15 Feb 2009
Design Authorship: project research journey
Visiting Book shops and hometown libraries to explore the world of children books, finding out what is already there and what is missing, in order to make a difference.
Design Project B : Publishing and Design Authorship
As a child, I enjoyed and looked forward to my favored Disney cartoon Tom and Jerry, one day as an adult, I was flipping channels on TV looking for something nice to enjoy, by chance I stumbled on one showing Tom and Jerry, so I sat Down to a shot of the good old days, and I was stunned to find that the music used in the background while the two chased each other is actually a form of classical music.
How clever of Walt Disney to introduce a form of education, invisible and hidden in a sweat childhood memory for us later to build on and discover who endless and rich the world of music is, putting in mind that music is a universal language, everybody and anybody will respond to.
This is what I want to do, I want to catch an individual at an early age, introduce them to their culture through a fun whey of learning, through art and crafts.
My interest in publishing a book of my choice is directed at children, my aim is to revive culture through art, to increase a persons awareness of their culture at an early age.
Publishing and Design Authorship project:
Book for children (6 - 8) years old, tittle:
Visit to an Assyrian palace
It's a cut out interactive educational book, aim: revive culture through art
The book includes:
* Map of Mesopotamia
* City sky line
* Indoor palace
* Figures of people live or visit he palace
* information about that civilization
* Method of assembling the cut outs from the book
As a child, I enjoyed dressing up paper dolls.
I'd like to use this application, where a child is taking part in an interactive educational method, introducing children to historical heroes from passed civilizations from Mesopotamia
Hammurabi, a famous law-maker and king of Babylonia
King Urnammu, king of Sumer and Akkad in Mmesopotamia
How clever of Walt Disney to introduce a form of education, invisible and hidden in a sweat childhood memory for us later to build on and discover who endless and rich the world of music is, putting in mind that music is a universal language, everybody and anybody will respond to.
This is what I want to do, I want to catch an individual at an early age, introduce them to their culture through a fun whey of learning, through art and crafts.
My interest in publishing a book of my choice is directed at children, my aim is to revive culture through art, to increase a persons awareness of their culture at an early age.
Publishing and Design Authorship project:
Book for children (6 - 8) years old, tittle:
Visit to an Assyrian palace
It's a cut out interactive educational book, aim: revive culture through art
The book includes:
* Map of Mesopotamia
* City sky line
* Indoor palace
* Figures of people live or visit he palace
* information about that civilization
* Method of assembling the cut outs from the book
As a child, I enjoyed dressing up paper dolls.
I'd like to use this application, where a child is taking part in an interactive educational method, introducing children to historical heroes from passed civilizations from Mesopotamia
Hammurabi, a famous law-maker and king of Babylonia
King Urnammu, king of Sumer and Akkad in Mmesopotamia
9 Feb 2009
Crtical Debates in Design: Animated Digital Media Design
Animation is on of the most important creative creations of the twenty first century, a visual world of fantasy, where there is no impossible.
The word animate comes from the Latin verb animare, meaning “to make alive or to fill with breath.” Animation, by modern definition, “is the rapid display of a sequence of 2-D artwork images or model positions in order to create an illusion of
movement.
It's an approach, an aesthetic and an application that informs many aspects of visual culture. Animation is here,there and everywhere ... from feature length films to prime time sit Com's, from television and web cartoons to display functions of new communication technologies., I can confidently say that it's the new generation of (sign form) of the modern age.
Like every story of success, many in Europe and in the United States claim the writs to it's invention, the history of animation is still being researched, one theory suggests that the roots go back to the industrial revolution in the 1800s, that contributed to the evolution of press technology, making it possible to add images to news paper contents, cartoon caricature was introduced, The word can be traced back to the 17th century, when Italian artist ( Agostino Carracci ) drew so-called “ritratti caricati”, absurd portraits and figures, literally translated: overloaded portraits, mocking societies interests and news headlines.
I remember, at school with friends, we tryed something similar to this flip book ( kineograph ) but simpler ...
Early attempts of animation came in several individual efforts, Many devices and gadgets which bore strange names as: Thaumatrope, Stroboscope, Phenakistoscope, The Wheel of Life, Kinetograph and many others.
