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.