Research David Hockney’s collages. Mimicking his style, take 10 photographs that can be manipulated as a collage in Photoshop. Post the final collage. Utilize at least two of the composition strategies below.
* rule of thirds
* leading lines
* perspective
* Choose a 2-3 page article in Communication Arts magazine. Within the entry, give the title of the article and the magazine issue date. Summarize the article in a few sentences. Discuss your thoughts about the article.
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In the September/October 2006 Edition of the Communication Magazine, I have chosen an article by Maria Piscopo, detailing on what else you need to go on a freelance art business. “Certainly being talented and having good people skills is the base to build on for a freelance business. Today’s new marketplace for freelancers seems to need more then these basics to answer the big question: How do you keep your clients coming back?”
The page gave a few tips, consisting of beating down the idea of having a marketing plan. This column has talked about some of the obstacles and challenges need to be faced in order for your business to continue taking in requests. It’s technically Marketing 101 here, and the resources we take each and everyday can be used for an even greater potential than imagined. Other things from the marketing plan insist on multiple other details such as making your services more unique and creative. To finish up this summary, I leave a few tips displayed on pages 175-176 of the magazine.
As for this assignment, two combination marks were to be created. Utilizing the company name “Western Exposure Travel” and 2-3 Pantone Colors, the logos needed to be different from each other in terms of color scheme, graphic design, and the number of colors (white is excluded). After sketching, the thumbnails are put on Adobe Illustrator and then published. The focus of the assignment was on simplifying the design as well as stylizing it to draw interest.
In February of 2011, Alex Trebek hosted the first ever competition between man and machine… Jeopardy’s two greatest champions versus IBM’s artificial intelligence computer system.
What was this machine? What was the outcome of the competition? Compared to humans, what were advantages and disadvantages of the computer? What is your opinion about this competition?
The machine is a super computer using an artificial intelligence computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language, renown as “Watson” on Jeopardy. The end result was it besting Ken Jennings & Brad Rutter, two of the best Jeopardy players in history. In comparison to humans, “Watson” has access to limitless information as long as it implemented into its system. It can access it at any time but however, it still cannot “learn” new information by its own capability.
This competition is an interesting event; it represented of how computers can interact with us, whether for games or for possible other uses in the future. According to IBM, “The goal is to have computers start to interact in natural human terms across a range of applications and processes, understanding the questions that humans ask and providing answers that humans can understand and justify.”
In this part of the assignment, a complementary color scheme was to be made for the logo previously created. Considering the meaning of different colors, blue and orange were used in the logotype. Blue is the favorite color of Europeans, especially for members of the male gender; blue represents security, responsibility, and trust. Orange is a warm and energetic color, and used in the proper context it is the perfect color to entice a consumer to buy something Only two Pantone colors were to be used.
Using Adobe Illustrator, a combination work was to be designed from hammer artwork in our sketches. This assignment’s criteria made this logo to implement the name “Handy Man Construction” and only use the color black.
Movie Rating – ★★★★★
In Pirates of Silicon Valley, the movie details about the rise of two major computer companies in world of today: Microsoft and Apple. It starts off with the beginning of the story of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, showing the early life to current day. During the presentation, the story is segmented, switching off between Apple and the story of Bill Gates with Microsoft. It shows of the difference between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs in terms of lifestyle from start to end. By comparing and contrasting, the companies built up in different yet similar ways. Not only did the movie portray of the history of the two great companies but it also showed some of the personal experience each person went through. It was a captivating film that documented some of the greatest people in the world yet in an interesting way of actually making the viewing enjoyable. Drawing you closer like an entertainment cinematic, Pirates of Silicon Valley go into the backstage of the whole story of Apple and Microsoft.
In my opinion, I have learned a lot from the movie as I viewed it as not a documentary, but an amazing film that can stay in your memory for a long time. The movie showed the true person of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs as they tried to bring up their companies. Even by researching for days on each person, I couldn’t have experienced the same things as watching the movie. I think it was a pretty great movie to watch and recommend it to anyone who would like the know some history of computers yet in a more exciting way.
