Print making

Print making evaluation 

The course was pretty straight forward to begin with I knew that I had to create a final print for a client which would be the bank of China and I also had to use Asian influence is to create the print also I had to use inferences from the Bauhaus movement which I thought was a bit confusing because the styles are pretty opposite. 

A critical information in a variety of ways I will I went to the library I will research surveys and printmaking to technics I went online to be said about the house and and the prints and drawings and what the house was originally created for and then I use all these ideas and influences to help me plan and create my designs 

Chair evaluation

Unit 95 was a course in who I had to design and construct a chair from my own designs in order for me to have a full understanding about designing a chair I had to do my research on classic and iconic chairs produced by furniture designers going back at least 150 years so I could follow the journey of chair making especially identifying the techniques used before chairs were produced by machines and the materials that were commercially important during the 150 and why they were designed in that particular style during the course I chose to source information about the two most iconic and influential art movements  Art Deco & Nouveau that have been a foundation for exciting chair designs and even for other industries in art and design such as Poster design , Fashion and jewellery , architecture
Throughout the course I have been sourcing Information from a variety of places and I recorded them in a series of ways such as sketches, photos and drawings to show my ideas a show they have come to life so to speak although give had some difficulty sourcing my information regarding where I could get the information and how I could talk about it without it sounding or looking plagiarised.
My research based upon both the art nouveau and Art Deco movement influenced my designs heavily more so with the structure of the chair and the materials and colours used but my inspirations did not actually come from any chairs produced each of any of the movements, they came from the more of the architectural designs in France (art nouveau) which I found really interesting and exciting to look at regarding the organic and fluid shapes place together ever so nicely.
I then started to refine and review a lot of my designs that I sketched but after looking through them individually I realised that a majority of the chairs were not suitable for human use (ergonomic) because of the way I designed the chairs maybe they weren't ideally easy to sit on and keep a good posture or the material might not withstand the force placed upon it without deforming or breaking in the worst case scenario
After completing a the rough sketch of my chair I then decided to draw it in a orthographic style so I get a better visual idea on what my chair will look like from 3 viewpoint; front face, side and birds eye view all this helps me with the proportions of my chair.
My final prototype design has more of an Art Deco appearance because I chose to use a slightly transparent sheet of 3mm thick acrylic to subtitle for the polypropylene but the acrylic sheet reminds me a lot of the stained glass windows that you would commonly see in church but also there were in a lot of Art Deco designs which I found very I interesting. The overall appearance of my chair is quite futuristic but with traditional influences.  

Art nouveau

Victor Horta

Victor was a Belgium at neither architect decorator and as I know he was born 1861 to 1947 victor was one of the leading architect and designers of the art nouveau movement his style inspired an array of modern artists who were all over Europe, Victor studied drawing, (fine art) textiles and architecture at to fine art  Academy of gent. 

 

Looking at victors work you can see a clear understanding of art nouveau, his use of line and texture is very smooth and sleek and resembles a plant in its most natural form his architecture was very inspirational to other artists because during that time and majority of pieces of furniture was very geometric and plain which gave a new lease of life for artists such as victor Horta and the art nouveau movement in the process 

Printing timeline

Stone Rubbing & Woodblock - 868 AD

Woodblock printing is the oldest printmaking technique, it originated in China. In woodblock the initial stages were the techniques of cutting or shaping stamps and seals. The most important precondition for the development of woodblock printmaking was the creation of paper which dates to 105 AD in China. The first early "printmaking" technique was stone rubbing. Stones, engraved with calligraphies, were closely covered with humid paper. When the paper was dry, ink was spread onto it, leaving the engraved parts white. 

Stone Rubbing  - 868 AD 

Unit- 95

Unit 77 evaluation

Unit 77 was in my opinion A very straightforward brief I understood what I had to do and how I had to do it I didn't experience any problems with the brief for the assignment I had a bit of concerns regarding my final painting at the end of the course plus the animation I didn't think I'll be able to get that done.

I've collected information in a variety of ways I use the library are used the Internet and I went to exhibitions such as they are white Chapel Gallery be held an exhibition called the adventures of a black squares which really helped me throughout the course covers the exhibition was based on geometric abstraction which was important in this course because I was influenced by the Bauhaus movement which which the geometric abstraction journey originated from I took down a lot of notes a lot of information into my sketchbook from my variety of sources I took them in drawings paintings bloke uploads I didn't see you like to use my blog because I wanted to work in a very traditional way where I was sort of information form of righty of places and then write it all down in my sketchbook all of my research and information about artists such as Bauhaus the arts and crafts movement Malevich Mondrian Albers Coventry and long these artists helped me to create an abstract map painting of a certain area. I chose to zoom in on a map of the area where my dad lives in Toronto is blocked and neighbourhood I wanted to zoom in on his actual block that he lives in so I took that I sourced a photo from Google Maps and I was able to zoom right into the actual