2011年6月19日 星期日
2011年6月1日 星期三
Project Proposal
From the shop project, I am really enjoying in it, because I like shopping so much, so I think that is why I really want to created some products. After doing macmillan,I really enjoyed about making small but repeated figure and would like to make some pattern, so I start to think about maybe create a series of wallpaper for children.
First of all, I found out there is not a big amount choosing for children's bedroom wallpaper, has been look through some designer shop, I went to Chelsea Harbor design center, designer guild, cath kidston, laura ashley, found out there are only few of them suit children. I am also quite interested in children's room design, if its okay, I would like to have have a space, try to design or make a room for children.
Look through the work like this, It would be good to make some wall covering, wall stickers, or wall paper.
for example, a collection of circus, marry-go-around wall paper. collection of transportation, flowers, bugs.
Besides, I have been collect some toy car and some drawing about toy car, it can be my another starting point for this project.
Wallpaper for children was my first idea, in this case, I start to research some artworks related to wall and space, I found out that is very interesting.
There is a lot to talk about how the wall start to connected with paper. functional concern? decoration?After research about this wallpaper project, it reminds me Richard Wright (2009) in Tate Britain, has an artwork about wallpaper. From William Morris, he also work on wallpaper, there is a lot of beautiful pattern which is really inspired me. I also very interested in Chinese and Japanese print, will research more during I back to Taiwan, there is lots of books and information I can get easily. For the technical process, I have to use a lot of workshop and printmaking, may prefer screen print, but also have to learn more different printing techniques.
In order to make sure the process going well, I will set my timeline as learning the printing skills at the first step, and then start to create images, research will be very important for me, the knowledge and also go to shops to see what is really on the market. Start from summer, I will work on doing research about this, no matter artists or designer. Before Christmas, I have to decide what kind of style of wallpaper I am going to make, and also with lots of drawings as reference, also already have printing skills to use workshops and have few sample. In the next year, I should have a series of models, and use it as a starting point, in order to created more and hopefully to make something I like in the end.
William Morris
Printed and woven textiles
Morris's first repeating pattern for wallpaper is dated 1862, but was not manufactured until 1864. All his wallpaper designs were manufactured for him by Jeffrey & Co, a commercial wallpaper maker. In 1868 he designed his first pattern specifically for fabric printing. As in so many other areas that interested him, Morris chose to work with the ancient technique of hand woodblock printing in preference to the roller printing which had almost completely replaced it for commercial uses.
Morris took up the practical art of dyeing as a necessary adjunct of his manufacturing business. He spent much of his time at Staffordshire dye works mastering the processes of that art and making experiments in the revival of old or discovery of new methods. One result of these experiments was to reinstate indigo dyeing as a practical industry and generally to renew the use of those vegetable dyes, like madder, which had been driven almost out of use by the anilines. Dyeing of wools, silks, and cottons was the necessary preliminary to what he had much at heart, the production of woven and printed fabrics of the highest excellence; and the period of incessant work at the dye-vat (1875–76) was followed by a period during which he was absorbed in the production of textiles (1877–78), and more especially in the revival of carpet-weaving as a fine art.[1][46] However, his first carpet designs of 1875, were made for him industrially by commercial firms using machinery.
Morris's patterns for woven textiles, some of which were also machine made under ordinary commercial conditions, included intricate double-woven furnishing fabrics in which two sets of warps and wefts are interlinked to create complex gradations of colour and texture.[47] His textile designs are still popular today, sometimes recoloured for modern sensibilities, but also in the original colourways.
2011年5月30日 星期一
Alfredo Jaar
There is an artwork from Alfredo Jaar, I found out this is quite interesting.
Besides its meaning, the relationship between space and human, the atmosphere of the building and wall, which is really inspired me about this wallpaper project.
from Art monthly, there is an interview about Alfredo Jaar.
'I consider myself an architect making art and most of my practice is site-specific. In the past 30 years I have divided my work into three distinct areas and only one-third of my practice takes place in what we call the art world. But because of its extraordinary insularity – it is a small world in which we mostly talk to each other – I decided to get out.'
About this work, I also take have some quote from Art monthly.
" After 60 seconeds of darkness, the lights come on and gradually intensity. When you get used to the blinding light you realise that both side walls are mirrored, which creates an infinite wall on both sides. You are illuminated historically, conceptually, physically and emotionally by the faces of living and the dead."
dec-jan 10-11
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- noun
- the dark outline or shape of a person or an object that you see against a light background （淺色背 景襯托出的）暗色輪廓 countable uncountable
- the shape of a person's body or of an object （人的）體形；（事物的）形狀 countable
- a picture that shows somebody/something as a black shape against a light background, especially one that shows the side view of a person's face 剪影；（尤指人臉的）側影 countable
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- verb
- to make something appear as a silhouette 使呈現暗色輪廓 VN usually passive
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2011年5月24日 星期二
richard wright
Richard Wright
Wright decorates architectural spaces with intricately designed geometric patterns in paint and gold leaf.[4] His work of art includes a wide range of works made on paper, from prints on poster paper to elaborate and complex large-scale works that can include thousands of hand drawn and painted marks.