In 1825 Dr. John Ayrton Paris created the ( Thaumatrope ): a card disc with a picture of a bird on one side and a birdcage on the other, when the disc was twirled by two strings attached to opposite edges.
The viewer's eye retained the image of one side as the other side was revealed ...
The result was that the two images became as one : the bird appeared to be in the cage
In 1832, the Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau invented the ( Phenakistoscope ): a revolving paper disc which has a number of figurs pictured in different stges of movement spaced around it, when viewed through a mirror, thy appear to be one moving image.
Plateau's invention inspired many other devices, in the last quarter of the 19th century, when the inventions of the Kinematoscope by Coleman Sellers of Philadelphia and William E. Lincoln’s Zoetrope were great advances leading to the motion picture.
Then came Emile Reynaud in 1892 with his Theatra Optique
The big breakthrough came in March 1895, when Auguste and Louis Lumiere successfully projected live action motion pictures onto a screen with their ( Cinematograph ) in Paris then again at Marlborough Hall in London.
The Lumiere brothers are regarded the earliest film makers, who managed to combine the complex organization of a camera with that of a projector.
At this stage, there was little distinction in the public eye between live action film and animated drawings, since the essence of both was movement
The first specialisation strands that emerged whent in three directions:
* Straight Cinema, also referred to as ( live-action film ).
* Animated films and cartoons, using the ( stop-motion technique: of photographing each stage of movement separately).
* Trick photography: which is a combination of both, creating live-action film with animated optical effects added.
Cinematigraph became popular when it's value was recognised as an entertainment medium, in 1902 the film ( VOYAGE TO THE MOON ) starring Georges Melies was released.
The British Arthur Melbourne Cooper produces the worlds first animated commercial in 1899, a stop motion film of moving matchsticks titled ( Match Appeal )
In 1906 James Stuart Blackton produces his film ( Humorous Phases of Funny Faces ), being the first to combined live, trick and animated techniques. Blacktons second film ( The Haunted Hotel ) released in 1907, included new effects and tricks, was imported by the french, watched by 5000 Parisian audience.
During the first two decades of the twentieth century, animators quickly learned new techniques to exploit this medium, creating memorable cartoon characters like Winsor McCay's ( Little Nemo in Slumberland ) 1911 and ( Gertie the Dinosaur ) 1914, McCay is also credited for being the first to make an animated documentary ( The Sinking of the Lusitania ) 1915.
At this stage , the USA and European animation started to develop apart, with the USA winning the international race to shape this new time consuming, costly medium, their creativity overshadowed the Europeans concepts based on local characters and simple technologies.
Felix the Cat 1919 cartoon, similar to news paper cartoon caricature, the first cartoon to introduces visual mocking punning gags, which appealed to intellectual audiences, as did cartoon character ( Betty Boop 1932, a sex symbol tailored to image of Hollywood stars
Walt Disney ... the golden age of American cartoon
the most popular animation studio up to date, starting out in the late 1920's creating characters that have stud the test of time, becoming icons all age groups relate to: Mickey Mouse, Pluto, Goofy and Donald Duck.
Animation and the digital age
Working as a TV Graphic animator, I've witnessed how accessible the development of digital technologies has made animation, not easy to create and not hard to learn at the same time,if a person has the passion for it. With a click of the mouse, the limits are sky high when it comes to the ability to experiment, change and remake the design, adding to the accidents that tern out to be a pleasant surprise.
With animation, I managed to tern dull and dry subjects with contents that lack images or video rushes, into interesting eye catching visuals that manage to attract attention. It's a magical world of constant disciplined change.
The many applications where animation came in as a solution include
* Media
* Television
* Advertising
* Music
* Web Design
* Games
* Innovative Marketing
* Conferences
* Communication
* Documentaries
* Business Presentations
* Military services
* Education
* Crime investigations
* Medical observation
* Whether forecasts
* Maps/ whey finding
TV Graphics
Whether forecasts
What does the future hold for us in animation
I really cannot say ...
I hope it remains a blessing, not turns into a curse, the bad side affect to the digital privileges we are enjoying, such as Games, Face book, My space and other virtual society communities, are keeping us in touch, but still lonely, becoming harder and less human to each other, because at the end of the day, we are all alone facing a screen.
