Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Funes Competition



This was my submission for the Funes digital arts competition. Unfortunately I didn't win :( . Next year though! 

photo frame



This is my photo frame picture. I also used it in my book project! I don't remember what filter I used but I like the result.

my book!


This is the final results for my book. I had a hard time finding a theme for my project so at first it was suppose to be panoramas that I liked then I thought that I should add other photos that I liked in my book as well. It took a long time for me to go out and take the pictures and edit them through photoshop. I was going to add some text in it but I thought it would hinder from the pictures.

Alex Ingram

Alex Ingram is a current student at Cal State San Marcos that did a lecture about after graduation and graduate school. I thought this was very interesting because I always thought about what I would do after getting my bachelor's degree but I didn't know what to do. Having him talk about what he did and his experiences with applying and what he does to get internships and apply for grad school. I thought it was very interesting and I learned a lot!

Ash Thorp

Ash Thorp was a previous student of Cal State San Marcos that came back to talk about his experience with applying for jobs and what companies look for in employees. I thought that his presentation interesting for the most part because he was once like us. I liked seeing his unique style in his work and how he is also able to do commercial art. His presentation was informational, providing us with firsthand knowledge on what it's like to apply to jobs and what he did to get his portfolio out here. I feel naive for  not knowing that you needed a portfolio of your work to send to prospecting employers until listening to his presentation. Overall he was very informative about job applications and what it's like after graduation. 

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Barbara Krugar

Barbara Krugar is a conceptual artist that uses appropriated photographs montages with text. Her work usually consist of black and white photos with bold colored text. I really enjoy looking at her work because they make you think. They mainly about body image and women's self esteem. I really like that she makes the general public aware of these issues women go through about looking good and having nice things because it shouldn't be an issue where women should feel pressured to look and act a certain way and own certain things to be beautiful. Her artwork challenges traditional views of the role women play in the house hold and in society.


Louise Fili

Louise Fili, like the others is a graphic designer. Her work has gain the popularity over many well known companies. What I like about her style is that she has a cute yet classy look to her work. Her color choices are springy and light. I like the simplicity of her work and it's refreshing to see opposed to all the masculine primary color based graphic designs out there. Her work branches out to labels for foods and company logos and I think as a female artist that she is an inspiration. Looking at her work makes me want to work on my technique and my signature style as a graphic design artist. Her work with typography has made me look at fonts and words in a different light, now I realized I can use it as another style to make art.




Tom White

Tom White is another graphic design artist that is well recognized for his works in commercial art. Although his works have a masculine feel to it, I still like it because most of his works of art feel futuristic and are not limited to just vectors. His graphic designs are not just limited to logos and labels but he has also branched out to math books! I'm inspired by his designs and his versatility to widen his range of work to all aspects of business, including typography. The only thing I do not like about his work is that he does not have any feminine based advertisements and only stick to a masculine color palette. 



Gerard Huerta

Gerard Huerta is a famous graphic designer that focuses his work on commercial graphic designs. His main style is usually headers from popular magazines, brand name logos and magazine covers. All of his designs share his signature style in it as well as the style of the company he's designing for. I really like his work because it's very detail oriented works as well as simplistic designs if the customer requests so. His work has inspired me to become more involved with graphic design as a career. His ability to transform his style to whatever his clients want and still make it look good is inspirational.



Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Casey Curran

Casey Curran is a sculptor who creates kinetic pieces that move with a manual crank. His older works of art consist of kinetic pieces that are mantled onto books. Most if not all of his works consist of wires and levers that when cranked moves the entire piece. His artwork style blends the hard mechanical feel of metal with the soft and organic feel of nature since most of his works are resemblances of nature. What inspired me about his work is that the complexity of it all and how everything moves together by one lever. You can see the dedication and time put into his work and he makes us look as artist books in a different way for a medium. It makes me want to try making kinetic pieces after watching videos of his work in action.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Katherine Westerhout

Katerine Westerhout is an artist that has collective works dealing with urban decay. Her photos most commonly consist of old abandoned buildings. What makes her work unique is the attention to detail and the dreamlike lighting that she captures in her photographs. Her work has been used to benefit the preservation of some of the old buildings and gives the public a different perspective on aesthetics. She gives new meaning to beauty by capturing it through places that people would normally overlook. Her work is inspiring because it's untraditional and let's us know that anything can be a good subject for a photograph.

