Research Project – Initial ideas and interests

Do you already have some ideas about what you would like to research? If so, make some notes about these before moving on to the specific prompts below…… (which might also prompt some other ideas)…….

= I'm not quite sure what am I going to research, still thinking about it. But I'm quite interest in Dadaism, Cubism or Futurism

Which areas of Creative Practices particularly interest you (these may include areas outside of your immediate subject specialism)?

= I quite interested in photography because we take photo almost everyday but we never know how it's work. Also I think if I know more skill I would take a better picture and useful for my graphic's work as well.

Which aspects of the reading and lectures from the module have you found to be particularly interesting? Why is this?

= I quite interested in article called All together now and The Artist in the market place, because when I read. All together now I know how the technology developed and how important it is to human life. Also the artist's article quite interest me because the artist talk about her work and how she felt about her work and how she got there to do her job. So I think it's interesting to know other people feeling.

Are there any specific issues that you feel strongly about? (Art, Design & Media related or not?)

= I think Art, Design & Media related because every pathway need some bit of everything. So I think it's related.

Which exhibitions/events/screenings have you been to see since beginning the programme? Are there any specific aspects of these that have particularly interested you?

= I went to see Banksy and his work are very interest me because the way he done it and his ideas are different from other artist. Also some of his work make you think what's in there, what is it and what it's mean.

What do you know about contemporary employment practices in your chosen area of specialism?

= I think they do some magazine design, logo design or advertising design as well as business card and book cover. That's all I know.

Are you specifically interested in any aspect of commercial practices?

= Yes I do, I think it will be really good experience for me to learn how they make it and commercial is something to do with graphic as well.

What do you intend to do at the end of the Foundation Degree? Do you know how you are going to go about this?

= I like to continue my third year at UWE then I might go back to my country and get a job or I might stay here a bit longer and try to get a job in the UK for more experience.

Session 8 Note from Lecture

Session 6 Notes on Lecture (Semiotic)

-The reading of sign

-something that stands for something to someone.

-Body Language.

Symbolic signs: English or Union Jack flag.

It could be anything such as Art, video, music. film or something can be read.

Pink Music Video ( Stupid Girl)

-Evil and Good

-Camera down and pointing up to the person who talking make it look powerful.

-History of fashion

-Less light and girl wearing Bikini dancing with 50 cent represented Hip Hop video.

-Also the coffee cup in the video mean something.

To be a good art you have to consider everything around you.

Session 3 Notes on Lecture (Graphic Design)

Charles Sanders Pierce 1977 in Hardwick

- A sign is - something which stand to somebody for something in some capacity

- Language can't be communicate by one person, there has to communicate with other people and understanding.

Form Cave painting 40000 years ago, you can depict hand print and wild animals.

This is form of communication

Wild animals - to make sure that other are aware of animals seen.

Hand print- idea of leaving mark of themselves on the world.

-Petrocliffe- Caved into rock used as form of communication less than 100 years ago.

-Geocliffe- Massive landscape image- made by cultures who never get to see them theory was that they where made to seen by gods.

-Pictgram- Illustration of something- Chinese writing.

-Ideogram- Representation of idea.

-Single figure- alphabet.

Session 5 Notes on Lecture

Only rich people could afford original paintings so Avant-garde said we want to design for all.
Germany & Paris= Avant-garde- Picasso- surrealism- Dadaism.

Greenberg. American, editor of political art magazines- good for Avant-garde- promoted people- like Jackson Pollock

Russian and German have revolution in 1917

In Russian revolution they have more confident in 1917 that why they called Van Gard.

True art depends on the eye of the beholder. You might not like everything in art but you always have opinion why you don't like them and why you like them.

Session 2 notes on lecture

Partial

Relatively recent history

Individual specialisms

Definitions

Graphic Design

-Meeting design brief

-Addressing audience

-Novelty/ Uniqueness

-Ubiquitous

-Developing messages

-Powerful

-Manipulative/ Democratizing

History of Fashion

Vivienne Westwood

- Charles Frederick worth (1826- 1895)/ first person who design cloth.

- Social Issues

- Gender

- Orientalism= more like novelty in fashion

- Paul Poiret

Thorstein Veblen

The theory of the leisure class (1899)

Conspicuous consumption & Conspicuous.

Encultured meaning

-Fashion as a barometer of cultural changes

-Beauty or Ugliness is dependent on cultural attitudes

-"Tribal" - Belonging.

Fashion Design

A system of signs, symbols and iconography that non- verbally communicates meaning about individuals and groups

- Largely used to express individual indentity

Capitalism/Consumption

Ethics

Power

Gender

Identity

The body

Politics

Semiotics

-meaning

-How meaning constructed

-Visual Communication

-Intertextuality

-Death of the Author

-Everything is a "Text"

-Structuralism

-Post- Structuralism

Session 4 Notes on Lecture (Photography)

Wildlife photography
CSI photography
Fashion photography
Journalist/ Documentary photography
Press photography
Portrait photography
Sports photography- no overlap
Wedding photography
War Photography

Photography= drawing with light silhouette machine 1830s
1825- photography of illustration
Nicephore Niepce 1826- first photography

1850-60- image of the moon. Photography was a technique by people so we didn't call it as an art.