My favorite animated cartoon ...
Tom and Jerry
I love the chase, the art of war between the two, but we all know that they can't live without each other, it's a love hate equation, often used as a metaphor ....
Those two ... are like Tom and Jerry ; )
The word animate comes from the Latin verb animare, meaning “to make alive or to fill with breath.” Animation, by modern definition, “is the rapid display of a sequence of 2-D artwork images or model positions in order to create an illusion of
movement.
It's an approach, an aesthetic and an application that informs many aspects of visual culture. Animation is here,there and everywhere ... from feature length films to prime time sit Com's, from television and web cartoons to display functions of new communication technologies., I can confidently say that it's the new generation of (sign form) of the modern age.
Like every story of success, many in Europe and in the United States claim the writs to it's invention, the history of animation is still being researched, one theory suggests that the roots go back to the industrial revolution in the 1800s, that contributed to the evolution of press technology, making it possible to add images to news paper contents, cartoon caricature was introduced, The word can be traced back to the 17th century, when Italian artist ( Agostino Carracci ) drew so-called “ritratti caricati”, absurd portraits and figures, literally translated: overloaded portraits, mocking societies interests and news headlines.
I remember, at school with friends, we tryed something similar to this flip book ( kineograph ) but simpler ...
Early attempts of animation came in several individual efforts, Many devices and gadgets which bore strange names as: Thaumatrope, Stroboscope, Phenakistoscope, The Wheel of Life, Kinetograph and many others.
In 1825 Dr. John Ayrton Paris created the ( Thaumatrope ): a card disc with a picture of a bird on one side and a birdcage on the other, when the disc was twirled by two strings attached to opposite edges.
The viewer's eye retained the image of one side as the other side was revealed ...
The result was that the two images became as one : the bird appeared to be in the cage
In 1832, the Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau invented the ( Phenakistoscope ): a revolving paper disc which has a number of figurs pictured in different stges of movement spaced around it, when viewed through a mirror, thy appear to be one moving image.
Plateau's invention inspired many other devices, in the last quarter of the 19th century, when the inventions of the Kinematoscope by Coleman Sellers of Philadelphia and William E. Lincoln’s Zoetrope were great advances leading to the motion picture.
Then came Emile Reynaud in 1892 with his Theatra Optique
The big breakthrough came in March 1895, when Auguste and Louis Lumiere successfully projected live action motion pictures onto a screen with their ( Cinematograph ) in Paris then again at Marlborough Hall in London.
The Lumiere brothers are regarded the earliest film makers, who managed to combine the complex organization of a camera with that of a projector.
At this stage, there was little distinction in the public eye between live action film and animated drawings, since the essence of both was movement
The first specialisation strands that emerged whent in three directions:
* Straight Cinema, also referred to as ( live-action film ).
* Animated films and cartoons, using the ( stop-motion technique: of photographing each stage of movement separately).
* Trick photography: which is a combination of both, creating live-action film with animated optical effects added.
Cinematigraph became popular when it's value was recognised as an entertainment medium, in 1902 the film ( VOYAGE TO THE MOON ) starring Georges Melies was released.
The British Arthur Melbourne Cooper produces the worlds first animated commercial in 1899, a stop motion film of moving matchsticks titled ( Match Appeal )
In 1906 James Stuart Blackton produces his film ( Humorous Phases of Funny Faces ), being the first to combined live, trick and animated techniques. Blacktons second film ( The Haunted Hotel ) released in 1907, included new effects and tricks, was imported by the french, watched by 5000 Parisian audience.
During the first two decades of the twentieth century, animators quickly learned new techniques to exploit this medium, creating memorable cartoon characters like Winsor McCay's ( Little Nemo in Slumberland ) 1911 and ( Gertie the Dinosaur ) 1914, McCay is also credited for being the first to make an animated documentary ( The Sinking of the Lusitania ) 1915.
At this stage , the USA and European animation started to develop apart, with the USA winning the international race to shape this new time consuming, costly medium, their creativity overshadowed the Europeans concepts based on local characters and simple technologies.
