GFSmith Colorplan Archive - Research & Idea Influence
Contextual Research
Research into the gems will help develop more informed concepts for the visual delivery of these prints, taking key elements from these and informing them with expanded visual research to add further context and meaning to the whole RGB to print transition.
Ruby is a coding language, this and one of the most precious red gems. Using the idea of coding will be the main base for this print and a perfect aspect of digital/screen based process's, that and bringing in visual references of other digital aspects like screen marks and other screen process's as mentioned previous.
Not much information can be found on Benitoite its one of the rarest and unknown gems around, this idea of the unknown is definitely worth exploring, this and the limited samples available all yielding very high values.
Visual Research
Research was gathered as a means of showing how the digital screen- print process could look with supporting ideas to help refine a defined concept and delivery plan.
These screen prints by Toru Kase have a very analogue aesthetic, the use of type and image has a certain stencil aesthetic too it but the accuracy and application of colour has a digital vibe. This transition of analouge and clarity will be something work exploring in my ideas. The use of colour is effective too, focusing on how colours work together, solo as well as the layering of colours. My process will involve layering of 2 process so considering how the inks and colours interact will be important.
This is an effective example of the use of a background image and foreground content, using a large format image in the background with detail applied over the top, the background holding the main visual context and the foreground adding supporting context. The broken up type supports the analogue feel of the design, this idea of breaking something up could emulate analogue but also pixilation in my design. A transition between print and digital.
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/toru-kase-graphic-designer-tokyo-210316
Eduardo Paolozzi
A visit to YSP to see the KAWs exhbition resulted in me stumbling across Eduardo Paolozzis multi process prints, incorporating collage, screen printing, foiling, digital printing, hand rendering and photocopying within his work to create very high impact and complex outcomes that take strong influence from scifi and post war subjects.
A visit to YSP to see the KAWs exhbition resulted in me stumbling across Eduardo Paolozzis multi process prints, incorporating collage, screen printing, foiling, digital printing, hand rendering and photocopying within his work to create very high impact and complex outcomes that take strong influence from scifi and post war subjects.
The use of colour is extremely brave, using very bright colors but with quite desaturated tone's to emulate that feeling of pastiche from old scifi and post war items. This idea of pastiche needs to be appreciated in my outcome, as the prints are showing the heritage of the range and also creating a link between old and new process's a certain appreciation to how the designs feel as a whole need to be considered they cant feel completely contemporary.
Love the idea of repetition here, it solidifies the context and subject of the design, repeating doesnt have to be carried out with just a replica image though, the repetition of colour or texture or shape can be done with minor alterations made to show an idea of change and progress. Something important when showing a journey of process from the old to the new.
Repurposing old photographs is a perfect example of pastiche, bringing in the use of contemporary colours dulled down to compliment the oldness of the found documents, sort of contrasting with the oldness and bringing it into newness, a modern preservation of something that is often overlooked as just scrap or junk. Something worth considering when reigniting the effects of traditional print within an archive that focus's on the possibilities of a process rather than its limitations.
The use of shape, rectangles, squares and such in repeated colours and different tones makes up a nice overall pattern that has a very digital pixilated feel. But through the use of neutral dull tones an older feel is achieved.
The use of photographs and analogue image, type and diagrams works very well in all these examples, using all these elements adds further context and meaning to a design. Especially the use of diagrams and type as it allows a very clear digestion of information.
Combining a photograph and a diagram repurposing of the photograph is an idea worth exploring, changing the photograph from something physical to represent the print side of the concept, to a digital drawing for example vectored to show a clear transition of process's.
This design uses red green and blue within a print outcome so I thought it important to unpick whats going on or at least interpret some of these visual elements into something that can add context and meaning to my idea generation.
The use of circles holds the colour as a main focus, the paper will be holding my colour but the use of a circle has a quite organic feel as opposed to a square, creating an organic look and feel is important when creating print work as it needs tactility. The square format the prints are in works perfect though carrying the colour in one large pixel. A very clear and concise link between digital to a physical print outcome.
The use of lines create a sense of movement within the design while also framing up the content, as the prints will be in frames locking in content isn't such an issue the frame of the print will act as the computer screen.
The use of basic photographic image works and balances with the simple vector circles, 3 main images to represent the 3 circles, with the text content creating an even clearer link. This link between type, iconography and image needs to be considered in my design I dont want a purely visual piece I want it to hold a concept and explain something.
