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This project I have to re-work on my protest project, having more research and refrection on my process and progress

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Medness loves doodling on the corners of books, ogling at guitar maestros and flipping on skateboards.
The quirky and random ideas that swarm in his head take refuge in a world known as Ahmericarnation, where they are executed in his works of illustrations, branding & identity and other graphic design projects.
With this poster, Medness has tried to incorporate a very important social message with the right amount of pun.

I found this guy while browsing a site about designers, and when I checked his gallery, I found a big interest on it, the compositions and choices are really good and I can see his identidy in each of his works, I can relate his work to this project since most of his posters are simple and send a clear message about the subject

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This was the original design of the protest poster I wa s going to do, the word belief with a image of a guy with a book in his head, but the F of the word would be in the cover of the book, implying a negative message.
Although I liked the design, the whole thing was lacking in meaning, and Michael was very clear in this aspect. Since I was only using a single word, the message was very linear and simple, and it didn’t showed too much creativity in it, that why it was scraped and I went to create a phrase to go with it.

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Although the original design of the poster was done, I had to create a bigger one to be the main piece of information dering the protest day, that’s when I did a really poor decision.
Instead of sticking with the original design, I modified the image to a very more simple design, but with the same text, with contradicted with the main objective.
This change made the reader have more doubts and confusion when comparing text to image, and it sucked. I should’ve made the original poster but bigger, maybe digitally, on photoshop, or by hand by painting it, but due to my own experience and knowledge, I didn’t had those ideias in my head, I mean, I was going to make the original poster but bigger on the big poster, but got afraid that due to my skills I wasn’t going to be able to do it.

If I could re-do one thing from the project, the big poster would definitely be the one, I’ld stick with the main image so it haves the same meaning.

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In this video that I found online, the author explains to the viewer the literal meaning of the word belief, and he explains the dictionary meaning as well as the society definition of it. He also delivers the information in a very impartial manner, as well as exploring the word into a lot of different definitions and uses.

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This one doesn't have too much text in it, and it's design is simple.
And the image gives diferent messages to the reader, the design gives the message of a beverage or the bar price.

I related this image with my project because the color and composition are really cool and I felt that I wanted to do something similar.

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The message that I wanted to express with this whole project was that a phrase could be interpretated in various ways, most of the time its dependant of the reader but I think that this is important.

Honestly, I put a lot of tought in the phrase and what it could mean to the reader and myself, but my main interest was not really the meaning, but how I could create something that even bringing mixed messages, the definition given by someone will always be correct, to be able to interpretate something and be in the right with everyone else, even if is different was my main goal.
I came with this conclussion in this Referal Project, before, I had this doubt even after the end of the project. But with the help of tutors and teachers I think I came up with a good structured objective of the project.

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Originally, I choose a few images from magazines to work for the design of the poster, all of them I could relate to what I wanted to deliver, but I at the same time, was having some problems deciding what was the best composition for it, the placement of the words to the image was always off or unnatural, and I was never pleased.
I didn’t took long until I asked for help from my tutor and teacher, to see their opinions and directions, from each one of them, I got a different response on how I should directionate the poster. All of them was very informative and helped a lot.
It was then that I decided to cut two of the three photos and only leave one of them. And it worked surprisingly well.

For the final design I went for a format that made the eye pass through the text as well the image, so the reader would receive two types of information when reading.

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After a lot of thought, I decided to work with the word Belief.
Since I had an ideia that I could use the word to create a message that the reader could interpretate in various ways.
After some thought, i made the phrase.

Belief is the path to the light.

This phrase could be intepretated in a lot of ways, after showing it to a lot of different people, i received a lot of different messages.
The word relates to aspects of religion, emotions, and logic. And each one of these relations are diferrent.

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This is the original word I choose to work with, we were given a list of words an this was the one I choose.
I got interessed on this word because I knew I could alter the meaning since it was such a generic word.
With this word, i came up with other words related to the main word, some of then were.
- Jolt
- Spark
- Energy
- Belief
- Light
- Ideia
Mostly of these words related to the meaning of electricity, since that was a theme I used a lot in other projects. But I kept thinking about how I would take the project foward, I scraped the electricity related words.
So i cut down the list to Belief and Ideia. And after some thought in the end I stayed with Belief. Since I could expand the meaning.

