Camouflage: August 2010

Monday, 16 August 2010

Hmmm

I've come to the conclusion that my shapes appear to abstract and its hard to tell that they are cameras I need to work on this.

Ideas

I decided to use muslin as I felt i could sew

the fabric onto the camera making it a tight

fit. Also I enjoy working with fabric and

feel it incorporates my hobbies and personality.

I used traditional colours as I felt the

shapes created appeared quite traditional so

wanted to keep this theme.

I tried out my design on material.

I used some muslin and drew around the

card shapes to create the pattern in pencil.

Here I used felt tips. This medium wasn't

the best to use as it had a very streaky effect.

I wanted to colours to almost blend together.

Ideas

Here I cut out the abstract shapes and

put them onto card to make them easier

to draw around,

Saturday, 14 August 2010

The beginnings of my camouflage pattern

Here's an example of how the outlines I created appear

when filled in. It is difficult to picture my final design when

they are all in black I need to experiment with colour.

Creating the outline

Using the photocopy filter on Photoshop on the photographs

of the cameras gave me this effect. I felt this was

the best way to create the outline needed

to form my pattern

Drawing attempts

Here was my second attempt. Once id done these

I realised I didn't need all the detail I was putting into them

as my final piece will be constructed using abstract shapes.

This was my first attempt at drawing the camera

I found it quite difficult and got the perspective completely

wrong so i decided to try again at a different angle.

Wednesday, 11 August 2010

5 generations of camera

The item i chose to base my camouflage pattern around

was my cameras. This was because there was a clear

range and a variety of shapes that could be formulated.

The cameras vary from manual SLR's to digital to a digital SLR.

5 items that represent me

Here are the 5 main items I would use to describe

myself that have had 5 or more generations.

Camera

Jewellery

Mp3 player

Mobile

House

Graphic \thought facility's Branding for the Design Museum

This is the Graphic Thought Facility's branding

for the Design Museum. It is an image creating by

overlaying outlines of objects. The outlined objects

are similar to Michael Craig Martins style.

Percy Wyndham Lewis was an English author and painter who was the co-founder and editor of Blast. Blast is a magazine that is connected with Vorticism. This magazine was short lived the first edition published on the 2nd July 1914 and the second one a year later. In the years 19-13-15 Lewis developed a style of

geometric abstraction creating a movement combining Cubism and Futurist art which became known as Vorticism.

Below are a few examples of his work.