Minori

Model: Minori
Photographer: Kira
Fashion, Hair & Makeup: Minori
Concept: Minori

Minori's Concept:
 
"I am doing creative activity as a fairy writer.
All one.
When I die, I die.
When I live I live.
I go back to one while flowing.
I'm kind of thinking.
I was brought up in nature since it was small. I tend to forget beauty of nature, gentleness, but one flower has a story, and there is way of life and I express that there is a heart and want to grow.
I make nature and collaboration impudently. It is thanks.
So that there can be even some minori in minori.
So that there can be you in you."

Artist Inspiration

http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=1754063
Illustrated by OPEN.

Artist Influences and Colour

http://trendland.com/hvass-hannibal/
Graphic and colorful work of Danish multi-disciplinary arts and design studio Hvass & Hannibal. Since 2006, its founders, Nan Na Hvass & Sofie Hannibal have worked in close collaborative partnership with illustrative and conceptual design in a number of different fields for numerous clients in Europe, Asia and the US. Whether in the digital realm or on a three-dimensional scale, the studio takes projects from esoteric illustrative beginnings to a full art direction and graphic design solution, all in-house. As well as being image makers they have also directed high profile photographic projects, and created sets and costumes for amongst others, one of Denmark’s famous musical successes of recent years.

a/w 13/14: première vision - trade fair colour

http://www.mpdclick.com/mudpie/action/viewHome

"Summarising seasonal trends for every creative professional, we provide short, mid and long-term analysis supported by inspirational content and business intelligence for every stage of the product development cycle."

Artist Insipration

Hennie Haworth

http://www.henniehaworth.co.uk/
freelance illustrator that lives and works in London

 Cowshed

Inspired by the interiors of babington house, Pearlfisher's beautiful design use wallpaper patterns of differing colors and texture to echo the benefit and ingredient of each product. A touch of warmth is added through yhe understated, mischievous copy, which demostratea s unique sense of humor.
-Mark Hampshire, Keith Stephenson, DemoGraphics Packaging, Logos, Modena-

 Claire Heminsley

http://www.incahoots.org.uk/textiles/textiles.html

Her distinctive work has an illustrative quality with its inspiration rooted in the everyday. She graduated from Glasgow School of Art having specialised in Textiles. Since then she has worked freelance trading as Incahoots.

Rather than being material or technique specific, she utilises an inventive broad approach to the drawn mark. Drawing is the integral component, whether made through traditional drawing materials, wire, scraper board or the use of stitch and fabric. 

Funding from the Scottish Arts Council has enabled Claire to develop her practice integrating traditional and new technologies. Particularly the use of digital print alongside screen-print and stitch, working in an increased scale in 2 and 3 dimensions suitable for different environments.

Claire is influenced by many things including; the connections and stories within our everyday~ 'the extraordinary in the ordinary'; the clients brief; the world around her. 

 Marta Jonina

http://www.123rf.com/profile_wertaw

Dandelion silhouette seamless background

Marta Jonina from Latvia

Tools of the trade:

Canon EOS 350D, optics - Canon Macro EFS 60mm, Sigma APO DG70-300mm, Adobe Illustrator CS5, Adobe Photoshop CS5.

Workshop 4 - Print for Fabric

RGB, CMYK and LAB.

 RGB

CMYK

 

I decided to try repeat brick pattern again but with a more complicated composition and incorporating wallpaper colour trends for 2013.

 I decided to revert back to creating single illustrations and blocks of patterns with the transform tool as I don't think I was as successful with repeat patterns.

 I will work on this design concept by adding relevant colours from my colour palette selected from dyed cells.

2013 Home Décor Trends

http://www.foryourhome.com/
Includes:
Colour Movements
Predicted Panatone colours to use
Colours for different Home Collections
Décor Features and Motifs

http://www.foryourhome.com/2013-home-decor-trends/

Researching colours to use for wallpaper designs and repeat patterns.

Workshop 3 - Repeat Patterns

 

Brick repeat patterns with 3 motifs 

 From this workshop I decided to create more motifs and experiment with the free-transform tool. I can see this design working well on a shiny fabric, possibly as a print for a scarf or other fashion accessories.

This unfinished piece was inspired by Gabriel Moreno's Santa Teresa where I used the warp and skew tool on the hair.