Five Examples of Early Computers – Chronological Order
Univac – 1951
IMB701 EDPM Computer – 1953
Apple II – 1974 to 1977
Apple Lisa – 1983
Apple MacIntosh – 1984
1. The earliest computers were much larger than our current desktop and laptop versions. Find approximate dimensions.
2. What is the significance of ARPnet?
3. When was the internet that we know, world wide web, developed and introduced?
4. Two men are known for their development of the Apple I computer in a garage behind their parent’s home. Who are they? Are they still with Apple today?
5. Over the years, Apple has included “easter eggs” within their software. What is an “easter egg”?
6. Search for easter eggs within Photoshop and Illustrator. List a few in your
post and find them in the software!
7. Where do you think computers will take us in the next 10 years?
Th early computers were not as technologically advanced as today in terms of compressing memory and storage so the approximate dimensions of the first computers were nearly the size of an entire room. ARPnet was the first Internet developed to protect the flow of information between military installations. Bill Gates and Microsoft created the Internet we know today in 1981 with the IMB PC. Steven P. Jobs and Stephen G. Wozniak developed the Apple I computer in 1976 where they were working in the Job’s family garage. Even though Steven Jobs still continues as Apple’s CEO and Co-Founder, Wozniak left in February 6th, 1987. Apple has made “Easter Eggs” or known as little programs hidden inside other programs which have long been part of the programming universe, most often as jokes or ways to sign otherwise uncredited work for those able to find them.
There are a few Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator “easter eggs” also.
-Birthday Cakes
-Secret Swatch and Illustrator Codenames
-Merlin the Little Wizard
In the next 10 years, computers will become even more technologically advanced and continue to change life dynamically. Sooner or later, it will lead into possibly even better inventions and developments in fields for medicine, space, engineering, and much more. We have a lot to expect from computers and will probably see a lot too.
* Find and post 2 samples of David Hockney’s collage work. Within the entry, include a brief biography of the man and his career.
David Hockney is an English painter, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the Pop Art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century. On July 9th of the year 1937, Hockney was born with synesthesia, a condition where he sees synesthetic colors to musical stimuli, in Bradford. While attending the Royal College of Art in London, he was featured in the exhibition, Young Contemporaries, that announced the beginning of British Pop Art. David soon became more associated in the movement, and in 1963 Hockney visited New York, making contact with Andy Warhol. A later visit to California inspired Hockney to make a series of paintings of swimming pools in Los Angeles, using the comparatively new Acrylic medium and rendered in a highly realistic style using vibrant colours. In 1967, his painting, Peter Getting Out Of Nick’s Pool, won the John Moores Painting Prize at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.
David Hockney is known for his work with photocollage; using varying numbers of small Polaroid snaps or photolab-prints of a single subject, Hockney arranged a patchwork to make a composite image. Because these photographs are taken from different perspectives and at slightly different times, the result is work that has an affinity with Cubism, which was one of Hockney’s major aims—discussing the way human vision works. He began this style of art by taking Polaroid photographs of one subject and arranging them into a grid layout. The subject would actually move while being photographed so that the piece would show the movements of the subject seen from the photographer’s perspective. In later works, Hockney changed his technique and moved the camera around the subject instead.
He also made prints, portraits of friends, and stage designs for the Royal Court Theatre and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Even though his painting and photographic works does not show synesthesia, he still uses it as a base principle in the stage construction for ballets and operas. Using it as an advantage, David Hockney bases the background colors and lighting upon his own seen colors while listening to the music of the theater piece he is working on.
Using a combination of the techniques below, take 4 photographs that tell a story in a sequence. Then,using Photoshop, manipulate the images to look like they are part of a photo booth photo strip.
* rule of thirds
* leading lines
* perspective
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