I really like the simple use of textured shapes and digital shapes, positioned and overlaid in an abstract way but creating a nice composition that certainly explores analogue and digital aesthetics, its all very organic and the process looks very hands on but using a digital print outcome ties it all together into an outcome that comes away from the DIY process. This link between a hands on process and technological output will be a consideration in my idea generation.
Expanding on the idea of analogue and digital with the type content and use of words adding content and meaning to the design this simple but effective design uses 3 key visual elements that to me show a transition between the essence of printing too the pinnacle of technology and will act as a key influence in my design process. The use of scanned in painted P I A captures an analogue technique that is the one of most basic form of printing there is, contrast this with a very contemporary sans serif font type set with the use of hyphens to emulate the use of desktop publishing and the use of the quote "post internet age" a very clever traditional to contemporary transition has been created. The use of a gradient further supports this, this design resonates perfect with my COP investigations, investigating the start of type production too the distribution of information in a cyberspace age.
Pattern will hold a very important role in my concept, as I want to visualise a digital process, through things like screen marks and digital typography looking into the effective creation of pattern in simple but repeated ways will help strengthen this idea. The use of colour in tim colmants patterns is what adds such depth and detail to the designs, using a range of bright tones to contrasting cold monochrome tones, it turns basic shapes and patterns into something more complex. Considering the interaction of colour within my outcome will help add more depth too the icons, images and typography I use.
The prints have accuracy, geometric alignments and movements all rolled into one, not just through there interlocking and free motion layouts but through the use of shapes adding direction and depth too the work, small texture details add depth while the use of lines add motion while the block shapes lock everything together.
Nejc Prah's crazy risograph prints are a little weird and confusing to unpick whats going on but I think thats important considering there aesthetics I dont think there really meant to be understood. Theres a lot going on visually, gradients, large block colour that carries simple type, complex use of repeated shape, random and abstract curved shapes and sporadic explosions of colour and lines.
Taking from these designs is the use of the split of the page, using one half as a carrier for typographic information and the other for a visual design that could be interpreted in my design, one half to add an explanation the other to add a visual reaction to this text and explanation.
This lino cut relief print makes me consider how I could have incorporated the laser cutter into the process, creating a lasercut lino design to show a transition between technology and traditional print. A future consideration for other projects but the effect and application of ink here is beautiful, something that really shows the benefits of a certain process, the negative space is what makes the design, using lines, dots and block colour. Something very simple but executed in a very detailed outcome.
These screen prints expand on the idea of repeating a simple shape and the use of negative space to make a design, considering how shapes come together to make up a negative space rather than focusing on the foreground when using shape and image. The consideration to negative space will be something I take foreword into my design development. The use of gradients and block color also work perfect, it would be nice to create screen printed gradients using the halftone method to show a transition between digital to print, the halftones been ideas of pixilation.
These prints from wonder room show the transition between digital print and analogue in a very analogue way. They all look like they are defaced documents, a consideration worth taking foreword. An idea of invading a technological output with an organic analogue process.
I could emulate this by creating a very analogue design for the screen print element, as a means of adding another hands on process too the concept. The use of random lines that make up an abstract shape is very effective in terms of showing an organic process, while the yellow and red work very well, the yellow looks like weathered and aged paper while the red shows connotations of correcting and repurposing an old document.
The Wye Oak design takes into account the photograph when adding the hands on marks, interacting with the digital with the organic. Further feeding into ideas of how I can interact the digital and physical.
These prints from M35 are very simple and are entirely digital in there final output, but theres something about them that suggests a multitude of process's to arrive at this final digital output. The typography in the background is an obvious digital output, a 2 column collection of text with a centre aligned footer that swatched colours from the photographs, but the photographs look to have had undergone a number of visual manipulations showing the full potential of technology. Something important when showing the digital elements of my print, I want to show the limitations and potentials of both process's to celebrate the digital and screen print process.
This image on the dust holding page is a nice digital collage, having a number of scanned in hand rendered pen marks that look to be produced using a plotter or a drawing machine to reference technology within a print outcome, the grid paper scanned in references digital layout programs while the rock image adds that physicality too the final composition with the circle acting as a container that frames up the overall design. A design that looks very random and unconsidered brought together with structure and meaning through technology, something that I want to emulate, the bringing together of multiple process's to create one final outcome, rather than the process's contrasting each other.
