Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Rinzen
Rinzen is an Australian art and design company. It consists of 5 memebers who work collaboratively and individually to make their work.
I found them through these skateboard decks that they have designed. The top one is quite typical of a skateboard deck. The bright colours and detailed pattern consisting of symbols (Including skulls) can be seen on various skateboard decks.
The one underneath is less typical of a skateboard deck. The plain black and white colours are not often seen on many decks, especially with the overwhelming white colour. The patten is really intricate and interesting and is not symettrical or repeated.
Rinzen also design some fashion products like the one above. The shirt uses a really nice simple design of spots on stripes made from only 3 colours. This is much more like the repetetive pattern style of Marian Bantjes. I should definitely experiment with making these kinds of patterns.
Marian Bantjes
Marian Bantjes is a Canadian 'graphic artist'. I chose to look at this work because of the complex patterns that seem to be in a lot of her work and because this links in to the development work I've started doing for Collection 100.
The most striking thing about her work is that she creates these visually stunning patterns that repeat and tesselate pefectly back into each other like a never ending picture. It could be really intgeresting to try and do this with something in my project but it could be really difficult with such stright edged and defined objects.
Useful Graffiti
For our group resolution we decided to make a graffiti stencil to spray paint our design on walls.
It isn't "graffiti" as such because it is entirely selfless and serves a purpose to help homeless people find medical care.
Above are a couple of other examples of graffiti that is useful and serves a purpose instead of just being self expression.
This is the exact kind of thing that we would be looking to do; creating graffiti that serves a purpose and catches your eye as being something other than standard graffiti.
Dutch by Design
This is a design for bedclothes by 'Dutch by Design' for Centrepoint, the UK's leading charity for young homeless people. It is a set of bedclothes that have been designed to look like old cardboard boxes.
The idea is that it represents the kind of thing that young homeless people would be sleeping under in the street.
This is a really interesting design and I think it works really effectively. One one hand it is an eye opener that indirectly places the consumer in the shoes of a homeless person. Obviously being under a warm, cozy duvet is alot better than actually sleeping under old cardboard boxes, the imagery is immediately representative of rough sleepers. It relates itself to sleeping because they have been crafted as bed covers and then the old tattered cardboard looks like rubbish and the same kind of thing you see on the street. Both of these things work in a really clever way to make the design a success.
I really like the detail that makes the design look exactly like old flattened cardboard. The printed shipping characters, selotape and the fold creases all give an authentic look to the cover.
The idea of the covers is not to make people donate to charity because 30% of the money made from the sales goes directly to Centrepoint. I think that the idea is just to make the consumer think about young homeless people.
Private/Public
Private/Public is a research and design project by Deborah Grossberg Katz and Terri Chiao from New York. It started as a project based on creating independent design from a subject of interest. The idea was to use research as the basis for their own brief.
The project is focussed on homelessness in New York City.
I really like these statistical/information graphics above. They have made a really simple colour scheme and represent information in a clearly visual way. It is often useful to show information in a visual way as well as just figures because it can put things into conext in your mind or make you realise something that you didn't by just seeing percentages and numbers.
The information is simple and it is realy clear what they are showing and trying to express from their research.
"Moose"
Doing some research on Graffiti for the What If.. brief I found this graffiti artist called Moose.
He's different from most graffiti artists because instead of spray painting he cleans dirt from signs and walls to create his art.
His method is really interesting because really what he's doing is a positive thing and not in any way illegal. As such, police are stumped and have no real grounds to arrest him.
This is a really good example of a different way to use graffiti and how it isn't always just vandalism.
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