28/09/2017

    Today is the final day of Fashion and Textiles, through these days, I understand and find out it might not be what I want, but the process and experience is still interesting and unforgettable. During this week, I found that there is a lot off drawing has been used in  the class, and it is a important skill if we are studying Fashion and Textiles. Drawing is one of the most important visual communication tools used by both Fashion and Textile disciplines to communicate ideas. This project develops our drawing skills by introducing us to a variety of unusual approaches to drawing and mark making.

    We will emphasize elements of our observational drawings and mark making into illustrative outcomes. translating observations by looking at composition, line, tone, exaggeration, scale, colour and texture, using a range of drawing mediums & materials each with different qualities for you to explore. The project is also designed for us to experiment with other ways of visually communicating our ideas. 

    So today we have been asked to combine our works from Monday and Tuesday to create a final piece. Initially I considered the structure in relation to the body. By using these structures to style a group of models with a mixture of draping material, costume and accessories. Investigate this intensively through drawing. This exercise then be repeated using the same techniques but manipulating and reinterpreting the structure away from the body. After experimenting with drawing and mark making I spent time looking at other methods of visually communicating my ideas. Then I decided further which direction I want take my structure, documenting the process with experimentation within sketchbook.

02/10/2017

   Today is the first lesson of Fine art and also the penultimate pathway though all our diagnostic pathways, it means I need to decide what I am going to focus on for the rest of the year. From the beginning, Fine art is my top choice, during these days, I am more sure about my decision. I love Fine Art, I feel really comfortable and enjoyable in today's lesson; creative, innovative and unique. Today's topic is collection, we've been looked though a lot of artists works, they are coming from different countries, I can see the different between medias and thinking directions, during this process, I can find out how interesting the art is. And also I have learnt some new words may appear and help creating my own inspiration.

    1. Methodology ----> Between CONTROL and DELIBERATE

    2. Appropriation 

    3. Context ----> Value can be ALTERED

    4. Standardisation ----> COMPARE and CONTRAST

     This is an interesting artwork in the presentation, it has been made by a Chinese artist, it was when she need to clean her room, and this was how she collect the rubbish or wastes from her home. Looking carefully, things been place orderly from big scale fabric to small scale for example toothbrush and lighter. I found that when combine a large number of things even they are small, but the effect will be very impressive. 

    Then what we did for a short practice is that in a group we collect our own stuffs and place them in a reasonable way.  

    We have six people in our group, we only place our own stuffs in specific areas which means we have all got individual sections to place our things, but looked from whole scale  they are in one part. We all set near own sections, the reason is that, from own part, we can defined the character of this person, and what kind of girl she is. For example, at bottom right, there are many different colour pens and pencils in a big pot, this might shows the girl near it likes drawing also at bottom left, chocolate biscuit, marble chocolate and chips, this girl might be hungry now and she likes chocolate. This little collection is very funny and I like the look of those collection been placed very neat and orderly.

   At lunch time, we have been told to collect ten things according to 2-5 ideas, and there must be a theme around these collections. Thinking about the media and the way it appears and how can I collect them. 

   One word just went to my mind: Red, this is my favourit colour and somehow it do not appear frequently but it is really stand out. So I collected the things that is red and in a simple background, because I want the red really obvious.

    Here are my collections:

    Very interesting is that, the chairs in whole classroom are based on black and blue, but at a secrete corner, I found a red chair which really delight me. 

    This is a good shot, because the wall is white which makes the fire hydrant stand out more prominently. 

    Those two things are very popular and well-known in London, the colour always make me happy everyday. As you can see above, my theme must be red which is my favourit colour. The reason why I want to pick it as a topic is because there are quite a few things that cover by red, and red always exist alone. 

    Then what for next: 

    I have used photoshop to develop the pictures. Red has been retained in the picture whereas other colour turned black and white. This is what I want, because this is very obvious and people will find out quickly,  when I place them together, they will look greater, the red will be the most attractive.

   This is my favourite picture, this lady didn't realize that I was taking photos of her. She wore a red coat and walked pass the street, when I took this photo, the wind was very strong therefore you can see the coat has been moved and her hear was flying.  The style of the background looks like previous century, because people used white and black pictures before, and this is the sense of the age.

03-05/10/2017

    This is a project that aligns to the Fine Art: 3D pathway Contemporary artistic practice is incredibly open, definitions of which are being constantly discussed and updated. Sculpture and installation can begin with artists finding that working in three dimensions is the most appropriate method of communicating their ideas; equally, the starting point can be a response to materials and space in their own right. Often the process will combine both approaches – conceptual and ‘thinking by making’. You have all had an induction to the workshops at Archway. This project is specifically designed to allow you to apply technical skills towards three dimensional outcomes. 

    So Tuesday and Thursday we have been prepared a presentation of a final piece for our own collection. So what I have got from Poundland is a red yarn and red and black tapes. I have print the pictures and decided to stick them on a piece of wall. During this two days, I found out more photographs for red around my life, and I collected them adding to my presentation. 