Alice Bowton- photos of young children and was protected because she was a woman.

Man and Machines 1967

Justin Quinnell- Mouthpiece series: Pinhole camera.

Niecephore Niepce 1826

Daguevre 1838/9 - Bouleyard du temple.

William Henry Fox Talbot- Dandelion seeds 1858 or later

Roger Fenton, 1855- Crimean war

Oscar Rejlander, The 2 ways of life 1857

Edward Westton- Oceana Dunes 1936

Session 7 Notes on Lecture

Modernism

They saw themselves as the guardians of culture

World war 2 had a profound

1950

A watershed period for British culture

Americanism

Rebel without a cause 1955

Futurism

Era of the lifestyle

Historical Developments

1915- Design a Industries Association established

Council of industrial design larches 1944

Art council of England established 1945

State sponsored art and design

Bassett- Gray group of artist & design became industrial design partnership in 1935

The artist and crafts movement espoused values of sound workmanship.

Utility Furniture company set up by board of trade in 1942 committee approved furniture.

Customizing product as lifestyle choice

Jeremy Dellar and Alan Kane image from British.

Historical Developments

American design 'Good design is an upwards sales curve'

Raymond Loewy

British design

In 1961 Reyner Banham called the design index, housed at a newly.

Key Postmodernist Theorists

"Consumer objects constitute a system of signs that differentiate the population.

The History of art, media & design

Foucault's work proposes that there are under layers of suppressed knowledge in and throughout history and therefore upset the traditional understanding of history.

Postmodernism

Difficult to locate historically, because it's not clear.

Conceptual art

Hostility to it immense- orthodox art history has assimilated

Process of making given importance

A reaction against control?

Post- Modernity

Sometime considered to date from 1945

This date would tie in post- Modernity with the wave of art

Nike ID Customizing you own boots design.

Coca Cola Commercial Task 6

This a Coca Cola or Coke Commercial. I chosen this advert because I think shape of a bottle is the semiotic for coke. You could tell this is a coke bottle by just look at the shape of the bottle. Also the typeface and red colour they using is very standout and recognize around the world.

Eminem- Just Lose it

I think this is a similar video to Pink- Stupid Girl you showed us.

It's a hip hop song by Eminem, and he started his video by acted

and dance like Michael Jackson. Also lots of girls will be in this

video as you said about 50 cent in Pink's video.

Negative Space

All together now

When I first read this article I thought something completely different from technology because of the title though. But when I read it, I'd understand the article talks a lot about how technology developed from earlier year to now, and how technology became important to human life. The article started with designers create computers, mobile communicators, cell phones and the interfaces that run on these and other devices- on objects that will give us access to functions to information. Also designers attention is focused on traits common to as many cultures as possible, such as instinctive gestures the interfaces of the Nintendo Wii and apple iPhone for instance. Then they talks about the evolution of society has happened to the balance between the individual and collective spheres. Then they move on to talks about how wireless networks grows by the number of users or collaborating openly on projects as disparate as software programs and charity drives has become the modus operandi at all levels of industrial development and income. Then in 1978 the walkman was introduced, the walkman marked the beginning of revolution that has touched numerous facets of our existence sparked by smaller and smaller electronic. This ongoing transformation is an unintended consequence of technology leap toward portability and miniaturization. They called it existenzmaximum or tenderly, XMX. Then they mention about the five sense of technology, the delicious vulnerability of the body and intricacies of human interactions are welcome and necessary ingredients of technological progress. Then today mobile phones are not just a thing that you can communication but it can be more than just a mobile phone. They have an enormous impact on the way we live and how we related to each other. Different parts of the world take advantage of them in different way. According to 2007 study commissioned by the japanese mobile communications company NTT DoComo, eighty- five percent of the world's population will use mobile phones. It's part of human life and seen as a lifestyle providers.

The Artist in the Market place

I read this article and it's all about interviewing Charlotte Cotton who didn't want to be a photographer but wanted to work something related to photography. Then she went on to assistant curator of photographs, then curator of photographs at the V&A and worked there for twelve year.

Then Charlotte Cotton talks about democracy and independent practice is a photographer creates when no one paying for it or analyzing it but will be creates anyway. Also she say currently the centre of attention of photographic practice is contemporary art. Then she talks about when someone's development to be an artist their sense are beyond debate, but once they are secure about their own voice, talking on advertising work means something completely different from they started. Then she mention about she thought it was like an experimenting when you started doing your career then you will learn more from your experience, it called commercial work or assignment work. Then at the end of an interview she mention about the main point of photography is a methodology set of motivations and histories and this in and of itself supplies photography's infinitely rich terrain.

