Top 10 Australian Logos

1. Foxtel is a well known brand for cable tv in Australia.

2. Vegemite is a well known spread all over the world but is made in Australia which makes it part of my top 10 Australian logos.

3. Safeway is a well known Australian supermarket.

4. LG Australian Electrical brand.

5. Afl logo is only famous in Australia because it is the only sport that is played here and nowhere else in the world.

6. Channel 10

7. Quntas has been around for many years and has recently changed their logo but only a little so there is not much difference and you can tell its still the Quantas airline.

8. Commonwealth Bank

10. The Australian Made logo is very famous around the world, and Australia it is used on products to promote and sell the Australian products.

All these logos that are shown above are famous in Australia, these logos are my top ten picks of the top logos in Australia.

Monash Exhibition

The Monash exhibition was a exhibition of artworks created by the students at monash uni, it was an interesting exhibition showcasing the talents of the students.

It was very interesting to see the different ideas and thoughts from the students at uni.

There were different rooms set up for the different areas of works, such as industrial design, multi media,and visual design etc. The room i liked the best was the industrial design room, all the pieces in this room were finished with great detail, the work that i liked the most in this room was called A.N.T (aid necessities transporter), every day we are witnessed unvoidable effects of global climate crisis impacting all parts of the world and the answer is quick and effective and response to areas in need. I thought this is something we really need you see all these enviromental diasters that happen and people cant get to one in other and help in need. As when the mining diaster happened in Tasmania, the transporter would have been the ideal gadget then.

After we looked through the industrial design section we went and had a look at the multimedia section they had so many computers in that room doing all different things. They had a touch screen computer that was really cool it was a flash built site that was fully interactive. It was a great to see the different programs and videos that are made up of multimedia programs.

The last room we looked in was the visual design room it showcased all the visual areas of design which included folios and big printouts of works it was very interesting to see the standard of work from university work compared to the work we do at tafe.

Overall the exhibition was good except for the way home when the train was delayed due to the lightening, then when i get into my car i got bogged but then i went home and had an allright afternoon.

Transformations J Space.

12th Nov - 18th Dec 2009, This exhibition showed off the works done by graduate students from the certificate IV, Interactive Digital Media course.

It was a very interesting exhibition showing us the diverse range of talent that has been done at Chisholm. I already had a look earlier in the week at all the work so it gave me an idea what the exhibiton was all about, it was so different every piece was unique.

There was one piece that i really liked it was located in the fishbowl it was number 74, Not of this world it was very interesting showing us that nothing is to difficult and when we want to design and construct something it can happen.

Another piece of work that i liked was number 60, Foxes in the chook house this piece shows diverse colours which made the piece stand right out from the wall this artwork is dark, gloomy but bright and colourful at the same time it is a very interesting piece of artwork. 

There was a couple of artwork pieces i didnt understand at all, like the sculptures that were in the main area of the exhibition there is a photo above of them, i had no idea what they were about, they looked like thing from outer space. I suppose if the multimedia students came into our class room i think they would have the same point of view as me.

Also the other one i didnt understand was the sculpture in the fishbowl it kept repeating the I AM A ARTIST, it started to get annoying after a while, i didnt interest me at all. The other artwork in the fish bowl that was hanging up on the wall was a three series of images, it was the same image repeated over three times and it used different filters and brushes on each image that made it stand out, the image was the same but all three looked different.

All and all it was a great way to showcase the work done by the Chisholm multimedia students. I enjoyed this exhibition and seeing what the other students do at Tafe. I liked the use of colour and textures that were used in the pieces they really stood out. and looked great hanging up on the wall.

Andy Goldsworthy

Drawn Stone By Andy Goldsworthy.


Some of the work created from Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy is an environmental sculptor in which his use of the natural surroundings create an art form. He explores and experiments with various natural materiel such as leaves, grasses, stones, wood, sand, clay, ice, and snow. The seasons and weather determine the materials and the subject matter of his projects. With no preconceived ideas about what he will create, Goldsworthy relies on what nature will give him. Goldsworthy "feels" the energy from nature and transcends that energy into an art form. His transient sculptures contradict the permanence of art in its historical pretense.

