An obvious person to look at!

The obvious person to look at for textiles is Lady Gaga.
Looking at this shows that things can still look dark and gloomy without using dark colours ...but cold and lighter colours instead.
Looking more at marry the night, I decided to look at both the music video for this single and also look at some of the costumes Gaga has worn on stage.
First looking at some of the costumes in the music videos, they are very dark outfits themselves but then contrasted with lighter colours of make up like that shown in the picture to the left! This makes the whole outfit look a lot darker and colder.
Now looking at costumes Gaga has worn in performances of Marry The Night. She has worn quite a few different costumes but i have chosen to look at the one below because as you can see there is a lot of fabric manipulation which i am familiar with in textiles. I love the general shape of this garment and i could use this to inspire my work!
However i would not use Gaga's work entirely as inspiration as she is a too obvious choice to look at for this inspiration.

Typography Artists

Craig Ward - Ink & Water Dont Mix
Ari Weinkle
Alberto Seveso
Stefano Buffoni
Daniel Gordon

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Misc-Typography/92669

Printmaking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printmaking

Elements

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_elemetn
There are four elements common with each culture ... Fire, Air, Water and Earth!
However there are some more which are common as well but not as common as the four.
One of these is Aether. This is the material that fills the region of the universe above the terrestrial sphere. This is often called the Fifth Element but is not as common as the others.

Manifesto & 4th Plinth

I've nearly done my Manifesto & 4th Plinth! I just need to do a little more research for both the Manifesto and 4th Plinth topic so my work is stronger and more in depth so i can therefore complete my work.
I don't need to look at my past, present or future or whatever we did last lesson in Graphics. Waste of time!
Never thought I'd say this but I hope we get to go on the macs coz we haven't been on in ages and its not fair on our group that we haven't had the opportunity to do anything in both 3D and Graphics for a long time.
Even more annoying that the scanner doesn't work now so I cant finish off my Graphics work.

Idea for observational...

I need to start relating observational to graphics more.

I know that in Graphic Design, they pay a lot of attention to detail which is what I've been doing but i don't think this is enough. Today i looked into different areas of Graphic Design, particularly promotion and advertisement. After listening to a group conversation at college about wanting more of a variety of models to make it more interesting, I've come up with a plan of advertising for a nude model for observational. Just a simple poster drawn by observing a observational class.
My simple plan is to the right...

Kandinsky - drawing sound

Composition VII is the pinnacle of Kandinsky's pre-World War One artistic achievement. The creation of this work involved over thirty preparatory drawings, watercolors and oil studies. Each of these is included in the exhibition, documenting the deliberate creative process used by Kandinsky in his compositions. Amazingly, once he had completed the preparatory work, Kandinsky executed the actual painting of Composition VII in less than four days. The exhibition includes a series of four photographs taken between November 25 and 28, 1913, offering a fascinating record of Kandinsky's artistic procedure.
 Through all of the preparatory works and in the final painting itself, the central motif (an oval form intersected by an irregular rectangle) is maintained. This oval seems almost the eye of a compositional hurricane, surrounded by swirling masses of color and form. In Composition VII's final form, Kandinsky has obliterated almost all pictorial representation. Art scholars, through Kandinsky's writings and study of the less abstract preparatory works, have determined that Composition VII combines the themes of The Resurrection, The Last Judgment, The Deluge and The Garden of Love in an operatic outburst of pure painting. Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky

Born 16 December 1866 in Moscow, Russia
Died 13 December 1944 in Paris, France
He was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting the first purely-abtract works.

Dan Flavin - my love of bright colours once again

One of Flavin's most famous and last works was the lightning for a glass enclose arcade at the Rhine-Elbe Science Park in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The arcade was designed by Uwe Kiessler; it stretches 300 mertres and connects nine buildings. A photo of this is shown to the right.

Dan Flavin
Born 1st April 1933 in New York
Died 29th November 1996 in New York

He was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures.