Dan Tobin Smith

Dan Tobin smith made this artwork. He also created Jay-Z's album front cover that is called Blueprint 3. This piece of work is called 'The letter Y'. He is a British photographer that does a lot of still life and typography in different ways.
This piece of work is photography and typography. This artwork has been made to put on his own website in which he likes to show all the work he has done to his viewers.
I have chosen to analyse this piece because Dan Tobin Smith has taken typography to another level and i would like to try and use this technique. I will probably not make it the same size as his but i can try and do a smaller scale. I would aslo like to use the same materials.
I have looked at Dan Tobin Smith's own website and a few other websites to further my understanding of his work.
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/2019-dan-tobin-smith
www.dantobinsmith.com/‎
They both include at least one of the artists work. On his own website it doesn't give much information about the work itself, but only includes a lot of photographs. But on pintrest people have given their own opinions of the work. I think the genre of art is installation art. I think the work has a theme of splashing colour to quite a dark photograph in the form of a letter. I think this is the theme because the two colors that he uses in this piece is black and yellow and black is the darkest color and yellow can be one of the lightest colour so it is a very contrasting image. The title just explains exactly what is in the photograph so it doesn't give any information about the meaning or the message of this piece of art.
I think the work is about Dan Tobin Smith just expressing what he may be feeling like in the form of using colors.
The materials that Dan Tobin Smith has used is a lot of still life items that are either black or yellow and the technique he used to do this is by placing the yellow items into the shape of the letter Y and surround it by all the other black items. And then  photographed from different angles. The artist uses to completely different colours to make sure that you can clearly see the letter Y. The work is quite big and i think was done in a studio but i think this is because it will not look as nice and detailed if it was done on a smaller scale. The formal elements in this piece of work is the texture and the colours.

I have chosen to look at it because i like the technique that was used to create this piece and it is a very original way to create typography. My first reaction to the work was that it was done in photoshop but when i looked closely and i looked at photographs of how it was done i saw that it was handmade by using different items that are either black or yellow.
There is nothing that i dislike about the work but what i like about the work is the way that he has carefully thought about the items that he is going to use so he can place them in a way that will make the letter Y look straight and accurate. I also like it because the yellow items that have been used are all the same shade.
I have not seen any other artists do anything like this which is what makes this piece of work so original.

Inge Jacobson's hand-stitched Vogue covers

Inge Jacobson did this piece. It is a stitching of a Vogue magazine cover. I have chosen to analyse this because i think there is a lot of deatil and a lot of thought that went into creating this. Inge Jacobson does a lot of work and stitching of different photographs of celebrities. This is what she is known for. The work doesn't have a name but on her own website it was under the 'Threaded publicity' in her gallery. It was created in 2006. It is a textile/ poster and it has been made to be put in magazines and to be put on her own website so the viewers can see the work she has done. I have chosen to analyse this piece because i like the techniques that have been used and it is something i will like to experiment with.

I have looked at Inge Jacobson's own website and other websites to further my understanding of her work. http://www.ingejacobsen.com/gallery.html i have also looked at her own blog in which it shows a lot of the work she has done and a brief explanation. http://ingejacobsen-inge.blogspot.co.uk/

I think the work has a theme of using stitching to create a picture of something that has already beed photographed. I know this because in all her work she has done stitching of celebrities. As there is ho title it is hard to say what she is trying to inform the viewer.

The materials that have been used are thread, pencil and a needle to stitch it with. It made made by either the artists drawing out the picture and marking the colours that it is going to be stitched with and then stitched or the artist actually using the photograph and then stitching onto of it. I think the artist also used a sowing machine. The artist uses a variety of colour to make it look as realistic as possible. But the colours mostly used for the titles are blue and red. The work is quite small as it is a stitching and will take quite a lot of time if is was big and this is because she just wanted to photograph it and put it on her website. The formal elements in this work is texture and colour. I can tell because there is quite a lot of colour in it and colour is the most important element as it has to look like the real cover.

