William Morris

William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist. Associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement, he was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. His literary contributions helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, while he played a significant role in propagating the early socialist movement in Britain.

You can tell that these pieces have been done in the 1800 due to the style of them and also the colors that have been used. The are both very similar with the use of flowers and leaves and look like the artist was very in touch with nature.

Giles Miller Studio

London-based design practice, Giles Miller Studio, specialises in the development of truly innovative surface and interior design projects. Our studio prides itself on the ability to deliver a diverse range of surface solutions that marry architecture with beautiful interior finish through inspiring surface development.

The studio has not only attained extensive international press coverage but has also created acclaimed work for some of the world’s most prestigious brand-names across a variety of industries.

Both of these pieces are very textured and have a vey repetitive pattern to them. They both have a vey modern style to them and look futuristic.
I prefer the top one because its bright and I like the pattern to it.

Lucienne Day

Désirée Lucienne Lisbeth Dulcie Day RDI (née Conradi; 5 January 1917 – 30 January 2010) was a British textile designer. Inspired by abstract art, she pioneered the use of bright, optimistic, abstract patterns in post-war England, and was eventually celebrated worldwide.

Day's work combined organic shapes with bright patterns inspired by contemporary abstract painters such as Wassily Kandinsky and Joan Miró. She believed that good design should be affordable, and in 2003 told The Scotsman newspaper that she had been "very interested in modern painting although I didn’t want to be a painter. I put my inspiration from painting into my textiles, partly, because I suppose I was very practical. I still am. I wanted the work I was doing to be seen by people and be used by people. They had been starved of interesting things for their homes in the war years, either textiles or furniture.

Both of these pieces both have the use of triangles but the top one is very scattered and random and the bottom one have used the whole of the space and these is no blank space and there is a clear pattern to it.

I prefer the top one more because its more random.

Rob Ryan

Rob Ryan (born 1962) is a British visual artist who specialises in papercutting and screen-printing. He is now most famous for his detailed paper cut outs. His artwork has featured in Vogue, Elle, and Stylist. He has also collaborated with fashion designer Paul Smith.

Ryan has illustrated book and album covers, including John Connolly's novel The Book of Lost Things, Erasure's albumNightbird, Chambers Lost Crafts by Una McGovern and Dara Horn's novel The World to Come. His first book, This Is for You, was published on October 4, 2007 by Hodder & Stoughton; it consists of a fairy tale told through his paper cut-out art and explores themes of love and loneliness. Ryan also creates the Global Gift greeting cards for the charity Trocaire.

 Rob Ryans subject matter is very nature like and always has animals in it. The colours of the works are both in only one color and also because of the stencil he can only use one color in his work.

Orla Kiely

Orla Kiely is an Irish fashion designer based in London. She began her career designing hats, and moved on to design work on handbags and a variety of other items including kitchenware and cars. She received a Master's degreefrom the Royal College of Art. She worked with several companies before setting up her own business.

Kiely was described by The Guardian as "the Queen of Prints." Her designs have been used for a variety of objects, including kitchenware, stationery, furniture, wallpaper, and a range of Citroën DS3 cars. The cars feature Kiely's design work on the roofs, tailgate and a signature in the middle of the rear spoiler. The interior features pattern work on the carpet mats and on the seat headrests

She has also designed a refillable water bottle called the "Wottle", which is a collaboration with the water filter company Brita. The bottle features her green-stem design and is made from high-density polyethylene, a recyclable plastic material, and produced by a company in Suffolk.

Her business operates out of a three-storey building in Clapham, South London, near her home. Her studio occupies the middle floor, chosen specifically because of the availability of light.

This pattern is a retro, geometric 1950s style. Its a repetitive pattern and it can fit into anywhere because if the pale colours and also the simplicity of the design. 

The repete is a mirror repet and also a stripy effect. This pattern is a very simple design, the colours are all very natural, from the same color pallet and don't fight each other.

Evaluation for Vintage Tech

Evaluation of ‘Vintage Technology’

For out project we had to create 3 panels all 210mm-210mm containing an element of Vintage Technology, I chose to base mine on telephones and how they have changed.

For my fist panel I chose to use the technique of Negative Space because I thought that I can have the best out- come for this panel. The media that I decided to use was black acrylic paint; I chose this because it gives the best effect for what I wanted to produce.  The formal element incorporated in this panel is tone because you have the contrast between black and white. There is a lack of color due to it being in black and white. There isn’t any texture in this panel because it’s a very flat piece of art. I had done a lot of experimentation for this panel like using different media’s and also what part of the phone that should be incorporated in this piece.

In my second panel I have done a Lino Print and that is of a 1990’s Nokia phone that I found on the internet. To create this panel I had to first draw the phone onto Lino with a pencil and to carve out the outline with the carving tools provided. I decided to create a test Lino Print to have something test with and instead of cutting out all of the negative space behind the carved out phone I decided to create these lines with it to give the print some sort of background. By accident the lines happened to be going down so when it came to printing the test ones it gave the phones background a nice effect and some texture. I also decided to carve 2 phones next to each other on the final one. When it came to the final one I used the same techniques that I used in the test one. There is texture in the piece because you can see where the paint has been and some of it not picking up on the paper and it has a nice effect to it. There is also not much color in to as it’s done on white paper with black paint.  I think this one is my strongest panel out of the 3.

My third panel is an Image Transfer and by creating this I got a tea bag and got it wet and washed it all over and then stuck newspaper on then did another wash with the tea bag. To get the images to transfer onto the paper you stick them face down on the paper with transfer gel then when it’s all dried you get some water and peel it off and it leaves the image on the paper. I found this one the trickiest because you need to make sure all the paper is off otherwise it leaves a white mark all over it because of the water, this process is quite tedious. I had done 2 different test pieces for this panel, one with just the tea stain and one with tea stain and newspaper and the one I thought was the most effective was the one with both.  In this panel you have lots of texture because of the newspaper being added and also the roughness of the edges of the images.

Tom Hoops

 

Tom Hoops

 

 


The characteristics of this photograph is very fashionable and looks like it would of been used in fashion advert. The photo is very over exposed because its a very white background and also her face is quite bright then you have the contrast with the black / grey eye makeup which leads your eyes straight to hers. As the photo is monochrome it has lots of tone.



 The characteristics of this photograph is that the photographer has used Rule of Thirds by having the main subject matter in only one third of the frame. The model also has eye contact with the camera and this engages the audience. By having the jet black background draws your attention straight to the model. There is a lot of tone and you can see the texture in the models face, there is also a prop which is effective.   

The characteristics of this photograph and this is a very fashion based photo due to having a dramatic and theatrical makeup which is effective. You can see where the light is shinny on the models face because its bright and over exposed on one side and then gradually fades into a dark black. You have eye contact with the model and the photographer has also used the Rule of Thirds and the model is in the end of the frame.  



The characteristics of this photograph is that its a portrait photo and also you have eye contact with the model. The centre of the face has been brightened up and not having the jaw bone in the photo which makes it more effective and also has a fashion/ contemporary feel to it. Also with the jet black background it brings your attention to the centur of the models face.