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Grafikkraft is going to be my new blog which will correspond to my website. It is currently under construction and will be online soon. I am going to upload some recent work of mine as well as some inspiring references.
INVISIBLE SPHERE by Jonathan Schipper
The sphere contains 215 monitors and 215 cameras. Each camera is opposite to the monitor it feeds. The sphere constantly recreates its surroundings on its monitors from every conceivable angle at all times. The sphere is reflection of media’s attempt to remain revealing as it grows in power and becomes increasingly omni present.
Etienne Louis Boullee was a visionary French neoclassical architect. In 1784, he created this proposal for Isaac Newton's funeral monument.The originality as well as its futuristic appearance (considering this has been designed before the French Revolution) is just impressive.
His essay on the Art of Architecture which contained his work from 1778 to 1788, which mostly comprised designs for public building on a wholly impractical grand scale has still an impact on modern architecture. His focus on polarity (offsetting opposite design elements) and the use of light and shadow was highly innovative.
Today in our ppd lecture we had three alumni from the typo/graphic pathway telling us about their first years in industry after graduating from LCC and RCA. Christian Zuzunaga was one of them and told us about his approach to his work. Ever since he has been interested in patterns especially in biological structure. In his presentation he outlined his development from being inspired by these structures towards connecting those with architectural objects and expressing this connection with the medium of the letter press. The outcomes of his investigation varied from surface design, fashion or print work.
Maria Helena Vieria Da Silva - The corridor
The second project was
about interpreting an artist's work.
I chose Maria Helena Vieria Da Silva's the corridor, a painting made in 1950.
I liked her brutal deconstruction of space into fragments and her purely
abstract visual language. Here is one of her quotes in order to understand her approach to work:
-"Perspective captivate
d me to succeed in encapsulating
a whole space on a small piece of canvas"-
This sequence shows the progress of my final collage. I deconstructed photographs of Da Silva's life and reassembled them to a new abstract composition, corres
ponding to one of her major quotes, which states:
-" I acquire my learning, my knowledge, by tying threads together,
piece by piece, constantly adding more until there is
a knot inside me."-
In order to approach and translate the significance of what she saw, she
simplified, unified and even warped and distorted structure. Throughout her work o
ne get the idea that in
direct means are more effective in capturing the essential character of the se
en and thus she created a kind of personal alphabet from the external aspects of
the world around her.
Objects became signs, and with the repetition of
those she created her own visual language.
My first project of the second year of my Graphic and Media Design BA with the pathway Typo/Graphics at LCC was about designing a ma
gazine. I designed the first edition of the magazine'Grafikkraft'. I chose the name as it is a quite expressive German word that should explain my very own approach towards Graphic design.
One of my favourite statements in this book is the following:
-"You are a member of the most extraordinary animal species
that has ever lived on this planet.
Understand your animal nature and accept it!"-
I am very interested into this topic as it covers subjects of science, nature, philosophy as well as science-fiction. At this stage I really want to investigate more into this approach towards our own species.
Who are we?
Where did we come from?
Where are we going to?
Who do we think we are?
What makes us different?
What makes us so superior but also so primitive?
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