Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Le Festival international de jardins vous remercie d’avoir répondu à son appel de candidatures. Malheureusement, votre projet n’a pas été retenu pour notre prochaine édition. Au total, un nombre record de 290 dossiers en provenance de 31 pays ont été soumis par plus de 725 créateurs
Or in other words...
The International Garden Festival thanks you for having responded to its call for proposals. Unfortunately your project has not been selected for our next edition. In total, 290 entries from 31 countries were submitted by more than 725 designers.
Or in other words thanks but not this time...
Final Metis Submision
So the finished final drawings were submitted to the Metis judging panel, for the 9th November. After a little panic regarding final scale of images, and a quick re-upload, it was time to wait and see what the verdict was to be. Finished images above.
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
So next the task is to take the design on further than the below sketch design stage, and resolve as much of it as possible, to get the drawings to a point where they are just about ready to send off to the judging panel at Metis. Before this they need to get through the judging panel at Greenwich of Jamie, Julia and Robert... (Images above)
Sunday, 21 October 2012
Grand-Metis - design development
More work in sketch book to further develop design for Metis competition. Last Monday's pin up and presentation picked up on areas of the design which need more work and fine tuning. The design needs more layers of interest, the current paths and circulation routes are too obvious - need to introduce more interest, looking towards a more Scandinavian woodland feel.
If the surrounding louvred walls of the enclosure are to have the feeling of enclosure then the access routes in and out should be offset, this way you cannot see straight through from one side to the other.
The current project name; Mass and Void 'Black Box Recorder', to describe the the black box surrounding the void, and therefore recoding it's presence, is thought to be inappropriate, as too closely linked to aeroplane disasters
My current thinking is to rename it 'The Mass of Void', referring to how the mind perceives a void with an outline, the void is then imagined as a unit (ie a mass) to comprehend its size and scale... Still a working title...
Pin up - 4No Sketch drawing, each produced on A3: Sheet 1_Plan, Sheet 2_Two sections, Sheet 3_Axonometric, Sheet 4_Sequential sketches x4 (Images above)
If the surrounding louvred walls of the enclosure are to have the feeling of enclosure then the access routes in and out should be offset, this way you cannot see straight through from one side to the other.
The current project name; Mass and Void 'Black Box Recorder', to describe the the black box surrounding the void, and therefore recoding it's presence, is thought to be inappropriate, as too closely linked to aeroplane disasters
My current thinking is to rename it 'The Mass of Void', referring to how the mind perceives a void with an outline, the void is then imagined as a unit (ie a mass) to comprehend its size and scale... Still a working title...
Pin up - 4No Sketch drawing, each produced on A3: Sheet 1_Plan, Sheet 2_Two sections, Sheet 3_Axonometric, Sheet 4_Sequential sketches x4 (Images above)
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Personal critique - dynamic composition
Personal critique on above dynamic composition image:
Composition - Unfortunately my image doesn't totally follow the brief, the images should have been on a white background. However the overall composition I feel is eye catching, and comes alive with bright colours and an energetic night time feel. This is achieved through the feeling of movement, by images overlapping which also creates depth and interest in the image
Background - The background to the images is a contrast of light and dark, and gives a feeling of movement and an almost textural appearance. The background is what pushes the images to the foreground and the mid-ground. Without a background they are just floating in space.
Spacial depth - a good variety of shape creates good spacial depth between the images, with the watch in the foreground, the opera house in the mid-ground with the person image just behind, but in front of the background sky.
Although at times the person can loose position and appear to sit behind the sky on the right, and so becoming the background. Therefore the background layer is unstable, the figure-ground relationship is not entirely fixed.
Good spacial depth is achieved when it is clear to the viewer where the individual images sit within the overall image, and a sense of distance is achieved between each.
How long to create - The image took around 40 minutes to produce. I didn't sketch first (I should have done), I worked from my minds eye for positioning and then adjusted various settings for effects.
How long to print - 5 minutes (from clicking print to finished sheet)
Problems with printing - To get to the final print took over an hour (so longer than it did to actually produce artwork!). Problems due to set up on computer, through to issues with plotters, colours and quality.
Composition - Unfortunately my image doesn't totally follow the brief, the images should have been on a white background. However the overall composition I feel is eye catching, and comes alive with bright colours and an energetic night time feel. This is achieved through the feeling of movement, by images overlapping which also creates depth and interest in the image
Background - The background to the images is a contrast of light and dark, and gives a feeling of movement and an almost textural appearance. The background is what pushes the images to the foreground and the mid-ground. Without a background they are just floating in space.
Spacial depth - a good variety of shape creates good spacial depth between the images, with the watch in the foreground, the opera house in the mid-ground with the person image just behind, but in front of the background sky.
Although at times the person can loose position and appear to sit behind the sky on the right, and so becoming the background. Therefore the background layer is unstable, the figure-ground relationship is not entirely fixed.
Good spacial depth is achieved when it is clear to the viewer where the individual images sit within the overall image, and a sense of distance is achieved between each.
How long to create - The image took around 40 minutes to produce. I didn't sketch first (I should have done), I worked from my minds eye for positioning and then adjusted various settings for effects.
How long to print - 5 minutes (from clicking print to finished sheet)
Problems with printing - To get to the final print took over an hour (so longer than it did to actually produce artwork!). Problems due to set up on computer, through to issues with plotters, colours and quality.
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