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3. Introduction5. Vaughan Oliver7. Neil Spiller 19. Manifesto’s10. Simon Heron11. Nic Clear13. Stacey Pisillides 15. Rachel Armstrong19. Mark Ingham21. Neil Spiller 223. Conclusion25. Bibliogaphy

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IntroductionIntroductionFor this project I will be attending lectures weekly and I must find a way to document what these lectures are on, this can be done by blog or magazine etc. I will attend these lectures once a week on a Wednesday for 12 weeks, so I will need 12 documents includ-ing this one. Each one must contain at least 300 words excluding one that will be 1000 words (one of my choice), unless I choose to do it with somebody else. If I do choose to do so the amount of words required dou-bles.We began by looking into what the best ways are for learning something new, we said:• Look–bylookingandobservingsomething or someone• experimenting–tryingoutdifferentmethods to understand something• Byusingsenses–hear,touch,smell,see, taste• listening–listeningtosomething• doing–throwingyourselfinatthedeep end and actually trying something how will using give you a good understand of thing

we watch a clip called ‘the little white lies’. In this clip we were watching it was basi-cally the processes of making a magazine called ‘the black swan issue’ I enjoyed watching this, and learnt a lot from this by doing so. Although It was sped up you actu-ally learn this that you did know about the processes of making a magazine. There are a lot of things you overlook when u think about the stages of making a magazine. At the end of this introduction to this pro-ject we were given a twitter to follow which would keep us posted in the sense of what we needed to do and when it needed to be done. This was a good idea because twitter is a well-used site in the modern day.

In the second week of my lecture I met a man called Vaughan Oliver who took our lecture; he was a graphic designer whose main focus was creating record sleeves. Oli-ver had a very strong passion for music and started his own music band during his 20’s and later went on to make his own record company , he felt that music had a very big impact on people lifestyles as they can be in-fluencedbydifferenttypesofmusicastheycan dominate people mood or opinions, which is why his passion for both music and graphics combined to create interest in record design.In his early design life he did projects such as packing for a bake beans company which helped him gain experience, but when he went on to record design he found it quite different,ashefeltthattherecordsleevewouldn’t have importance without a connect to the style on music that it is representing. In his day things such as computer aided design where not as popular as they are now, so all of his projects where done using pho-tographs. These photographs varied, some of normal people holding up signs, naked dancers and artistic techniques such as water with dashes of ink which looked very abstractThe stages in order of what he used to do was to listen to the music at first then talk to the band about what they wanted, he then would try out a various amount of techniques and ideas to bring to life the visualization of the music on the record. He also said that the front and the back on the record sleeve must relate to each other. His work used to baffle people in some way as they were unable to understand why he did certain things, he said this was a good thing as when people do not understand what happening they are more likely to remain interested

This was a surrealist lecture taken by Neil SpillerwhichisaprofessoratUCL(uni-versitycollegeLondon)heismainlybasedaround architecture and looks into the dif-ference between virtual and actual. He be-gan by showing us a picture of his favourite philosopher ‘Zodiac Mindwarp’ who is a graphic designer and editor of a magazine named ‘Flexipop’. He actually had collabo-rated with one of our previous lecturers ‘Vaughan Oliver’ to create a book in the late 1990’s on a ‘Neil Spiller monograph’ As the lecture went on I found it hard to comprehend what he was saying, there were times where I could understand parts, but not enough to put into words. I feel he wasn’t very clear with his explanations and didn’t spend enough time describing one project as he moved vigorously from one picture to another. He presented a picture named ‘the angel with the Brazilian bush’ which I feel was quite artistic. The picture looked as if it was made from oil based paint and it was very abstracted, and personally these kinds of pieces of art gain my interest. He described the bush as a living things, or a plant-like substance, saying the bush grows and gets hairier as the temperature around it gets colder.He spoke about something called ‘the dance of death’ saying that it’s medieval thing where people create illustrations of death pullingatpeopleofdifferentstatuse.g.richor poor. This was one of my least favourite lectures; the reason for this was because it was exetremely hard to follow what he was saying as he didn’t explain things very well. Also I feel the fact that the things he were talking about did not have much relation to the things that I enjoy in art which definitely contributed to my disliking of the lecture.

