Evaluation RED AND BLUE CHAIR

Evaluation

Red and Blue Chair 

Our task was to create the Red and Blue chair using carton either 1:3 or 1:4 scale.

This is My chair I made from carton 1:4 size, me and my team divided the actual numbers of the real chair by 2 and then divided it again by 2, we then draw the shapes on a carton and cut them with the knife. After cutting we started sticking everything with the glue gun. The hardest part of this task was the cutting it was really hard to cut through the carton because its really thick, I cut my self once because I was putting so much pressure in the carton and my fingers slipped to the knife. To me the cutting was the most challenging part in the task. 

 I decided to paint my chair with different colours I used purple,yellow and black I think using purple against black is not very good because the black hides the purple however I really like the the yellow because its bright and it catches your eye. I think if i could paint the chair again I will use green instead of purple moreover I am happy with my chair and I think I managed my time very carefully in this task because I managed to finish my chair in time.

Red and Blue Chair

Creating the Red and Blue chair with wood really nice.

Si Scott designning

I found this really interesting video of Siscott designing.

Evaluation CITYSCAPE

Evaluation

Cityscape 

The task we had was to design a cityscape from magazines,Internet or from your own ideas on a A3 white paper .and then create it using a black sticky paper. The task at the start was very interesting because we were drawing building and designing our cityscape however it got very hard and frustrating when we started cutting using the knife I was very slow at cutting and I was not cutting in a straight line some of me cutting is very wobbly.

I made only one design for my final piece because I was happy with the outcome.My cityscape has a New york theme one of my favourite building I did on my cityscape is Chrysler Building made by an architect called William Van Alen Art Deco style  another building I really like Hearst Magazine Building made by Joseph Urban and Sir Norman Foster the rest are drawings I found in magazines that are related to New york city.

In general I am pleased with my outcome, If I had another chance to do it again I will manage my time carefully and I would practise using the knife before cutting anything I would also pay more attention to the outcome it could have been neater finally I think my cityscape has a really nice theme which is New york but the cutting could have been better.

David Downton

DAVID DOWNTON

 

 

David Downton was born in Kent, in the south of England in 1959. He studied at Canterbury ( Foundation year 1977- 1978) and Wolverhampton (BA hons illustration/graphics 1979-1981). In 1984 he moved to Brighton and began his illustration career. For the next 12 years - a period he describes as 'wagging my tail when the phone rang' - he worked on a wide variety of projects ranging from advertising and packaging to illustrating fiction, cook books and, occasionally, fashion.

 

 

 

In 1996 the Financial Times commissioned him to draw at the couture shows and since then David has become known principally as a fashion illustrator. His reports from the shows have been seen internationally, in the US, China, Australia and the Middle East, as well as in almost every leading UK broadsheet and supplement.

 

David’s commercial client list includes: Tiffany & Co, Bloomingdales, Barney’s, Harrods, Top Shop, Chanel, Dior, L’Oreal, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, V Magazine and the V&A Museum. In 1998, he began working on a portfolio of portraits from life of some of the world’s most beautiful women, including Erin O’Connor, Paloma Picasso, Catherine Deneuve, Linda Evangelista, Carmen Dell'Orefice, Iman and Dita Von Teese.

 

 

In 2007, David launched Pourquoi Pas the first ever journal of Fashion Illustration. He is a visiting Professor at London College of Fashion, and in April 2009 received an honory doctorate from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco.

 

 

Red and Blue Chair Gerrit Rietveld

RED AND BLUE CHAIR

 

Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964), a Dutch furniture designer and architect, created his Red-Blue Chair in 1917, but the bright colours and, indeed the name by which it became known, were not adopted until several years later.Originally made in plain beech wood, the design was deliberately kept as simple as possible because Rietveld wanted it to be mass-produced rather than crafted by hand. The pieces of wood that are used are all in the standard measurements of lumber that was available at the time.

 

Two years after making the chair, Rietveld joined the De Stijl movement and it was under the auspices of its most famous member, Piet Mondrian that, in 1923, the chair was painted in the distinctive colours of red, yellow, blue and black.The De Stijl movement was founded in 1917 and its members believed in pure abstraction by reducing pieces to their essential forms and pure colours. Furniture was simplified to horizontal and vertical lines and they used only the primary colours with black and white.

 

Frame in black stained beech seat blue and back red in lacquered multi plywood

Height: 88cm Seat height: 33cm x Width: 65.5cm x Depth: 83cm

"The chair (read Red and Blue Chair) was specifically built to show that it is possible to create something beautiful, a spatial creation, with simple machine- processed parts. I cut a board of wood into planks and squares. I then sawed the middle part into two for the seat and the backrest, and I made the frame part out of the different lengths of plank. But as I was working on the chair, it never crossed my mind that one day it would become so significant that it would even influence architecture." Gerrit Rietveld, about the Red and Blue Chair.














The movement reached its apotheosis between 1923-24, when Rietveld designed a house for Dutch socialite Truus Schröder and her three children in Utrecht, Netherlands. The Rietveld Schröder House, as it became known, is the only building to have been made completely according to the De Stijl movement’s principles.