Avant Garde and Kitsch - Clement Greenberg

I read an article about Avant Garde and Kitsch, I didn't understand the article and language they used in the article. But some sentences I could understand what they were talking about though. I'd understand they were talking about Greenberg who breakthrough essay from 1939, written for the Partisan Review when he was twenty-nine years of age and at the time more involved with literature than with painting. Then they were talk about the different between the society, rich and money they had. Also Avant Garde was under controlled of Kitsch and also some of their members who were under control of Kitsch tried to do what Kitsch asked by changing Avant Garde's work.

Vivienne Westwood- In House Design

Vivienne Westwood is a English designer who used symbol throughout her collections, from the Stonehenge logo

for the Man range to the pirate Anglomania logo. She started her business in 1981. The logo she designed was very strong brand identity and

well known. But few year ago they were planing to change her logo to her handwriting, but just over the year her autograph has come to resemble

her logo. The meaning of the colour on her logo is gold mean colour of royalty and luxury, as she quite close to royalty. After she done everything

in- house, she works closely with Jo Campos and a team of ten designers. Then She has built up her own vocabulary of symbol when she know

how she want her idea to be and looks as good as she thought. The famous symbol she made was orb which is the part of the traditional British

heritage, held by Queen during the ceremonial opening of Parliament. Other symbol she include Pon, the young faun, He is half devil, half angel

and his hooves have been incorporated to shop in Westwood store as well. At the end she want her symbol to be recognizable and consistant

throughout the collections, not brand equity to the big brand like American or Italian corporate fashion house. The important thing is the brand

have to be creativity.

Creative Histories and Industries – Session 2

Consider the other sub-definitions of Creative Practices that you interact with on a daily basis

During 24 hours, keep a record of all of these that you encounter.

I been using camera taking photos for my research and also I have to draw for my idea as well. I think taking photo and drawing is part of graphic even though it's not graphic because in graphic I have to do that all the time. I think it's very useful because it is help me a lot with my work, research and my ideas. So I feel it's very useful.

Creative Histories and Industries – Session 2

How do you define your chosen specialism? What do you understand Fashion/Graphic Design/Photography/Fine Art as?

I chosen Graphic Design because I feel like graphic is interesting, every time when I look at a graphic image I feel how can they do that. Some image make me want to look into it more and more because it's very interesting. So I think this is the main reason why I chosen Graphic Design. I understand that graphic design is ubiquitous and endless because the world have to move forward so designer have to come up with something new all the time. To be a designer you have to be imagination and creative.

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My Video

Introductory Session Task

What was the last image, object or artefact that excited you? How, why & where did you encounter it?

The last image I see was old photo of Bristol Park Street. I felt this photo very interesting because it changed a lot if you compare to Bristol today. Some building might look the same but the thing I really like is University Of Bristol building because since that day in the picture to today, it's still look the same and it's look standout as well. I saw this photo in one pub & restaurant in Knowle West. After my I had a football match and we went to that pub for team talk and I saw this photo on their wall, which is I found it very interesting to look at Bristol history.

What excites you about your chosen area of Creative Practice?

I think this is a new experience for me because I never come across to this area before. But when I came in to this Creative Practice at Filton Wise campus I felt it's more organized compare to another college or university and also the facility in this college are modern and new. It make me feel comfortable to be here.

Why have you chosen to study it further?

I decided to study further because I feel like what have learn isn't enough. I like to gather more experience in graphic design. Also it very important to me to get a degree because back in my country it is very difficult to get a job without a degree.

What do you hope to achieve at the end of the 2 years? What would you like to be doing?

I'll do my best in this 2 years. I will produce the best of my work and hope to get good results. Also gather experience as much as I can. I like to study further my third year at UWE and go back to my country and work as a graphic designer.

What sorts of things have you made work or written about or researched specifically before? e.g are you interested in a particular genre, issue, subculture etc?

I did ND Graphic Design last year and I really like doing logo design because it is very interesting and everywhere need logo, some logo are looks interesting and some are not. Also when I did my ND in graphic design I did some logo design for Bristol Zoo and Jewellery shop which I really enjoy it.

What excites you now?

I still think logo design is excite me the most and also I quite interest in photography as well.

What sorts of arts, design, performance, media, events etc do you go & see, or take part in?

I went to see Banksy couple month ago and I like it a lot. I think his work are different from other artist because he always come up with something opposite to other artist does, and his idea was amazing as well. I like the one when a farmer was sitting down and smoking outside the frame.

What do you read? What feeds your interests?

I don't really read anything particular, but sometime when I see nice images or piece of work on the cover of book or magazine, I would look at it and read it. I also interesting in football, so sometime I read football magazine. In football magazine sometime gives you ideas and nice graphic images as well.