A manifesto lecture was held by Mark In-gham a manifesto was described as a dec-laration of intentions, we were told that we needed to create a manifesto on whatever we believe in, our passions or what we really want to do in life. A manifesto could be a series of words or quotes which relate to us. He showed us a picture which quoted ‘be the type of person you want to meet’, he said this is a good quote to use as the start of a manifesto, the first line is very important, he told us we should look into what our first line would be‘The word manifesto originates from the word manifestom which means clear or conspicuous’–MarkIngham.Marktoldus about a manifesto named ‘First things First’ which was made in 1964. I had a look at the manifest online and I found it quite interesting, it basically spoke about young graphic designers on that generation and how they felt that their talents where being wasted.Ive decided that I would make a manifesto based on my interest in music; this is be-cause from a very young age I have had a passion for it. As I grew older I began to create my own music, this was because I was inspired by my mum who herself re-lease a single. Also, other member of my family have an involvement in music, some making music and other just simply plays it on radio stations. Nowadays when I am not doing any university work I am creating my own kind of of music by writing my own lyrics and recording them over an instru-mental track.

This lecture was with a Simon Herron; he started by introducing himself saying he was brought up in a dysfunctional family. He then showed us some bits a pieces that he had on him which he said were begins of projects, I found them quite intriguing as theyweredifferentcomparedtothemodernday design, everything he was showing us in the begin was based around collage and line drawings, there were pamphlets an’sd groups of pictures and texts which contained in-formation on projects that took place in the 20th century, none of these were his.He then began to talk about drawing, he had something up on the big screen which said ‘the drawing… to be seen as both a tool of practice and a site of construction’. He had an interesting comparison between a mod-ern day office of an architect and one in the earlier day, he pointed out that in the earlier days there were more drawing boards and paper in a typical architects office compare to now where it is digitally based. The next thing he done was show us several differentprojectsfromhisstudentsintheirsecond or third year, one that particularly in-terested me was a drawing which was made from the heat of a cigarette where the stu-dent laid under the piece of paper a used the burning cigarette’s residue to create a piece of art. He presented a few other drawing which contained collages, what interested me about these photos were that they looked as if they had been made on Photoshop but it was made before digital days.He explained that the collages had been made by combining and binding photo-graphs or scanning something then moving them and then scanning them again creating layers which is very similar to the structure of Photoshop.

This is one of my favourite lectures so far, the lecturer spoken very clearly and present-ed some very interesting things. The lectur-ers name was Nic Clear and he was himself and architect, he ran his own business for a short amount of time, he has also been a full academic for 7 years. His main interests involve around animation.One thing he said that really interested me was that students should see themselves as student, as they can be 2 or 3 clicks away from producing something which could be published and change the world of art, I feel this was an inspiring statement and should be told to student on a more regular basis. He also said that architecture is mainly the development of buildings and architects use drawing as an instrument for produc-tion, and there could be architecture without drawing.He then started talking about synthetic creations which is the blend of actual and virtual, presenting some clips and crea-tions which were done by his students. The first clip was about the space behind reality, within this clip we were shown oxford street then slowly the camera moved in between the spaces behind the buildings, what was shown in between these places were created by the student.The second video was about a city in china which is constantly under construction, in the clip the city was deserted and everything within the city was under construction. Both of the films I have mentioned had a very mellow sound track which was quite sad, Nic Clear said the reason for this was people do not take happy films seriously. He then showed us a series of clips similar to the first clips that we watched, I enjoyed every clip that was show due to the face they seemed very professional and realistic

I was lectured by Stacey Pisillides who stud-ies what happens to people’s data when they pass away. She presented us with a clip which was called ‘rest in pixels’ which was about somebody finding out that a friend had passed away, she then went on to a vir-tual world where she first met this person, went to place they first met and buried them there. Facebook in about 100 years could be a good place for you to check on your past relatives, as people upload pictures and write statuses as their life goes on, and in about 100 years there will be 500million dead peo-ple on facebook.Another video we watch was about people donating their social networks. It was ba-sically about being able to use somebody else’s life to help teach history in the years to come, if somebody like Shakespeare had a facebook which people had access to it would be much easier to understand him as a person and have a look at his lifestyle and the way he used to think about things, so by donating you social network you would be helping out in the future.She went on to talk about data and its pro-cesses in terms of photographs, since in this day and age photographs go from being personal and on an individual’s camera to being public and uploaded on the internet for everyone to see and comment on. People upload pictures on facebook without realis-ing that there memories and information will be on there forever. A lot of people use virtual world to escape from the real world but by what Stacey has shown us storing data online is very useful and unlike the real world u can leave something in one place in data form and it will remain there forever.

