Design Essay

Graphic Designer Essay : Peter Saville

Peter Saville,born on October 9 1955 in Manchester United Kingdom,was an English Artist and a Graphic Artist. Peter used to attend the St Ambrose College and later on enrolled to the Manchester Metropolitan University. Saville was most known for his Factory Records.

Peter Saville

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His Factory Records and his works really look amazing and with his style he included works for music bands such as Joy Division. His work is unique and some of which looks like the blending tool with the pen on the Illustrator. It really has a simplitic feel yet it looks super artistic and gets a lot of attention. His inspiration was most probably the book that Herbert Spencer had written called "Pioneers of Modern Typography". Peter used to work as a founder partner and later on as an Art Director. But starting 1983,Saville had started his own studio called the "Peter Saville Associates".

Peter Saville - Joy Division Cover

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My most favourite cover Saville has is most probably the cover art for the Joy Division band. Peter's work has been an influence to his friend Robert Longo. Longo had told Peter to look at the band and said that the music of them was a huge inspiration. To me this art style is unique because of the texture it gives and the line artwork it has. It's as if it was made with strings. This inspires me because of how good it looks and how amazing it is to make it on Illustrator and it also gives you the feeling that the pattern is being repeated like as if only 5 strings were used and were then pasted again and again.

Peter Saville - Album Cover

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His work was influenced by Malcolm Garrett. This student had begun designing for the Manchester Punk group. He was a British Graphic Designer who had made works for music bands such as Duran Duran and Simple Minds. I really like Peter's works and can see the influence he had from Malcolm.

Malcolm Garrett - Simple Minds Cover

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Saville really enjoyed making these cover arts and he also said that "To be horribly honest,as a graphic designer the one period of my life when everything felt right and fell into place from 1978 to perhaps 1986,the period during which i was doing record covers and happy to be doing record covers". (Eyemagazine.com,19/04/2015)

Peter enjoyed making them and the art style which he used really inspires me. It reminds me of a magazine,even the font he uses and the Typography. It feels like it is seen on a magazine and the imagery and art he makes aswell.

Peter Saville - New Order Technique

(1989)

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This is another artwork done by Peter Saville for the New Order band. I like this art piece because of the colours it brings and of the statue used. The colour used is mixed well in contrast with the warm colour of red and the cold of the blue. The purple then mixes in both of them and forms the background which to me shows a connection and peace. The colour on the statue also has a texture which shows and gives an effect to the statue. I really like this and it really fits in well for a music cover.

Peter Saville - Mirror Blue

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Saville's work was then established in the Design Museum in London where most of his body works were shown. This exhibition was held in 2003. This exhibition was called "The Peter Saville Show" and it was open between May and September.

Peter Saville Show Images and Works

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http://www.mdmarchive.co.uk/gfx/400-814.jpg

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Sources

Design History,Peter Saville (Online Site)

http://www.designishistory.com/1980/peter-saville/#

(First Accessed in 19 April 2015)

Eye Magazine,Peter Saville Article (Online Site)

http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/reputations-peter-saville#

(First Accessed in 19 April 2015)

Wikipedia,Peter Saville Graphic Designer (Online Site)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Saville_%28graphic_designer%29

(First Accessed in 19 April 2015)

Art Essay

Artist Essay : Brian Froud

Brian Froud,one of the world's most respected folklore artist,was born in Winchester,United Kingdom in 1947.Brian Froud is a famous artist who creates many fantasy art.He is most known for his faerie art.He had made many books including his latest "Brian Froud's Faeries".His wife,Wendy Froud,also makes fantasy art with him.

Brian Froud

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Brian sees his work as being something that starts on reality,looking at the natural world.He has a unique art style that i found interesting in his fantasy art.In his art,Brian wants to convey and show life,reality and feeling.Brian paints and illustrates works such as Goblins,Trolls,Elves and even Pixies.He used to attend the school of  Maidstone College of Art.Brian Froud has also worked in movies such as The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth which he worked with Jim Henson.I really liked the movies and would recommend them for making fantasy art and getting ideas from them.

Brian Froud - Toby and Goblins

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http://www.henson.com/jimsredbook/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/LB_BF_04.jpg

After the release of The Dark Crystal and celebrating dinner for the launch of the movie,both Brian and Wendy had met Jim Henson on a ride.Jim quickly suggested to make another movie for it was a hit gaining 25 million dollars for the movie.Brian had quickly gotten an idea and suggested one of his favourite topics which is Goblins.He had thought of an image where a small child would be surrounded by a bunch of goblins.This art piece then was handed to the director.This piece was handed to Terry Jones and which he immediately loved it and went on to working on the Labyrinth movie.