Schröder, who was closely involved in the design, requested the house be made without interior walls as she wanted a connection between the inside and outside. There was an open-plan layout downstairs, while upstairs could be divided by a system of sliding and revolving panels giving almost endless permutations to the space.
The Rietveld chair fitted in perfectly and appeared to float on the black floors.
Schröder lived there until her death in 1985 and the house was later opened as a museum.

Micheal Craig Martin

MICHEAL CRAIG MARTIN

Michael Craig Martin was born in Dublin in 1941 and educated in the United States where he studied at Yale University. He returned to Europe in the mid-1960s and was a key figure in the first generation of British conceptual artists. As a tutor at Goldsmith's College from 1974-1988 and 1994-2000 he had a significant influence on two generations of young British artists.

Throughout his career Craig Martin has explored the aesthetic and linguistic character of everyday designer and iconic ‘art-historical' objects which he has realised through a variety of media including paintings, sculpture, prints and, most recently, computer animations.

Craig-Martin studied in the Lycée Français in Bogota Colombia where his father had employment for a while. Drawing classes in the Lycee by an artist, Antonio Roda gave him a wider perspective on art. His parents had no inclinations towards art, although they did have on display in their home Picasso greedy child. Back in Washington, he attended drawing classes given there by artists, then in 1959 attended Fordham University in New York for English Literature and History while also starting to paint.

Craig Martin's work is in many public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate Gallery, London, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris. He has had solo exhibitions at institutions across the world including Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria 2006 and most recently Krefeld Museum, Germany 2013.

Quotation
''The thing that has had the greatest impact on my work has been the computer - I got my first Mac in the early 90s for word processing. Using the cut and paste tool was a dream for me''
''Ironically, the paintings I do are extremely hand-crafted. I do certain things with digital printing, but the kind of quality you get from painting I really like''

Craig-Martin’s most famous work is An Oak Tree, which is now regarded as an iconic piece of conceptual artwork. Created in 1973 it comprises a tumbler of water placed on a glass shelf accompanied by an explanatory text. However, Craig-Martin insists that the piece is in fact an oak tree.

Inhale Yellow 2002

This is a painting done in my 2D sketch book of Inhale yellow, I used Acrylic paint and paint brushes. I really love micheal craig martin work I think its very interesting and unique he also uses bold colours which people call nursery colours I also love the compostion he makes.

SISCOTT

Si Scott was born in 1977 and has been interested in art since a very young age. He left school at sixteen and then he went to art College to do a BTEC in design and then a foundation course in order to study graphic design for two years at Buckinghamshire University College.

Si Scott is a full time artist and designer and is based in UK. His work is very unique and its style is a mixture of hand crafted and hand drawn art that has made him very popular. He has done designs especially for firms such as Nike, Hugo Boss, Orange, Boots, UNICEF, Casio and the BBC.

Interestingly, he worked for a couple of small design agencies where he learnt about the industry and using a computer. Whilst he was employed he worked on his own ideas and developed them as he was trying to be original. Alas, he got made redundant twice although he claims this was good for him as it pushed him more in order to succeed. Although he uses computers ‘to piece things together’ he is more creative by mainly experimenting freehand.

 Quotation

'' Mr. Oliver has always been and I guess always will be somebody who’s work I admire. Music, Fashion and books have also always been a massive influence on me also''

''Most of my inspiration comes from music I am constantly listening to music while I work and the lyrics especially. I’m really into words''

I love Siscott intricate and ornate monochrome lettering he beautifully illustrates and explores fonts in a way that I have never seen before. The compositions and scale of Siscott illustrations make them really unique and the limited use of colour give his work real visual impact all his work is hand made using paint, fine-liners and pen and ink sicott then tweaks his designs using the computer to add colour.

MY WORK

Over here you can see I did my name in Siscott style I extended the letters and made curves. Materials used pen/ink then scaned and added colour in photoshop I decided each letter should have a different colour.

Ben Eine

Ben Eine

When and where was Ben Eines born?

 Ben Eine was born in 1970 London England

What does Ben Eines do?

Ben Eine is specialises in the central element of all graffiti

Describe Ben Eines style of work?

 Bens Eines style of work is producing huge letters on shop fronts

How long ago did Ben Eines start graffiti?

Ben Eines started graffiti over 25 twenty five years ago

What cities has Ben Eines made street art in?

Ben made street art in LA, San Francisco, Mexico City, Miami, Paris, Dublin, Tokyo and London City

What is the real name of ‘Alphabet Street’?

The real name of ‘Alphabet Street’ is Middlesex Street 

Who was given Ben Eines print that has now made Ben Eines Famous?

Obama was given Ben Eines print which made Ben Eines very famous

I like this image because it has a very lovely message it says on the top ‘’Lets adore and endure each other’’ I also love the way its painted it’s fun, bubbly and bi.

On the bottom it says ‘home, sweet, home, less’ maybe these words represent Ben Eines or things in life that he likes. since he is from london he is saying this is my home.