Primitive London-Final Design

Preparing for a final-Primitive London

Tutorial Session with Annegrete

I brought in all of my pieces to get some feedback on each and in general I think I need to touch upon the final finishes on each project. These are some feedbacks I had in class;

• The Last Flower Project: Why is that perticular shape? -What is the message behind? 
• Self initiated Brief: What's the message? -What do I want to tell people for being only female? How can I make connection to others?
• Nudism Brief: Typography definitely needs to develop. 

Next Step

 Write out an introduction page for each project focusing on who is my audience and if I made choices of materials in each project then address why I have chosen that particular one. 

something else-poster design

Poster design for UCL Korean Society Party

Something else I worked for outside college! 

Sometimes working for a project outside of school project gives me a break and keeps me going :)

ps. My design for Nudism project is on its final touch to add text given but I am really struggling...argh!

Sketches

sketchbook

A4

Collage sketches on papers from Yellow Pages

A4

Title sketch

A5

Primitive London-research/inspirations/experiementations

I spent time watching and capturing the images of the movie for the whole day...The capturing process was sooo tiring and boring...but in the end I realised how important the process was. In general, to be honest I really liked Carousella by John Irvin and Tim Miller than the actually film which was mainly about the life behind three strippers and it engaged me to feel how the pitfall environments that they are trying to live up for their dreams and sometimes being 'ordinary' is difficulty for them. Anyways, talking back about the film Primitive London, since this brief was open about any mediums or style in the magazine as I have said early on I wanted to use some illustrations in the magazine but before I move on to that point, I wanted to study the colour and images that I would work inspired by the film so that I can portray 1960's London in my design. 

                                                                                   COLOUR INSPIRATIONS    

                                                                                  TEXTURE INSPIRATIONS    

Final experimentation was to experiment using glitter on different papers inspired by the neon signs from London at night time. At this point I am not sure if I would use these glitter/dust effect in my design though ...hmmm...

                                                                                  EXPERIMENTATIONS    

Nudism brief-research/experimentation

Captured from 'London in the raw' 

A film by Arnold L.Miller

Captured image with Hand written typography

inspired by a song 'forbidden fruit' within the documentary

Illustration works 

 

I have placed an order of my DVD for 'Primitive London' on Amazon because I couldn't get it anywhere in HMVs around both Oxford and Bond street. So till my DVD arrives (which will be tomorrow afternoon) I just wanted to start exploring and experiment the sort of format I want to work with. I have to be honest that I haven't done much of drawing since my foundation year and plus I wanted to add some of illustrations and hand written text in this project which will take hell lot of more time than working on computers so I just wanted to practice my hand drawing skills :) 

Anyways, watching the film was interesting since I was so fascinated by the colours, fashions, mood through out the film and the background music, especially its lyrics. So that's the reason why I think I spent time writing down its lyrics because I just think they are so attractive. 

In general, even though I have been living in London quite a long time it was kind of a wake up call for me to visit and to look around places for inspirations inside London. For this weekend, I might visit some of the places to take few photographs to get some inspirations and I will have to wait for my DVD to arrive! Till then, I will go to sleep now...

'The only Female'-Self initiated brief

My family background

                      

Since my interest lies in feminism and role of women in society, I decided to use myself within my family hood to start the idea of this project. I thought it might get little risky to use myself in this project as it might gets too personal, but I think my family background is rather unusual since I am the only female member throughout the generations. Personally, this background has influenced my life greatly that I think it even effected my style of work. Also, I had to feel always lonely and left out for being the only female that most of times I had no one else who could understand the feelings of being a typical women and it built a complex relationship with my dad, too. The project moved on illustrating myself within the dominance of male existence in my family and on to my personal letter that I am addressing some of real emotions that I have been always wanted to say to my dad. As being an only daughter, most of times I had to act(or pretend) to be a better daughter than I am and it involved some sacrifices in my life,too. I guess this project was more focused on myself as I wanted to break out my dad's shell and may be become a bigger person on my own. 

        Final outcome                                                                                                                                                                  

Feed back with David Preston

I enjoyed today's crit because we were separated in two different groups so I had a smaller group in the afternoon to discuss about my project. So we had more time to think about each projects and lot of discussions were thrown on the table. David mentioned that we should bring more experiments and process to crits which I felt the same too so it was a reminder for myself. Anyways, in general I was bit worried if my project was too personal but in the end I realised it became strong because it was based on my fact and the group suggested that I should target the message of the male dominance in the society in a broader content. I really wanted to push my idea such as a shoe stack in 3D installation piece and someone in my group suggested I could possibly do that for my final degree show which I thought it would be interesting. 

Feed back on illustration: Good but the relationship of myself and family isn't clear. Try to map it more clearly so the viewer can understand the relationships better. 

Relevance: Is that relevant to people? Start few investigations more and extend it to a bigger visual audience. May be compare myself to someone who isn't?

Nest Step: Collect other people who are in similar situation. Interview them and see how they thinks. 