Brian Froud Artwork

Brian Froud - Trolls

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http://chateaudebelcastel.com/english/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/BrianFroud_Trolls.jpg

Brian's artwork is really stunning for me and has a strong imagination.In the 1970s,Froud moved to Dartmoor where he began painting trolls and other fairytail creatures.Some of these artworks were seen in books of British Illustration.His work shows brush strokes which makes them even more surreal,which is what makes these kind of artworks beautiful.

Brian Froud - The Tree Spirit

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http://chateaudebelcastel.com/english/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/BrianFroud_Trolls.jpg

The brush strokes he leaves mostly make the trees even more realistic.He gives trees faces and makes them blend in really well.His fantasy books which included artworks were a huge success.His first fairy tail book was "Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book" which was published in 1991.His movies The Dark Crystal and The Labyrinth consisted of puppets and animatronics for the mystical creatures.These films had achieved success quickly and Brian's art were noticed quickly.

Brian Froud - Dark Chrysalis
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His artworks and concepts for the movie The Dark Crystal  was cited by many artists and fantasy lovers.They found this film to be very inspiring.Brian suggested this movie to be more dark.The Dark Crystal movie was created accidently since it was going to be The Dark Chrysalis instead.Henson worked on some sketches and concepts on crystals for the movie and art books because he had thought that Brian had told him to the movie would be crystal and not chrysalis.Soon Brian went on looking on his work and had told him the whole mistake yet he still loved it and accepted it for the movie.His artwork really reminds me of horror comics and manga that are created by Japanese artists and other artists all over the world.I see it like this because of the creatures of how violent they look and the ammount of colours that blend in to create a dark background.
The image below is called "The Dark Crystal" and this was a concept art for the movie made by Brian Froud.To me it seems that this art piece was inspired by Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" because of the mixture of black with blue sky and the black tower going up which seems like on a mountain.

Brian Froud - The Dark Crystal
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Sources

Dark Crystal,Encylopedia Froud (Online Site)
http://www.darkcrystal.com/encyclopedia_froud.php#
(First accessed in 19 April 2015)

World of Froud (Online Site)
http://www.worldoffroud.com/
(First accessed in 19 April 2015)

Fantasy Art Essentials,Traditional and Digital Art (Book)
Creative Masterclass Image FX

Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau

The Art Nouveau was a new Art Style created back in the very end of the 19th century.It was a style that was inspired by art styles such as the Japanese art or the Egyptian art.This art style had started in Belgium and was a huge importance and hit to the modernism.People all over the world loved this style.These type of artists were able to take what they saw in nature and create something new from previous historical influences.A famous artist who was well known for this style was Alphonse Mucha.Alphonse Mucha,born in 1860,was a famous artist that was very much inspired by Japonisme.He shows this very clearly in his works he had made and inspires people aswell.Mucha was born in Ivancice.He attended the Munich Academy of Fine Arts who he was enrolled by Karl Khunen.

Alphonse Mucha - The Moon
(1860-1939)
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http://www.kunstkopie.de/kunst/alphonse_mucha//The-Moon-and-the-Stars-The-Moon.jpg

Works of Art Nouveau

Eugine Grasset - Knight
(1845-1917)
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http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/thumbnail/71520/1/Knight.jpg

Jules Cheret - Fetes de Nice
(1907)
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Alphonse Mucha - Gisimonda
(1895)
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The Art Nouveau style was known as "Sezessionisti" in France,"Jugendstill" in Germany,"Style Liberty" in Italy and "Modernista" in Spain.The Art Nouveau was then given less interest when Art Deco was introduced in the 1920.This name had came from an exhibition that was held in 1925.This exhibition was held in Paris.It was super popular in the United States and hit many people to fall for it.I had characteristics such as Bright Colours,Sharp Edges and Polished Stone.

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This is a window that was designed and influenced by the Art Deco.It features Bright Colours,Geometric Designs and Coloured Glass.To me this reminds me of the art style that people use in churches.It's as if they were also inspired by the religious art that we have nowadays.Artists such as Paul Poiret and Edward McKnight Kauffer were making progress in making furniture,fashion and art with this style.They also made limited-edition items.

Art Deco
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The art style quickly went back to the Art Nouveau rather than the Art Deco.Yet this style still kept going and living on even after the Art Nouveau came back as modernism.I really like both of the art style and they yet still inspire me today even though after the years it's been released.

