Lecture 7...Reading 5....Response

The Conceptual Image

- Ideas and concepts are not just narrative information
- Armando Testa (1917-1992) - Italian, abstract painter then graphic designer
- Primary = the image
- Secondary = short sentence or one word in advertisements.
- Poster art emerged because of the destroyed city of Poland, this was a monumental tribute.
- Posters for cultural events, the circus, politics and movies are very important ways of communicating the message
- Collage:
                 - started with a more menacing and surreal communication and posters in posters and experimental animated films.
                 - Flowing, stylized contour lines.
- Main mediums - acrylics, crayon, pencil and watercolour
- 1000 posters were created by Swierzy
- Logo becomes a main symbol
- Illustration coming to a close due to other mediums
- Photography is starting to take over
- Six million copies of posters were produced
- Geometric forms and abstract signs were also produced by Glaser in the 1980s and 1990s
- Barry Zaid - Architecture and self taught graphic designer
- Painting and Colonial American art was produced by Paul Davis
- Richard Hess was inspired by Paul Davis
- Designers and artists used a bunch of mediums to produce their concepts and ideas
- Political Monuments - posters were a very popular form of medium during the 1960s
- Many artists and designers were 'self-taught' - pretty amazing and talented people
- Poetry - Emotion and unexpected experiences - form of expression
- Photography is manipulated - sense of magic or mystery - never thought of photography like that really
- Produced more possibilities for computer graphics
Posters, place cards and handmade goods because very popular in the late 1960s in Paris
- Design was a way of getting profit
- Universal symbols were used within designs to capture a wider audience
- Mediums for war periods consisted of newspapers, radio and posters mainly
- Graphic Designers worked with governments who had missions
- Posters and brochures for third world organisations and ideological view points
- Conceptual images = very important in the design world

Lecutre 6....Notes

Today in the lesson we spent the entire time doing our metaphor assignment. This was very helpful and I got a lot more done than I thought I would.

For my assignment I'm doing a Mondrian grid, using the primary colours then placing the metaphor pictures and designers within this grid. I 'accidentally' did a metaphor for the grid due to the Mondrian grid being a metaphor for modernism.

We got given a reading for this week but the notes for it will be published in week 7 after I have completed the reading :) 

Lecture 5.....Notes

Today in class we watched a movie called 'Print and Copy'.
We didn't receive a reading for this week therefore there is no notes or reading responses. :)