Joohee Yoon

http://jooheeyoon.com/index.htm
“She contributes regularly to international publications, such as the New York Times, in addition to working on picture books, posters and other projects. "

Even with just pink and green, by using different transparencies, she has managed to create an interesting image. The different textures also add to the picture.

The limited colour of pink, red, green and yellow has worked really effectively, as well as an interesting twist on perspective within the piece, collaging the images together.

Zingy refreshing blue and yellow, you can taste the food and the sunshine in the picture. I’m interested in the way she’s shaded and used colour in the buildings, using the dark tone of the red for windows and doors and blue for the shape and line. It remiss me of the USE-IT map covers from europe.

I really enjoy her bright colours and clever combination to produce different tones with only a few colours.

The Tiger who would be king.

The Tiger who would be king.

Only using red and green, but combined makes a dark brown. The animals and jungle become one and merge together, and the bold geometric shapes distinguish them from the soft leaved plants.

Le Monde Magazine

interior cover and spot illustrations for a feature on wine and wine pairings

Graffitti

http://remed.es/art/

REMED. Spray paint on wall. 5x7m. 2013. Mexico DF

Drawing and writing entwined. The black background really makes the colours pop.

“Entre et vois, L’encre est voix”. Permanent installation in LISBOA FRENCH INSTITUTE. 2014

“ENTRE ET VOIS , L’ENCRE EST VOIX. EST ANCRÉE LÀ, L’ESSENCE. ET TOI ? Entre et vois! L’encre est voix. Est ancrée là, L’essence. Et toi ? Entre, et vois…”

A translation could be “Enter and see ! The matter is We. Here is present, the Essence. And you !? Enter, and See ! the matter is We. Here is present, the Essence. And you !? Enter and See ! …”

Here He has transformed a bland reception into one of poems and colour. There are many facades of the wall- elevators and doors, to work around. Each wall has words written across it, but the graphic typography transforms it into geometric blocks of colour.

detail of the reception

http://prettycoolpeopleinterviews.submarinechannel.nl/sixeart/
http://www.sixeparedes.com


http://zosenymina.tumblr.com
BARCELONA-TOKYO VISUAL ARTISTS
Zosen and Mina Hamada are two visual artists based in Barcelona, one from Argentina and another from Japan.

process of the mural and live painting piece for “Nómadas” show curated by Jules Bay

http://zosenbandido.tumblr.com

Adam Frezza and Terri Chiao

http://www.eternitystew.com/projects/paper-plants/

”With the belief that the world of the imaginary is as “real” as the natural, we create bright immersive environments of paper, paint, wood, and plaster.”

“With the primitive optimism of a child and the meticulous focus of a horticulturist, the imaginary and the wild continually slip in and out of the ordinary...”

Eliza - Outdoor paper plants

From Paper Islands.

From Paper Islands

Paper plants in the wild. The tiny flowers add realism to the cactus.

The bright colours and patterns make this appealing, as well as the childlike qualities. Having been made from papermache, a craft skill that many schools start with, I feel there is a connecting with childhood, with playing with hands and gloop, but the refined finish shows that it is art. The imagination into these exotic plants is the same value I want to put into my buildings, where they look like they could be some strange rare plant but are in fact fictional.

Digital printing

http://www.catdigital.co.uk/pages/
I have looked through the fabrics and want something quite heavy weight but without visable weave - which makes Cotton Drill a consideration. I will have to look at mounting hem on to a backing as well as a option.

More play rugs

http://www.smythstoys.com/uk/en-gb/toys/construction-cars/c-400/garages/p-3094/playtime-rug/

Smyths Toys 

£19.99 

• Dimensions 95Lcm x 200Wcm

Gel foam under side to prevent slipping.

100% Nylon

It features a church, barns, school, factory, petrol station and houses, As well as a lake, railway track, car parking, zebra crossing, roundabout and road signals. 

