Friday 24 January 2014

Initial marketing solution


I began to think about how to market my exhibition. I wanted to link it in with my chosen era the 50’s. I came up with three ideas of how to market the exhibition and I experimented with different techniques to see what worked best.
 
This is one of my initial experiments. I held a photo shoot to capture the image however I did not want this to be my final image. I was inspired by the 1950s style magazine covers and the typical 1950s poses. I used the title ‘Fashion loves art’ as it is the title of the exhibition so this is to advertise. I am pleased with the outcome but for my final piece I will combine this idea with my second experiment.
For my second experiment I wanted to try the photography before I took it further. I thought about the ‘Fashion loves Art’ exhibition title carefully and I came up with the idea of framing the fashion as though it was in an art exhibition. I asked Anna to pose in a way in which I had seen 50’s models do whilst holding the frame to border her outfit. To take this idea further I will dress my model in 1950s clothes and with 50s hair and makeup.
 
 

Thursday 16 January 2014

Fashion Illustrations

When thinking about using mixed media to create fashion illustrations,I began to use scraps of materials to create different effects. For this piece I printed a picture and over the top I added different scraps of textured materials. I then scanned in my image. 

For this response I added a piece of material to the bag and painted over the skin with acrylic paint. This was to mix the media on my different pieces. 


For this response I used material for the coat and I collaged pieces of magazine for the bag. 

This is my lens based response. I used an SLR camera to shoot this image. 

To create this response I used graphics pens and went over them with fine liner to add the detail. 

Sagmeister

 
Stefan Sagmeister is a European graphic designer who is famous for his creative pieces of typography. I reasearched his techniques and looked at some of his work to influence my responses.
 
 
 
Whilst looking at Sagmeisters mixed media responses I was drawn to this piece. The poster created for Lou Reed and shows the lyrics to one of his songs written on his face using creative typography. Sagmeister was inspired to do this piece by middle Eastern artist Shirin Neshat who uses arabic typing on hands and feet.


This is my response to the Lou Reed poster created by Stefan Sagmeister. I chose to draw the letter 'U' onto my skin in a font which was similar to the typography on the poster. I photographed it and printed it to add to my worksheet.



I was also drawn to the bright colours and interesting typography of this piece. Sagmeisters 'Aizone FW13' features different faces painted with inspiring maxims with bold and colourful typography.




This is my response to the Aizone piece by Sagmeister. I used oil pastel to give the bright,vibrant colour. I outlined the letter to make the colours pop and stand out. I used a similar typography to the font that Sagmeister used in his piece.