Colour in Picasso's Blue period paintings
Color plays an important role in our world. Color can influence our thinking and action. In design, we know that beside the basic rules, colour has great effect on viewer. If we choose the right colour, it will strengthen our piece. When we used the colour in the right way, colour can save on energy consumption. Actually, using the right colour is quite difficult. Colour perception differs in each country. Example, red means prosperous and success in China but red also has different meaning such as fatal, danger…
We can see how colour affects the mood of the paintings in the following link :
http://webexhibits.org/colorart/picasso.html
This link will lead you to the website in which you can change the colour of the painting “ Tragedy” of Pablo Picasso to see how colour affects to a master piece. This painting, “ Tragedy”, was painted by Picasso in his early twenties. From 1901 to 1904 was called the Blue period in Picasso paintings. In this period, all the paintings were painted in a pale, cold blue. During this time, he used mainly shade of blue to portrayed the poor in the town in which he lived such as beggars, alcoholics, poor musicians…
In this period, the blue shade in his paintings portrayed the sight of human misery, and expressed this feeling in sober, ascetic, austere works. Although the blue shade portrayed the misery part of the town, I also feel the light of hope, the light of life through the shape of main objects whenever I view paintings in this period such as the painting” The old guitarist” or “ Tragedy”
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Designer's portfolio
A portfolio is very important to designers. It is the world of creativity, the gallery of work. Through the portfolio, we can see the designer’s work, thinking, their creativeness and even their inner mind. If you possess a good portfolio, you can have great opportunity in the future. A portfolio is what your boss will look at first. :D
In DIM 1 and 2, we are required to create our own portfolio. DIM 1, my portfolio is paper based and DIM2, it is a blog. Although using computer to make portfolio is somewhat easier to do and your portfolio can be easily viewed by other people, a paper based portfolio also have its own value. Just like books. Paper books are always cost more than e-books.
I wonder that a portfolio of professional designers look like?
I will introduced you about this designer :
“Christopher Morlan graduated from Academy of Art University in San Francisco in 2004. Right out of school, he was hired as a creative director with Crescent Jewelers at an impressive salary. Granted, he was not a typical BFA grad—he had been to two universities and worked in agencies for seven years when he entered design school. But that experience would not have helped him without a stunning book. And stunning it is not because of the design, which is very good, but because of the narrative it creates. It leaves you feeling as though you know the person behind the design. Let’s see how he did it.”
Yes, I was impressed at the first time I saw it. It is not like what we used to do today. I don’t like things too complex or too colorful. I like the designs that are simple but meaningful, have colors but not too much.As we say " Less is more, simple things will free our energy when look at them and we will find much more meaning from them. This portfolio is very impressive. Morlan successfully creates negative space. The color and decoration is also not too much but very atractive. Morlan combined successfully traditional and contemporary forms….
Just have a look at it and tell me what you think about his portfolio.
These are my composition exercise
The first one I used VNI Times font. I concentrate on readability so I arrange the information in groups - this make the viewers find necessary information in the easiest way. Besides, I arrange the information in rhythm with the negative space. This makes the posters more balance. The" "Big band blowout" has the same B in the beginning of each word so I use one big B to replace 3 b of each word to make unity. I choose the formal mood for my poster because I think this is the poster for classical music.
The second one I used Tahoma font. This is the sans serifs font. I divide my poster in 2 parts , one is the title and one is the information. The white line in the title is " Big band blowout" in white.
In my 2 poster, I concentrate on arrange the information in different groups so the reader can easily find necessary information.
