ability, i found it so hard to understand and participated in some discussion with classmates in the class even if i had something to share. ( I know tutors kept encouraging us "Don't be shy" but i guess I'm just not brave and confident enough to speak out loud in front of everyone ) i wish my English could be good enough to say and explain anything i want to express.

Although there were a little frustration today, i still found something fun in one of the sessions. The task was to take some photos from different angles of materials in our classroom.

Below are some of my photos shot by my iPHONE4 :)

 First series of the shot:
Different materials of objects in the same angle of view

Second Series of the shot:
I tried to take different angle from the first series

 

Holes through holes