Week 15: Web Publish

Where you can by it:
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/art-major-portfolio/15529741?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/1
Where you can view it:
Scribd
http://www.scribd.com/doc/53836220/Kmp-Magazine-Web
Yudu
http://www.yudu.com/item/details/325889/Art-Major-Portfolio

Week 14: Front and Back Covers

Craft

The background is a solid color container across the entire page. The long rectangular boxes are solid filled and have the text adjusted accordingly.

Concept

Simple and modern, the covers only have the needed information in text with sharp contrast between text boxes and background. Some of the text boxes wrap around to the back cover.

Composition

The sharp constrast between the text boxes, text, and background draws attention to the text. The most important information is largest, what it is and who it is by, followed by smaller text for additional descriptive information, what kind of portfolio it is and where it was made.

Week 13: All Spreads

Craft

Each spread is based on the arrangement of containers. There are none of them that are similar. The bottm black strip with page numbers and title was placed on a master spread. The design of the chapter title pages was on a single page master and was applied by a drag and drop method.

Concept

Each spread is arranged differently, but they present the artwork in a similar manner, to show it as the largest fearture with text beside it. The article for each artwork is designed in the same fashion as the others. They each have a solid background color followed by an overlapping by-line. They body copy and pull quotes are arragned a little differently but have the same font type throughout. This way the magazine is brought together and combined in some way.

Composition

The composition is the same for each spread, to make the artwork the focal point for each.

Week 12: Two Spreads

Craft

In InDesign, I started with the picture placement, making them the biggest feature of the spreads. Using the rectanglular containers, I placed the pictures in them and cropped them somewhat. The background is a solid color with a container the full size of the spread. The text boxes are also containers. Headlines in text boxes with solid background colors and were formatted with adjustments in top and left justify. The colors were picked from the picture with the eye dropper.

Concept

The concept is the make the picture the largest feature and a color scheme to the text that compliments the picture.

Composition

The composistion draws attention to the picture and the next largest feature is the headline, followed by the pull quote, then by-line, and body copy.

Week 11: Magazine Directions

The instructions for this task are to create a magazine or book that includes either your work from this class, as well as, work from other students from this class, or your work from this or other classes in the form of a portfolio.

Other criteria includes:
Body copy must be 10 pt font, times or arial, and less than the width of the page across.
The body copy, captions, and page numbers' font must all be consistant.
Headlines, pull quotes, artwork, content of body copy can all be variable.
The number of pages must be a multiple of 4, between 32-40 pages.
There must be a table of contents.
There must be a discussion of craft, concept, and composition about something.
There must be a discussion from the editor about what the magazine is trying to accomplish, what works are in there, and why they are in there.

Special Edition Blog: Art Institute Visit

Picture of me.

Picture of you.

Example of best craft.

Still Life, 1625-30

Pieter Claesz

Craft

This painting is oil on panel and displays an accurate degree of proportions, lighting, and realism. The way the light reflects off of the metal kettle and plates is striking and really give a feel of texture. Texture is also emphasized with all of the food items, including the breads, fruits, the pie, as well as, the tablecloth. All edges are crisp but it does not appear to be drawn as it suits the baroque style.

Concept

The concept is simply a still life to present skill in the craft.

Composition

The lemons and limes stand out against the dark plate which stands out against the white tablecloth. The center of the front is where the eye is directed to first, but since it is a still life, composition may not be stressed and therefore subjective.

Example of best concept.

The Death of the Poet Walter Rheiner, 1925

Conrad Felixmuller

Craft

This painting is oil on canvas. It does not portray realism and many brushstrokes are evident as it is an expressionist piece.

Concept

The concept is very personal to the artist as it depicts one of his friends commiting suiside by jumping from a window. This era of art was remenicent of the aftermath of World War I and much depression erupted in many works of artists effected by the war.

Composition

The poet's face and hands stand out, and the face is by far was the viewer is attracted too, which might have been the artist's intention. The man's suit blends in with the city scape.

Example of best compisition.

Woman at Her Toilette, 1875-80

Berthe Morisot

Craft

This painting is oil on canvas. It is an impressionist piece and so the paint is really lathered on. Most fine edges are non existant.

Concept

This painting was done during the height of the Industrial Revolution in France and could be a sign of the times for the wealthy and also a representation of the artist herself.

Compostion

Although many edges are blurred and the woman's dress nearly blends in with the background, the viewer's eye cannot help but be attracted to the small, bright earing which the woman dons, created by a dollup of paint.

Week 10: Radio Final Draft

Craft

This time around, I redid the "buildings." Instead of drawing squares and leaving them transparent, I decided to draw them opaque. I used the rectagle tool and drew perfect retangles this time for crispness. All other details were also drawn in via the retangle tool, the elipse tool, and the line tool. The lines that formed various speakers on the radios were aligned with the align tool after a single line was copied for congruent lengths. The concentric circles for the speakers were relatively done the same way by varying sizes and then aligning them horizontally and verticly. For the most part the speakers made up of elipses and lines were copied and resized and recolored to be reused for other radios for the sake of efficiency. The instruments were drawn in with the rectangle tool and the line tool. The rocket ship was resized to be larger. In addtion, it had the radio station's frequency added on as insignia through the text tool. Some of the smoke was cropped out and some of the outlines were removed to compensate for the larger rocket. The giant speaker was also drawn in with the pen tool this time. The background gradient recieved a third color was was altered somewhat.

Concept

The concept this time was to draw attraction to the detail of the skyline as was originally intened and to make the rocket more noticable. The concept that represents "the escape from ordinary radio" here is a rocket ship, representing the escape, blasting off, leaving the ordinary radios making up a skyline, and tren traveling to extradordinary radio made up of giant speakers with soundwaves in space. This takes two things that are typically known to be ordinary and extraordinary and illustrates them as radio. The skyline made up of the old radios is the everyday, whereas the planet, made up of a giant speaker with soundwaves, to look like a planet with rings is the out of this world.

Composition

The detail of the building draws the viewer's attention first. The rocket is much more visable and it now has information to let you know what it is. The background has black added in to convey that this is a space scene and it helps to show off the rocket better. The first thing noticed is the skyline becasue it is cluttered with detail. The rocket then draws the eye up into the space scene. It reads from the ordinary to escape to extraordinary.