August 31, 2011

Tender Buttons Research

I am interested in the relationship between Stein's cubist poetry and Picasso's analytic cubist paintings. I want to know how they mutually inspired each others process and final product. I want to reflect that influence by calling out color and or Distortion based on different axis's set in the spread. In the cubist paintings much of the broken up imagery is sitting on different angles. Using a paper that is simular in color to the cubist paintings at the time. A vanilla or aged paper. If possible I would like the paper to be transparent to some extent to allow all of the poems to merge together to form one collective image like the cubist paintings that showed all sides as one. 

Cubism: Objects are broken up, analyzed, re-asembled in abstract form instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint.
"In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. Often the surfaces intersect at seemingly random angles, removing a coherent sense of depth. The background and object planes interpenetrate one another to create the shallow ambiguous space, one of cubism's distinct characteristics."
"The influence of cubism extended to other artistic fields, outside painting and sculpture. In literature, the written works of Gertrude Stein employ repetition and repetitive phrases as building blocks in both passages and whole chapters. Most of Stein's important works utilize this technique, including the novel The Makings of Americans (1906–08) Not only were they the first important patrons of Cubism, Gertrude Stein and her brother Leo were also important influences on Cubism as well. Picasso in turn was an important influence on Stein's writing."

Paper Size: At the moment I am thinking a 5.5in x 8.5in size pages in an 8.5 x 11 two page spread or a four page in an 11x17 that can be folded out and viewed with four poems forming the canvas of sorts.

OR a series of seperate sheets of paper that can be held together as one or multiple sets. Each would create its own cubist image.

Paper Type: Aged or vanilla colored possibly transparent paper.

Sample Spreads: 

Sample Overlap: 

Reference Images: Picasso's analytic cubist paintings.






August 29, 2011

Tropes Find & Share

THE SEX PISTOLS - GOD SAVE THE QUEEN, 1977
Design by Jamie Reid.
Example of Irony using the Union Jack and the Queen of England advertising the Sex Pistols Album God Save The Queen.  

August 25, 2011

John Pizzarelli Quartet Research


His official site can be found here

John Pizzarelli, is a jazz guitarist, vocalist, and bandleader.

He was raised in a family of musicians that had deep roots within the jazz community. He started playing the tenor banjo at the age of six. Soon afterwards he picked up jazz guitar. He was raised with a respect with for all genres of music. He has had such vocal influences as Nat King Cole, and Joe Mooney for their smooth and relaxed singing styles.

He has recorded forty albums of music, as well as other joint recordings with his father, Bucky Pizzarelli. He has been a guest performer on numerous records throughout his career, for a total of over 140 albums.

He often performs with his own Jazz quartet, composed of his brother Martin Pizzarelli on double-bass, drummer Tony Tedesco and Larry Fuller on Piano.

Cool Cat John Pizzarelli, is known for his charming personality, and his great rapport with audiences during his live performances.

He was hailed by the Boston Globe for “reinvigorating the Great American Songbook and re-popularizing jazz.”

When he performs with his wife, singer/actress Jessica Molaskey, and his father, guitar legend Bucky Pizzarelli. They were labeled “the First Family of Cool” by the San Francisco Chronicle.

Pizzarelli, an Italian American, was born in Paterson, New Jersey. He frequently expresses pride about being from New Jersey.

Pizzarelli is a huge Boston Red Sox fan, and has played baseball (in one capacity or another) all his life and is known for being a sports fanatic.

KEY WORD LIST:
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Type In Motion / Fine + Share - The Universal Declaration of Human Rights


The Universal Declaration of Human Rights from Seth Brau on Vimeo.

Here is a pretty fantastic kinetic typography video based on the UDHR.

More information about The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The actual UN declaration can be found here.

August 5, 2011

KCAI Design Student Life: Caffeine Consumption Poster




KCAI Design Student Life: Caffeine Consumption

Data recorded during my first sophomore semester at the Kansas City Art Institute between October 20th, and December 10th, 2010. I tracked my consumption using Daytum.com on a daily basis.

Calculations done with Wolfram | Alpha

Data Breakdown:

Coffee:
Black coffee with no creme or sugar.

$0.06 Per cup
Total cost $2.73
50 Calories in 42 cups
2,058 Milligrams of caffeine
21 Pounds of liquid
0 Pounds of sugar

Mochas:
Starbucks, 2% Milk with no Whipped Creme.

$3.95 Per drink
Total cost: $154.05
7,974 Calories in 39 drinks
6,825 Milligrams of caffeine
31 Pounds of liquid
2 Pounds of sugar

Combined:

81 Drinks at a total cost of 156.78

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August 2, 2011

KCAI Design Student Life 11x17 Poster




KCAI Design Student Life 11x17 Poster

Hours recorded during my first sophomore semester at the Kansas City Art Institute between October 20th, and December 10th, 2010. I tracked how my time was divided up using Daytum.com on a daily basis.
KCAI Design Dept. Blog

Explanation: Hours are directly related to size of the circles and triangles. Both are representational of the information given.

Stylized loosely using the KCAI Graphic Standards.

Data:

Total Hours: 1248
Documented Hours: 679
Hours of Sleep: 248
Hours of Studio Time: 189
Hours of Class TIme: 124
Hours of Part-Time Work: 72
Hours of Work-Study: 47

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