I find this a good mix, although the buildings themselves aren’t very big in comparison to the amount of field. 

• The colours in this rug are bright, with primaries red, blue, yellow. Other colours are green and brown. If this was a limited palette and print process, these colours could be made by overlapping the 3 primary colours in different ways.
• The perspectives are all different, so that when the child is facing different ways, the buildings follow. It makes it more interesting that the buildings all facing one way.
• The reviews all seem positive, stating that it’s bigger that what they expected and comfortable for playing on wooden floors. One lady, Annie from Cornwall, stated that although the colours are brights, “I was very disappointed to find out on christmas day it has a continental layout and not British ie roundabout markings and road junctions on wrong side of road thus teaching him how to use it becomes difficult as it is not what he sees when out with us in the car. “.
• A lot of the customer reviews state that it is or will be a christmas present.

http://www.toysrus.co.uk/toys/vtech-toot-toot-drivers-playmat/0106381

Toys R Us

£14.99

Age Group: 12 months - 5 years, 5 (h) x 12.2 (w) x 6.7 (d) cm

On Toys R us website, there is only one image available and none featuring the child to show size comparison.

There are very few buildings featured on here, but this mat does feature a background if skyscrapers, which changes the viewing. 

The large logos I find off putting, and looking at the roads, some of them spiral into themselves which will cause terrific accidents. There also seems to be some young unattended children featured which doesn’t promote road safety. 

What is he holding?? There’s not even a crossing there.

Overall I’m not impressed with this mat, although out of 11 reviews, 90% would recommend this to a friend. 

Mock presentation 14th Oct

• Expand on interactive - Have flaps that can open, blank spaces to draw on...
• Digital printing - how, where?
• methods - bring in finished examples
• Timeline
• Whats the size? Bring in piece of paper to show size.
• Everything to include in a list.

Primary research

I plan to create the buildings based upon this in Cheltenham, combining several designs and manipulating it into a new hybrid building.

I have done something similar to this whilst co-assisting fine artist Jake Lever, whilst creating ’the City of Our Dreams’ with primary school children. Not only did they create 3D models, but we also asked them to design their own building. I found myself asking them,

“What is in your town? 

Where do you go when you’re shopping? 

What do you think is important to have in a town?”.

The buildings we made out of foam and recycled materials 

the display Me and Sammi Taylor created, featuring the 3D models and a selection of drawings.

We made a city scape from the pen drawings. 

They answered with things like - A school for the children to go to, a shopping market where we go with mum to get food, a fire station, a vet to help our pet dog etc.

I have made a list of ‘points of interest’ that each town has in some form.

• School.
• Church.
• Hospital.
• Vet.
• Housing estates.
• Supermarket or open market.
• Bank.
• Police station.

and then we have the shops which can be chain stores or independent shops...

• Hairdressers.
• Cinema.
• Pub or social house.
• Florist.

Cheltenham has a variety of gyms, fast food outlets, charity shops.

I will make a small map of where I will go, and several outings.

I have looked up points of interest in Cheltenham and come across a Listed building map from the Cheltenham Borough Council

It states the address and what grade of listing the building is.

I think I will use this to aid me in what important buildings to draw and also use the structure of pillars and regency style to intwine with the other houses.

http://maps.glosdistricts.org/map/Aurora.svc/run?script=\Aurora\CBC+ListedBuildings.AuroraScript%24&nocache=1762328048&resize=always&workflow_Id=FindListedBuilding

http://www.alexandergray.com/artists/vera-neumann/

http://www.alexandergray.com/exhibitions/2014-06-26_vera-neumann/

Research - Barbara Dziadosz

Polish printmaker, Barbara Dziadosz.
Her limited use of colour gives a running theme in all her prints. The candy colours sweeten the image and adds a child like view to it.

