How informative! I can always count on you, PBS!
Hello, my name is Luca De Michele and I created the “Italian Gold Coast” blog for create a chance to all Italian people meet each other. I’m currently studying the diploma of Graphic Design in Kingscliff TAFE.
Today I’d like to show and explain a bit of the futurismo movement … (this is a poster I did)
Futurism was an artistic and social that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It emphasised and glorified themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future, including speed, technology, youth and violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane and the industrial city.
The founder of Futurism and its most influential personality was the Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. He launched the movement in his Manifesto Futurista which he published for the first time on 5 February 1909 in La gazzetta dell’Emilia, an article then reproduced in the French daily newspaper Le Figaro on 20 February 1909.
Filippo Marinetti
The Futurists were fascinated by new visual technology, in particular chrono-photography, a predecessor of animation and cinema that allowed the movement of an object to be shown across a sequence of frames. This technology was an important influence on their approach to showing movement in painting, encouraging an abstract art with rhythmic, pulsating qualities.
Here there are some photos:
Depero – Trento Bondone
Depero – Campari
Marinetti – Zang Tumb Tumb
This is a link on a video on youtube with some sentences from the Manifesto Futurista http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC1wBf-LJ20
LINKS
http://www.theartstory.org/movement-futurism.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Tommaso_Marinetti
When a friend told me she was having twins, I wanted to come up with a special present that she was not likely to get from anyone else. These being her third and fourth children, I knew she would have much of the necessities for the babies, so that left me free to give her something more personal.
Using Photoshop and Illustrator, I scanned my drawings, cleaned them up, pulled them all together into the two posters and colourised them.
I have ended up with a very special one-off gift for her darling daughters to hang in their bedroom.
So why not get drawing and see what you can come up with. I based it on Hey Diddle Diddle the nursery rhyme and had some fun.
Picture of poster from Wikipedia
Trying to come up with an idea for a DVD cover for a documentary on Gotham typeface, I decided to used the style of the Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign posters. The posters used Gotham as the font for the words Hope and Change.
Gotham was created by American type designer Tobias Frere-Jones in 2000. He gained inspiration for the font from the signage around Manhattan, especially the lettering on the Port Authority Bus Terminal building.
While there are a few ‘cheat’ sites that allow you to upload a photo and they ‘Obama-rise’ it for you, I couldn’t get them to work, so a searching I did go to find a tutorial that would teach me how to make my own.
This will take you a good couple of hours to complete, but I was fairly happy with the results.
I used the effect to do a portrait of Tobias, and then did a similar effect on the New York skyline, though simplified.
This is the tutorial that I followed from Vector Tuts +. You will need both Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
And this is the finished product.
Try it yourself, but please don’t copy my design.
With my dad’s 70th birthday upon us it was time for a bit of graphic design.
The photobook was designed and sent off last month, so this month it was how to decorate his cake. The cost of buying a cake for 60 people was frightening, so my Mum decided to make the cake herself and I designed the cake topper – a front page that could be laminated and kept afterwards and placed on the top of the cake for the sing along.
With a career in journalism behind him, a front page seemed the logical solution to use on the cake, and the Sydney Daily Telegraph was the newspaper he edited back in the 80s, so that was that decision made too.
The Tele had a redesign this month, so I used the new style as my template.
Not knowing what fonts they are using, I had a guess at Gotham. It worked better in the blurbs at the top of the page than as the lead header, but all in all, it works reasonably well.
Writing the headlines and story with lots of ’in jokes’, the page is very specific for my dad and the family and friends who are coming to the party will all understand it and enjoy a giggle.
The front page would also work as a card, and in fact that is what I will be using for other people to sign on the night, so he has a momento of the night.
The Daily Telegraph masthead I borrowed from the internet and for that I thank News Limited, for whom dad worked for many years.
After the devastation caused by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the last thing they needed was more bad news. Unfortunately the natural disasters damaged the Daiichi nuclear power plant, leading to meltdown.The No Nukes campaign is one graphic designers can get behind with their own posters trying to get the message across, pushing for a choice in how power is created in Japan and expressing the dangers of nuclear energy.
This is the one I created.
The writing in the background is the data from other nuclear power plant disasters – the INES rating (the International Nuclear Event Scale which starts at 0 and goes up to 7, 1 being the low end), the deaths, those affected and where they happened. Fukushima was rated 7 – a major accident.
Despite repeated attempts I haven’t been able to load this up to the competition website – think it may be an Apple issue as we had problems getting the logo down as well.
So this will have to be my own private exhibition!
For a recent poster I needed to create a realistic stone block I could engrave a quote into.
I looked at many tutorials but I found this one the most helpful for what I wanted.
This one from Photoshop Dragon is the one I followed. Just remember to set up your canvas as an RGB to start with as you won’t be able to do some of the steps if you are in CMYK.
I made the stone first and then embossed the quote and dates into the sides. The poster was to celebrate the life of type founder John Baskerville.