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This design is very interessing, it's simple and have very few and simple colours. The message is there but it's not on your face.
That what I looked as an inspiration, the placement of the images affect how you interpret the poster.

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Sagmeister studied graphic design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He later received a Fulbright scholarship to study at the Pratt Institute in New York. He began his design career at the age of 15 at "Alphorn", an Austrian Youth magazine, which is named after the traditional Alpine musical instrument.

In 1991, he moved to Hong Kong to work with Leo Burnett's Hong Kong Design Group. In 1993, he returned to New York to work with Tibor Kalman's M&Co design company. His tenure there was short lived, as Kalman soon decided to retire from the design business to edit Colors magazine for the Benetton Group in Treviso, Italy.[1]
Stefan Sagmeister proceeded to form the New York based Sagmeister Inc. in 1993 and has since designed branding, graphics, and packaging for clients as diverse as the Rolling Stones, HBO, the Guggenheim Museum and Time Warner. Sagmeister Inc. has employed designers including Martin Woodtli, and Hjalti Karlsson and Jan Wilker, who later formed Karlssonwilker.
Stefan Sagmeister is a long-standing artistic collaborator with musicians David Byrne and Lou Reed. He is the author of the design monograph "Made You Look" which was published by Booth-Clibborn editions.
His motto is "Design that needed guts from the creator and still carries the ghost of these guts in the final execution."

So of all the different artist that I research for this particular project, Stefan Sagmeister was the one that impressed me the most,  he have a very deep backstory in the world of design and his work impressed me the most. I had a lot of desingns that were made by independent artist or unnamed artists, but the one ms with a name in the industry we’re all so bland, or they were either too abstract or to direct with their designs.

What I enjoyed from Sagmeister’s work mainly was how diverse he could be while still each of his works look so authoral. His designs although didn’t influenced me too much in my original design, helped learn how to create a good composition and design of a poster, somentehing that I was lacking. Also, his works made appreciate a lot more this project and all the possibilities that I have when creating a original project.

Biography taken from Wikipedia, other informations from him taken from his personal site : https://sagmeisterwalsh.com/

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This is how my stand looks like during the fair, I used the plug helmet to draw attention and looks, also a miniature of myself from a previous project.

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I also had a chance to work with the Digital guillotine in Monique’s workshop so I could trim the books to the appropriate size, she showed how to use and it was fairly simple.

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I always liked doing linework of my drawing, as well as coloring it, shading illustrations is very fun and I want to develop this during my school years.

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This is something that I was introduced early in my life, I always enjoyed reading comics for the story. Later on my adolescence I began to admire more the style of drawing each author have, and how complicated some panels must’ve been to draw.
Then In my passion rage I decided I wanted to be a comic book artist, make my own stories and put them on paper. So I started to draw more and learn the fundamental of art, thankfully my mother is very open to the world of art and supported me throughout the years. I want to attend a class that not only would help me develop my techniques, but make it evolve.

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I choose 2D animation and my BA course when entering Ebac for a few reasons, the main one being because I think it will help me in the future having the experience with editing and animation programs, also in this course I could still develop my drawing skills with concept art and the 2D animation itself would require that for me. I understand that I wouldn’t explore the comic world from this course and I’m Ok with it, I just think that there’s too much good than bads in my choice, and I’m willing to exchange that.
Also I could identify myself so much more with this course than the illustration course, nothing against it, but I don’t think I would enjoy half as much that the animation course.

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This was the introductory work for the project, we were brainstorming some ideias on how we would make the project, and we had to make 30 drawings in 30 minutes, so a ideia per minute.
We were given this job so we could exercise our creative thinking.
Some of them were throwaways, but some of them related to the final project.

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Since I decided the format was going to be a comic style, I sketched down some pages to use on my final project, some of them werent used and some pages of the final project weren’t even on the storyboards, but it served as a stepping stone.

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I had a lot of different concepts for the story, format and character, I managed to reduce to a satisfactory amount, so I could make sure I was happy to it.

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This project was given to do at the start of the project,  Michael separated us in two groups and took us to the Mac lab, there he taught us how to create and print paper sheets from a letter font site.
https://www.calligraphr.com/en/
We then had to write each letter and other signs in the paper, upper and lower case, it was made in black ink so the scanner could catch the images.
After we were done, we could use our filters to write with them.

