Review

Josef Mujler Brockman
 Info : 
Josef Muller-Brockman was born in Rapperswil, Switzerland in 1914 and studied architecture, design and history of art at the University of Zurich and at the city’s Kunstgewerbeschule. He began his career as an apprentice to the designer and advertising consultant Walter Diggelman before, in 1936, establishing his own Zurich studio specialising in graphics, exhibition design and photography. By the 1950s he was established as the leading practitioner and theorist of Swiss Style, which sought a universal graphic expression through a grid-based design purged of extraneous illustration and subjective feeling. His “Musica viva” poster series for the Zurich Tonhalle drew on the language of Constructivism to create a visual correlative to the structural harmonies of the music. Muller-Brockman was founder from and, from 1958 to 1965, co-editor of the trilingual journal Neue Grafik (New Graphic Designer) which spread the principles of Swiss Design internationally. He was professor of graphic design at the Kunstgewerbeschule.

Evaluation : His website is very interesting and intriguing but very simple.

 As you can see his website is full of information this is how i found out so much about him. 

The only thing that i feel would make his   

website better would be too add more colour and less text since if someone seen his page they would just think i dont want to read that too much writing its boring. Thats why he should add more images less text and a little more colour.

Overall, i think his website is layed out  quite well and is eye catching.

Green Wash

I believe green wash means false advertising and promotionally friendly and environmental products that are meant to be environmently friendly but aren't.
 Green wash guide - Build confidence in eco promises

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Carbon Emissions

Carbon Emissions

Every time we burn fossil fuels such as gas, coal or oil, carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere. In a natural carbon cycle, carbon dioxide is re-absorbed by plants and trees. However, we are burning fuels where the carbon dioxide has been trapped under the earth's surface for millions of years, and we're doing it so quickly that plants and trees that are alive now have no chance of soaking it up (and it doesn't help that we're cutting down rainforests as well). Here is a link to carbon footprint web that provides more info http://www.carbonfootprint.com/carbonfootprint.html

 

Carbon Dioxide effects the planet by increasing the earth temperature this leads to global warming!

and since the planet is changes day by day this creates natural hazards such as floods, Hurricanes and droughts and many more according to the change in the heat.

HEALTHY LIVING, GREEN LIVING!

Footprint

   Our Carbon footprint has to be calculated everyday to see how big your carbon footprint is. You can find these carbon calculators on the internet for example http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/. They use stuff you purchase such as creating the food products and then transporting them to your door or your local shop this then creates fossil fuels. However measuring these indirect emissions accurately on a day 2 day basis is very difficult. 

Confusion ? 

There is sometimes confusion between carbon and carbon dioxide. To understand the difference between them you will need to remember you chemistry classes, Carbon is the element that combines with oxygen to produce carbon dioxide. For every one molecule of carbon, there are two molecules of oxygen (hence CO2). Carbon on its own is not a greenhouse gas, but often CO2 is shortened to carbon for ease of reference, and this is the case with the Carbon Account.

As well as carbon dioxide there are other gases such as Methane which cause global warming as well these are known a green house gases the term for these gases is Hydrocarbons








How can we stop Carbon Emissions - Reduce your footprint 
There are several ways to reduce Carbon Emissions for example:

• Use rechargeable batteries which will save 1,000's of pounds over your life time.
• Buy locally produced goods and services. Goods and services that are produced locally eliminate thousands of pounds of carbon by reducing fossil fuels transportation demands.
• Recycle your waste. 
• When you are buying a vehicle try and go for a electronic, Hybrid or a fuel efficient instead of a gas guzzler. 
• Make compost 
• Change the way you get to work or school by walking, cycling or even catching the buss saves a lot since it is sustainable and you can fit many more people on than you can a car.
• Energy saving bulbs and making sure you save energy in your home as it saves you money as well. 

There are many more ways you can reduce carbon emissions you can see more here:
http://erasecarbonfootprint.com/reduce-co2.html

Review

John Taylor

   
John Taylor works with pieces that is called Blanka as you can see in this image it is a film poster made blank so you guess what the film he is trying to show. He uses Photoshop very well and his work is very intriguing to look at. His film posters are very simple and hard to guess what they are as you can see on the images above the main shapes he uses are mostly rectangular and square

UCAS Trip Manchester Report

Report- At the UCAS trip i gathered a lot of information on different universitys that would be possible for me to go to. I spoke to various tutors and people that know a lot about the uni's and they gave me ideas on were i and how i could take my caree further also, what their university could offer to me.

I collected many leaflets and handouts to read when i got home and to see what was benefical for me.
The universitys that i wanted to focus on were the ones that were closer to me so therefore i could live at home suchas

• Derby university 
• Huddersfield uni
• Sheffield Hallam uni ect.

I still am not sure whether i want to go to university however the UCAS trip has opened my ideas more clearer so i can now think how i would like to end up after college. I think if i did go to university it would be Derby as it is close to me and they offer my course and have a wide selection in interactive media and graphic design.

Doodle strip

This is my final piece. The pieces that i have zoomed in on are my favourite doodles.

Mixed Media

Laura Mcafferty

Laura uses many materials and works with mixed media. She is a textiles artists and blends textiles and illustration together. I have choosen these images as they caught my eye since they are varied to other images. I like the way she has uses materials to heighten the realism of the images. As well as this, i like the way she has used a flowery patterned background instead of a ordinary blue sky or clouds as the background. Also, the different colours brighten the picture up and show meaning of the image. The other image of the women sat down is interesting as she has used i think stiching to create a border around the womens body this defines areas and shows the shape and what she wants to stand our the most.

Ralph Steadman

Ralphs work is very different to lauras eventhough they both use mixed media they use it in a different way to eachother. The images above that i have choosen i think are very intriguing since he uses lots of colours in different ways and type around his pictures. As well as this he tends to use more inks and colours and paints wereas Laura uses more textiles and materials.

I like the way he makes his pictures look unusaul and not perfect and realistic as you can see in the image on the right it is not life like and not a realistic size. He uses varied drawings to make one image and he uses the colour red as one of his main colours which could mean many aspects such as passion, love or even violence or warfare.

Peter clarke

Peter clarke is one of my favourites out of all three artists as he uses a wide range of materials as you can see on the image. He uses paper, newspaper, maps, magazines and many more cutouts. I like the way he layers his materials to make one shape and he makes his materials look so interesting and realistic also, looking at the materials contrasted together creates a eye catching effect. However he tends to work alot on animals such as dogs mostly.

On this image he has used mostly maps and cardboard which i find quiet inspiring as it is so well made and so realistic to look at it looks like someone has just took a photograph of a dog.

This is my mixed media doodle project.
materials use:
Tissue paper, brown paper, stiching, paints and ink.