As I post here before as a project studio class assignment we are creating corporate identity. We have eliminated our imaginary corporations from many choices to final 3.They are the search engine “Keşfekeder”, 2nd hand and design shop “Bit Pazarı” and Chinese Restaurant “Çubuk”. I have chosen the shop idea because it seems more devolopable in a creative way. So after the “Calligraphy” workshop in the class we learned to use our hands and for this project I prefer to do some drawings and designs in the programme Adobe Illustrator. I’m actually not satisfied well with the results but these are just sketches, have many idea in my mind…Just to show a bit of them..
For the VA 301 class we’re supposed to create a corporate identity for a company,brand etc. The identity would be imaginary so for the first step we brought our imaginary corporations and by voting eliminated them into final 3. “Bit Pazarı” the second hand shop,”Çubuk” the Chinese Restaurant and “Keşfekeder” search engine. We searched for all and found many visuals as possible to imagine the decoration and content.
And here comes the samples…
1-Çubuk Chinese Restaurant
I got some images from Çin Büfe and SushiCo(I know it seems to be Japanese but they also give service as Chinese). In common you’ll see that the color choices are very similar, if we reduce the choices to main ones there comes front: black,red and white. They all prefer to create a simple but elegant atmopshere for that reason they generally use wood and leather in furniture/decoration. Walls are covered with Chinese visuals or calligraphy mostly written on parchment.
2-”Keşfekeder” Search Engine&Guide
I got some screenshots from many different event and city guides. Our aim in this one is to create a search engine which is personal. I mean there will be some choices such as music,sports,movie kinds(genres) and according to people’s choices there comes out a weekly event guide. I found all these sample interfaces so complex so coming up with more simplistic design can attract attention.
3-”Bit Pazarı”
Actually to create a place in which second hand products and handmade products will be sold is not something so known in public. So you have to get the attention. In all of my examples you’ll see the crowd of products and dispersed decoration. I found it also impressive.
One of my friend suggested me to log in to a site which he thought because I’m interested in design I would like.So i did and just fascinated by the products. FREITAG has been manufacturing bags and accessories for women and men since 1993. Their materials are used, having seen service on the road. They are well-travelled truck tarpaulins, unravelled seat belts, bicycle inner tubes beyond repair, recycled airbags.They apply their recycled materials in a totally new way, insisting on superlative design and functionality. Every FREITAG product is made from original tarpaulins of different colours, markings and contours. So every FREITAG product is a one-off.
FREITAG bags are on sale at their online shop, in their FREITAG Flagship Shops (Berlin, Davos, Hamburg, Cologne and Zurich) and in 300 shops round the world. As my friend did to me I suggest you to have a look at it!
http://www.freitag.ch
This is my final project for lesson VA 204 Language of Drawing II.In this project we all drew our self portraits on mat 60X80 with soft pastels. The style was free so the colors we used changed from person to person.I prefered to work realistic and that’s the result…
This is my compass! In this final project our aim is to understand and practice structure and the material by creating a sculptural object. We used magnification,subtraction and addition techniques by using the material sytrofoam. My compass is magnified 13 times and it became approximately 135 cm as height. I made 23 parts to come together and tried to make it as much similar to its original. I aimed to make it stand on its half circle but couldn’t so made it hung on the ceiling and gave it a sculptural sense.
Crossover and Collaboration
Teddy Cruz and Pedro Reyes have a history of collaboration that extends back several years, including the “Conflict Resolution” exhibition for the San Francisco Art Institute in 2008.
Their shared investigations into design strategies for social transformation in globalized times propose a new synthesis for art and architecture.
Their “micropolicies” examine how to resolve the urban, in sites ranging from the borderlands between Mexico and the USA to post-conflict Iraq, treating the later as a case-study in conflict, mediation and facilitation.
Research into “top down” versus “bottom up” planning and action, and informal and alternative solutions, see the two combining their respective disciplines knowledge into a search for solutions at an urban level, and proposing a new relationship between art and the public.
DesignBoost 2009 Will Focus on Design for Life
The theme for the first Designboost key event, DesignBoost 2007, was “sustainable design“. Year two, DesignBoost 2008, focused on sustainable cities with the theme “Long live the city“. This year DesignBoost will go deeper and look into sustainable life with a theme called “Design for Life“.
October 14-16 Designboost presents DesignBoost 2009 “Design for Life” in Malmo through a variety of integrated BoostChat (workshops), BoostTalk (lectures) and a BoostShow (exhibition).
When it comes to sustainable life there are probably many things that needs to be questioned, left could very well be right.
The objective of DesignBoost 2009 is to make everybody question, reach awareness and think in new paths when it comes to creating better lives for lots of people. This is after all the ultimate goal for all design.
What is “airmail”?
Airmail is an exhibition with new objects dealing with the idea of weight, or rather the absence of it, in design. Lightness has been often used to measure progress in society (e.g. aircrafts or architectural structures.), and its relation with mobility is as old as mankind.
A relation that recently is leading to mobile devices where the convergence of functions suggest that we could, one day, have function without matter.
Probably as a reaction to that, there is being an increase in the production of heavily crafted objects and the revival of pattern and decoration.
Between this progress-based idea of doing more with less, and the heavily handcrafted pieces “Airmail” finds its place. “Airmail” features experiments, interpretations, and developments on the idea of lightness in its broader meaning.
As The Beatles lead an unstoppable assault on the global charts, it was Aldridge’s designs and visual identity that defined The Beatles image and music in a changing world. Still busy creating today, he was responsible for the look of the House of Blues in Los Angeles, Aldridge is an artist, an illustrator, a graphic designer, art director and film maker.
He masterminded the seminal art book The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics and designed Andy Warhol’s iconic Chelsea Girls film poster.
As Art Director at Penguin, Aldridge produced ground- breaking covers. Commissions for The Rolling Stones, Elton John and illustrations for the award-winning children’s book The Butterfly Ball and The Grasshoppers Feast will be included in the exhibition, the first complete retrospective of Aldridge’s work in the UK.
Commissions from Andy Warhol, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Elton John and The House of Blues will also be on display alongside photographs, sketch books and illustrations from his seminal children’s books.
The exhibition and graphics will be designed by Mariscal, promising an immersive experience for the visitor into the world and mind of Mariscal.
Sketches, designs, films and photographs will be on display alongside furniture and textiles.
Mariscal will also design and paint an elaborate mural for the exterior of the Design Museum showcasing his unique vision and signature design style.
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