Context of Practice Lecture 1
Today was the first of the program of lectures we have ongoing through the year, I am eager to learn the theory behind creative practices of different ranges. I feel knowing contextual information in historic and contemporary form from an array of sources and practices gives me a weightier bank of ammunition for creating more informed visual responses. This was an introductory session so a nice little taster of facts was given for each creative practice.
Photography: Worktown Project, 1937 by Henry Spender. A mass observation style photograph shot in a document style portraying the working mans lifestyle through the eyes of an aristocrat In fact they were poking fun at the lifestyle they live traveling from there big houses out of 'curiosity'.
Animation: The hand 1965 by Jiri Trnka. Dark animation portraying goverment control. An interesting concept idea released after the defeat of nazi germany. The image been that goverments still control people.
Tony Kayes Tested for the unexpected 1993 Dunlop Tyre's. Gritty, abstract filming that sort of disturbed me. Very sepia feel throughout.
Illustration: Norman Rockwells accurate lifestyle illustration presented in boring publications like news papers in 1940s.
Graphic Design: This section obviously relevant to me taught me what i thought was that different countries and regions have heritage fonts so to speak. Stanley Morrison created Times New Roman in 1932 for the times newspaper and was inspired by carvings found in the roman empire. This links the Roman empire to british heritage.
Fraktur font was a nazi style font created to present there supremecy through political prints and litterature throughout there power.
My favorite was Herbert Bayers, Architype Bayera European font styled in a modernist way and is said to be a sans serif font stripped off all heritage and styles linking it to governments and countries to create a neutral typeface. Its nice to see something made in 1927 to maintain such a contemporary feel.
Animation: The hand 1965 by Jiri Trnka. Dark animation portraying goverment control. An interesting concept idea released after the defeat of nazi germany. The image been that goverments still control people.
Tony Kayes Tested for the unexpected 1993 Dunlop Tyre's. Gritty, abstract filming that sort of disturbed me. Very sepia feel throughout.
Illustration: Norman Rockwells accurate lifestyle illustration presented in boring publications like news papers in 1940s.
Graphic Design: This section obviously relevant to me taught me what i thought was that different countries and regions have heritage fonts so to speak. Stanley Morrison created Times New Roman in 1932 for the times newspaper and was inspired by carvings found in the roman empire. This links the Roman empire to british heritage.
Fraktur font was a nazi style font created to present there supremecy through political prints and litterature throughout there power.
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