PROJECT II: Postmodern Band Flyer

For Project II you will create a band using the movement names from

THE LIST. The only names off-limits are those of pre-existing bands (War and Bauhaus are off-limits [although Dessau Bauhaus (any sub-genre)would be OK])

Make a tabloid sized flyer for a show the band will be playing in a venue somewhere, anywhere on campus.

Consider the Psycadelic Poster Artists' variations on designs by Art Nouveau designers. Your flyer should rely heavily upon a style from one of the designers from the movement you choose to work with, but should also update this style to appeal to contemporary sensibilities.

Begin with research. (posted to research blog) Find three examples of a designer from your movement. For each of the three designs, answer the following questions:

-How are these examples characteristic of the movement?

-What specific stylistic devices are characteristic of this designer in particular?

-(consider palette, composition, typeface, medium of image reproduction or illustration)

-Include names, titles, dates.

Your designs should display a research and familiarity with the style you choose. Be prepared to answer for your choices and variations upon the original style.

Include date and time.

We will post these on campus, so your date and time should be anytime before the due date of the poster.

Choose from:

ARTS AND CRAFTS

ART NOUVEAU

The Four

Vienna Secession

Wiener Werkstatte

Pan

Jugend

Simplicissimus

AEG

SACHPLAKAT

PROPAGANDA

DADA

Merz

(Dada in) Zurich

Berlin

Hannover

Cologne

Paris

CUBISM

Calligrammes

FUTURISM

Vorticism

PURISM

The Machine Aesthetic

ART DECO

DE STIJL

RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY

BOLSHEVIK

(RUSSIAN) CONSTRUCTIVISM

(RUSSIAN) SUPREMATISM

Dessau (BAUHAUS)

Weimar (BAUHAUS)

Ring Neue Werbegestalter or "Ring"

W.P.A.

F.A.P.

DEGENERATE ART

SWISS STYLE

INTERNATIONAL STYLE

BLOG POST for 10/26

This week you will not to do any writing, just posting images. Make sure you credit the artist and include the date (and title if available).

Find and post a total of three images from any or one the following artists:

Alton Kelley

Victor Moscoso

Rick Griffin

John Van Hamersveld

Stanley Mouse

Wes Wilson

Gilbert Shelton

Milton Glaser

That relate to a total of three images you find and post from Art Nouveau artists (see the LIST link to the right for the names of Art Nouveau Artists)

SHAPE and COLOR DESIGNs:

Create two designs, each using three to five different shapes (to be repeated as many times as necessary to represent each gradation)(each of first the three shapes must be a different type: Simple geometric, complex geometric, and a freeform [structured, random, or literal]

Translate each design into two designs by altering the color harmony, for a total of FOUR designs, each using a different color harmony (any changes to arrangement necessary are allowed)

(be sure to label the design with the color harmony you chose)

(be sure to create a dynamic composition, remembering the typography and composition exercises from earlier in the semester)

choose from the following color harmonies for your design:

primary with value gradations

primary with saturation gradations

secondary with value gradations

secondary with saturation gradations

analogous with value gradations

analogous with saturation gradations

complements with value gradations

complements with saturation gradations

split complements with value gradations

split complements with saturation gradations

triad harmony with value gradations

triad harmony with saturation gradations

tetrad complements with value gradations

tetrad complements with saturation gradations

tetrad split complements with value gradations

tetrad split complements with saturation gradations

ILLUSTRATOR BALLOON FACTORY

ILLUSTRATOR BALLOON FACTORY

choose from the following color harmonies to color your balloon:

(for a total of 6 balloons, each with a minimum of 3 colors from one of your four wheels)(be sure to label the balloon with the color harmony you choose):

warm hues

cool hues

analogous

complements

split complements

incongruous

triad harmony

tetrad complements

tetrad split complements

POST 4 COLOR WHEELS:

12 color wheel with value gradations (made using HSV mode color window)

12 color wheel with saturation gradations (made using HSV mode color window)

24 color process color wheel with value gradations (made using CMYK mode color window)

24 color process color wheel with saturation gradations (made using CMYK mode color window)

POST YOUR ALPHABET

POST YOUR ALPHABET

Design History Blog Post for 10/12

For this weeks design history blog post choose one designer from THE LIST and choose a graffiti artist. There are two links to the right that deal with the history of NYC graffiti. Make sure to posts pictures and link back to the sites where you found your images and information. Also make sure that if you choose a designer who is also a visual artist that you are posting and writing about the artist's design work rather than fine art. (Certainly those lines are blurred with many artists, but others have very specific lines of delineation between their art and design.)