Ctrl+Alt+Shift

After seeing the illustration done by David Foldvari I decided to have a look at the Accept and Proceed Website. Ctrl.Alt.Shift is a magazine which is described as the following:

"A new quarterly magazine aimed at disaffected british youth. The magazine will act as a platform from which the brand aims to engage young people in world politics and inspire them to take direct action.

Launched by Christian Aid, Ctrl.Alt.Shift is a new quarterly magazine aimed at disaffected british youth. The magazine will act as a platform from which the brand aims to engage young people in world politics and inspire them to take direct action", http://www.acceptandproceed.com

Something which I find interesting is that for each issue a new illustrator is commissioned to create the cover.

The image below shows the cover by Renata Palubinskas Cover Design:

http://www.renatapalubinskas.com/

David Foldvari

One thing that I really like about the way that blogger works, is the way that when people on your blog list update their blogs it lets you know. This is great as it means that you can see when new stuff is added without cheking blogs all of the time. I checked this morning and one of my favourite designers that Im following had added this new piece.


http://davidfoldvari.blogspot.com/

I think that this piece works well. I like the way that Foldvari uses black and white within his piece and then uses aspects of spot colour. The red text at the top of the piece brings life to the design and helps to balance the top of the design. I love the iamge itself and the ideas behind it, using the idea of unmasking by taking a face of. This is a strong image and Im sure is one of the reasons why it has been chosen as the cover for the up and coming issue of the magazine.

Would have been rude not to!

Back to Blogging!

Well, Iv'e been away the last week down south just outside the new forest and whilst on a day out I got the chance to bob into an exhibition. As part of the exhibition there were various origional cars used in some of the James Bond Films. The exhibition was really interesting, but what I found even more interesting was that there was an origional cast script for Thunderball.

It would have been rude not to take a picture and all! So here goes:


(Sorry about the quality, I took it on my phone)

Kurt Schwitters

Here are some images of work by Kurt Schwitters. I refered to some of Schwitters work last year and have often thought that his work would definately offer inspiration for backgounds within pieces of my own work.


http://www.tate.org.uk


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New Edit

This is a new edit of the After Effects piece I put together last week. I've done a few tutorials and had a play over the last week or so and decided to change things around a bit.



In this edit I started having a go at making particaular layers 3D, enabling me to suggest the idea of depth. In the last edit the camera zoomed into the tv screen housed on the bikes frame and the video played full screen. This was fine, but the pitch that this was to be used in was focussing on the use of screens on the back of the bike. To suggest that video would play on the screens I fealt that it was necessary to play around with the use of camreas in After Effects, in order to enable the perception of depth. Im pleased with how this turned out, but I'm sure that i'll still have a play.

Sin City Green Screen

I found this video on Youtube last week and I've finally got around to posting it!

Now, I know that finding videos on youtube can be a bit 'iffy' sometimes as people can post what they want wether real or not, so if this is a fake I appologize! However they've gone to a lot of trouble and expense if it is!

I've got to say this scene at the beginning of Sin City is one of my favourite scenes. The reason why I think that this is interesting is because of the camera angles within it, the way that the tensio builds in the film whe he is about the shoot the lady in the red dress and the overall look of the film. It is very interesting to see the way that the footage was recorded using the green screen; a technique that I hope we get a chnace to use in the studio upstairs in photography at some point.


http://www.youtube.com

Genworth 'See Saw'

Shift the Balance!

This is another animation by Russel Brooke that I found on Passion Pictures website. I think that by taking a qwerky approach to the piece; he has brought a little humor to it, without detracting from the intended message.


http://www.passion-pictures.com

The way that the colour has been stripped down to black and white works well and complements the animations simplicity in the use of line and shape. The audio also works very well with the visuals. It isn't to loud and as the scene builds to reveal the outcome of the piece the audio does to. The audio isn't overbearing and I think that this also makes the piece however simple in style, work well as it appears clean and crisp.