Artist Inspiration

James Jean

Daryl Feril

A Philippine-based freelance designer & illustrator. His illustration style is freestyle mix of edgy hand-drawn sketches, flowing lines, curves, blowing watercolour and digital. Loves drawing girls, typography, nature & fashion.

Miss Alessia

 Photographer living between Rome and Barcelona.
Started as a model, and then after a while discovered that she liked being behind the camera a lot more than being in front of it. Uses photography as a form to express herself.
Always looking for the beauty.
  Photo shoots and commissioned work: commercial and personal shoot, fashion photo shoots, editorial work, and book or album covers.
Her clients include: Nike, Sony Bmg, MTV italy, Invicta, FHM Uk, FHM Spain, FHM France, Woman, Maxim Italy, Avenue, Cosmopolitan, Max Italy, Men's Health Australia, Label, Mia, Aut, Clara, Tubebe, Singular, it, d-mag, Playboy germany, Bentrovato, Gori De Palma, Ou Es Fantomas, Santa Eulalia, Marco De Vincenzo, Bianca Gervasio, Estefania Borras, Nuna Bascon Bcn, ElTaller, I Guinigi, Power Stock Apparel by Valentina Nervi..

Artist Inspiration

CIL LAURENS

 

Lauren's combines drawing with photography layers and structures in her designs.

Her drawings and paintings are filled with graphic patterns, the structures in the hairs conflict in directions although the total flow is a group, in their uncovered skins the females don’t seem to notice the viewer, and when they look at us masks or fabric covers them.
She creates her paintings by sketching with graphite and then create outlines from these drawings.
She prefers to draw on wood, a material that gives her work a traditional feel.
The choice of wood also makes it a precise and time-consuming job, because the wood has a natural grain that makes it necessary for her to use a very thin pen.

alterlier

Inspired by (artists): toulouse-lautrec, zak smith, tatsuyuki tanaka, range murata. 

Favorite writers: haruki murakami. Tools of the Trade: photoshop

Workshop 2 - Filters

 Colour fill and file size

 Auto-tone Filters

Artist Inspiration

COCA-COLA | 2007

In 2003 Zakee was approached by Coca-Cola to design a textile print using the contour bottle. Zakee paid homage to Andy Warhol's Coca-Cola screen-print by positioning the bottles next to each other but added her touch by giving each bottle its own identity with unique illustrations. The design was received so well that it was chosen for use on a full range of products, including homewares, lighting, stationary, bed linen, luggage, and accessories. The product launched in the new Coca-Cola flagship store in Atlanta.

Gabriel Moreno

Baroque illustration which seeks colour and composition excess; for Santa Teresa Rum’s Christmas press
campaign, hand in hand with Next Door.
PROJECT/ CHRISTMAS CAMPAIGN CLIENT/ RUM SANTA TERESA AGENCY/ NEXT DOOR . 2007

Workshop 1 - Creating Patterns

Using spots and stripe patterns and creating repeats from parts of scanned in images. Here I haven't thought about the merging of stripes and my sketch much, so I think that is why it doesn't quite visually work. However the repetition of the sketch is consistent because of the plain black and white theme.

Patterns in Nature

http://technabob.com/blog/2011/08/06/see-through-ant-color-photos/

Dr. Mohamed Babu of Mysore, India shot these incredible photographs, taken as these unusual ants sipped from colorful piles of sugar water. He says that not only did he end up with red, yellow and blue ants, but some of them drank from multiple drops, creating new colours.

Brief

GROWTH

I want to investigate the theme of growth, initially looking at the way natural forms grow and change. I will explore this theme through photography and observational drawing examining organic shape and line. From my research I will produce a range of hand drawings and samples which can then be translated into digital print, experimenting with repetition, scale and layering. To inform my work I will reference contemporary artists Mike Perry, Timorous Beasties and Dan Funderburgh.

Artist Inspiration

M. C. Escher

Prolific artist with mind boggling paintings. Morphing and Metamorphosis.

Relativity is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in December 1953.
It depicts a world in which the normal laws of gravity do not apply. The architectural structure seems to be the centre of an idyllic community, with most of its inhabitants casually going about their ordinary business, such as dining. There are windows and doorways leading to park-like outdoor settings. All the figures are dressed in identical attire and have featureless bulb-shaped heads. Identical characters such as these can be found in many other Escher works.

Antoine Manuel

Wallpaper. Minimal colour with maximum impact.

Anna Giertz

Inspired by micro-organisms and biology. Above is 'Bleaching Agent'

Scott Newlin 

Digital vs hand drawn patterns.

