For my current project, which is to design a poster campaign for amnesty international aimed at a young audience, the bulk of the research I have conducted has been internet based, which has lead to me finding a multitude of brilliant websites with loads of innovative, contemporary graphic and illustrative work which I can draw inspiration from. Some of the work I've seen is so accomplished that it has really put into perspective the standard of my own work and reminded me that I am right at the beginning of my development into a professional visual communicator, which is slightly depressing but at the same time motivating as it makes me aspire to improve to a higher standard. Anyway, here are some links to the sites and artist's work I have looked at:
general image sites
www.ffffound.com
www.booooooom.com
www.illustrationmundo.com
www.gigposters.com
http://www.thingsmagazine.net/projects/1960s/index.htm
ad agencies
http://www.walker.ag/index_walker.htm
http://zeitguised.wordpress.com/
artists/designers
www.jenstark.com
www.danelovett.com
http://www.gigposters.com/designer/64103_Michael_Munter.html
Tuesday, 23 December 2008
Tuesday, 9 December 2008
Joint Project
This is my final image for the joint project in conjunction with colleges in Kuwait and the U.S about cultural identity. I didn't want my image to communicate a really celebratory, patriotic view of life in Britain but conversely, I did not want to portray it in a overly negative way as I believe that there are alot of positive and negative aspects of life in Britain.
I therefore chose, for the subject, something quite trivial and small in the 50p piece, which to me personally, strongly symbolises 'Britishness' due to the issues with the preservation of our currency (and the wider issues which are related to this i.e membership of the European union) and the fact it carries the hugely recognisable iconic symbol of Britain- the Queen's head.
I wanted to make the drawing small to reflect the insignificance of the object in terms of size as well as to draw people in to my personal, subjective interpretation of cultural identity.
(the image needs to be clicked on to view full size in order to read the text)
I therefore chose, for the subject, something quite trivial and small in the 50p piece, which to me personally, strongly symbolises 'Britishness' due to the issues with the preservation of our currency (and the wider issues which are related to this i.e membership of the European union) and the fact it carries the hugely recognisable iconic symbol of Britain- the Queen's head.
I wanted to make the drawing small to reflect the insignificance of the object in terms of size as well as to draw people in to my personal, subjective interpretation of cultural identity.
(the image needs to be clicked on to view full size in order to read the text)
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