09/10/2017

   Graphic communication is a new subject to me, it includes a wide range areas, it combines core graphic and communication design skills with image, styling, journalism and digital platforms. The work is specifically located within the fashion industry.

    Through some examples, we know I a graphic designer working on a thing or a word. In my group, we have been given both adjective and none shown below:

    What I got is Fabric, it is a kind of materials such as clothes, and my partner got Political. Therefore we need to making work representing Political fabric. This is a tricky topic for us, and here are my brain stone:

    So our idea is that, people are been controlled by the government, It's like having a lot of invisible hands pulling people from different directions, they all affect our life. 

    We find two people to help us pulling kitty's shirt and hear, black goes really well because we can see the grain on the shirt, the more harder the more grain appear. Kitty looks like she is hopeless, being dominated by life and pressure.

    This idea come to my mind really quickly, sometimes we live like transparent air, no one can hear us, and understand us, we can only tell the story to ourselves, we scream and seek help, but it just no one there. The word hopeless, and look like a puppet.

     Then we bought a bigger bed sheet as our fabric. Our idea has been developed because we might think the problem in other directions, this is how we work in graphic design, the important thing is the the process of achievements.

    Then we thought about going outside, using the material and object around the street for example trees or public bins. We trying to think widely and focus on political, then act with fabric sheet.

     The lesson is really interesting today, and we have looked thought other groups' work, some of them made a video to record a moment of movement, so maybe next time, I can make a video to give the project live and time. Also for my fabric, video might be a good choice to try, because the texture will really work in the video. But by the way I am satisfying with the works today.

    At my leisure time, I have added some special effects on the pictures to make them more attractive, catching people's eyes, and stand out. 

11/10/2017

    Today's lesson is an interesting part in Graphic design, the topic for today was Lost letters, when I first saw the topic, a lot of posters and advertisement came to my mind. letters and words are really important nowadays around our daily life, we use them to communicate with somebody else, we use them to transfer information. Now back to the topic, why are they lost? they might be separated in different places, they might be located in a invisible place or a place that is difficult to find out. It lifted my curiosity and made me exciting for this lesson.

    About illustration:

    This lesson is about Illustration which is the visualisation and interpretation of ideas, concepts and information that also works as a means of expression. It takes diverse forms and exists in a variety of mediums from drawing to printmaking, digital to 3D. Illustration exists in the world and is for the world; it reflects society and is shaped by what surrounds it. It is a vehicle that sheds light on the most diverse topics and makes them accessible to everyone. Illustration is an outward facing discipline that exists primarily in the context of the public realm.

    Today's Project Description:

    This one-day project is an introduction to illustration and printmaking. The project also introduces us to the possibilities for combining type with image or using type as image. I will create an image using screen-printed elements in combination with a printed letterform to explore a narrative of our choice. The printed letterforms available are all from incomplete alphabets, they have lost the ability to spell whole words. So I need to use them to make visual stories, sounds and characters by exploring illustration, composition, colour, repeat and sequence.

     Start:  

     First when I get the letter 'C' i am a bit confused because the letter has been rotated therefore it looks like a 'n' but with a wider mouth. What is it look like? I asked myself, first come to my mind is the original telephone which got both speaker and receiver, the shape is exactly the same, but suddenly I passed this idea, because it is not very unique and also the letter is placed in the middle of the paper, so that the printing will only looks good when around it. What about a hedgehog?Its back is round, so that the shape can be used as its back and I can maybe add some background or decoration around it. But looking carefully of the shape, the letter is not that around, it is lose and thin, like a spreading smoke. Wait! What about smoke, it actually look like the smoke that next to the volcano, it stay near the volcano and take a long time to disappear. This is a really good idea, and in my opinion Mountain FUJI can be the best choice. Finally I have used Mountain FUJI with the smoke as my project today, and I have made a wonderful one-day work at the end of the lesson as well.

     Process:

14/10/2017

   To look at the world as a designer is as Paul Rand said to understand that “design is relationships. Design is relationship between form and content” and in that respect “everything is design, everything”. This project engages with the relationship between text and location and explores a core skill of a graphic designer to create typographic interventions in the everyday environment as a form of communication. 

   So for today's lesson we will make, install and photograph a site specific text work that responds to or changes a space within the building or local area. The challenge is to connect my chosen message to my location in a surprising and inventive way so that the viewer is encouraged to look again and engage differently with somewhere familiar, forgotten or unremarkable. This topic sound really attractive because it relevant to the surroundings, so that people can actually touch it or feel it like a individual immersive environment.

   We have been looked at a few artists examples, Alex Peemoller's work really inspired me, it looks like Alex separated one word in to different pieces, and placed them in individual areas for example walls and ground. Someone might ask that, it looks really confuse when looking at it, because in some directions, the word can not connect perfectly so that it looks unusual, but there must be a good viewing point that we can define the word completely.

    So these are the three places I have found in the building, they all look geometrical with shapes. Then finally, I chose the last one which is at the basement, because there are three walls that I can use. So that the spaces I can use are three dimensional.

