Architecture; Interior; Sports World International
The reason I ve decided to debate a post on this isn’t because of the clothes they sell, the colours they use, there identity. Its because of the way the interior has been designed and laid out although for a lot of you who have shopped there in the past may think ‘ but its just a mess’ it is actually designed to be layed out and planned like this….. and guess what it works!! hugely works. I worked for the company for 5 years in the one same shop... Read The Rest →
Architecture; Penshaw Monument
No this is’nt Greece Its Newcastle! Penshaw monument was built in 1844 on the hill of Penshaw in memory of the first earl of Durham. It was based on the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens the one seen on Jason and the Argonourts. It is 100 feet long and 73 feet wide, each column is 6 feet in diameter. The monument features on Sunderland afc s Football badge and is also said to be the place of the lambton worm. I find this piece interesting probably for the wrong reasons,... Read The Rest →
Architecture; Sydney Opera Theatre Tiling
Now we all know the Sydney Opera house is a fantastic piece of Architecture, but what struck me most when i saw it was the tiling structure it made from. When seen on all the post cards it looks white and plain but when looked up close as you can see in the photos its far from this. It has a very symmetrical tiling system that runs over each part of the Theater consisting of white diamond tiles and a dark cream diamond tile that is separated down the middle.... Read The Rest →
Architecture; Tyne Bridge and Sydney Bridge
“An over looked piece of design” in my opinion. The tyne bridge is a compression arch suspended-deck bridge over the river tyne in Newcastle where im from. It links Gateshead and Newcastle and was designed and engineered by Mott, Hay and Anderson. It was officially opened by George 5th. The bridge although not that well known is actually quite a landmark in the North East it has become symbolic of our awsome nightlife and brand new key side which holds the Baltic and Opera house with new developments springing up... Read The Rest →
Design; Coke a Cola the can, bottle, slogan
The coke side of life!! I love illustration and I especially have always liked cokes, I’ve never yet seen a more interesting glass bottle, not only do you get coke out of it but just look at these adverts and see what else you can get from coke. The colours used are very specific and unique and proclaim mountains of emotions and feelings and also symbolisms.The far left one reminds me of the ‘beautiful game’ quite a few years ago with the old full colour strips and real raw passion... Read The Rest →
Website; http://www.lynxeffect.com.au
http://www.lynxeffect.com.au Despite the OBVIOUS fact of why a lad my age would this site, thats not actually why I’ve decided to make a post on it.This site is unbelievable, its more like a games console than a website, to date I haven’t found a website that is as interesting and as stimulating as this, and its not just because of the pretty girls. The site use flash and some PHP coding and if you’ve ever used flash you ll know its not to bad certain things are tricky etc depending... Read The Rest →
Website; http://www.dna11.com/
http://www.dna11.com/produce art based on you SERIOUSLY BASED ON YOU. They use your DNA to create DNA portraits or your fingerprints or kiss prints to do the same, opening up a new market in art that really is based on you. This blog post goes in hand with my ‘ can a fingerprint be classed as design debate’. They have used great innovation to think of a simple method that will people to won art specifically for them great for couples or newly weds. I suppose the down side is that... Read The Rest →
Design; Finger Print
We look at art as design, buildings, sculptures, books, films, adverts! but why not ourselves? Take our finger print for example, it is unique to us, it is our own personal identification system, it is perfectly formed and shaped and is renewable, free and available for us to view 24/7 at our own pleasure. I cant think of any other design that matches that criteria. SO CAN OUR FINGERPRINTS BE CALLED DESIGN??? In my opinion yes, nature is classed as deign and also as a work of art in some... Read The Rest →
Design; Persil Tablet (Unileaver)
When it comes to design innovation in detergents it is mainly scientific based good performance and practicality is generally still the most important thing to consumers when buying a washing detergent, thus companies need to design better detergents that produce cleaner results. So it is up to detergent companies to use design innovation to produce detergents that are practical, environmentally friendly and that will produce good results on lower temperatures thus being more eco friendly.Persil were the first company to produce a detergent that was in the form of a... Read The Rest →
Artist; Ewan Uglow
When comparing Morandi to the artist Ewan Uglow whose style of tone is different it is interesting to see how Uglow depicts out the light and dark of the forms and the huge colour differences he uses to display this, more like Cezanne. Uglow is a British artist who often painted the human figure and still life, his work uses block tone to differentiate the differences between the light and dark areas. Notice below how compared to Morandi the way Uglow uses block s of colour to create the shading... Read The Rest →
Artist; Georgio Morandi
No artist in my mind in the twentieth century captured as much drama in their work as Georgio Morandi did in his small paintings of still life, flowers and landscapes. Again he was an Italian artist who grew up in small town named Bologna, his work shows relation to ‘Cezanne’ and cubism.‘One of the few Italian artists of his generation to have escaped the taint of Fascism, and to have evolved a style of pure pictorial values congenial to modernist abstraction. Through his simple and repetitive motifs and economical use... Read The Rest →
Artist: Italian Art ; Michelangelo and Battista Franco
I find Italian art to be the most powerful tonal art, the way the Italian artists use tone to create shapes and forms and depict out the light and dark to deceive the eye and create such a realism almost like a photo.Such work as by Michelangelo and Battista Franco of still life using shading to create the forms of the body, to create an illusion and also a perspective to the viewer. The simplicity of the tone shows by how minimal the use of it is, the pieces are... Read The Rest →
