bansky

Bansky's work is really memorable, which is why i think that his graffiti has so many admirers i think the best thing about it is that it different and in some cases disturbing.

Banksy is the pseudonym of a British graffiti artist, political activist and painter, whose identity is unconfirmed.
His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world.
Banksy's work was born out of the Bristol underground scene which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. According to author and graphic designer Tristan Manco, Banksy "was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol, England. The son of a photocopier technician, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s. Observers have noted that his style is similar to Blek le Rat, who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris and members of the anarcho-punk band Crass who maintained a graffiti stencil campaign on the London Tube System in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
my favorite is the painting's he does on the walls that look like there is a hole in the wall that leads to a complete opposite place.

my T shirt designs

one of my favorite T shirt designs that i did, i used one of banskys creations and added it to my shirt to give it a different kind of effect.

3D modelling of text

We used autodesk 3Ds max to create our 3D text and box.

 open a new file so that you have this screen looks like this.

 in the left hand corner there is a workspace or tool panel

shop poster demo

here is the finished shop poster demo we did this morning, we had to think of a simple shop name and add it onto this picture of a shop. I chose to add my picture that we did of a ID poster as it has an ipod ect in it and maybe this could realte to a music shop or something along the lines of that.

history of graffiti going up to 1985.

1966- 1971

Graffiti was used primarily by political activists to make statements and street gangs to mark territory. The history of the underground art movement known by many names, most commonly termed graffiti begins in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the mid to late '60s and is rooted in bombing. The writers who are credited with the first conscious bombing effort are CORNBREAD and COOL EARL. They wrote their names all over the city gaining attention from the community and local press.

1971- 1974

Shortly after CORNBREAD, the Washington Heights section of Manhattan was  entering a new world full of a lot more writers being influenced by CORNBREAD & COOL EARL. In 1971 The New York Times published an article on one of these writers. TAKI 183. This writer was the alias of a kid from Washington Heights. TAKI was the nick name for his given name Demetrius and 183 was the number of the street where he lived. The appearance of this unusual name and numeral sparked public curiosity prompting the Times article. He was by no means the first writer or even the first king. He was however the first to be recognized outside the newly formed subculture. Most widely credited as being one of the first writers of significance is JULIO 204. FRANK 207 and JOE 136 were also early writers. FRIENDLY FREDDIE was an early Brooklyn writer to gain fame. The subway system proved to be a line of communication and a unifying element for all these separate movements. People in all the five boroughs became aware of each others efforts. This established the foundation of interborough competition.

Writing started moving from the streets to the subways and quickly became competitive. At this point writing consisted of mostly tags and the goal was to have as many as possible.

1978- 1981

A new wave of creativity bloomed in late 1977 with crews like TDS, TMT, UA, MAFIA, TS5, CIA, RTW, TMB, TFP, TC5 and TF5. Style wars were once again peaking.

1982-1985

During the early to mid 1980s the writing culture deteriorated dramatically due to several factors. Some related directly to the graffiti culture itself and others to the greater society in general.

The crack cocaine epidemic was taking its toll on the inner city. Due to the drug trade powerful firearms were readily available.

The climate on the street became increasingly tense. Laws restricting the sale of paint to minors and requiring merchants to place spray paint in locked cages made shoplifting more difficult. Legislation was in the works to make penalties for graffiti more severe.

The major change was the increase in the Metropolitan Transit Authority's anti-graffiti budget. Yards and layups were more closely guarded. Many favored painting areas became almost inaccessible.

Graffiti removal was stronger and more consistent than ever, making the life span of many paintings months if not days. This frustrated many writers causing them to quit.

To be continued!!

Astor park poster

The poster i made for the Astor park project :D

experiments

I filled in a dog path with names of dogs ect to see what it ended up like .. i like it but it didn't type in the nose area and the tail.

experimenting with fonts

Here are some of my experiments with fonts .... :)

Typeography

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs.
Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading (line spacing), adjusting the spaces between groups of letters 'tracking' and adjusting the space between pairs of letters 'kerning'.