We went rapidly through the history of modern art and graphic design and we each did a brief presentation on a specific era. I talked about Constructivism, my classmates talked about several different ism’s and we also each had to design an animal that represents and has the visual tone of the era in art and design we presented.
This is a really good interview that I read thanks to Robin, my Visual Communications Teacher here at VFS. It goes to show you that having fun or being playful and witty as you work is fundamental, at least in Rand’s eyes.
Paul Rand was America’s leading modern graphic designer in the disciplines of advertising, book, and corporate design. He studied at Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and the Art Students League (where George Grosz was his teacher), all in New York City, but was primarily self-taught in the ways of modernism. In the early 1930s, he became a devoted follower of the European moderns and employed their economical and functional methods in his editorial design for Esquire and Apparel Arts. In 1941, he joined the William H. Weintraub Advertising Agency as its chief art director and proceeded to change the look and feel of American advertising, introducing a unique blend of wit, humor, and art-based aesthetics for massmarket clients. A master of many disciplines, he moved from editorial and advertising to corporate and packaging design, creating identities for IBM, Westinghouse, Cummins Engine, NeXT, Enron, and USSB. He is the author of three books, Paul Rand: A Designer’s Art (Yale, 1985), Design, Form, and Chaos (Yale. 1993), and From Lascaux to Brooklyn (Yale, 1996). He passed away in 1996. This interview was conducted in 1990.
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Here it is, my final project for Motion Design 1 at VFS. We had to figure out a story, learn how to film, animate, track, everything, in about 8 weeks, but we know it’s all done in about only 1! I wanted to experiment with making graphics and film live in the same environment and also play around with some motion tracking, animation, masking and sound.
So this is the character I came up with for the assignment we had to turn in for story boarding at the end of term 1 in VFS. Anyone guess where I got my inspiration from? I just need to give him a name, any suggestions?
Found this browsing around the web, this was Michael Langan’s thesis for the animation program at the Rhode Island School of Design. The overall atmosphere of this production is what to me, holds everything together. Great cuts from scene to scene, great audio, really smart log line too, kind of sais it all: “An experimental comedy about tennis, dancing cars, and God.”
Here’s the link to the entire movie. Enjoy!
So this blog was actually an assignment for Web Authoring 1 here at VFS. I found it to be one of the most interesting assignments of all since we had to create it from scratch, xhtml, css, graphics, and make it all work through this wonderful open source app named Wordpress. The other good thing about creating this is that I actually feel like updating it with a bit of everything, work, play, anything interesting, fun and worth actually writing a post about. Enjoy and come back for updates!