This lecture which was about research and enterprise was taken by RachelArmstrong.Shestartedoffbytellingusaboutherpreviousoc-cupation, which was a medical doctor since she was very interested in biology as a child due to the urge of wanting know how nature works. During her time as a medical doctor she worked in India treating lep-rosy, during her time there she analysed how the illness itself actually changedpeople.Leprosyitselfisadiseasethateatsawayatyounervesand victims eventually lose the ability to feel, also they lose the sense of engagement and the colour of their skin.The next thing she began to speak about interested me as I have simi-lar view to hers, which was that humans have always damaged the environment. Using fossil fuels which seriously harm the atmosphere and continuously cutting down trees. Machines are being built every-where, she describe that as ‘machinist desserts’ machines and the nat-ural environment don’t go well together, the quality of the soil around these places, the emissions that are release into the air. She described itasaonewayrelationship,themachineshaveamuchlargereffectonthe natural environment that the environment does on the machines, “its total domination”She went on to speaking about an architect named ‘Gaudi’ who is a Catalan architect. He had four passions: Architecture, nature, religion, and love for Catalonia. He was an architect who looked into how and what people could do to use and create things with these materials and make them more environmentally friendly, or bonding. He was described as an organic architect and his four passions donated to this as it determined his state of mind. His love for god, his country and nature convinced him to find way to build without destruction. It take a lot more for people to avoid the damaging of the environment, the material they would have to obtain could cost more which is probably the reason for these events. She then showed us a few videos which were interesting; one con-tained a bunch a plastic cubes which began to assemble themselves. She related this to how technology should be, genuinely integrating itself into nature.The next thing she went to speak on about was architecture and how it was the technology of human evolution and our built up environ-ment is our natural habitat but its design impacts the human race, natural selection occurs way to slowly to help our living style so we much depend on technology to help us out of the situation that us as humans have put ourselves in since natural selection occurs to slowly.Bio architecture doesn’t have a single definition, but she believes that we will have to depend on it later on in this century; we will need to genetically modify plants instead of planting them as we do now by the middle of the 21st century, she also believes that more than two thirds of people will live within cities due to the fact the us human will keep on building.

Rachel spoke about evolution, and tried to break down the definition, what it would mean and the fact that if such is true then the amount of free will with have is minimal. Due to that fact that our fate would purely be determined by what is in us already since that’s all we would ever need during our lifetime if such was true all we would need is the genes we have but she disagreed with that theory. I then went on to look into biological architecture and came across a site called www.biologicalarchiture.co.uk. On this website it described what their intentions where and how they were going to do it, a lot of what I read on the website was very similar to what Rachel Armstrong was talking about in her lecture. They intend to build in a way to ben-efit living things and the environment around their structures.They aren’t fully established yet, as in creating many buildings or structures which are biologically friendly but they are looking into how to make these types of structures in the cheapest and most effi-cient way. They allow people to come along and participate in up and coming events helping the enforcement of and they even give you a chance to submit your own research to benefit the upcoming of bio architecture.Although there are several sites containing information about biologi-cal architecture I don’t feel it is being enforced enough in comparison to how much and how quickly the earth is being destroyed. The con-stant use of fossil fuels and the cutting down of trees on a daily basis would already be hard enough to compete with if biological architec-ture was at a more stable stage but it doesn’t seem as if I will be taken seriously and go worldwide any time soon.The concept of bio architecture was led by a person named Dan Win-ter; he has generally been going round sharing his knowledge on bio architecture with others to give them awareness. He has previously studied electrical engineering and system analysis and is a well-respected person amongst those subjects; his intentions are to make projects which encourage life. Toward the end of the lecture she presented a series of photographs which showed environmental changes due to structures and ma-chines. This was my favourite lecture due to the amount of information that it consisted, Rachel Armstrong spoke very clearly so it was easy for me to understand what she was presenting. Also instead of just tell us about her and what she thought she presents other people’s views and what she thought about their views. She had a lot of interesting views on things and a lot of interesting data, a lot of which many of us have probably thought about in our

