Amazing Typography

Hey guys!
Its 10:11pm and I have just finished my homework! So, I thought I'd go through my numerous bookmarks and post some of the cool things I found online.

What I'm going to show you today is some amazing and creative examples of Typography that I found online; 50 to be exact. But for the moment, I'm going to only show you some of my favourites!


This is a piece by ~um0p3pisdn. I LOVED the detail put into this piece. Now only is the text warped to form an actual person, the depth put into the piece was breathtaking. I loved how the artist used colour to show a 3D effect in this piece. I can't even imagine the time and effort put in to make this graphic image.

The second image I chose to show you was by ~swordfishll. I personally read this poem recently in my English class so it immediately caught my eye. I really liked the colour choice for this piece. I also liked that this image looks so simple yet so complex at the same time. The piece is mostly flat without much depth but the detail put into it to make the branched of the tree was really cool!

This is the last piece I chose to include as one of my favourites. It was made by ~e-emoo. My favourite part of this image is the overall look. I love how this image not only used text but stock images and textures as well. It's kind of like mixed media which makes it look really cool. I love how it gives off a collage like feeling. The variety of sizes of font used to make the designs on the umbrella was also very interesting!

I hope you enjoyed these amazing typography pieces! To see 47 more interesting pieces, do check out this website!

Have a great night! :)

Shazam 2011

Hey guys!
I am so sorry I haven't been posting regularly. I have so many bookmarked pages that I wanted to share with you guys but I've been putting it off. :/ I swear I will post them all as soon as I can! My goal is one post per day If I can!

Now for the real reason I am here, this month my CyberArts class worked again with Shazaam to create propaganda posters that would show our school in a more positive light.

For this project we were instructed to go around the school and take pictures of anything that we wanted the outside world to see. The main idea was to show the outside what the inside of our school looked like; we wanted to dismiss the stereotypes and negative opinions others had about our school. So from these images we thought of quotes corresponding with the images we took.

Here's my final poster!

You're probably wondering, "Why are the faces of the people blacked out? It looks horrible!". Well, theres a reason. haha. I used pictures of some of my classmates in this poster and since it was going online I didn't want to display their faces without permission on the internet.

My quote was "Bound by none, we are unified by choice". I wanted to show the outside world that we are not prisoners in our school. We are there because we want to be and because we are happy there. I thought this was a very powerful message.

Overall, I really liked my final product. I am very happy about the colour choices and the placement of my classmates as well as the perspective of the overall image.

I would love to hear your feedback! Do leave comments! :)

Edward Burtynsky

Hi! How are you all doing?

So in my CyberArts tech. class we have just started our photography unit! For this unit we will be focusing on manufactured landscapes as it is the base of our final culminating assignment for the class. To familiarize ourselves with this, we watched a documentary about Edward Burtynsky.

Who is Edward Burtynsky? Burtynsky is a famous Canadian photographer who uses manufactured landscapes as one of his main subjects of photography. He travels around the world to find landscapes that link industry to nature. He believes that his images "are metaphors to the dilemma of our modern existence; they search for a dialogue between attraction and repulsion, seduction and fear - Burtynsky".

The name of Edward Burtynsky's documentary is called "Manufactured Landscapes". This documentary shows Burtynsky's journey across China photographing manufactured or industrial landscapes; factories, recycling yards, etc. This film aimed to show us the shocking origins of where the materials we use come from and how they are effecting the environment, and people, around them.

This film showed us not only how and where Burtynsky took his large scale photographs, but showed us some of the stories and history behind them.

The movie was not all visual however. Though there were scenes of individuals speaking, there were also a lot of sound. Since this movie had a lot of long shots of image, corresponding sound was added to it (like sounds of machines), making the video more unified and interesting.


Personally, I have mixed emotions about this film. I thought that the photographs taken by Burtynsky were Beautiful! This was strange because the subjects that he took pictures of and the stories behind them were horrible. I believe Burtynsky's method of photography is amazing, he manages to create beautiful images while exposing the awfulness of them. It is very interesting. I found some beautiful yet terrible (in terms of subject) photographs that he has taken.

Nickel Tailings No. 30
Sudbury, Ontario 1996

Oxford Tire Pile #2
Westley, California, USA, 1999

I believe that the only complaint I had about this film was that I had a lot of trouble focusing on the film. The film was 90minutes long and some of the scenes were elongated. There was one shot I remember at the very beginning where they just showed repeated, moving, scene of workers in a factory. It just went on and on and on. Speaking honestly, if there was no sound added to the capturing of images, I would have fallen asleep.

Regardless, if you found this interesting, do take a look at some of Edward Burtynsky's works here or watch Manufactured Landscapes. :)

Bye

My Chair Design - The Comfort Chair

Hi! How is everyone?

Today I am posting about my chair design. In my CyberArts art class we were assigned to design and make a model of a chair that exudes our personality. I decided that I wanted a comfy chair in which I could lie down in, cuddle up and sleep or read. This is what I based my design on.

Personally, one thing I love doing is cuddling up on my sofa and reading my a book when it's raining outside; it feels peaceful. I also like having my books at hand. This is why I chose to add a small storage space for my books near the bottom front of my chair. I wanted my chair to be a colour my chair it would be a light soothing colour that was light and soothing because I am mostly a quiet person, I don't like to much attention. I am laid back and I am comfortable around others.

