Bus Station (Meeting with Paul Horne-Project Manager)

I found the meeting with Paul Horne very helpful as I now realise how important it actually is, as it is going in the brand new £3.2 million bus station in the centre of Worksop.

I feel that the design is very 1930's art deco.

I like the design as it is very free flowing.

I have done some research into art deco and found this:
Art Deco or Deco, is an influential visual arts design style that first appeared in France after World War I and began flourishing internationally in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s before its popularity waned after World War II. It is an eclectic style that combines traditional craft motifs with Machine Age imagery and materials. The style is often characterized by rich colours, bold geometric shapes and lavish ornamentation.
Deco emerged from the interwar period when rapid industrialisation was transforming culture. One of its major attributes is an embrace of technology. This distinguishes Deco from the organic motifs favoured by its predecessor Art Nouveau.
Historian Bevis Hillier defined Art Deco as "an assertively modern style ran to symmetry rather than asymmetry, and to the rectilinear rather than the curvilinear; it responded to the demands of the machine and of new material the requirements of mass production".
During its heyday, Art Deco represented luxury, glamour, exuberance and faith in social and technological progress

Health and safety videos.

The outcome of our videos were very good in my opinion. The video is professionally fished. However if I was to do it differently I would use mics and a professional white background.

Colour Theory.

In the visual arts, colour theory is a body of practical guidance to colour mixing and the visual effects of a specific colour combination. There are also definitions (or categories) of colours based on the colour wheel: primary colour, secondary colour and tertiary colour. Although colour theory principles first appeared in the writings of Leone Battista Alberti (c.1435) and the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (c.1490), a tradition of "coloury theory" began in the 18th century, initially within a partisan controversy around Isaac Newton's theory of colour (Opticks, 1704) and the nature of so-called primary colours. From there it developed as an independent artistic tradition with only superficial reference to colourimetry and vision science.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_theory

 

Donkey!

I have used a donkey instead of an easel I didn't like it as it was very uncomfortable at times and awkward.

London

HE FAIR

I would like to study something to do with art for computer games. So I have looked into universities that cover this area this is what I have found.
De Montfort university- Game Art Design-52
Norwich- Game Art Design-53
Southampton- Computer and Video Games-84
Teesside University- Computer Games Art-15


V&A

I would like to have a look at Walker Evans' photography of masks from 1935.


Tate London

I want to look at the piece between Leon Golub and Hrair Sarkissian. Level 3 Room 9.

The Visit!

We set of from from Worksop at around six o'clock in the morning. We then arrived at London to walk around the HE fair and talk to universities such as Sheffield Hallam and Falmouth. I looked in the direction of games design. We then set off to Tate London where all of the photos attached are from. However the last one is from the V&A.