Olympic Pictograms Through the Ages (Animation)

Not the most Amazing animation out there, but it uses almost everything that I was inspired for my illustration characters, also a good history on the Olympic pictograms and how they evolved.
Take note and watch it here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/24/sports/olympics/pictograms-interactive.html.
I will let someone else do the reserch this time :)

Steffen Bygebjerg: End Scene

End scene, is a musicale animation, I guess I should call it 'Motion Graphics' since that is what it is, I loved how everything was in sync with the music, and I love the use of the very simple shapes, this is a grand example of what can be done with just using squares and circles.
Also all the shapes were printed out first, then rescanned to give the shapes the rough effect they have in the piece.
Really loved this piece, I would love to experiment with music like this.
Anyway watch this musicale adventure here http://vimeo.com/6857186
Enjoy.

oh no! It's the Bauhaus!

It's funny how the first time I ever heard of the Bauhaus, was through the most boring documentery of my life, and my class mates too.
The documentery left a bad taste about the Bauhaus in me for a while, but soon I began realising it for the geometric awsomeness it was.
The Bauhaus seems to bring together all sorts of different manners of the creative industry like, Art, Archtiecture, Graphic Design, Interior design, Industrial design and Typography.
It follows the ways of its major influence 'Modernism', and it shows.

Bruno Monguzzi

Monguzzi tries to recapture the spirit of the early Russian Constructivist, using siple shapes and geometry. I really do like the shapes he uses and the placement of the shapes in the composition, and how he blends shapes and typography together to create something new.
Colours go really well with his designs, offereing some nice colour contrasts.

Tom Purvis

A little bit different to simple shapes but I might aswell mention Tom Purvis. I have to admit that his poster work for different holiday locations hold some of the most impressive colours I have seen in designs, not say it's the 'best' but its worth commenting on. The block out colours of the different illustrations work so well with the colour schemes, they contrast well with the surrounding colours to give off a simple shape, or form.
The illustrations are on border between realism and, well, 'stylised'... I don't want to use the word 'cartoony' sounds too childish.
I think the colours and illustrations really capture each loctions feel, obviously I haven't been to any of the areas, but I can just imagine and feel the mood by just looking at these really old posters.
Tom Purvis (1888- 1959)

Adolphe Mouron Cassandre

A.M. cassandre is one of the few designers I found in my book on geometrical designs, he has done some really interesting pieces of designs, illustration and typography. Most of his designs have a very cubic feel to them, which for the time gave off a very modern look about them.
Again it amazes me how traditional designs give off their own feel about them, also gaining off geometrical designs for that time is a feat in itself.
A.M. Cassandre (1901- 1968)

Hitting the books

Just some primary research from an almost interesting book on the geometry of Designs, what I really found interesting was some of the art pieces in the book, but the book was looking at geometry of the designs, and some of the grid systems that the designs were made from really interested me and continues to drive me forward into the world of perfectly geometrical designs, also I did enjoy looking at the different shapes some of the grid systems made, really an inspiration to me.
Some of the artists in the book are aslo infact very interesting and I shall be creating seperate posts to talk about some of them.

Airside: Moblin

Another of Airsides work, was for a new linux-based operating system for netbooks. I think it was well put together and I think I'm going to comment on something new this time around, the music, the music was intergrated so well with the animation it almost felt like it was making all the information slowly and gently make it to your brain, also the smooth voice over helped alot too.
I will be having sound or music or a voice over in my FMP animation so I do need to take note of this.
If you wish to watch the animation just follow this link http://moblin.org/documentation/moblin-netbook-intro

Airside: The Power Gap

It's fair to say that Airside is on my favorite studio list, most of their work really calls out to me and also reminds of my own work and style. They seem to be a very active and very colourful studio, and I like the humour they have in their work.
One piece of the work Named 'The Power Gap' is an animation that uses some really interesting colour schemes and shapes, I like the use of the typical Male toilet sign character and how they animated it really well. The animation shows off the fact that the studio has some humour about them. Could be the closest thing I want my FMP animation to look like.
Watch the animation here: http://vimeo.com/8051564.

