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Concept Board

Tadanori Yokoo was a prominent Japanese artist in the 1960’s. He made a lot of posters that used colors and simple images to convey messages. Yokoo also made movies and music. Yokoo was influenced by pop culture, mysticism, psychedelia, Indian culture, and various writers and filmmakers. He has themes of nature in his work; waterfalls, the rising sun, mountains, etc. He was sometimes known as ‘the Japanese Andy Warhol’ because of the bright colors and pop influenced style he used. Yokoo influenced the people of his time because, in the words of Yukio Mishima, “[his] works reveal all of the unbearable things which we Japanese have inside ourselves and they make people angry and frightened”. His work made people think, and moved along the graphic design movement away from modernism and to pop.

A Good Example of Graphic Design

This is my copy of Brave New World. I was about to order it online about year ago, but then I saw this copy in Barnes and Noble and had to buy it. I may have spend $15 more than if I bought it on amazon, but to me it was worth it. I just liked how textured this copy was. The cover is a really soft paper with these metallic bumps, on the pages are all uneven. I am a big fan of books, and if they are pretty it's even better. This cover is very simple, but I still like to like at it- I think that is why it is an example of good graphic design.

Sweet Inspiration

                                        http://www.kumiyamashita.com/light-and-shadow/

   I found this artist's website a few months ago, and I probably have looked at her shadow pieces a couple times a month since then. I find it really striking, because it is such a simple idea, but the visual presentation is complex and beautiful. She manipulates paper, wood, and simple objects to make different shadows that look like people. 

I especially like this technique, because it seems like something nobody has really done before. It is not only innovated, but it looks nice, too.

Letter Project Reflection

First Draft:

Final:

   





   

   Our first task after choosing our letters were to make twenty thumbnail sketches to get our ideas down. Then we chose and drew two drafts, from which we chose one. I started my process after my draft with redrawing my design in pencil on the final paper. After I redrew it, I traced my design in marker. Then I colored in the parts I traced. I thought that the thoroughness of the process was very helpful. It was good to draw twenty thumbnails because it forced me to really stretch my imagination. 
   I came up with my first concept (the UFO), because I was thinking about how weird the letter Q looks, and I associated weirdness with aliens. I represented this concept because the cow and the alien are both kind of odd. The girl's face is just something I doodle a lot, so I thought it might be a sweet idea. 
  The most challenging aspect of this project was keeping everything clean and neat. I am just a naturally messy person so it was tough to keep inside the lines and not smudge marker everywhere. 
  I am not really satisfied with my project. I am kind of a perfectionist, and I would have rather done this work at home where I could concentrate in peace. I am kind of uncomfortable doing it in school, so I couldn't make my project the best it could be.
  If I could change my design, I might choose something that was more of a natural O shape, so I would not have to warp the design so much.