Andy Goldsworthy was born in 1956 in Chesire. He studied at Bradford Art College and Preston Polytechnic. Thereafter, he toured the world and experimented with the world's alternating climate and different geographical materials available. In 1986, he moved to Dumfriesshire, Scotland where he maintains his residency.
Goldsworthy's artwork reinforces the relationship of human existence within nature. His work shows that we as humans have some ability of controlling nature, but eventually, in the end, nature controls us.

Goldsworthy produced a commissioned work for the entry courtyard of San Francisco's De Young Museum called "Drawn Stone", which echoes San Francisco's frequent earthquakes and their effects. His installation included a giant crack in the pavement that broke off into smaller cracks, and broken limestone, which could be used for benches. The smaller cracks were made with a hammer adding unpredictability to the work as he created it.

This work that is made by Andy is truly remarkable it shows the nature and what humans can do to make a tree or rock look a bit more interesting. The favourite piece for me was Drawn Stone it represented an earthquake and it

was really well done, it showcased how powerful an earthquake really is, it can go through rocks, buildings and can destroy whole cities and this sculpture is a great representation of the frequent earthquakes that have shook

San Francisco.

Mothers Art

Founded in 1983, Mothers Art is a unique design and construction facility servicing the diverse requirements of zoos, tourism attractions, public art and the architectural industry. Acknowledged widely as industry leaders, Mothers Art unites a team of experienced designers, trade specialists, artists and artisans in a design studio/workshop space of 2500m2.

The artists and designers have a wealth of experience in generating ideas for exciting, achievable solutions, with a thorough understanding of materials, technical processes and solutions beyond the expertise of most design practices. This synergy of experience, skill and imagination enables Mothers Art to plan, design, project manage, fabricate and install the work, in a collaborative and streamlined process from conception through to completion.

Commitment to excellence has earned Mothers Art a worldwide reputation for innovation, combining an artistic sensibility with precise design execution. Mothers Art has realised highly successful projects in many significant tourism and museum attractions.

At Mothers Art Productions they are committed to continually improving our sustainable design and production practices. They actively seek to specify eco-friendly materials and processes and encourage all staff to strive for sustainable solutions. Design by Mothers Art provides innovative concepts and winning strategies for clients who require lateral solutions and a competitive edge delivered on time and maximising hard won budgets.

Alot of the work that Mothers Art gets in travels over all areas of design, Graphics, industrial etc.In 4 weeks time mother is moving to South Melbourne which is a bigger factory which is better for them so they can have more jobs on the go at the same time. The factory is set up into seperate areas there is a traditional area and a modern more contemporary area which makes it easier to work and things wont get lost.

At the moment they are working on an educational tralier which will be used to take around to schools, it was built from the ground up it includes a LCD T.V and solar powering it will have graphic panels to make it more appealing, at the moment it's just painted, it's not quite finished yet. When it is completed it will be like a mini museum, the project cost around $100.000 to build.

Overall Mothers Art was an interesting place to go to it wasnt like a design studio where you just design all day, It was a place where someone can do everything, it was a place where it was more hands on work which is much more fun thats what i think anyway.

Mcclelland Gallery Wild Man Sculpture

Wild man 2005, polyester resin, silicon, horse hair, polyester monofilamant. Purchased by the Elisabeth Murdoch sculpture foundation 2008.

Ron Mueck was born in Australia in 1958 but know lives in the United Kingdom. Ron Muecks hyper-real sculptures of humans both clothed and unclothed, replicate in micro detail every aspect of the body-pores, veins, hairs, blemishes, wrinkles-with a variety that decieves the eye and challenges our perceptions of reality. To achieve this Mueck also plays with scale his sculptures despite their apparent truthfulness to life are never life size rather their gigantic or miniture dimensions serve to emphasize the discontinuties between portrayal and reality and to develop

an ambigous relationship between expectation, visual perception and cognitive knowledge.

When walking into the gallery you could tell the curator spent alot of time organising the exhibition it was very well layed out. The way it heas been curated is through time every space was a different era.Ther was alot of art pieces in the gallery, on the wall and floor which made it appealing and interesting, it made the exhibition exciting to walk around and look at every piece.