What I have learnt so far - Generally I have learnt a lot from the lectures I have seen so far, a few of the lectures that I have been in which I didn’t understand very well but I have learnt something from every single one. A lot of lecturer’s we had didn’t initially begin as a graphic designer or architect but they slowly became involved in some kind of art. The most distinctive lecture for me was the research and enterprise lecture with Ra-chel Armstrong, I feel this is because she had a lot to say about her subject and it was very clear. I learnt about an architect named ‘Gaudi’ is a biological architect who hasdesignedseveraldifferentbuildingsinCatalonia which is the country he was born and raised in. another lecture which I found very interesting was the lecture held by Stacy Pisillides who spoke about data and what would happen to peoples information when they passed away.I liked this subject because personally I feel itwasveryengaginganditmademegooffand research in which I learnt more about what happens to people’s data in the modern day as there is a lot more ways for people to access and distribute data. The 3rd lec-ture which I feel I learnt a lot from was the lecture taken by Nic Clear which was about architecture and animation, the favourite thing about this lecture was the animations which he presented which were done by students on a course which he teaches on. One topic which intrigued me in his lecture when he began to talk about modern day graphic designers and how many of us have great potential to become a well-known graphic designer, some of us are only 2 or 3 clicks away

Ornament and savagery was the second lec-ture that was taken by Neil Spiller. He start-ed with speak about Andre Breton which he described as the pope of surrealism. I went into looking who Andre Breton he was born in 1896 in France, he took up work at a neurological ward during the world war he is specifically and individually known as the founder of surrealism and published the first surrealistmanifest–Wikipedia.org.He also spoke about a Spanish painter named Salvador Dali who ‘is best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surre-alistwork’–Wikipedia.org.Healsocreatedthe paranoiac method in the 1930’s this was the time where there were also many signifi-cant changes in his style of design and what he was creating. He looked in to the mental effectsofparanoiaartisticallyandtheeffectthat it can have on people. Dali was said to be imaginative, he was born in the early 20th century.I looked into a museum which consisted of work created by Dali which was named after him, the museum was in Spain. I went on the website for the Dali museum. Similarly to the last lecture which was held by Neil spiller there was a lot that I didn’t under-stand, I don’t feel he spoken very clearly so I found it hard to grasp the concepts of what he was saying. Personally I didn’t enjoy this lecture because of that fact. I feel that he did have good information to present when I understood it but there wasn’t much that I understood.

ConclusionWedidalectureonconclusionsanddiffer-ent way that we could conclude our project. Most people feel conclusions must simply just rounds up everything that consists be-fore it, but we were shown that we shouldn’t limit ourselves and think outside the box. For instance movie ending aren’t all the same, some are simple and consist of every-thing just being made clear before the movie endsbutmostenddifferently.In class we watch 2 movie endings; my fa-vourite was the ending of the planet of the apes. Although I hadn’t watched the film I did understand the plot slightly which made the ending more relevant, but the way it ended kept you interested even though the film had ended. The conclusion to the movie was unpredictable which is why it is more distinctive. Also in this lecture we looking at introduc-tion and were told that we should write our introductions once we had completed our project as we would know what we were introducing. We were told in order to think isadifferentsenseitwouldbeagoodideato try to contradict ourselves, and we had a sense of freedom as the articles in our project didn’t need to be in any order but it must contain a contents page so that the people reading it could navigate around our magazines easily. Althoughtherearemanydifferentwayswecould conclude our magazine it still must contain a summary but it doesn’t have to be in any particular way, personally I would prefer to conclude my magazine in a way where it would leave the reader thinking so I will look into other project and how other people have concluded theirs and I will look at existing magazines to assist me with what I should do with mine.

Vaughan Oliver:www.vaughanoliver.co.uk http://more-to-life-than-books.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/wonderful-mr-vaughan-oliver.html

stacey’s lecture:screenshot my facebook ‘Romelle Rageouz Adams’screenshot www.runescape.com biggest online virtual worldscreenshot of twitter home page www.twitter.com

conclusions lecture:http://www.ibelieveinadv.com/2011/10/yamaha-marine-the-end/http://exposingthetruth.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/armageddon29.jpg

what I have learnt so far:www.indsyscomputer.comhttp://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews42/planet%20of%20the%20apes%20blu-ray/large/large%20planet%20of%20the%20apes%20blu-ray11.jpghttp://www.leviathanc.com/images/misc/wow-logo2800.jpgRachel Armstrong:http://inhabitat.com/files/bioreactor1.jpghttp://vitodibari.com/Blogging%20the%20Future/Rachel_Armstrong.jpghttp://api.ning.com/files/gLbtJLaXsiOn8E5Dy*u1TPYNEFpcTZva4wwYo8fOS2V6xCPP-*Z1-NmwyW-i7siw/EvolutionTree.jpgwww.biologicalarchitecture.co.ukhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Gaudi’s_Casa_Batllo,_Barcelona,_Spain_(IMG_5380a).jpg

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