Edward Burtynsky part 1

In this video, it showed works from an artist named Edward Burtynsky. His work focused on photographic documents about recycling and waste and the people that have to live and work under these conditions. The recycled goods that come from America are shipped to China to be sifted through by hand. All the things we buy and throw away affect people that are on the other side of the world directly. Not only does it affect that certain individual and the place that they live in but as well as the surrounding habitats that have to deal with the chemical run off from the recycling towns in China. In India, natives have to disassemble oil tankers that were used to ship oil over to our country. They are paid low wages for working under dangerous conditions. His documentary made me more aware of how consumerism in America can negatively affect third world countries and the environment around it. His work is beautiful yet eerie and leaves the audience with a better understanding about what goes on in the world.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

some things I made in indesign!



Mark Bradford



Mark Bradford is an installation artist that makes large scale collages with elements of urban life. He likes to use street ads created by impoverish people in his artwork. When watching the video, I like his personality as a person. He seems funny. His artwork however gave the impression of more serious matters. 

I liked the way he made his pieces because it was in such a large scale. With that in mind, his attention to detail was great which in turn makes his artwork even more impressive. I really liked the one that he did with the soccer balls because not only was his piece hung up on the wall but there were also several soccer balls that appeared to be made of paper that added dimension to the piece.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Barry McGee & Margaret Kilgallen



These two artists are painters that do installation works as working artists as well as street graffiti artists. Both consider street art such as graffiti, pieces of art similar to how regular consumers consider advertisements as artwork. In the movie, it talked about street credibility and selling out as a street artist when it comes to making revenue from their artwork. 

When Kilgallen was talking about how people consider graffiti garbage and not advertisements. It made me think about the career I wanted to go into as a graphic designer and how graphic designers help make the advertisements they consider garbage. The whole thought of it made me want to think of ways to combine the two so both the average consumer as well as street artists can appreciate both ends of the spectrum at the same time and maybe see a different side to what they consider is garbage and would erase the thought of selling out. I really enjoyed the works that Barry McGee did in his installation shown in the movie. It made me feel inspired to see such large scale paintings done with his own creative style.

Linda Zacks



Is a well recognized artist with works pertaining to artist books. What she does in these books in my opinion is extreme scrapbooking of her mind. I really like this kind of work because it reminds me of the scribbles that students do when they're bored but on a whole other level. The books are made from mixed medias such as digital, drawn and sometimes photography. What I like about her work is that it looks messy, spontaneous yet, well thought out. When I saw her projects and the books she's made it made me feel look at art in a different perspective because I didn't know that art could look like that too. It also made me feel like making these books are plausible because you don't have to follow any particular rules and it just comes from your imagination and how you feel it should look like. 

1000 Journals Part 1



This movie was about an artist that went by the name of "Someguy" who had an idea to send out 1000 blank journals for the world to fill in and send back to him. The idea was really neat and it was cool how far each journal can travel. I can only imagine what it was like to be the artist to be the one that work so hard to customize each cover and send them out in random places. I would be really curious to where each book would end up and what kind of person is keeping it. This idea is very similar to the one I knew of called "Post Secret" where another artist sent out blank post cards for people to write their secrets on anonymously and send them back to him so he could publish them collectively in a book as well as post them on a blog site. I also recall another similar idea that I participated in when I went to the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park, where an art student left an empty scroll and a whole bunch of writing utensils for people to write whatever they felt like on that scroll.  The whole feeling of all three ideas make people feel connected to random strangers from across the world. I like it and I hope that maybe I would find a journal or a postcard somewhere to write and draw in.