The wild man was set at the back of the exhibition as if it was hidden, once you walked around the corner there was this enormous sculpture and that was the "wild man", it was unbeliable how big this sculpture really was, it looked so real, it was so detailed every piece of hair, wrinkle and spot it was so life - like. Out in the garden at the Mccleland gallery it was so beautiful all the sculptures were spread apart and it was set around a lake which made it nice just to stroll around the lake and look at all the sculptures that are on display

i really enjoyed it there and would like to go again. I have driven past the park so many times and have always wanted to go in but never had the chance know i will go there more often i enjoyed it.

The Dwelling

International artists explore the ghostly inhabitations of the ‘home’ in a new group show at ACCA, presented as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival.Curated by ACCA’s Artistic Director Juliana Engberg and organised by Hannah Mathews,The Dwelling brings together a series of spooky works from leading contemporary artists, each exploring the surreal, the haunted and the very strange.Artists included are Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Chantal Akerman, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, David Haines & Joyce Hinterding, Michaela Melián, Callum Morton, David Noonan & Simon Tevaks, Sofia Hultén and Calum Stirling.

A brief history of ACCA: The ACCA is free, it only shows contempory art, every exhibition is only up for 2 months, ACCA dosnt exhibit paintings and sculptures, but does exhibit singers, dancers and even had an avery of live finches, always contemporary.

The Dwelling was an exhibition of 12 artists. The piece that stood out the most for me was the, The great Artesian Basin, 2003. It was created by 2 Australian artists, David Haines and Joyce Hinterding. The house seems to be posessed/haunted it has water gushing out of it, it is like an image you would see on a movie for example Jumanji. The house looks dead, It is like an image from the acopolyspe, there is no life, people have been washed away.

It was a weird exhibition it wasnt what i was expecting it was dark and spooky something that dosnt excite me very much but once the speaker explained the pieces to us it started to get a bit mose interesting.

Robbie Rowlands The Offering

Robbie Rowlands is the sculpture artist who discovered and transformed this old church in Dandenong into a exhibition before it gets dimolished. The church was an active building up into January this year and is 105 years old.

The main concept of Robbies work is cutting through layers and exposing layers. When Robbie first went to look at the church to see the canvas that he was going to work on, there was no floors, the first thing he thought is were he was going to put his work beacause his work is normally on the floor.

The cross that was cut out from the cupboards was transformed into a curved over cross as if it was dead, that is what i got from that scupture. Cutting the cross out from the cupboard was a big deal for Robbie, thought of his mum straight away, what would she think? Robbies family has a strong Christian background.

Apart from the church getting demolished Robbie has put alot of time making his sculptures and showing it to the public. It is really well done what he has accomplished even though many think its not art, including me, when i first walked in the church i thought what is this a building with no floor and bits cut out from the wall THIS ISNT ART, but then Robbie spoke to us and talked about his feelings towards the work and what his reasoning was behind it and then i thought IT IS ART, all art dosnt have to be painting or a outdoor sculpture and can be contemporary and out there just like Robbies work.

It was an interesting exhibition and different i have never experienced any work like this before and it was good to see and appreciate different types of artwork that can be produced.

History of Graphic Design final video review

This video is about how design has been changed and altered over the past 15,000 years and how it relates to what we are designing now.

This video showed different designs starting from: 15,000 B.C, cave drawings at Lascaux, 31,000 B.C, Sumerian pictographs, 1300 B.C, Egyptian Hieroglyphics, 500 A.D, Illuminated manuscripts, the book of kells, 1400 A.D, Illuminated manuscripts, the book of hours, the limbourg brothers, 1470 A.D, Movable type, Nicolas Jensen, 1529 A.D, Movable type, Geofory Tory, 1700 A.D, Movable type Giambasta Bodoni, 1800 A.D, Movable type, Vincent Figgins, and 1900 A.D Art Nouveau.

It was very interesting to see how the times have changed and that this is the orignal design method that was used all those years ago. I enjoyed the video it was a real eye opener to see were the background of design has come from.

Typolution video review

Animated film typographical Environmental minimalist flavor, punctuated by the song "Nostrand" group Ratatat directed by Olivier Beaudoin.