Ben Weeks

http://www.benweeks.ca/index.php?/2011/juniper-park-mural/

Pattern in hand.
Collaborations with graphic artists and advertisers.

Artist Inspiration

Angel Chang

Women's wear inspired by World War Two female secret agents, and heat technology.

Mike Perry

Hand drawn illustrations for custom footwear.

Timorous Beasties

Interiors. Subtle images in wallpapers and fabric prints.
-Check out Font wall decorations and Deaf Institute.

Dan Funderburgh

Love all his work. They're like laser cut patters in paper, the detail is so fine and all compliment one another.

Damien Hirst Exhibition

Damien Hirst first came to public attention in London in 1988 when he conceived and curated Freeze, an exhibition in a disused warehouse which showed his work and that of his friends and fellow students at Goldsmiths College. In the nearly quarter of a century since that pivotal show, Hirst has become one of the most influential artists of his generation.

This is the first substantial survey of his work in a British institution and brings together key works from over twenty years. The exhibition includes iconic sculptures from his Natural History series, including The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living 1991, in which he suspended a shark in formaldehyde. Also included are vitrines such as A Thousand Years from 1990, medicine cabinets, pill cabinets and instrument cabinets in addition to seminal paintings made throughout his career using butterflies and flies as well as spots and spins. The two-part installation In and Out of Love, not shown in its entirety since its creation in 1991 and Pharmacy 1992 are among the highlights of the exhibition.

For the Love of God

The most gorgeous visceral experience available to diamond junkies
Sunday Times

To complement the exhibition, Damien Hirst’s diamond-covered skull, For the Love of God 2007, was on show in a purpose-built room in the Turbine Hall. This display has now ended.

 Reviews

A brilliant Tate show ★★★★
Sunday TimesBeautifully installed
Financial Times

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/damien-hirst

Bloody Cow head in room of flies. You could actually smell it if you was close enough.

Preserved Shark. Depending on what angle you view this piece the shark looks alive and about to pounce if you stand right in front of it. It almost allows the viewer to experience what it would be like to be so close to such a dangerous animal.

I found this piece more biologically informative than an art piece, as I felt that it was more of a luxury version of a anatomical model cow.

This room was beautiful even for someone like me that hates all insects, but for the short amount of time that I spent in there I was actually intrigued with the life cycle of the butterflies and how they were coming out of the canvases like a living painting.

There was a sense of order and structure throughout the exhibition which I found particularity intriguing as it nade me think that Hirst has a sense of obsessive compulsive disorder.

There was large colourful pieces of dead flies and  butterflies used in large numbers, which makes you question the sustainabilities and 'eco nature ness' of the work.

The room of mirrored cigarettes and diamonds, big, glitzy, and shiney = today's view of materialism?

My Pinterest

http://pinterest.com/rachieyeung/inspiration/

Gun head by Jedd Dillon

Walt Disney's & Salvador Dali - Destino 2003

The film tells the story of Chronos, the personification of time and the inability to realize his desire to love for a mortal. The scenes blend a series of surreal paintings of Dali with dancing and metamorphosis. The target production began in 1945, 58 years before its completion and was a collaboration between Walt Disney and the Spanish surrealist painter, Salvador Dalí. Salvador Dali and Walt Disney Destiny was produced by Dali and John Hench for 8 months between 1945 and 1946. Dali, at the time, Hench described as a "ghostly figure" who knew better than Dali or the secrets of the Disney film. For some time, the project remained a secret. The work of painter Salvador Dali was to prepare a six-minute sequence combining animation with live dancers and special effects for a movie in the same format of "Fantasia." Dali in the studio working on The Disney characters are fighting against time, the giant sundial that emerges from the great stone face of Jupiter and that determines the fate of all human novels. Dalí and Hench were creating a new animation technique, the cinematic equivalent of "paranoid critique" of Dali. Method inspired by the work of Freud on the subconscious and the inclusion of hidden and double images. Dalí said: "Entertainment highlights the art, its possibilities are endless." The plot of the film was described by. Dalí as "A magical display of the problem of life in the labyrinth of time." Walt Disney said it was "A simple story about a young girl in search of true love."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GFkN4deuZU&feature=player_detailpage

Insipration in the mundane

Progression of burnt matches

When milk mixes with coffee/tea it creates elegant and lively swirls before they infuse together.