Felix the Cat 1919 cartoon, similar to news paper cartoon caricature, the first cartoon to introduces visual mocking punning gags, which appealed to intellectual audiences, as did cartoon character ( Betty Boop 1932, a sex symbol tailored to image of Hollywood stars
Walt Disney ... the golden age of American cartoon
the most popular animation studio up to date, starting out in the late 1920's creating characters that have stud the test of time, becoming icons all age groups relate to: Mickey Mouse, Pluto, Goofy and Donald Duck.
Animation and the digital age
Working as a TV Graphic animator, I've witnessed how accessible the development of digital technologies has made animation, not easy to create and not hard to learn at the same time,if a person has the passion for it. With a click of the mouse, the limits are sky high when it comes to the ability to experiment, change and remake the design, adding to the accidents that tern out to be a pleasant surprise.
With animation, I managed to tern dull and dry subjects with contents that lack images or video rushes, into interesting eye catching visuals that manage to attract attention. It's a magical world of constant disciplined change.
The many applications where animation came in as a solution include
* Media
* Television
* Advertising
* Music
* Web Design
* Games
* Innovative Marketing
* Conferences
* Communication
* Documentaries
* Business Presentations
* Military services
* Education
* Crime investigations
* Medical observation
* Whether forecasts
* Maps/ whey finding
TV Graphics
Whether forecasts
What does the future hold for us in animation
I really cannot say ...
I hope it remains a blessing, not turns into a curse, the bad side affect to the digital privileges we are enjoying, such as Games, Face book, My space and other virtual society communities, are keeping us in touch, but still lonely, becoming harder and less human to each other, because at the end of the day, we are all alone facing a screen.
My favorite animated cartoon ...
Tom and Jerry
I love the chase, the art of war between the two, but we all know that they can't live without each other, it's a love hate equation, often used as a metaphor ....
Those two ... are like Tom and Jerry ; )
4 Feb 2009
Critical Debates in Design: Enviromental Sign System
Signs of Life
Living the modern urban world, signs lead us every where, we nearly never stop and admire how accurate they are in helping us find our whey around. what ever we do through the day, part of the process we must have used or responded to a sign, an icon or a pictogram, on our mobile, on the train or bus, and we just cannot get on the net without pressing on icons and pictogram.
The impact signs have on our life is to guide us to safety through direct messages, some give us directions or warnings, others carry a request or dictate a ban, all towards one aim, to decrease harm or injury, whether it's our health or our assets or time management.
History of Pictograms
Pictogram are a modern invention, first written symbols were pictorial representations of objects, the earliest known written systems are originated in the middle east, Cuneiform in Mesopotamia and Hieroglyphs in Egypt 5000 years ago.
no one knows why people started to communicate with pictogram and symbols, one theory suggests that merchants wanted to record transactions in a permanent form.
China can trace back a long continuous line of cultural evolution , as a result, it's visual form of communication that has hardly changed, from the stone age to the present day, making it the longest continuously used language system of symbols.
Because of the rapid global developments through transport and technology, bringing world cultures closer together, a demand has increased for new specialized forms of communications for people of diverse languages and backgrounds.
The first pictorial symbols agreed to internationally, were traffic signs adopted in 1909 by France, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Monaco, Spain and Britain.
The Olympic Games having a global impact always brought together whole nations, in order to organize and communicate facts to visitors about different sports and general information, abstract systematically geometrical images were used, and it was the Tokyo Olympics of 1964 that introduced the present concept of pictograms. Later on, Olimpic pictograms were gradually refined into simplified stylized forms, developed to such a modrenized degree, we can confidently describe them as perfect.
Semiotics: The Study of Signs
Asign is an overall concept : everything that, on the grounds of a previosly established social convention, can be taken a standing for smething else.
Signs can be visual, auditory or tactile. Signs are icons ( illustrations ), symbols ( representations ) and index ( indicator ).
A pictogram is a pictorial representation, an iconic sign which represents complex facts through visual carriers of meaning, created for the purpose of quick and clear communication without language or words, the motif should be culurally neutral, communicating with instant and basic human reaction, in order to draw attention to something important.
