Beautiful Losers

I didn’t think I would like the film but it really surprised me I like the idea that they all came together through their love of art and design and making things. They believe that art is for everyone its not just for the rich and upper class people its for everyday ordinary people who are on there way to work or school who see graffiti and drawings on buildings and to them that it the best kind of art, its art that everyone will see and its not boxed up in a gallery somewhere and contained to only those who think they understand what art is and can be.
There view is similar to post modernists they take inspiration from everything and everywhere usually in the places no one else would think to go, they then turn it into something beautiful, another reason why I think they are similar to post modernists is because they believe art doesn’t depend on gender or race, I think that the constructivists where very much purists in there views and thought that’s what I don’t like about them.  These people have fun with what they do they experiment with new ways of creating beautiful new things and it looks fun.  They see graffiti as street art it’s a way of getting there names out there to people and in a way antagonizing people which makes them communicate and graffiti is communication for kids and its most likely the first kind of art form we ever see, people writing there names on walls, it’s a rebellion of what everyone assumes art to be.
“As a child your always drawing and making and its totally normal and when you become an adult you have to grow up and you lose it, you lose your creativity, artists are people who are lucky enough to never lose being a child.”  To me this is possibly the best quote I have ever come across because I can relate to it, as a child I was always drawing and makes things out of paper and bits I found around the house, and I never thought I would get the chance to do it when I got older, but I never stopped drawing in school books, or making things out of stuff I found in my school bag when I got bored during a lesson.

They understand that not everything you do is going to be perfect and its about learning from your mistakes and knowing that beauty is the imperfections you have on the page. They put themselves in there art you can see all of there personality in there work because for them it’s a way of life.

The majority of the people came from poorer families and this is why I think they like street art so much, because its where they started and that why they go back to it time and time, they feel themselves and they feel comfortable being out and meeting new people. Art has no rules and its what is so great about it, you don’t have to be smart to under stand art, and that is what brings people together, its takes down the social barriers and enables people to mix.

Watching this film has made me want to start drawing more and using my own illustrations in my work because I no they don’t have to be perfect and I want to start using photography again because I love capturing moments with my camera and I miss doing the things I love because I’m to busy thinking I must do something perfect.

Spike Jonze

Spike Jonze is an American director, producer, screenwriter and actor. He has also produced music videos and done television commercials.
"Spike Jonze’s feature film rendition of Maurice Sendak’s classic story Where The Wild Things Are has hit movie theaters worldwide. The film represents years of work from hundreds of different artists, writers, photographers, musicians, actors, and creators of all degrees. This place has been established to help shed some light on many of the small influences that converged to make this massive project a reality."

When i first started researching his artist i didn't think i would like his work as i first saw that he produced jack ass and i hate that film so much. I didn't know that he helped to create where wild things are a film which i really like due to the way it looks and the music in the film. I now realize that his work isn't just the jack ass films and that he has created a few really nice bits of work and even though i might not use his work for influence in the future i'm glad i researched this artist.

see more about Spike Jonze here http://weloveyouso.com/

Kyle Cooper

Kyle cooper was born in 1962 and studied graphic design in America. He now works in the motion picture world where he does title sequences. In 1995 he works on the American crime film seven. This title sequence got him noticed by a lot of other graphic designers especially younger ones who took inspiration from his work and changed the way graphics would be seen and used. His work is often compared to the work of Saul Bass.
Since his work on the film seven he has been working on very large block buster films such as the mummy, spider-man and Sherlock Homes.
As well as working on films he has also worked on TV series the walking dead which is something that I have started watching at university. Until now I didn’t even think about going into doing title sequence industry even though I love watching films and TV. I really like the opening sequence to the walking dead as it looks grungy and the typography on it suits the feel of the program. Now that I now about this artist and designer I most defiantly look at his work in future as I’m now very interested in going into doing title sequences.

 

see more of his work at https://pinterest.com/laureetline/kyle-cooper-website/

Michel Gondry

Michel Gondry was born in 1963, and is an award winning screenwriter, film, commercial and music video director. He has been commended for his new and unique visual style, and takes inspiration from the mise en scène.
He first started his career by making a music video for the French rock group oui oui. This video was what put his career as a music videos into full swing because soon after making his first videos he was directing music videos for the likes of Daft Punk, The White Stripes, The Chemical Brothers, The Vines, Steriogram, Radiohead, and Beck.
As well as creating music videos he has worked with artist such as spike jonze and made a feature film called human nature which was released on 2001.

Michel Gondry's Levi's 501 Jeans "Drugstore" spot holds the record for "Most awards won by a TV commercial". I really like this commercial as the music builds up and you don’t get to see the face of the man until the end which gives a sense of secrecy and tension. The advert aslo has humour which I think would attract lots of people to the product which is the aim of the TV advert so it shows how good Michel Gondrys work is.

 

see more work http://www.michelgondry.com/

MetaDesign

MetaDesign has been one of Europe's most respected design agencies for over ten years. This company has worked on branding some very big companies such as Audi. The company was set up in Berlin in 1992 by Uli Mayer-Johanssen and Erik Speikermann and now has offices around the world such as one in san Francisco, as well as working with Audi meta design has also worked for Adobe.