This animated video is great it shows the factor of polution and what effects it has on our lives and it is all done with the use of characters it is very well done. The music also works very well with this animation with light and shade used without to give more empahis on certain parts of the animation.

At the end of the animation one of the flowers is dying, its petals are falling off the petals are made up of question marks and that is the last image that is shown in the animation which is very powerful and asks us the question why is this happening?

My response to this video is that it is a great animation, and this is what is happening to our plant, we have to be more concious of what we use and be more environmentally friendly or our planet will die, just like the flower at the end. The way this message was made was smart because the generation that it is aimed for is gen x and that will draw in their attention.

Kareem Rizk

Kareem graduated from Monash Uni in 2004, he studied Graphic Design. Karrem went out into the work force and got a job at the Herald Sun in 2006/2007. He worked at the Herald Sun for 8 - 9 months but wasnt happy with his job. He naturally progressed from Graphic Design into Fine Art.

2006 Kareem shifted into Fine Art, he liked the collage concept of Fine Art, he would scratch out faces and type to stay away from copyright infringement. The images that Kareem sources are from old publications he never uses any images from publications that are printed after 1980.

Kareem still works like a Graphic Designer he structures his work on a grid, and rather from working from the background to the foreground , Kareem gets an image and works the composition around that image. When Kareem sources images he sets them up in a different setting than they originally were so it dosnt infringe any copyright.

Kareem dosnt use newspaper clippings because they black and white and they dont last as long as magazine clippings. The size of Kareems works range from 10 X 10 inchs to 30 X 30 inchs.

Inflences
Some of Kareems influences include Richard Hamilton, Charles Wilkin, Mario Wagner, Edvadio Recife all these collage artists have helped Kareem in his works. Edvadio was the guy that influenced Kareem to pursue collage.

Kareem was very interesting he explained to us that it is important to follow your dream and love what you do because that will get you out in the industry. Kareem followed his passion and know collage is his full time job.

MGA Exhibition, Brutel, Tender, Human, Animal Roger Ballen Photography

Roger Ballen Dresie and Casie, twins, West Transvaal 1993 gelatin silver print

The photography is unsettling presenting workfrom 1983 - 2006. Ballen was born in New York City in 1950, he was introduced to photography at an early age, through his mother who worked for magnum photography agency and also ran her own gallery in New York. Roger Ballens works have been collected in the following books: boyhood (1970), Dorps (1986), platteland (1994) and many more.

The Photograph that stood out the most for me was the image of Dresie and Cassie, twins. This photograph was very confronting and hard to look at, it is a scary image thay both looked like mass - murderers, they had that look about them. They are drolling and have a stare that scared me. But art is not all about beauty.

All the photographs that Roger Ballen had taken have no visual depth, they all look very flat that is done intentically to make them look creepy, and add some shadows around the figures. Roger used black and white photography diliberatley to set the mood, as these pictures are mysterious and creepy, if they were in colour they would set a different mood, happy and bright. All the photographs that were on display used alot of line and shapes within the photo itself.

I didnt like this exhibition myself, i think because it was so confronting and creepy, i think it will stick in the back of my head though. I think i didnt like it because i have never witnessed this sought of photography before it was something new and extremly different.

Design Now Exhibition, Melbourne Museum

Kim Wong, Jewellery, Three Greedy Pigs from the Bedtime Stories collection, 2008 Photo: Kim Wong

Design Now! is object gallerys annual exhibition held at Melbourne Museum that presents the work of outstanding graduates from applied art and design courses nationwide.There is a broad range of designs that are shown from furniture to jewellery.

There was a design that stood out straight away from all the rest which was The Sound Bubble by Naomi Fogel, Naomis design reminded me of the Sydney Opera house,i liked this design because it is aimed at melbournes rapid growth of music culture and we dont have any pubs that are decent enough to listen to live music this is a real must for Melbourne, we need it.

Another design i liked was the jewellery that was made by Kim Wong. She made: Romantic Citizens, Twin Chimps, Winter Wonderland, Princess Nishtha, Three Greedy Pigs and Peek a Boo. I liked these designs because they are fun and quirky each piece of jewellery uses alot of colour and they are very bold.

Kim has captured the individual spirit of each animal, this jewellery is designed for people who dont take themselves to seriously and perhaps indulge once and a while in childhood dreaming.