His paintings are often short-lived, only surviving the length of an exhibition, they are painted over at the end of the show. This often seems to heighten the senses of the viewer in the knowledge that the work may not be viewable again, in any other place, at any other time. Turner Prize judge Andrea Schlieker described him as a "painter who rejects the canvas";[5] fellow judge Jonathan Jones called him a "modern fresco painter".[4] Wright injects complex works into often overlooked architectural spaces.
On 7 December 2009 Wright received the Turner Prize 2009[6] for his golden fresco on the walls of Tate Britain's second room.
2011年5月17日 星期二
some ideas about children's bedroom design
http://www.thewhitecompany.com/productdetails.aspx?Id=1000775&ItemNo=SFRBA-MASTER&SelectedItem=SFRBA-MASTER
http://wallpaperhistory.com/VintageWallpaperGuide/?tag=wall-covering
http://www.designersguild.com/fabric-and-wallpaper-showroom/designers-guild-kids/
http://www.cole-and-son.com/collection_detail.asp?CollectionID=11
http://www.cathkidston.co.uk/p-11630-cath-kidston-circus-wallpaper.aspx
http://www.fournimagz.com/modern-original-very-cool-and-funny-plush-kids-beds-concept-design-from-incredibeds-collection.html/sweet-funny-plush-kids-bed-design-ideas
project proposal
I found out there is not a big amount choosing for children's bedroom wallpaper, has been look through some designer shop, I went to Chelsea Harbor design center, designer guild, cath kidston, laura ashley, found out there are only few of them suit children. I am also quite interested in children's room design, if its okay, I would like to have have a space, try to design or make a room for children.
After doing macmillan,
I really enjoyed about making small but repeated figure.
For the third year major, there are some ideas I am thinking about.
1) I would like to create a series of wall paper.
through the work like this, It would be good to make some wall covering, wall stickers, or wall paper.
for example, a collection of circus, marry-go-around wall paper. collection of transportation, flowers, bugs, no birds, some mineral maybe.
2) I have been collect some toy car and some drawing about toy car, I would like to make some tableware, towel, pillow or even duvet cover inspired by toy car for boys' bedroom.
two of them are still very vague, but both of them i do like it and cant wait to start it.
Wallpaper for children was my first idea, in this case, I start to research some artworks related to wall and space, I found out that is very interesting.
There is a lot to talk about how the wall start to connected with paper. functional concern? decoration?
evalutaion
In the first year, I think I am quite open-mind, using different materials, interested in diversity fields, such as fashion, story developing, film making. I feel happy and passion when I doing this, I did not limit my style , enjoy making stuff and just follow what tutor said.
In the second year, I was setting up myself to focus on children books, I think I try to be " childlike " on every project, kind of too over, because some of them do not suit this style. In this case, I kind of stuck on it.
Look through these projects in my second year, I was excited about the Moby Dick,and also children's book.
I was try to combine two of them, but generally speaking, moby dick is not even a children's book, in my opinion, is a very sad story with some scary truth, that why the final outcome become a children-like book. childlike drawings with scary text choosing.
By the process of doing macmillan, i was struggling with story choosing, should i make a story or choose one of the old story. I would like a make a story, but sometimes my set-up is a little bit too complicated, always put too much message inside, but do not really think about how kids may like. For instance, I was thinking about adventure story, then I want to make them funny, fantasy, too much turning point but even I already put these things, I still thinking about make it meaningful. In the process of making story, I was failed again and again, I almost give up and start to draw momotaro and alice in wonderland. The drawings of alice in wonderland i made has the same problems as Moby Dick, it looks like a set-up scene.After meeting with classmate and mary, I decide to change again, I was make a simple, small topic as my main idea, and try to imagine everything connected, as the first idea, " kite", I was went to a kite festival in France, also thinking about fly. After all, the story is not really a story, isnt telling any meaningful things at all, but it make kids to think about fly, to think beyond the story I tell. I like the part of thinking and solve questions, makes me happy.
there are some example, my works has start to be a piece of picture which is already set-up.
the question is i may be can tell a story by a piece of drawing, but now i cant tell story by pieces of drawings. Is it because i didnt understand the story? or is it now i cant turn the text into drawings?
It has been two years, I still have many things to concern, style, skill, target, what I am going to make? So many questions there to think about. After more research, and improve technical skills, hope everything will going well.