If you know the famous video game the Final Fantasy, you should know this artist. That is Yoshitaka Amano. He works in many fields, illustration, character design, logo design and so on. His drawings are full of fantasy.
Yoshitaka Amano(天野 喜孝)(born July 28, 1952) is a Japanese artist. He began his career as an animator and has become known for his illustrations for Vampire Hunter D and for his character designs, image illustrations and title logo designs for the Final Fantasy video game series developed by Square Enix (formerly Square).[1] His influences include Western comic books, art nouveau, and Japanese woodblock prints. He has won awards for his work, including the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for his collaboration with Neil Gaiman, Sandman: The Dream Hunters.[2]
Have you thought of using photos to create a poem/story?Duane Michals tried this and did many great works. You can find his photos are very interesting. They really show the photographer's fantasy!:D
Duane Michals (born February 18, 1932) is an Americanphotographer. Michals is largely self-taught; his work makes innovative use of photo-sequences, often incorporating text to examine emotion and philosophy.
Reiko Shimizu(清水玲子,Shimizu Reiko?, born March 26, 1963 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese shōjo(teenage girl) manga writer and illustrator. She made her professional debut in 1983 with Sansaro Monogatari in LaLa, and has written primarily for the publisher Hakusensha. She is noted for her works of science fiction and her art style, and is also known for her illustrations of tarot cards called the Miracle Tarot deck.
Her paintings are really beautiful.See:
You can hardly distinguish who is female or male, that's her style~:D like it
I have introduced many photographers, they work as individual. And now I want to introduce a photographer pair.They are Pierre et Gilles.
Pierre et Gilles, Pierre Commoy and Gilles Blanchard, are French artists and romantic partners. They produce highly stylized photographs, building their own sets and costumes as well as retouching the photographs. Their work often features images from popular culture, gay culture including porn (especially James Bidgood), and religion.
Let's see their works!
Actually, they do not just take photos , but also "draw" photos. What's that mean? Pierre is photographer while Gilles is painter. Pierre first take a black and white photo, and then Gilles add colour on it and add more elements on it, that is, draw on the photo. So the photos you see can actually be called paintings! Really love the idea~:D
Saul Leiter is another great photographer that I know from the photography lectures. He always captured photos of views and people of city. I like the romantic atmosphere created by his camera.:D
Saul Leiter (born 1923) is an American photographer and painter whose early work in the 1940s and 1950s was an important contribution to what came to be recognized as The New York School
Afer introducing zetsubo sensei, I want to introduce another good comic. The author,Hiroyuki Asada's drawings is really beautiful, peaceful and very romantic. You can't imagine that Hiroyuki is a male!
Tegami Bachi(テガミバチ LETTER BEE) is a shōnen (teenage) manga series by Hiroyuki Asada. The series was first serialized in Monthly Shōnen Jump for ten chapters, and is currently serialized in the new monthly magazine Jump SQ.
Recently, I read a Japanese comic called"Zetsubou-Sensei", zetsubou means despair and sensei means tearcher. It is a comedy about a teacher who takes all aspects of life, word and culture in the most negative light possible. It satirizes politics, media, and Japanese society. In 2007, the manga received the thirty-first Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category,[1] and was adapted into a twelve-episode anime series.
I love the setting and also the plot of this comic. Besides, the images inside are really my favorite. It's like "old Japan" style.Here are some of the works:
Althougn this semester I didn't have any courses about photography, I still learn a lot on that and find some amazing phoyographers! Why? because I go to CityU and attend the lectures about photography with my sister. XDD
Now I want to introduce you a famous landscape photographer- Ansel Adams
Some of his great works:
Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park. One of his most famous photographs was Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California.
With Fred Archer, Adams developed the Zone System as a way to determine proper exposure and adjust the contrast of the final print. The resulting clarity and depth characterized his photographs and the work of those to whom he taught the system. Adams primarily used large-format cameras, despite their size, weight, setup time, and film cost, because their high resolution helped ensure sharpness in his images.
Landor Associates is a San Francisco-based brand and creative design consultancy. Landor offers brand research and valuation, brand positioning and architecture, naming and nomenclature systems, corporate identity and consumer packaging design, branded environments, copywriting and digital branding.
Her lecture focused on package design. This topic is really interesting to me because I am not familiarize with this and I love to know how package can make products different to others. She raised some questions for us to think:
Must be constistent?
Logo must be huge on pack?
Product shot is mandatory?
More messages mean more reasons to buy?
Font is all the matters?
Follow the category code?
Only a box..?
She showed us many many examples and told us that package design should be flexible. We shouldn't be limited by some old thinkings. Still, being a package designer, there must be something to be considered. They are 1)objective, 2) priority of communication, 3)target audience and 4) solve the existed problems. She said you can be creative only when the clients are also creative as you are~XD
Also, for some old companies, there must be some elements that they want to preserve on their products, these elements which cannot be changed are called hard points, and others that can be chaged, are called soft points.
At the end, she introduced some terminologies in the field of package design, for example, BI-brand identity, FMCG-fast moving consumer goods, FMOT-1st moment of truth, which means the thing that you see on the product at first sight and SMOT- 2nd moment of truth . Someday, these words may be useful for you~!:D
She shared with us a interesting video. Let's see:
After finishing the book " London Pop-up" by Hei Shing Chan, I start reading another book called "What is Graphic Design?" Just find one interesting website introduced in the book.
Sand drawing has emerged in recent years. For me, sand drawing is not just drawing, but performing.
Here is a amazing artist 'performing' sand drawing.
Nobody talks in the whole performance. The artist is just drawing.
However, you can see the power of art, many people were involved in it and cried.
Sometimes, images are stronger than words.
This is a book about the author's study of book design in London. In Hong Kong, we can hardly find people who call themselves book desigeners, as book design is not considered as important thing. However, in London, people loves reading and also have habit to appreciate art. After I read this book, I really want to go to this lovely city!
I can see Mr Chan loves book design very much. He pay a lot of effort on this book. Even you do not know Chinere, you can still find something funny!
I just find this funny point in the author's blog! It's amazing!:D