I enjoyed this exhibition because it showed a range of different designs, it was interesting to see what was thought of, and how the design works at this time in life. It was very interesting to see different designs all in the one space.

Design your life with Ellen Lupton

Ellen Lupton has been Cooper-Hewitt's curator of contemporary design since 1992. Her new book, Design your life, the pleasures and perils of everyday things is co-authored with her twin sister Julia. Design your life takes an irreverent and realistic look at everything from toasters, bras and pillows to housekeeping. Speaking to readers who are both design-conscious and consumer wary. Design your life taps into the popular interest in design as well as peoples desire to make their own way through a mass-produced world.

Ellen Lupton has held public programmes and exhibitions at Cooper-Hewitt's for the last 16 years. The first exhibition that she did was called the mechanical brides it was all about woman, machines and technology. In 1993 Ellen was 29 years old and didn't think she was a mechanical bride she had no kids, hardly cooked, but 16 years on its a different story. The book started from a website that her twin sister Julia and herself had created. the website was used to comment on trends and anything that would interest them both.

Ellen brings out the point that the toaster is made for cooking toast, not made to cook anything else, simple is better. It doesn't have to be elaborate it just has to cook toast. Designers always want to make a great product better but it doesn't always work out that way it can make the product worse and consumers wont catch on because its to elaborate and hard to use, also cost is a big factor.
Ellen talks about how computers involved in the kitchen to help house-wives and people over the age of 50 in the kitchen. Consumers never caught on. The media refrigerator has a screen that delivers ,t.v, the stock market, and the weather but it wasn't a big hit. There was numerous web-only computers designed for kitchen use and appeared during the Internet boom.

The visibility principle: "Piles" of paper on your desk is good thing. The piles that you have is a visual stimulation of what you have been working on and what you have done. Ellen gos on to say that having an open office is better you can see whats going on around you which is more stimulating for the brain therefore a more productive person. There are 3 main places you can work from, home, work or a coffee shop. Ellen says that the coffee shop is the best place to work, it is busy, lots of people around giving it a productive working atmoshpere.

This was an interesting video which showed the modifications of everyday products. In my opinion, I think that keeping a design simple and straight to the point is the best way to go about a design situation. I enjoyed watching this video and seeing Ellens point of view on product design in the everyday world.

RMIT Gallery Excursion Liu Xiau Xian

The Couple 2004 Edition 2

The artist's work deals with issues of cultural identity in large scale digital photography. It is playful, soulful, striking and witty.

The core of Liu Xiao Xian’s practice engages in a comparative study of Eastern and Western cultures. Born in China and raised during the Cultural Revolution, Liu Xiao Xian left Beijing for Sydney after the Tiananmen Square massacre. On this 20th anniversary of Tiananmen, RMIT Gallery is focusing on the artist’s photographs and sculptures, which explore the nuances between the East and the West.

When you walk into this exhibition the first thing you see are 3 large faces,(reincarnation - Mao, Buddha and I, Version 2, 2003 these three large prints are made up of 300 panels, each panal is a smaller photograph of the final print.) On the walls are photographs of families, on the floor are chess tables and utensils. This exhibition show art pieces from the east and west and how it influences our lives.

The couple, 2004 Bronze and Camphor wood was my favourite sculpture of the sxhibition, I didn't get it at first all i saw was 1 wooden sculpture and 1 bronze sculpture i could'nt see what was behind the artwork until David explained it clearly to me, the wooden sculpture showed underneath the skin which was lungs, brain, heart etc, the bronze sculpture had little pin holes all over its body which showed two complety different types of medicene that is used, the wooden sculpture showed the western medicene and the bronze statue showed the eastern medicene.

Another piece of work i liked was Home - 2002 - 03, Edition of 10, Lamboa print. Large format photograph of the Chinese family situated in London. This print shows you can be somewhere else in the world but you still have your home to go back too, in which this case China. The main strenghs that are shown in this print are the use of colour and the composition of the photograph with the guards on each side (protecting).

I enjoyed this exhibition there was some exhibits i didnt understand but i guess you get that sometimes but it was very interesting to see the differences between the eastern and western world.