Inspirations-thoughts on self initiated breif

I had several feedbacks on my self initiated brief already from last term and this term, but to be honest, I haven't really moved on far as I wanted it to be. The overall my interest lies in female in society mainly about beauty and how women are been represented through social media. The topic of my interest is so broad at the moment, so I feel like I need to definitely narrow it down at some point..So this weekend's task for myself would be to concentrate on focusing down my interest in one topic and possibly work on the medium for the final piece. The sort of medium I am thinking right now is an interaction between light and body which I have done similar work in past (shown below:Tarot Card project 2008). Also, I want my final piece to contain photography, collage and some illustrations ( I might think it may be a form of a magazine or book). If I would to take some photograph it would mean I would need some probes and model so I better figure out what I want to provoke for the viewer as soon as possible!!

                                                                        RESEARCH          

Aemin Annie Lee 

Annie's print work involves images of the "Barbie" Doll and of paper dolls."I returned to the innocence of my childhood, only to realize how adulterated childhood can be." The child "role playing" as an adult is a strong theme throughout Annie's work. Annie explores the curiosity and innocence that a child can have in her six page "Letter From Barbie". The images read: "My name is Barbie. What is yours? So you want to play with me? Let's play doctor! What about playing parents? Have you kissed? Why don't we try that…"

Sandi L. Kozlowski

"These doll forms and pieces represent how a majority of women feel about their bodies and how they are 'disconnected' from the total person. We all have our flaws, but for some reason women are viewed as less than perfect when all the pieces don't conform to what most, especially men, think the female body should be, or how they would like the female body 'to be.' As a result, we would like to fly away to a place where no judgments are made. Also we feel trapped and bound to conform to standards that are not realistic. All eyes are on us."

Lisa Ruth

"Worn Out Doll". The segment explores various strong personal themes such as suppression, isolation and depression through typography, motion graphics, music, still and video images, along with 3D and hand drawn animation pieces. All of the elements combine to explore the dark side of human nature. Lisa is also a poet and musician.

Self initiated project-ideas

 We say women now days are strong and independent, but I still believe that we are so fragile inside and only try to be strong at the outside. The society encourage this image of women through media through many celebrities and leaders in the world, but I think there is always a conflicted feelings of women being a strong but at the same time we want to be protected and sometimes wanting someone to know the weakness we carry.

I realised that many times often, the images of women in art has reflected with skeletons. It works may be because we, women, know how fragile we can be more than man and because women are definitely are weaker than man (emotionally and physically), we are more exposed to the world to become victims.

Also, may often women are viewed as selfish and greedy to have what we do. Most of men tend to think we are crazy about something that they think it is a total waste of time but what actually is worth for spending your money/ time? The first poster touched me because personally, I resist myself all the time for other's happiness rather than mine compare to someone who are selfish for themselves all the time. But who is right or wrong because at the end of all, it is all about your happiness, isn't it?

Book Design-Binding

Obama Autobiography book

Capture the mood of the Author in each page

2010

My first bind sketchbook!

Book binding has been one of my weakest point because I am just so bad at making stuff...! Anyways it fascinates me at the same time and I believe a good binding adds the quality of the design at the end so for my What if brief I would want to do something that involves the experience of opening a book or reading. My last What If brief was more about the Feminism which I want to avoid now because I just want to move away from the topic and experiment on different things. 

INSPIRATIONS

                             

Bendita Gloria

Animo fraudulento y saboteador

                                  

If I look back now...why did I think my work was satisfying when it wasn't? 

How did I become so ignorant about my piece? 

Why did I think I can get around not trying my best all the time? 

How come it took me this long to realise that there will be no satisfaction what ever I do
because there will be always a better design in the end.

The last flower-Final

Last Flower project-interim crit

The Last Flower

Brief description: Document it before it dies since there will never be another one. Choose a single flower, it must be a single flower. Consider any and all media in your investigations, as a means to capture the 'experience' of the flower as well as its all physical attributes.

My starting point begun from capturing the presence of the flower around my house rather than its physical appearance and during the documentation, I had to move around the flower around my flat when I was taking care of my friend's cat, I realised the space of emptiness when I moved it in different places. I took series of photographs in each cases, eg. flower in living room to my room etc, and I marked the presence of a flower highlighting it with black and white photograph in contrast to its original coloured photographs. Since this did not follow the brief which it had to show the process of flower dying gradually, I then moved on to thinking about how I can capture the existence of a flower in an very accurate way that is possible.

                                                                                                      EXPERIMENTS                                             

So, I thought of few different ideas to capture the physical appearance of a flower and I decided to embalm it so that the viewer can see it different angles, touch and observe it in an very accurate manner. 

First, I used Fine leaf Gelatine mixed with PVA glue(so that it holds the gelatine and flower together). I needed a structure to fill in the Gelatine so I used half of ordinary juice box and poured the liquid in there to settle. For rest, I followed the same process that involves making Jelly, and later I added my bits of dead flowers at the top and waited few good hours to get the result.

Flower in Gelatine+PVA glue 

Also, through the documentation I collected some amount of water from the flower pot underneath the flower. I was really thinking of communicating the presence of the flower in this way that I am not giving the viewer direct image of flower but rather presenting them the existence of it.

This is a failure test that I have done before I started Gelatine with PVA, that I tried mixing it with red ink and poured in a structure that I have cut out from a form board. The result went horrible wrong but I think I quite enjoyed working in 3D forms which I haven't done since I started this course :)