M.I.A.: Kala

My first reaction to the work was that there was a lot of bright colours and that the text is quite original. I think the music is going to be quite cheerful and uplifting. It also looks like the kind of music will be rap/pop. I think this because of the different patterns used and the variety of colors. 

This is the cover of M.I.A's album and the genre of music is pop/hip hop. Cassette Playa &  Steve Loveridge made the design for this cover. 

I think the target audience is mostly older teenagers and young adults. And these are the sort of people that listen to this because that is who the music is aimed at. 

The images that have been is pictures of M.I.A. However the photograph of her in the middle has been changed into black and white and the other four photographs of her surrounding the main photograph has been inverted. They have been photographs but definitely edited in photoshop. 

The materials used was photoshop and original photographs. The techniques used was creating an aztec desind and adding patterns for the background. They then added the text which could of been created by doing it handmade and then put into photoshop to clean it up. And then added the photographs ontop of the background. 

The text has quite a unique font. It looks like it is pixelated which might have been done on purpose because it relates to the music or M.I.A personally. The size of the name is a lot bigger than the name of the album which has been dome because of what people will be drawn to first and the importance of the word.  The colour used is red and yellow which is very contrasting compared to the color of the background. The work doesn't have much about it and no meaning or message apart from M.I.A herself which might have been done because of the music on the album. However there is a phrase that is written in a different language which might mean something and contributes to her. 

Ralph Ueltzhoefer- Typography (AS-A2)

Ralph Ueltzhoefer is the person that created this typogaphy piece and i found this on pintrest. This work has been created by using many rows of text of different colours to shape it into a face. This piece of work was created for his own website in which he posts a lot of the work that he has done and so he can show other viewers his work. He also did it for an exhibition.  I have chosen to analyse this piece because i like how detailed it is and it is a technique i would like to use when i am doing A2 Graphics. I also like how the artists has used simple colors such as grey black and white. 

I have looked at the artists own website to further my understanding of the different kinds of work that he does.
http://www.ueltzhoeffer.com/
http://ueltzhoeffer2textportrait.wordpress.com/tag/ralph-ueltzhoeffer/
These websites give a bit more description of the work and the work that he does. It also gives information about why he has done some of the work and peoples opinions of it. The genre of this art is portrait and typography. I think the wok has a theme but it is hard to tell what it is because the words that are used for the face may have a meaning or a message in it which tells us why he has done this work and what it means to him. However i think the work is trying to portray a message and represent something personal to him.

The materials used is pencil, pen, photoshop and illustrator to create the text so it is handmade and digital. It has been done by getting a photograph of the person and typing words in different colours to really show the shapes and colours of the face. The technique used is to really fill up the picture.
The formal elements that are key in this piece of work is colour and text.

I have chosen to look at it because it really looks like the artists thought about what he was doing and has a message to portray. My first reaction was that i thought it was a normal photograph but i looked closely and i saw that it was made up of different coloured text. I like how it uses the same size and font.  I would like to try the same technique.

Menomena: Friend and Foe

My first reaction to the artwork is that it contains a lot of different drawing and is quite dull because of the use of color. The drawing look quite scary as they are drawing of weird animals and looks a bit violent. I think the music will be like rock or something loud because there is a lot going on in this album cover and uses a lot of dark grey and black.

The band is called Menomena and the genre of music is Indie rock. I think the artwork reflects the genre of the music which is alternative rock. The name of this album is called Friend and Foe
The illustrator of this work is Craig Thompson. He is a graphic novelist and creates a lot of comical illustrations. He has his own blog in which he shows a lot his work and illustrations. He is also best known for his graphic novel 'Blankets'.
The target audience for this work i think is mostly aimed at teenagers and young adults because the theme is quite dark and scary. Also the song titles look like they are aimed at older people as they are the ones that are most likely to be interesting. The imagery relates to the music and the album title because there are many different images that represent different things. In some areas it shows two people/creatures looking like they are being friendly with each other and look happy which could represent 'Friend' in the album title and in other areas it shows some people/creatures doing violent and weird things which could represent 'Foe' in the album title. The mood that these illustration create is quite an aggressive mood as some of these illustration show aggression.

