Category: Designer’s Cookbook (Page 3 of 4)
Discover your own aesthetic influences and lineages. Why are you drawn to one visual aesthetic over another? What are the ingredients (influences) that make up your visual style? Together let’s make a Designer’s Cookbook. Each week write a post about an artist, designer, musician, scientist, philosopher, or movement. And, with example images, demonstrate how they are part of your design lineage. Include examples of your own work for comparision.
I’ve been attracted to academic art for a very long time. Mostly due to the incredible detail, fascinating subject matter, often depicting mythological themes, but most of all, I enjoy the inherent drama. Academicism emerged in Europe as a response to the avant-garde movements of … Continue Reading “Academicism: Designer’s Cookbook Week 11”
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Another person that has kind of influenced my work is Doug TenNapel. While I’m not really familiar with his other work like VeggieTales, Catscratch, or the Earthworm Jim video game series, I am more familiar with his graphic novels.
I remember when I was in … Continue Reading “Doug TenNapel – AHZ”
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Theo Gerardus Jozef Jansen is a Dutch artist, best known for his “Strandbeesten” (plural for “Beach Animals” in English). He started his research in computer simulated algorithmic linkages (known as evolutionary computation) in the early 90s, looking for different sets of linkages to mimic or … Continue Reading “Designer’s Cookbook – LED”
Russian Constructivism
I’ve drawn heavy inspiration from Russian Constructivism in many of my works, the most notable being an advertising campaign to end child marriage. Dynamic composition through perspective lines, bold sans serif typography, and functionalism played a huge part in my inspiration for this … Continue Reading “Designer’s Cookbook Week 11 – AH”
I was inspired by the designers but to an extent. However a artist/musician that has influenced my work from both design aesthetic and creative ideology is Kid Cudi.
Throughout the years I wouldn’t have thought about getting into so much space themed design if it … Continue Reading “Designer’s Cookbook Week 10 – N.S.”
I really enjoyed learning about Afrofuturism and how it relates to design and aesthetics. Science fiction is one of my favorite personal genres in books and movies but I’ve never thought to bring it into my design work. Last semester I was tasked to create … Continue Reading “Designer’s Cookbook Week 10 – AH”
While learning about the different designers we learned in class, which were very interesting to learn about, There is one designer that I admire very much from her art and definitely keep gaining influence from her, which she is named JadePurpleBrown. I’ve only recently found … Continue Reading “Designers Cookbook Sonali”
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Daft Punk is a French dance music duo, active from 1993 till 2022. I have chosen to use them for the cookbook for the influence they had on my artistic approach. Daft Punk were the first musicians I followed beyond their big hits, and were … Continue Reading “Designer’s Cookbook Week 10 – LED”
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