Sources

The Art Story,Art Nouveau Movement (Online Site)
http://www.theartstory.org/movement-art-nouveau.htm
(First accessed in 19 April 2015)

Bpib,Mucha (Online Site)
http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/mucha.htm
(First accessed in 19 April 2015)

Britannica,Art Deco (Online Site)
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/36505/Art-Deco
(First accessed in 19 April 2015)

Art Visit

Visit

On the 4th of April i had been sent to the Museum of Fine Arts in Malta and this was a visit for my Art blog.In this Museum i had seen some amazing artworks that were also formed orderly according to the date and the century.Paintings and Sculptures of famous artists were placed there.

These are 5 works that i found interesting and that inspired me to make more art.These work seem stunning to me so here are the artists and their work.

Antonio Sciortino - Arab Horses

(1879-1947)

This model was made by Antonio Sciortino which was made using plaster.This artist is a maltese artist who was born in 1879 and died in 1947.He was very famous for his work and even had his "speed" structure on the times in the malta newspaper on June 11 2014.I like this structure because of the very details it has on the model.It also seems to be standing on a little piece and then back to a full grown base which makes me wonder how it seems to be standing yet he was able to do the details and the modelling so well.Since i am doing structure modelling in ceramics i found this interesting and very inspiring.This type of model gives me the feel of the old maltese days even the clothing on the man who is on the horse seems to be old times like.

Corrado Corelli - Oxen

(1884-1968)

This structure is called "Oxen" which was made by Corrado Corelli.Corrado had made this model using bronze which is very well done with the details and the face of the animal.Corelli was an Italian artist who used to work with his brother Filiberto Corelli.They're father,Augusto Corelli was a great artist aswell.He was very well known back in the day.Though Augusto was more into paintings Corrado inspired me more with this model which is absolutely stunning and has a sort of stone feeling to it.

Emvin Cremona - Abstract

(1919-1987)

Emvin Cremona,a Maltese artist who was born in 1919 and died in 1987. Emvin Cremona was a great painter who made beautiful paintings which had mixed colours everywhere such as the one above. This art piece was made using oil on canvas. Just like Antonio Sciortino,Emvin also featured in the times of malta with his work which was published in April 9 2007. The person who had made this into the newspaper was Mark Sagona,another artist. This art piece makes me think of the wars,of when the first few planes were invented. I think that the mixture of colours and blending it has shows the tragic times and how it seems to have been a difficult time to live in. The blue shows the water and that the wind was strong. I like the details this art has and the blending really gets to me. I honestly think this was one of the best work i had seen.

Image

Wikipedia - Online Site - Accessed 18 April 2015

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/0/0c/EmvinCremona.jpg

Filippo Corelli - Streetscape with Cat in a Doorway

(1886-1969)

Filippo Corelli was a famous Italian artist who used to paint a lot and was very good at it. This is one of his famous works called "Streetscape with Cat in a Doorway". I like this painting a lot because of how the strokes and details are shown yet they contrast eachother and form the painting to make it look even more realistic. A famous artist who also used this technique was Filiberto Corelli in his "Portrait of a Man" work.They both have similair art style which is what makes me enjoy this art.The lighting seems very well made and it's as if it is in real life.This art gives a sense of how the old days were which is in contrast with nowadays,

Edward Pirotta - Javelin Thrower

(1939-1968)

Edward Pirotta,a Maltese artist who was born in Naxxar in 1939 and died in 1968. This maltese artist used to attend the "Accademia di Belle Arti" school in Rome. He is a very famous war artist at the time which made sculptures and paintings which had won some awards and now some of his artwork lays in this museum. This piece was made with Patinated Plaster which is a unique type of sculpting. Edward mostly focused on these kind of sculptures like wood carving and plaster structures rather than paintings. In this design I like the way the human is posed since it doesn't really look like an easy pose to make as a model and then even go as far as making each little detail on the sculpture. His muscles were evenly made and the javelin makes this piece interesting to look at because it is difficult to make something hold still.It's face also is very detailed which I found perfectly made.

Sources

Times of Malta,Antonio Sciortino Speed (Online Site)

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140623/letters/Antonio-Sciortino-s-Speed.524636#

(First accessed in 18 April 2015)

Laziowiki,Corelli Corrado (Online Site)

http://www.laziowiki.org/wiki/Corelli_(I)_Corrado#

(First accessed in 18 April 2015)

Times of Malta,Emvin Cremona Sacred Art (Online Site)

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20070409/local/spotlight-on-emvin-cremonas-sacred-art.20902

(First accessed in 18 April 2015)

Maltamigration,Pirotta Edward (Online Site)

http://www.maltamigration.com/settlement/personalities/pirottaedward.shtml#

(First accessed in 18 April 2015)