For my son’s 8th birthday, he wanted a Harry Potter themed party.I spent a lot of time on the internet doing research for this and found lots of handy sites and graphics I could use.
The Party was based around viewing the first movie. I kept stopping it so the kids could have their own ‘lessons’ and games that tied in with what was happening on screen.
This was the Timetable
1pm Kids arrived and were led through our magic garden gate to our outdoor seating area which was now Hogwart’s Express. Here they enjoyed pumpkin soup, dragon’s fingers (Chicken fingers), Fairy bread and pumpkin juice (Passiona with my own label on the top).
1.30pm Movie started. Watch first half an hour.
2pm
a. Visit to Honeydukes sweet shop (Picture Right). Sherbet Lemons, Chattering Teeth, Fizzy Bombs, Musk Wands, Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans (jelly beans), coloured popcorn, Chocolate frogs.
b. Charms Class – make their own wands from sticks, add glitter and ribbons
c. Philosopher’s Stone treasure Hunt. Painted a stone red and added glitter. Hid a plastic animal in the garden for each child with a little bag of treasure. Wrote clues for each child to find their animal (Toad, snake, mouse, Rat, spider, fly) The little bags of treasure had enough for each child and included HP yoyos, lead pencils I had made HP sleeves for, sweets etc) Pic below right.
The end was finding the stone where they also found of bottle of creaming soda that was called the elixir of Life and a bag of gold chocolate coins.
2.30pm Watch the movie again until the sorting hat
3pm
a. Sorting hat – each child is sorted into their house and received their house badges (you can get these on Ebay or make some yourself – all mine were in Gryffindor.
b. Potions Class – Drink your own potion. (Put a potions base mix label on a lemonade bottle and we then mixed food colouring into it to see who’s looked the most revolting! Then they drank them.
c. Transfiguration Class – Made Owl Origami – Found one on the internet I could print out and was fairly simple to lead the kids through (Pic right)
I got it from the Tammy Yee website Here.
d. Quidditch Races – My son and I collected a long stick for each child and then lots of twiggy branches on our dog walks and then made each child a broomstick. I split them into two teams then gave each team a ball. Them had to ride their broomsticks up and around the shed and back to pass to the next team mate. First all around wins – but all of them got a little prize.
3.45pm Watch Movie until the Halloween Feast
5pm
a. Hogwart’s Feast (Dinner time – use clever and disgusting names for the food! Trolls in Blankets, Frogs Legs, Golden Wands, Knobbly Knuckles, Banshee Bags…)
b. Care of Magical Creatures Class – I found a little pack of six plaster animals, three cats and three dogs. The kids each painted one then gave them magical powers with some glitter on their heads.
c. Divination Class – we made some owl bookmarks from an online lady I found on Ebay. The owls are made from little cutout pieces you stick together then put a paperclip on the back. The web site for these bookmarks is www.kintakards.com
6.30pm Watch Movie until they get to the point when they decide they have to go down the trapdoor to stop Snape.
7.30pm Birthday Cake, then took hot chocolate outside to melt marshmallow on a bonfire.
8pm. Movie to End
9pm Bedtime
I bought the Hewlett Packard harry potter creative CD on Ebay which I used at my parent’s house (they have a PC which is the only thing it works on) to create the placemats for each of the kids. I then laminated them and the kids took them home as a gift. I also used this CD to make the lesson signs.
The Hogwart’s Express sign I created from graphics on the internet.
I used Illustrator and Photoshop to make a lot of the graphics and used a lot of stuff from the internet.
I made each child a Hogwart’s Express ticket as part of the invitation and asked them to bring that to get on the train. I took a photo of each child then used the chocolate Frog famous witches and wizards frame from the Hewlett Packard CD to put around the kids photo. This I put on the back of their train ticket and laminated so they could keep them as bookmarks.
I also made them bookmarks using internet graphics and laminated them and added ribbons.
I bought a Harry Potter Duvet/Doona cover for a single bed and removed the back panel and replaced it with a plain blue sheet. I then used the fabric to make library bags for all the kids. These came in handy for them to put all their treasures as they made or found them in the lessons and games. (Pictured right on the 3M stick on hooks that were easily removed after the party).
The duvet cover is of course on the bed – all the time!
Other things to do:
A Flash experiment based on How to make Gluten Free Lemon Chicken.
This is my mum’s adapted recipe. So for all those who have been trying to get the recipe, here it is!
Click on the image to visit the page…
I have been building a dummy site for a friend’s physio business.
This wasn’t with his proper content as it was not possible to get it from him in time for this project deadline.
The banner photos were created in Adobe flash to provide a moving slideshow that moved first to the left and then returned. It was my first flash work on a site and it looked great. More importantly, the owner loved it.
Of course all the contact information is wrong and the rest of the content was borrowed from other sites and rewritten by me for this site.
I am hoping he will take the site on with his own content in the future.
If not, it is a good example piece anyway.
