two original spreads
two new spreads

I found the layer blend was the most useful effect I used. Especially when removing whites to reveal the blacks to see the other images.

The emphasis in the first image (there are two because the backgrounds make a different effect for each) is the child reaching up for the sky. I made it stand out by having a light blue outline the edge of the arm, blue radiate off of him and have a posterized layer of the boy overlaying the original. In the second image the emphasis is the "Where's the rain?" image. It stands out because it is the whitest section on the piece being on top of a black brazil, it is different than all the other shapes on the work and it is the least altered.

Design Research

Alan Fletcher

April Greiman

Saul Bass

The Frog Prince

Between the Light

The word my bag is based off of is aberration. Which means a peculiar change in apparent positions of celestial bodies due to the affect of light and motion. I started creating the bag with a mirror hidden on the side of the bag, seen in the second photo. Light is coming out of the mirror and intersect to eventually return to said mirror and repeat this cycle. This shows both light waves and motion which when combined can confuse the mind into thinking is has seen something. In this instance the something is a ghost of a girl. Her body is layered in the center of the page and a face is pasted above it to complete a human like figure. The image is blurry and opac to give it a whimsical feeling. On the bottom most layer of the bag, a shadow of smoke is set. A darker shade of smoke is placed directly beneath the figure and more smoke is added to the back of the bag. These were created using the pen tool and wrinkled and twirled to achieve the desired effect. Within all of the layers of smoke are copies of the face seen on the front. Their opacities are changed to be just visible but leave a sense of mystery or questioning. A gradient was added diagonally to spotlight the female figure. It contrasts he light lines going horizontal and lightly diagonal which draws attention to the middle where they intersect. There are two spotlights, one being a gradient and one being a pen drawn spotlight that is pure white overlaying the gradient. The emphasis point is the female figure and the eye follows the lightwaves across the page. The girl has two different levels of opacity, one being soft light and one being exclusion. Their lines use a blur and wrinkle effect to create a ghostly effect. The entire color scheme is grayscale which gives the bag a feeling of darkness. Uniquely, this bag's photographs of the girls were my own photographs manipulated to fit the theme.

bauhaus

by Marcel Breuer "Long Chair", ca. 1935-1936
 He was a renowned architect and carpenter


by Gunta Stolz and Marcel Breuer "African Chair",
   She was the only female teacher for the school and taught the weaving department

by Paul Klee "Was Felt Ihm?" 1930 (What Is He Missing?)
  He was a visual artist who was one of the instructors to the preliminary classes for the school.

Steel Coffee pot by Naum Slutzky
  He taught at the school in 1919 with  mostly metal and jewelry.

by Vassily Kandinsky in 1923 "On White II"
  He taught beginner basic design classes and advanced painting. He is credited to creating one of the first abstract pieces that created an abstract movement.

The school:

Was located in Germany and taught from 1919 to 1933. They were the first to combine all arts in a single school and mix them together. They believed that all arts would eventually be brought together. They heavily influenced the modern movement, and still influence artists today.

Aberration Bag

screenshot of my bag project

Kerry James Marshall

Untitled (Studio)

aberration

i want the lines to move around the page like the light does in a telescope.




these are my ideas for the project

this is my idea for the celestial being emerging from the

fog/smoke
i could use this sort  of idea for the light beams going across a page

this picture represents the movement caused by light and motion

deleterious

my word was deleterious

definition:
subtly or unintentionally harmful
injurious to health/harmful
destructive; noxious.
divorce//smoking//oil spills

FLY

my word was 'fly'

definitions:
1. move through the air under control
2. an opening at the crotch of a pair of pants, closed with a zipper or buttons
3. a flying insect of a large order characterized by a single pair of transparent wings and sucking (and often also piercing) mouthparts
4. stylish and fashionable

words and the meaning

I changed the size of each individual letter along with the thickness of their lines. the placement was changed to horizontal and overlapped. the font was changed to myriad pro. it quite literally is white on black.

the word quiet is a soft gray with a thin fill. it is located in the lower corner. the background is a soft color and the composition was designed to be a bedroom since nighttime is quiet. the round circles floating was a Q that had the 3-D effect on it. The I for the bed has a pattern swatch applied that gives it subtle texture.

this is loud due to the rather large size of the word and having it extend past the screen. the background is like a spotlight which is rather exciting and focused. there are three loud's overlapped, one is black, one is yellow with a gradient outline and the third is black and has a 20% opacity. the font was changed and distorted.

Active is used to create a spiral. the words font was changed and made bold. the size was slightly larger but the circle it was attached to changes sizes. each circle was individually resized and rotated to create this spiral effect. the center is off center which changes the composition. the word also has two different colors.this is active because it is forever spinning.

This is my own typography I made using blue paint and a sponge. I wanted to create a scratchy affect so i used little paint and an old sponge edge. I focused the darker blues on the circular areas to create a depth.There is also a little light blue chalk overlaying some of the blue paint.

it is time

two old men eating soup

two old men

I really like these three pieces by Keetra Dean Dixon. I like how they are words with meaning and often hide other words. I like how she made something so cool out of such a simple idea, like 'Love Sick'.

picture of 120 second homework check

Final Book

This is my cover page titled: uncertainty. The intertwined colored lines create a feeling of uncertainty for the cover which represents the following pages.

My first page of the book has an emphasis of a galaxy in the right hand corner. Space, in general, is a place humanity does not have a lot of knowledge on. We enjoy exploring it because it continues to surprise us. In my work, I made it portray uncertainty by leaving a sense of questioning, as to what the planet could be, where does the galaxy go, whose satellite does that belong to?

This next piece represents a city. My emphasis is the eye in the upper center of the page. I wanted to symbolize how we live in the world. Do we really know whats going on right outside our homes? Is there something larger controlling us? Maybe even a different world? By having this "eye" with a watercolor-esc reflection of a city on the bottom I created a world where you do not know what is occurring. 

In the upper left hand corner, you see some swirls in front of a dotted circle. My emphasis is where he black meets the white just under the circle. The reason this page relates to the theme of uncertainty is because the swirling lines and negative spaces leaves you questioning what they represent. If it has a deeper meaning than one would immediately see. I believe that the intersecting lines and words of the background with a contrast of white makes the viewer curious if the words within mean something to the piece.

My last picture is more simple. The emphasis is the "Y" on the bottom, but really I want the eyes to trail from the top of the page right to the bottom. This piece truly makes you question what the words represent. "Thirty six thousand seventy feet." I based this off of the depth of the Mariana's Trench, the deepest part of the ocean. We know next to nothing about our worlds oceans. I wanted to play upon this fact by giving some incite to a really amazing part of nature, making one curious to learn more.