The materials used to create this album cover is mostly a black tip pen to do the outlines, pencil, and coloured pens. I also think photoshop or illustrator could of to touch up the colour and add a better contrast to really show the drawings.

The designer uses only few words in this album cover as most of it is illustrations. The only text is in the speech bubbles. The colour used is only dark grey, black red, blue, white and yellow. But most of it is in grey and black.

Evaluation of Prep Work

Interpreting the theme
I looked at a lot of clipping techniques so i could relate it to the theme of covert and obscured.




\Recording Observations

I have looked at a lot of other graphic designers for some inspiration and the ideas that they had when designing their work so i could have a brief idea of what i would like to do in my final piece.

Idea Development

The ideas that i wanted to use was a background that has a lot of different materials on it such as paint, ink, black felt tip pen, needle and thread and masking tape. I also wanted to create a colourful poster that has a popular saying/meaning on it. The words will be in different fonts and sizes to make it more abstract and different from what other graphic designers have done.

Materials, Techniques and Processes

I have used a lot of cut outs of magazines and newspapers in my sketchbook to get a lot of different size fonts and different types of fonts so i have an idea of what fonts will look best in my final piece. I have also tried doing a lot of clipping in Illustrator so i could try and do that in my final piece with the words and different fonts that i am going to use such as slurred font, 3D fonts, bubble writing, and handwritten fonts. The few problems that i had with the cut outs are that they didn't have many 3D fonts and different kinds of 3D fonts which is one of the main and most important fonts that i need for my final piece. I didn't have to adapt my ideas because of the materials that are available because most of the materials that i needed such as different coloured paints, black felt tip pens, needle and thread, ink and masking tape are all available.

Influences

Matt W Moore has inspired my ideas for my final piece the most because of the past work that he has done. I like all the techniques that he has used such as the destroyed background and the use of colour in his fonts. I would like to do something similar to his work but by using my own message, different fonts and sizes and my own background that i created.  The exam trip to the National Portrait Museum hasn't really inspired my ideas because they weren't as interesting to me as some of the other artists that i looked at on the internet such as Matt W Moore, Alex Trochut, Anna Garforth, Eric van den boom and Luca Ionescu. They have a lot of colourful designs that really attract the eye of a viewer and what i think that i am best at in Graphics.

Final Piece

I intend to make a poster for my final piece which has a message on it and a 'destroyed' background. I will create the background myself and then edit it in photoshop by adding the message onto of it and printing it on A3 paper.

Conclusion

I found this exam quite easy because i planned everything i was going to do so i knew what to as soon as the exam started. Also what i am doing for my final piece is not that complicated so it won't take as much time. I enjoyed a few of the experiments that were related to the final piece that i was doing. I think i will be pleased with my final outcome if it prints out well.

In-depth Analysis

Matt W Moore is a graphic designer and an illustration artists. He creates a lot of colourful and bold pieces of art which can really attract young viewers. He has made artwork for MWM graphics. 

These photographs are what i would like to do for my poster in typography for the exam.

The materials that have been used to make this piece are pencil, pen, coloured pens, paint, spray paint and mainly photoshop to make the typography come out more crisp and neat. It was made by firstly drawing out the letters and the background and using paint/spray paint for the colours. I think he then scanned or took a photograph of it and put it in photoshop to edit it to create the piece on the left hand side. The artists uses a wide variety of bright colours to make it look as colourful as possible which is what i think he was trying to portray. But in the edited piece, it looks like he has scratched out a bit of that colour and scribbled all over the typography. The formal elements that are key with this work are colour, texture, shape and pattern. For colour he has used a lot of colour for each shape and each letter. For texture, in the edited picture it looks like he has scratched part of the background which make it look quite rough. For shape he uses a lot of weird free handed shapes (such as blobs and circles). It appeals mostly to a younger audience because of all the shapes and colours. It also shows he's edited in photoshop and illustrator because of all the added lines around the patterns and you can even see the background that they use in photoshop. 

These two photographs are very vibrant and full of a variety of different colours. The picture on the bottom is a photograph but using typography. However the photograph on the top, you can mostly see the word and some patterns around it which are different colours.