One more day in young designer's life: January 2011

Friday 28 January 2011

Another Ditto Press Thing

One of our exercises was to complete a photo with geometric forms. There are photo I used and the final image made of it:

Thursday 27 January 2011

Ditto Press Proccess part III

I've been inspired by Japanese ornaments, when creating that pattern:

Ditto Press Proccess part II

I've been working by myself on different patterns.
This was my first try

Ditto Press Proccess

We are working on Ditto Press project for almost 3 weeks and actually did a great amount of work. Some people got stuck, some people still don't really know what to do with the brief. I am not sure that I am doing everything right, but I am very excited about the project and about the experimentations we are doing on lessons. I will divide them for few posts, because of the big mount of images.
There you go.

On the first lesson we were tracing interesting figures from
the Gaudi's appartments roof. Then we were experimenting with the results

I traced all results in Illustrator at home.
I am quite like both of the patterns.

Spanish Weekend

We went to the Spain for this weekend. It was cold but anyway better than in London. Here are some photos:)

My Illustrations for Pop Up Shop

Which is cancelled it event now...I've been working for almost 2 weeks, this illustrations supposed to be printed on a T-Shirts. These are just test ones. However I am really upset because of the cancellation...

Ditto Press. New Brief

So, holidays are gone, and we have a new brief. Ditto press is a print/publishing company based in London. Our final product should be a test prints to show off the capabilities of riso printer in an innovative and interesting way. Range of issues:

The way the ink sits on different papers

Legibility with different fonts

Overlapping different colours

Different photographic rasterisation effects

Gradient effects

Anything else we can think of

We had our first lesson after briefing at Tuesday. The task was to generate a pattern from the different images we've been given.And, of course, put it on our blog. So, I've been just playing around the images, traced it in Illustrator and that is what I have.

Artist: Yoskay Yamamoto

I cannot remember now, how I discovered this artist. However I fell in love with his works from the first view.

"Born and raised in Toba, Japan. Yoskay moved to the United States at the age of 15. A self-trained illustrator, Yamamoto's artistic tastes expanded as he fell in love with the urban culture of the West Coast. Yamamoto discovered a way to fuse the two different cultural backgrounds together into his work. Yamamoto nostalgically blends pop iconic characters from his new Western home with traditional and mythical Japanese elements, balancing his Asian hertitage with urban pop art."

Artist: Youshitaka Azuma

Born in Osaka in 1977, Azuma earned a BA in Fine Art from Kyoto University of Art & Design and was represented by Hiromi Yoshii Gallery in Tokyo, where he last held a solo exhibition in January of this year. Azuma was known for richly detailed paintings and drawings in which outlined forms such as the figures of young girls were filled with dense, psychedelic imagery including skeletons, geometric patterns and imaginary landscapes. Representative of the Yoshii gallery's aesthetic favoring colorful, figurative works with a subcultural bent, Azuma was included in the group show of young Japanese artists "After the Reality," curated by Yoshii for New York's Deitch Projects in 2006. Other major group exhibitions in which the artist participated include Fukutake House at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial in 2006 and "Portrait Session" at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art in 2007.