This is my chair. I call it "The Comfort Chair". I wanted my chair to be known for being

comfortable. I wanted a chair that was more organic than geometric. When I think of geometric shapes such as squares and triangles, I think of stiffness; I did use rectangles but I added curves to them so they felt more organic.

I like being comfortable in what I sit in. This is why I chose to have a lazier feel to my chair. My chair has a storage space at the bottom front of my chair. This allows the user to have easy access to their books; the storage space can also be used to store other things, not just books. Since my chair is longer you can keep your feet up, it can also act somewhat as a bed. I also have armrests on the chair so the user would be able to sit with their arms up.

My chair is a piece of art because it looks unified. It has a very clean design. I believe that my chair is very balanced as it has a organic but block-like form; my chair does not look like it will tip over, it is very solid. My chair is very simple, it gives of a professional feel with it's clean, curved lines. The texture is smooth, this gives off a very relaxing feeling. If I were to add color to this chair, I would make it a pastel or soft colour instead of bold vibrant colours as I would like the user to feel relaxed and not to distract them or keep them awake with attention seeking colours. My chair also uses the curve of the seat to move your eyes from the top of the backrest down to the end of the seat in a slide like motion; this adds a look of sleekness and polish to the chair.

So before I end off my post, I wanted to talk about my design process. So before we actually started making a model of our chair, we were required to plan out the design and present it on a board with a orthographical and isometric drawings; I felt this really helped pain a image of what I wanted my chair to look like in my head.

For a greater understanding of my chair design I used a measuring tape and experimented with measurements to see how big I wanted the chair, how high I wanted the seat and backrest to be.

All this planning really helped me along the way. I don't think I could have made my chair model without it. So, I have some advice for you... planning helps; use it.

I hope you liked my chair!

Sketchup! Designing Chairs

Hey guys! For today's CyberArts seminar we started working with a program called SketchUp. It was very difficult because I had never used the program before. So we basically had 20 minutes to try and make our own personal chairs. This is what I came up with.

I think that my first try was pretty good because the using the program was very difficult and I managed to make decent looking chairs. So I'm happy with the outcome. :)

Have you ever used SketchUp?

Romanticism Collage

Hey guys! How are you?

Well, today I'm going to write about my second CyberArts art assignment; the romanticism collage.

For this assignment we were required to chose to make either a dry print or collage focusing on the theme of romanticism; I chose to make a collage.

The idea behind my collage is "the ignorance of class." It shows a poor boy isolated from the life of a middle or high class society. My collage revolves around the idea that the higher society has so much (money, cars, brand named clothing, education, food, etc) but some of us don't think about those who don't have anything at all. We hear about poverty on TV or read about it in the newspaper; but do we do anything about it?

My piece shows romanticism because there is a lot of drama, emotion, and contrast in my collage with one main focal point. You can see the drama and emotion by looking at the focal point; the large image of a poverty stricken boy which I placed at the bottom half of the collage. His expression is intense; it looks as if he is looking at you accusingly; his stare makes you feel uneasy. I placed him at the bottom on the collage because I wanted to separate him from the overlapped images of the higher society; this shows that he is isolated.

The focal point is contrasted with the top of the collage. The bottom is dark and dramatic; the colours I chose from the bottom were very neutral with blacks and browns with a bit of white. The top of the collage however is very bright with a wide arrange of pictures and colours; this symbolizes a happy wealthy society.

The composition I chose to use was the rule of thirds. I wanted to compare and contrast the two different classes but decided that simply dividing the board in half would not add interest to my piece. This is why I made sure that the top half (or the wealthy class) was about a centimeter higher than the center line. This instantly made my piece look better. Finally, to unify my piece I cut up small pieces of text from a magazine and overlapped them underneath all the pictures; I also added a strip of text at the bottom of the collage so my piece would feel balanced.

I am very happy with the end result of my romanticism collage. I hope you liked the outcome too! :)

Photo Manipulations

Hey guys!

I was online again and I found a article of 39 really cool photo manipulations! What is the definition of a photo manipulation? Well, according to Wikipedia a photo manipulation is "the application of image editing techniques to photographs in order to create an illusion or deception (in contrast to mere enhancement or correction), through analog or digital means."

Out of these 39 photo Manipulations, I wanted to share 2-3 of my favourites and tell you why.


This is the first of the three photo manipulations I wanted to show you. I really like it because it has a cool feel to it and I think that its really interesting. I love how you have the illusion of a man drawing an image of his legs but his legs look like they are attached to the rest of his body making the picture look like a whole.


This is the second photo manipulation I chose to show you. I found it creative because the artist makes the face of this boy seem as though it has the texture of a pillow. They made it as so the impact of the punch has a entirely different outcome than that of reality.


This is the third and last photo manipulation I wanted to show you. This picture, I thought, was very witty. This is because you can see that this person tried to catch a vase from breaking, but broke themselves. It's almost like a reverse situation and I thought that was very cool.

I found that these photo manipulations were really creative and made me feel a round of emotions. Some of them were mind-boggling, others disturbing and some were very witty or clever. I recommend that you check them out. If you would like to see the other 35 photo manipulations, CLICK HERE.

Hope you like them!