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I presented my 3D work on a open locker upstairs in the room, I figured it was a nice place to present, and in the dark it accentuated the effects even more, going with the theme the whole space reminds of the letter I.

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For this project we had to do our own font and 3d object using a given letter, mine was I.
I made a lot of different tests to see which one worked better.

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After we did our photo destruction exercise, we were assigned to do a 3D object from one of our 60 photos, I took inspiration from an object I have at home , it’s a hard object with strings hanging under it , so I took a photo of mine with the plug-face helmet and transformed the head into a cube, I used a thicker paper on the cube to make it heavier,  and the body would stay the same, just hanging, it ended up pretty good and a nice docoration

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before I decided to start a comic I had some ideias on how should i make this project.
comic
3/4 panel shorts
posters
cards

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For the 60 photos i didnt had too many references, since i decided to make the photos ina spontaneous way, the only person I saw some work was from my moms friends that is a photography teacher, and his social medias helped me to have a basic ideia on how to not mess up composition, light, size, etc.

The 25 photo project i had inspiration from the works of an exposition called Faking It : manipulated photography before Photoshop. it had so many examples and techniques on how to alter an image by hand, and I took inspirations in works that included strings and cutting for 3/5 of my jobs.

The filter project
For this work i took inspiration from regular camera filters from instagram and someway, from aim lenses, the way that the lenses blurs around the center influenced one of my filters, the smaller one.
For the instagram style, is pretty simple, just another colour to change the hue of the image.

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HIROHIKO ARAKI
Hirohiko Araki is a Japanese manga artist. He made his debut under the name Toshiyuki Araki in 1980 with his one-shot Poker Under Arms, and began his professional career with the short series Cool Shock B.T., Baoh, and The Gorgeous Irene.
His most famous book is still publishing and its called "JoJo's Bizarre Adventures". I take a lot of inspiration from his work and style, his dinamic and body poses are impressive and unique.

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BOB ROSS
peharps one of my biggest inspirations and motivations to explore the world of art, Bob Ross was a famous painter that was know to make beautiful scenarios of wildlife, he's very famous for his TV show "The Joy Of Painting".
I appreciate his work because you can see how much he cares not only for composition or perfectionism, but also about sending a message to the public that even if life sucks, you can still enjoy certain moments.
He also in his show often tells the watcher that anyone's able to do exactly what he does and that you shouldnt be afraid to experiment and try new things.
http://www.bobross.com/aboutus.asp

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JIM LEE
Jim Lee, a world-renowned comic book artist, writer, editor and publisher, is now currently the Co-Publisher of DC Entertainment (DCE) alongside Dan DiDio.

Known for his incredibly detailed and dynamic artistic style, Lee is one of the most revered and respected artists in American comics. A veritable legend in the industry, he has received numerous accolades and recognition for his work, including the Harvey Special Award for New Talent in 1990, the Inkpot Award in 1992, and the Wizard Fan Award in 1996, 2002 and 2003.

Prior to his current post at DCE, Lee served as Editorial Director, where he oversaw WildStorm Studios and was also the artist for many of DC Comics' bestselling comic books and graphic novels, including ALL STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN, THE BOY WONDER, BATMAN: HUSH, and SUPERMAN: FOR TOMORROW. He also serves as the Executive Creative Director for the DC Universe Online (DCUO) massively multiplayer action game from Sony Online Entertainment (SOE).

Jim Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1964 but moved with his family to St. Louis, Missouri when he was young.  After graduating cum laude with a BA in Psychology from Princeton University in 1986, he started his professional career at Marvel Comics where his work on the X-Men continues to hold the all-time sales record for single-issue sales at an incredible 8 million copies sold in one month.

In 1992, he started his own production company, WildStorm Productions, and co-founded Image Comics, an independent comics company that quickly grew to become the third largest North American publisher.  Two of his creations, WILDCATS and GEN 13, saw life beyond comics as a CBS Saturday morning cartoon and as a DTV animated movie distributed by Disney, respectively.  In 1998, DC Comics purchased WildStorm Productions and Lee left Image Comics to join the DC Entertainment creative team.