At the Gym
The Gym is an active environment, full of fiscal effort based on rapid movement, equipped with machines designed that enhance body stamina towards fitness and body tone, thus full of hazard and risk of angry. Therefor each piece of equipment has it's own explanatory sign or group of signs ( family ), that complete each other
Strength Training: upper and lower body workout
The signs in this category are all pictograms, picturing instructions on how to correctly use each piece of equipment, and what parts of the human body will benefit. The designer used the human body as the center point of interest,with simple out lines and mild colors, only using a bold color when needed to point out the impotent function or effect it will cause.
The design is so well researched, that no words are needed to farther explain. The typed information appears only to add to the regular persons knowledge of body anatomy, which is an extra.
Bench workout explanatory Pictogram & Treadmill cardio Diagram
Danger
At the Gym
What I find is a fault in this set of pictograms, is that they are a bit dull. The gym is a pleasant place to go to and after a workout session, a person feels quite content, energetic and positive, and that is not apparent in those signs, making the workout seam like an obligation,they are not inviting.
At the Gym
At the Gym
At the Gym
At the Gym
At the Gym
Living the modern urban world, signs lead us every where, we nearly never stop and admire how accurate they are in helping us find our whey around. what ever we do through the day, part of the process we must have used or responded to a sign, an icon or a pictogram, on our mobile, on the train or bus, and we just cannot get on the net without pressing on icons and pictogram.
The impact signs have on our life is to guide us to safety through direct messages, some give us directions or warnings, others carry a request or dictate a ban, all towards one aim, to decrease harm or injury, whether it's our health or our assets or time management.
History of Pictograms
Pictogram are a modern invention, first written symbols were pictorial representations of objects, the earliest known written systems are originated in the middle east, Cuneiform in Mesopotamia and Hieroglyphs in Egypt 5000 years ago.
no one knows why people started to communicate with pictogram and symbols, one theory suggests that merchants wanted to record transactions in a permanent form.
China can trace back a long continuous line of cultural evolution , as a result, it's visual form of communication that has hardly changed, from the stone age to the present day, making it the longest continuously used language system of symbols.
Because of the rapid global developments through transport and technology, bringing world cultures closer together, a demand has increased for new specialized forms of communications for people of diverse languages and backgrounds.
The first pictorial symbols agreed to internationally, were traffic signs adopted in 1909 by France, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Monaco, Spain and Britain.
The Olympic Games having a global impact always brought together whole nations, in order to organize and communicate facts to visitors about different sports and general information, abstract systematically geometrical images were used, and it was the Tokyo Olympics of 1964 that introduced the present concept of pictograms. Later on, Olimpic pictograms were gradually refined into simplified stylized forms, developed to such a modrenized degree, we can confidently describe them as perfect.
Semiotics: The Study of Signs
Asign is an overall concept : everything that, on the grounds of a previosly established social convention, can be taken a standing for smething else.
Signs can be visual, auditory or tactile. Signs are icons ( illustrations ), symbols ( representations ) and index ( indicator ).
A pictogram is a pictorial representation, an iconic sign which represents complex facts through visual carriers of meaning, created for the purpose of quick and clear communication without language or words, the motif should be culurally neutral, communicating with instant and basic human reaction, in order to draw attention to something important.
At the Gym
The Gym is an active environment, full of fiscal effort based on rapid movement, equipped with machines designed that enhance body stamina towards fitness and body tone, thus full of hazard and risk of angry. Therefor each piece of equipment has it's own explanatory sign or group of signs ( family ), that complete each other
Strength Training: upper and lower body workout
The signs in this category are all pictograms, picturing instructions on how to correctly use each piece of equipment, and what parts of the human body will benefit. The designer used the human body as the center point of interest,with simple out lines and mild colors, only using a bold color when needed to point out the impotent function or effect it will cause.
The design is so well researched, that no words are needed to farther explain. The typed information appears only to add to the regular persons knowledge of body anatomy, which is an extra.
Bench workout explanatory Pictogram & Treadmill cardio Diagram
Danger
At the Gym
What I find is a fault in this set of pictograms, is that they are a bit dull. The gym is a pleasant place to go to and after a workout session, a person feels quite content, energetic and positive, and that is not apparent in those signs, making the workout seam like an obligation,they are not inviting.
At the Gym
At the Gym
At the Gym
At the Gym
At the Gym
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