I really like the work they have done for the clients especially the work they did with Audi it looks really high class and I like how the ideas have not been overly thought and complicated and I think it goes to show that simple ideas can be just as good as complicated ones. I want to start doing minimalistic work more so after reading the book by John Maeda and now that I have found this company I feel I will get some good inspiration from them.

see more work http://www.metadesign.com/clients/audi

The Designers Republic

The Designers Republic is a group of graphic designers, founded on July 14, 1986 by Ian Anderson, and based in Sheffield. It is known for its anti-establishment aesthetics. There company shut down in 2009. The worked with brands such as Coca-Cola and Orange as well as PlayStation games designing sleeves and covers for some of the most popular games like GTA. They have also designed Cd's sleeves for the ministry of sound. In 1987 the company designed the cover for the band age of chance, titled "Don't Get Mad... Get Even! (The New York Remixes)" this sleeve was in the top 100 best record cover of all time by Q in 2001.
I like the work they have created because it is bright and vibrant in style and looks like the people who created it had fun doing it and this is reflected in there work. It looks a bit futuristic and there looks like they have been inspired by Japanese work, which personally I don’t like as much.

See there work here http://www.thedesignersrepublic.com/

Why not associates

Why not associates has been running for 25 years creating a wide range of projects and different media types such as projects, including corporate identity, digital design, motion graphics and television commercial direction, editorial design, environmental design, publishing, and public art. They create work for many different clients including the government. They have worked with very large companies such as Nike, Virgin and the BBC.  No matter who the clients’ are the work is known for pushing the boundaries and experiments to suit the clients needs.
Since looking at this group of graphic designers I have noticed they did the TV adverts for the BBC dickens season. These are made and look so beautiful as they have combined the feeling of the old with the modern technology to create a perfect balance to advertise one of the great literary figures. The adverts use textures that look like paper and then the change and transform into video clips and this affect is really lovely and looks delicate which relates to the characters in Great expectations. 

See the dickens advert herehttp://www.whynotassociates.com/recent-work-2/bbc-dickens-season

Tomato

Tomato is a group of artists, designers, musicians and writers, who work on multi media projects. The company was founded in 1991 and since then have gained more clientele and built up a reputable business. As the have people who specialise in many different fields it makes there work more interesting and has given them the opportunities to work on projects which aren’t just graphical, they have delve into projects in publishing, advertising  fashion, public installations, music, television, film and graphic design, as well as putting on exhibitions and live performances.
One of my favourite pieces of work done by tomato is the underworld barking films. I love the vivid colour on the flowers and who you can see the life cycle of the plants and how the colours change with the cycle. I also like how the film has been played backwards to give a different perspective.

 

See more of there work http://www.tomato.co.uk/graphics-reel

Ronald Searle

Ronald Searle was a British artist who is most famous for creating the St Trinians School with Geoffrey Willans. He studied for 2 years at Cambridge college of arts and technology, whoever in 1939 he had to give up his dream of being an artist as it was obvious that war was about to take place and Ronald Searle enlisted in the royal engineers. In 1942 he was taken a prisoner of war and was forced to work of the death railway. Even though he was now a prisoner of war this never stopped him drawing and documenting what he saw, many of these drawings appear in his book Ronald Searle: To the Kwai and Back, War Drawings 1939-1945 in which he talks about what it was like to be a prisoner of war. He continued to work of the St Trinians books as well as his book on cats before moving to Paris where he started designing for the cinema and worked on films such as Monte Carlo or bust.
I like how the drawings are mostly in black and white it gives a child like feel to them, I love the drawings of cats he has created as they have so much character and humor to them which appeals to me as I’m sure it does to many other people. And even though I don’t want to go do the illustration path I still would use his work for inspiration.

see more of his work and learn about him http://ronaldsearle.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2012/january/ronald-searle

 

Saul Bass

Saul bass is an American graphics designer, title designer and film maker. His most famous pieces of work are the film posters he has created through out his life time including the poster for the film ‘The shining’. He has worked on films with some of the greatest filmmakers of all time including Alfred Hitchcock. As well as working on films bass has also created logos for many of the big companies in America such as AT&T’s bell and globe logo.
His work mostly consists of a block colour for the background with only a few more colours in the foreground which I like as it keeps it looking simple. For the twister poster I love bass’ typographical designs on all his work as it stands out and this is an area I wish to improve so will take inspiration from this. I also like the way that the text looks hand draw as it adds a bit of personality to the work which you don’t always get from using a computer. The poster uses only three colours and yet still captures people’s interest, and this is the sort of look I aim to achieve in future and will therefore be looking at his work more closely.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I like how saul bass keeps the colours simple and never mixes warm colours with cold colours a this makes his work stand out and look really bright and vibrant. I want to start to use screen printing more and I think that looking at saul basses work would help a lot because it uses simple lines and shapes with limited colour and yet to get a very big impact and its hard not to like his work.

Another reason why I really like his work is because of the typography, at the moment I don't really use much in my work and I want to change that as I think type can make your work stand out if it is done correctly. I really like the font used in saul basses work as it always links in with the design, he keeps the font quite square and straight this simple look compliments the fact his work is so bold and bright and ensures that they both work well together.

 

Learn more about him http://designmuseum.org/design/saul-bass