The Two Grid Systems

My tutor handed me a book on the geometry of design, which laid out some of the different grids that were used on some famous designs.

I took in two different grid layouts, and stylized them to make it my own.  

Musclebeaver : How money works

Amazing animation, I love the concept, the humour and ofcourse the shapes were nicely stylised, I like the origami feel most of the shapes give off. Brilliant animation.
Check it out here http://www.musclebeaver.com/index.php?/video/how-your-money-works/
Enjoy!

Mainframe : Challenge Your World

One of my inspirations for my FMP animation I'm going to create, I loved the almost simple shapes they had with nice texture feelings to them, also I loved the humour in it, almost sarcastic and over the top inventions. Also I think all the colours went very well, it gave the animation the retro feeling it was aiming for.
Due to my lack of knowlege on how to try and upload this video, I shall paste you guys a link,
http://mainframe.co.uk/movies.php?id=82
Be sure to check it out.

Baby Concept!

Finally SOMETHING related to my FMP, Just a reminder, I am doing an animation and this is the first character to make an appearence on screen.

Suicide

Was part of an old FMP idea.

Testing

I went with the flow with this piece, there was no initial thought or planning, I just wanted to play around abit with some of my photos, I thought the out come was interesting enough.
Obviously I was inspired by some of the 'Oh Yeah Studio' imagery, I sort of wanted to play around with the texture of the shapes them selves, but of course I was lazy, because Illustrator was the only programme open at the time I went along and used it instead of Photoshop.

Suprematism

Suprematism, a small art movement that lasted only a year (1915-1916) and was established in Russia by a man named Kasimir Malevich. It all started here, shapes having their own art form, and till this day is being used by almost all designers. I enjoy all the work done by Malevich, I wouldn't go and say that the work is simple, it to me seems very technical with the use of geometric shapes being done traditionally. Not like today where we have the choice of clicking one button to give us shapes, I like the feeling the traditional shapes give off, with the almost straight lines and the texture feeling to them it works really nicely. Deffinatly an inspiration to me and the illustrations I try to create.

Oh Yeah Studio

Oh Yeah Studio, I really found a general liking to all their pieces of artwork, the shapes the illustrations, the blending of shapes and illustrations it works really well and it inspires me to try out some of it on photographs.


I like the blending of illustrations this studio does, it's really interesting and it does create some really interesting artwork, I also like the limited colours they use, black and red, with different shades of each, it really works well.


Random Shapes! Love the colours and the texture feel to the shapes, it's kind of hard to link this to DNA... Everyone has a different shape? I don't know...


I really like the colours in this piece, grey, almost black colours also the inclusion of the two red shapes works really well. The grainy feel to shapes is also a nice addition, I might have to give it a try.


I really love this piece, it's got alot more going on, many people would consider it 'a mess' but I call it brilliance, the illustrations alone are really interesting, the colours and random shapes just give it more energy and feeling, I also like the composition of the piece, where almost all of the piece has something to look at.

Non - Format

Non - Format, I did find some interesting work while researching them, they use alot of interesting geometric shapes with nice contrasting colours, they focus alot on typography, and it works really well, it makes me want to create some typography now. I'm still on a quest to create interesting illustrations using simple shapes alone, and I think looking at Non-Format helped with showing me some interesting ways to use shapes and also showed me some nice variety of shapes alone.
I'm not sure why this is in my research, at the time it seemed to stand out to me, I do like the typography and the simplicity of it.

A piece done for IBM, I like the interesting shapes that are going on, the colours work really well,
could say it's random and non relevant to my initial main FMP idea, but I was considering doing a series of art posters based on images like this.

The simplicity is something I enjoy, I also find the shapes interesting and the concept behind the piece is nice. The typography is cleverly placed and blends in well with the concept.

I really like the use of typography in this piece, I also like the limited use of colours, they contrast really well. Though it has little to do with the style I'm trying to go for, it still has a simple feeling going for it which I do enjoy because I do believe in 'Less is More'.

Bamboo Stairway.

Tried doing some scenery this time.

Explosive Objection!

Fan Art for a Lawyer game which is on the Nintendo Ds, his name...Pheonix Wright.

All things must come together.

X Box360

My view at the Green Machine.