Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci is the person that I picked out randomly from a ball and my aim is to create anything that has an influence from his work.

I based my project on one of the most known work pieces done by Leonardo Da Vinci which was the Last Supper.

Discourse - Eric Bailey

Eric Bailey is predominantly a painter, although he has a liking for drawing and designing from California. When looking at his work he has been influenced with many elements around him from skateboarding, graffiti, music and the influence of many artists. He paints mostly on canvas with oil based paints and you can see that clearly in his work, there are no perfect curves and lines as he likes to show more than just a perfect picture. In addition, he likes to show the obvious however, having that little more meaning behind a painting. He has worked with Nike and Adidas as well with many other businesses. Moreover, his work to me seems inspiring because of what he paints of, very understandable and easy to analyze, he paints things that I can relate to such as dogs so it is easy for me to be inspired but some of his work maybe labelled as a straightforward painting but it is the way he paints his work makes him different to other painters/designer, he paints every detail through the brush strokes that allows his work to communicate to viewers easily.

Image link:
http://www.shift.jp.org/en/archives/2004/09/eric_bailey.html
http://www.feedmecoolshit.com/interviews-archive/eric-bailey/

Discourse - Estevan Oriol

Estevan Oriol is one of the most respected photographers in America and has his fair share of admiration around the world. He is a Mexican photographer residing in Downtown Los Angelas. His work is predominantly of black and white using an SLR (not DSLR) camera and working with natural ambience and light, this makes his photos look like the past in the present from all the resources he uses. In addition, he mostly takes pictures of those from the hood e.g. Gangbangers, drug dealers or just people from the area, however, he does work with models from around the world for magazines such as XL, King Magazine, Lowrider and many more. Moreover, he has worked with famous celebrities such as Cypress Hill, Bun B, Eminem, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and many other host of known names, within his work he has his own clothing line which includes his images straight onto T Shirts and Hoodies as well as working with clothing brand Upper Playground. Personally, Estevan Oriol is one of my favourite photographers and is an inspiration towards my success (no bum scraping lol).

Image Link:
http://www.individualsole.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/eo2.jpg
http://www.estevanoriol.com/published.htm
http://www.highsnobiety.com/uploads/pics/upperplayground_estevanoriol_calender_tees_1.jpg

Discourse - Homies

Homies is a series of 2-inch figurines that are mainly based on Chicano style characters in the life of creator David Gonzales. The success of the series has been highly recognized around the world as not only the cartoon being a favourite but the sale's of the collectible figurines and posters have hit the market selling mainly in internation al marts. Moreover, since 2005 Gonzales released more ethnic figurines that have a relation to Mexicans such as Filipino, Japanese, Puerto Rican figures as well as having Women and Evil Clowns that have been established as a Chicano significance. However before this, Homies came under a heavy controversial issue with the Los Angelas Police Department (LAPD) citing that this series influenced and advertised the gang culture, thus haveing an affect to violence. This effected the sales of the figurines by stopping shops from selling. Therefore, David Gonzales brought an end to the controversy by creating stories of a more positive attitude such as having former jail mates educating young children how to avoid going to jail and so on.

An image of some of the collectible figurines.

Image link:
http://api.ning.com/files/YkgDrmMRzXz2fLVqgJ8MeOJCetGSKDSqZj*HEwLEequX2H7Oyg6oiAcS1SvOTcnycJdvK5FDICe2Er-xxQecMnB7roq87fig/Homies_Titel.jpg
http://www.pixhost.com/pixm/mrcubby/homies-series-2.jpg

Discourse - Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is a world known graphics editing program that us published under Adobe Systems. You can maybe to anything to edit pictures as well as designing something from scratch, therefore, most designing company’s use this program for projects such as advertisements, posters and etc as well as using Adobe Illustrator for its vector based image editor. Personally this is one of my favourite programs to work with simply because I have the hang of doing things but I’m still learning more, when I first started to use this I struggled really bad but practice makes perfect I guess. There are many different editions to this program from Adobe Photoshop 0.63 which was released in 1988 to Adobe Photoshop CS4 that was released in October 2008, throughout all these versions there have been huge improvements through the tools and the performance thus making really good images compared to the past.

The first version of Adobe Photoshop

The latest version: Adobe Photoshop CS4

This is an example of someone's attempt to create a packaging design for Lay's potato crisp.

Image link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Adobe_Photoshop_1_retail_box.jpg
http://www.tritech-computers.com/store2/images/Academic%20Adobe%20Photoshop%20CS4%20Extended.jpg
http://psdguides.com/2009/05/create-packaging-design1/

Discourse - Banksy

Banksy is a British graffiti artist with an anonymous identity. His artwork is influence around politics, ethnic and culture, which is portrayed around the public streets of Britain. His work has been a subject to criticism from the public as well as being in the news about the messages he puts in his work as well as the vandalism of public property, however, many people admire his work because they feel that they can relate to what his views are about and that they respect the fact that he has his way of communicating to a wide demographic that others can’t. He tends to use stencils that range from fairly small sizes to really huge portions that are able to catch the eyes of the public. In addition, he doesn’t only stencil on street walls or pavements but he has somehow been able to stencil on a cow and replace a painting in a gallery with his own duplicate but adding his political views. In addition, he has his work abroad such as in the streets of America, France and etc, I think in countries that have political issues that his opinion really matters to him most.

Image link:
http://scrapbook.citizen-citizen.com/subjectivity/images/banksy_logo3.jpg
http://www.banksy.co.uk/indoors/02.html
http://www.banksy.co.uk/indoors/02_3.html
http://www.banksy.co.uk/indoors/01_2.html

Discourse - Grime (Music)

Grime is a music genre that has been around since 2000 until now that represents the UK. Grime was born within the estates and streets of East London by the artist called Wiley formerly from the Pay As You Go Crew. Grime is influenced by Rap and Hip-Hop, however it has established itself as a more aggressive and dark from the way MC’s “spit” due to the fact that the beat is way above the speed of Hip-Hop and Rap that is set around 140 beats per minuet. Grime has been a subject to a lot of criticisms about the genre not able to have it’s own category slot in awards only to be under “Urban”. However, there are many artists that contribute to producing music but only a handful stand out to the scene that acquire recognition thus making a step to the mainstream. Artists such as Dizzee Rascal, Lethal B, Kano, Wiley and Tinchy Stryder are amongst the few that have been able to establish themselves as hit makers and artist that can produce “good music”. This genre is portrayed as the representation of the “gritty” streets of London and has an influence on their style of designs in the artists cover of their mix cd’s or albums.

Image link:
http://images.play.com/covers/5211092x.jpg
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u68/wretch32/wretch32iz9.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61FFhu42jvL._SL500_AA240_.jpg