Spins hand made poster series use shapes that reference vectors but are in fact hand made stencils, using spray paint as a method of showing digital gradients these prints have a very digital aesthetic but are completely hand made. This trickery is something I want to explore in future concepts, this one needs to have a digital process not just emulate it but its defiantly something that I am coming back too.
This collateral by delivered by post uses simple shapes to carry pattern and the use of limited colour and a carefully selected stock to compliment these colours across a consistent range of collateral. The use of angles and how these shapes interact with each other is what makes the main visual impact of the design, the textual content is very simply applied with a sans serif text centre justified through all the collateral to keep consistent. This repeated text layout needs to be considered through the RGB prints so the prints feel like a set.
These prints all share a consistent layout in terms of text, so they work as a set and have a certain progressive feel. This consistency yet progression would be nice to emulate, progression to show the journey of these 2 print process and consistency so the prints feel like a set. The set blue yellow and black type/detail all help maintain this consistency even with the application of block colour and gradients. The use of simple line and circles has a certain vector feel (digital vibe) , with the solid shapes having a certain physicality too them (print) with the gradient representing long and short bursts of spray paint in a digital repurposing. A very interesting composition that I will be taking lots of elements from.
The look and feel of these designs is very cold, through the monochrome scheme, use of rock textures and block black and greys and robust layout all help add context too a festival that celebrates brutalism. This further strengthens my idea that the design needs to add context too the text content and purpose of the design, the use of textured shapes and block vectors shares a physical to digital transition to show the potential of the architecture going from the old to the new.
While my prints are flat and fixed I think this GIF of a very abstract and weird design has a very technological feel about it, almost glitchy. Supported by the very bright and clashing colours, using colors that clash rather than compliment to add further context and meaning too a very weird aesthetic.
Tumblr
These artworks came from my tumblr feed, a library of research snatched from all over the internet, a perfect reference to technology.
The textures here share a very analogue and digital transition but in completely different ways. The pink and black texture has a very analogue feel, looking like scanned in marks that have been digitally rendered and colour applied within a shape that looks to be hand cut out and scammed in. A perfect example of how to digitally repurposed hands on marks, the pink giving off a very contemporary feel with the black showing the idea of traditional lino print which this design could have very well been made with.
The other uses vector recreations of gem's, outlining there basic structure using simple lines, with attention drawn into the quality of the gems using block colour and scanned in texture, the textures adding a tactile feel too the digital recreations, further enhancing ideas of how I can incorporate block colour, vector lines, shapes and photography into an outcome that transitions technology and print but still shows tactility and the quality of the gems to connote the quality of the colour plan papers.
The simple use of circle and square shows a transition from organic to digital, the circle been organic the square been a pixel, with the gradient further adding a technological feel. The deconstructed type giving a hands on tactile feel while the structured type adds that feeling of digital layout programs.
The idea of pixilation and organic shape is carried on here but printed in a scheme that shows the limitations of print, while the typography application and positioning of the squares and circles has an accuracy too it that shows the potentials of digital layout programs.
These designs have a 3D aesthetic within there perspective, adding depth to flat designs with the texture further adding a feeling of depth, this idea of perspective and texture to add depth will be carried through into my design ideas. The use of negative space, referenced out type, oversaturated use of black all adds a strong aesthetic too the work giving it impact and drawing attention into the details of each design element.
At first glance this design looks to be a mash of old headers and logotypes, but to me it shows the potential of technology on typography, all these logotypes and headers are manipulated in ways that traditional print doesn't allow but the final outcome has a certain newspaper/broadsheet aesthetic which certainly references basic print distribution.
Gradients, halftones, wavey and warped shapes, grainy and fractured texture, repeated lines, outlines, scanned effect, extreme sheer angles, contrasting line weights and angles all have a touch of technology in them, but the use of black ink brings it back to the basics and limitations of the introduction of printing. The yellow label contrasts this with a feeling of technology.
Baltic - Hajra Waheed The Cyphers
An exhbition at the Baltic explores the idea of the unknown through the presentation of satellite imagery, the invasion of airspace. Images of photographs, an installation of military elements (something that arial photography investigates the most) and a series of prints showing the accuracy and the potential of this method of surveillance. This idea of a birds eye view surveillance using technology is something I want to explore within my format for the 3 prints, having a straight on birds eye view layout/format to show an exploration into and investigation into the unknown, showing the process's and concepts as something quite unknown, an investigation so to speak.
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