    Therefore here are my final project:

25/10/2017

    This is the last day of our 4D lessons. We have presented our own works in today‘s lessons, which we prepared during last two days. It was very exciting because we can share and talk about our projects with group members, The role is that the producer will close their mouth and it's time for visitor to describe and discuss what they think the video is about. This is a really important and interesting process because people will help me achieve my project, and I can also collect ideas and learn from them.

    We are all made our video based on different timelines, some are in 1960 whereas some is the present. Therefore it is very good having a change and a refresh of our eyes. During this process, I found out a lot of interesting effects that people used and different ways that they are trying to express their memories and inspirations. It is very useful to think why and what the present want to talk and what its means because we will do the same process to ourselves when we are doing a project. In my point of view, it doesn't need to be very complex or full of images and information, the important is the feeling and the motions that gives to the viewer when produce the project. During these lesson, I found that when watching a same video, people are all in different faces, some people are enjoyable whereas some are suffering pain. For instance, I don't enjoying bloody things and death bodies, they are like nightmare, but people collect them and made a video, However the meaning is quite good, he said that Sleep for health, otherwise we will die for less relax. 

    Actually the day goes quickly, we have looked though all of our projects. My project is about collecting the voice of the water according to the changes of the shape, but people in my group linked it with global warming which I am a bit confuse about, but I think that might be because of it is about the nature. 

    It is worth to learn 4D, however I might not that in it compared with Fine art 3D, but I really enjoy the things we did these days, I have learnt a little knowledge about Adobe Premiere which will be very useful in the future, because personally, I am a film lover, and I record my life frequently, however I am not very professional but it will develop my skills and also will wider the spaces of my inspiration. 

23/10/2017

    Today is the first day after part one, as I suppose, I am now focus on the Fine Art, but the different is that we still need to fine it out more specific, because Fine Art has been separated to three parts which are 2D,3D and 4D. Today is based on 4D, which means movement such as movies or short cuts. It was a really busy day because we have been learnt using Adobe Premiere Pro through all day. The same as Photoshop but Premiere is for movies, this knowledge is new to me, so that I am really exciting about it, and also it might be useful in the future, arts are always link to each other.

    We have been looking though a number of artists and their examples, LUX collection is a good website because we have found out a lot of interesting artists on it, the CNN Concatenated has been made by one of the artist, The movie combined a lot of short cut of the CNN news of each words of different presenter, and re-edit them together to make new sentences. The most interesting things is that, the movie told us not fair of dying, the sentence was " Do not leave, nobody will die in front of television." I am quite confuse at the first time actually, but suddenly I realize that the artist is encourage us to continue watching the video and do not leave. This is a really good idea to transmit the information because the artist knows that the visitor will listen really carefully and focus on each piece of the words. It makes the video sound amuse and interesting. Then Christian Marclay's work " The Clock" has also been mentioned in class, it is like a game of time, and it looks like there is an another world in television but we all live within the time. 

    However most of the movies are about combing the sound and the results are perfect, therefore I decided to make a collection of the voices of water. As we all know that water always change its shape, and it sounds different when in specific situation for example water drop sounds different with it comes with river or in the sea, this is because of the scale, it is the power of the number. And also it might because of the time, even the sea is huge and brimless, but it also comes from individual drop of water, and it takes time. Raining is also important, because that is how the nature create water. 

    In this project I decided to separate pictures and audios, because I want people to define which scale of the water it is according to listen the audio, and then the pictures appear on the screen. So hear first and then people will be able to visualise. And this is how I though today, the full video will be made tomorrow.

    Today's project is about three dimension. This is a pathway that contemporary artistic practice is incredibly open, definitions of which are being constantly discussed and updated. Sculpture and installation can begin with artists finding that working in three dimensions is the most appropriate method of communicating their ideas; equally, the starting point can be a response to materials and space in their own right. Often the process will combine both approaches – conceptual and ‘thinking by making’. This project is specifically designed to allow us to apply technical skills towards three dimensional outcomes.

    We have looked at a 3D lecture about a few artist, especially a Mexican artist Damián Ortega, his artwork is a big ball with newspapers. Every day from the 29th August to 27th September 2010, Ortega responded to something that caught his eye in the newspaper, which he then attempted to communicate or embody in some way. Using readily available urban materials, Ortega by the end of the month had made close to 30 three-dimensional works that together reflected the ‘stuff’ of a big city, and provided a snapshot of what had happened in the world. This is a unique method of collect and made two dimension things three dimensional. Also in my opinion, this is a experience of accumulation and overlapping. So we have been told to use this method during this weekend.

    We are going to use Ortega’s methods, but we will make an outcome or outcomes related to the articles of a single day rather than a whole month. Before the project begins, you need to identify something in a newspaper that interests me. We’ll refer to this as our ‘story’, but it could be a photograph, a graphic, a crossword puzzle—anything that stands out for me. Newspaper is a good material to collect information and images. a piece of information a title or even a shape can give my inspiration.