2016年4月13日星期三

2016 Ceramics Art London

Some artists I am very fond of

Midori Takaki
http://www.midoritakaki.co.uk/p/gallery.html


Her works are full of spirits with weird faces.

"My world is full of spirits. I find them everywhere in nature; trees, woods, animals, winds, the moon and the oceans. Giving them shapes is what I do. Once I start creating pieces, they guide me through. They tell me who they are. Their stories are the key ingredients of my work. "

Fausto Salvi
http://www.faustosalvi.net/

The explorations of colours and textures lended a feeling of sci-fi novel to this piece.




Vistaerea


sQAURED headed

Dylan Bowen
http://www.dylanbowen.co.uk/gallery

"The clay can be thrown, hand built, carved or moulded depending on what is needed. Slips are poured, trailed or brushed on. "
"...The spontaneity of the making process. ..."

Craig Underhill
http://www.craigunderhill.co.uk/ceramics.html
"... I want an amalgamation of surface and form that creates a ceramic painting rather than a ceramic form that has a painted surface. My work evokes a feeling of places and landscapes I have visited without giving a direct literal reference to these places and landscapes..."




Ceramics can be a flexible material to explore textures, spaces, landscapes and relationships between ones who experience the environments and stuffs mentioned above.

2016年2月26日星期五

Develop our brand workshop

The short introduction about the contemporary practices and how we arrived there
- Fordism
Assembly line
 Since 1960, people started to chase after the values like Authenticity, individuality, meaning, self expression, human condition, etc..
- Postfordism
In the companies staffs only produced the concepts and the way to promote their brands and products sitting in their offices. The real production is being fulfilled in China n Taiwan etc., which makes the products really cheap.
  Neo liberalism (Neoliberal capitalism)

Art practices todayCo-independent
E.G. Bernadette Corporation, Shanzhai Biennial

VIDEO: EXTREME CAPITALISM
MY PRODUCTS ARE THE INFORMATION I GENERATED
INCORPORATING MY IDENTITY
I BREAK DOWN EVERY ASPECT OF MYSELF AS A HUMAN AND COLLECT MY OWN INFORMATION AND MAKE MYSELF TRANSPARENT

Brainstorm Workshop
Every business needs a mission statement and u already have one.
Turn it into a work cloud


Mainstream
Everyone wants to become different, together.
Mass Indie
Isolation
Normcore: a unisex fashion trend characterized by unpretentious, average-looking clothing.

Seeming like a clone
Aestheticized uniqueness of the mainstream
Infinite flexibility, situational, adaptable, non-deterministic, post-aspirational, empathy over tolerance
Authenticity and liquidity: I can do whatever I want whenever wherever expressing my true desire.

5 things which I believe belong to mainstream, 5 things not.
For me what is cool is stay objective and rational and calm. Take our life as a long experience.
Something that is mainstream in one cultural contet may be not in another one.



Flawsome Workshop
http://trendwatching.com/cn/trends/flawsome/
HUMAN BRANDS
TRANSPARENCY TRIUMPH
Learn the golden rules of self disclosure
BE A REAL PERSON with flaws and emotions instead of a PSed dollg

Identifying the flawsome pics on celebrities
Lena Headey

Ideal homes
Moodboard Workshop
A mood board is a type of collage consisting of images, text, and samples of objects in a composition.
Learn how to stage your homes for maximum productivity
Design a mood board for a certain kind of person. Build inspiration from your workcloud, cool memes and make it flawsome.

To show the characteristics of the owner of the house
https://uk.pinterest.com/camberwell3091/home/
A cat/ Wunderzimmer with weird collections / Equipments for scientific researches / Plants / An copy of an artwork by Klimt




Quantified self
测量
self actualized, self measurement and analysis of personal metries
Productivity (value producing): “self-management”
Self = business
Everything has become a project
Self-surveillance


Distillation Workshop
Evaluate, focus and optimize
Identify the immaterial qualities which make up your personal brand fill in the brand identity prism supplied


One of my directions: 
cozy scenes about daily life
complicated narratives in telling stories and thoughts

2016年2月25日星期四

Lecture about Lumino City Game Design!

Game Design
Lumino City

A Glance at Interesting Procedures of Designing a Game
-       Starting drafts of the whole city (world settings and scene settings)
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-       Making the model
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The idea must be prove beforewards. Ideas cannot be changed after modelmaking.
-       Filmng the model



Every scene needs bespoke treatment beforewards. They couldn’t change anything after filming it.
- Make moving scenes with selected tracks
-       Character design
All the shape and all the possible actions it may make should be set in advance.
They made the characters of a tangent papering.
And recorded the actions with Motion Tracking

The Gatehouse
The logo was made of LED lights.
They needed to reduce the scope when making models and enlarge the scope when filming them.



-       Interactive Design with film

Some Techniques referred to in modelmaking and filming:
Laser cutting
Metal work
Stop Motion with motion control cameras
Motion Tracking
Papering
Wood cutting


Game design can be related to many techniques we studied based on a college workshop. This challenged my knowledge about the boundaries of practices a illustrator can engage in. One of my main directions will be about world setting design and fulfillment of visualization through 3D modelmaking.

2016年2月23日星期二

WOOD CUTTING WORKSHOP

Woodcutting induction
We can make bowls or cylinders here
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Fix the cylinder to the equipment using the lever.
Make the supporter as close to the work as possible

Pay attention to the strengths and the angle when using the tool