In 2010, Titan Books released the 300-page artbook of Jim Lee’s DC Comics work titled ICONS: THE DC & WILDSTORM ART OF JIM LEE. In 2011, Lee was integral in the launch of DC Entertainment’s NEW 52 initiative, designing the new, more contemporary costumes for some of the DC universe’s most iconic characters, including Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman.
Jim Lee's a artist and writer that I respect a lot, his works have so much detail, lore-wise and in the drawings, he mastered the style of "dark" comics,  and his anatomy work is admirable, often time when i watch him draw, being on Twich, or in a Youtube video, it always amazes me how easy he makes it look to create and draw such complicated characters, every stroke has a meaning, every detail looks like it was supposed to be there, he's a huge inspirations to me.
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The last project we had to do was to create our own photo filter, and also a mechanism to make the filter stay in the camera, it took me two tries but I managed to create a filter that worked and it was creative enough.
I used cardboard and clear plastic with colored tape to create a filter , since my filter had two parts I could combine different colours  to create nice effects.
I had a small filter in front of the camera and one that was connected by 3 sticks to the mechanism to hold bigger filters, so you could extend or retract the filter to cover the lens as a whole or only part of it.

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camera obscura
also called pinhole image,  its a phenom that occurs when an image  at the other side of a screen is projected through a small hole in a screen as a reversed and inverted image on the opposite to the opening.

Zoetrope
is a device with several images that when in motion creates a type of animation.

Praxinoscope
an animation device invented by charles-emile reynaud. Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. but it got a smoother movement and light

Magic Lantern
its a early type of image projector, crated in the 17 century, it was mostly used for entretainment and made of glass. But then in the 19 century, it was used for education purpose, with the size of the item reduced, people used it for kids toys.

Shadow Theatres
created in 1992 and it was a special method of a presentation using light against the characters to create different shadows.

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this part of our project we had to look for 25 old styled images, being from sellers or owned.
In my case I couldnt attend any art market to look for it, so I asked for help for a friend and she lended me enough photos for it.
We used these photos for a project, we choose some of them to modify with certain topics.

Unfortunate I had to give the photos back and the ones I have have been modified alreadly.

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This was a project given to us before we even started this project, we were given a list of things to photograph, and in 2 weeks we would show to groups of 5 and the tutors, i didnt followed any theme when taking the photos, some of then were good, others bad, and a few I couldnt even find.
the photos can be found in another padlet.

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In this project i didnt had a particular artist reference, it was more of a movement type of thing,
i wanted to play with the ideia of how the mind of people are oriented towards certains ideals,
so I used themes as Religion, Espiritualism, The human mind and logic.

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This was before the final product, we researched on different magazines for images that related or not for our work, and then had to made a composition using it

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My work was about photographing different electric plugs wherever I had the chance
I didnt get so many pictures since I had so many similar ones, but it was a fun experience and a nice start for what was to come in the future.

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since this was my first project at EBAC, i didnt done so much research for references or examples, but i was inspired (kinda) by Martin Parr and his collection of parking spaces, I saw all the artists presented on the brief and he was the one that standed out the most for me.

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he has a lot of different works, each one being as incredible or weirder as the next one, hes a renowed photographer/artist and his works are normally based around mundane or day-to-day activities or scenarios, but seen from his pov, that ends up being and incredible experience.
In this project, i saw and studied a collection he made, the theme was parking spaces, such a simple and somewhat boring scenario made actually think a lot about what i wanted to collect, the random theme in his works influenced me a lot.

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In this work we also had to use our collection to create something else, something in the theme but diferent.
At this moment i had an spark of imagination, and I decided to create a big box with an electric plug on a side, i kinda worked and midway I decided to make it to be a helmet or mask, i worked hard on it and it worked!

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some of mine influences and references came from western comic books, such as dc and marvel comics, the composition was based from 80's comics, but the style is an attempt of a modern style.
Artists like Jim Lee, Jack Kirby and Jerry Robinson.

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for the written part of the project i had inspiration from architets like Frank Lloyd Wright,Frank Gehry,Rem Koolhaas and Oscar Niemeyer. My letter was very straight and with a lot of sides.

As for my 3D object i had inpiration from modern artists that make use of electricity in them jobs, they make intricate works that require a lot of skill to do, I wanted to do something similar with my work.