Based on Greece (1)

(1)

‘an illustration for Eurowoman DK about a girl getting her diabetes diagnosis in a very young age’ (2)

The limited colour palette has come through many experiments, and are inspired by vintage children’s books. She began with screen printing, and now uses digital means to recreate the effect. By having a limitation on colour, it lets other properties such as shape and composition ring clearer and more strikingly. (3)
(1) http://basiadziadosz.tumblr.com
(2)http://barbaradziadosz.tictail.com
(3) http://inkygoodness.com/blog/the-colour-edit-barbara-dziadosz/ -  Greg McIndoe

research - Print

http://artistresearchillustration.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/shop-fronts.html

Click through for Louise Lockhart ‘Up my Street’ .


http://artistresearchillustration.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/laura-carlin.html
For Laura Carlin.

Research - play mats

I have looked at some existing play mats to see what design they use and how the road layout is. Most of them are from birds eye view, as a child playing with small cars would see it from their view (as to scale, they would be giants).
I fondly remember playing with mine, and all the cars racing round it pretending to crash and whizz off to hospital all while the train comes hurtling in and mayhem everywhere.
I feel as though there could be a bit more of a wider freedom with mats visually.

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/20101871/
An IKEA play mat with town and road.
It has a latex backing to prevent slipping.

Ikea, £14

showing the back with latex coating to prevent slipping.

This is one of more funky designs, but even for IKEA, i feel that usually their fun and graphic approach has fallen low here. There’s so many possibilities! The houses are wobbly and not straight, there are mountains and a desert... so compared to most town play mats it does have more exciting elements to it. I feel the colours are lacking the usual punch. Although there is an exploding volcano which might make things interesting for the future towns people...

IKEA £10

Another Ikea mat, with a small road section and racecourse. The vegetation has been reduced to green splodges and simple road signs aid children as to what could happen. Very basic in design and no buildings. Where will the people live? In the green bushes??


http://www.gltc.co.uk/role-play/town-play-mat/gltc/fcp-product/10003133

Great Little Trading co,  £26

Look at the detail! It even has its own scrap yard, and a race course!

You pay an extra £10 and look what you can get! wow this has everything you need, even a metro station. The roads themselves are still simple, but the buildings have far more attention to detail in them, and there are traffic lights every 5 meters, just like real life. The slight twist on perspective makes it interesting, as well as enabling your cars to park up and visually fit. I feel this mat has more in theme with what I’d like to do, with lots of variating buildings and detail.

I would however like mine to be more graphic, like a screen print or using limited colour pallet.

project proposal

I intend to design a high street based town that will be printed onto a flat mat or oil cloth, for children of ages 3-6years to play with.

I will use reportage style and sketches from observation to fuel my design. I have taken inspiration from Laura Lockhart and her ‘Up my Street’, a concertina book of the disappearing shops from our high street.  The graphic shapes and bold colours she uses, as well as the texturised print, adds to the effect of peeling paint and weathered buildings. 

I will design a mat/table cloth and bag to put it in.

1. My client would be places like Early Learning Centre, Ikea, Argos.
2.  I will have a scale model of the mat with details shown, with a slide of the different buildings featured within it.
3. To ensure a  professional finish, I’ll research into what materials and print techniques others have used to create rugs, table cloths and mats.
4. For processes, I will work from sketches and use the print studio to look at using limited colours and screen printing.I will research print and its use in mixed media.
   
5. How will I explore a range of processes, materials and techniques?
   
6. For reflection upon my work, I will make notebooks with the weeks and dates on them, to look back on my analysis and thoughts.

11. For research I’ll look at graphic printmakers like emily sutton, Laura Carlin.
12. How will I analyse other people’s work?
13. How will I best communicate my ideas to peers and in tutorials?
14. From tutorials, I will note down improvements suggested and any problems that may occur, to stay on top of the work load. 
15. To manage time I will produce a time scale graph, to monitor my progress.I will allow extra time at the end incase the project has any unseen difficulties.
16. To evidence progress I will keep a blog and update it often. 
17. Can I foresee any problems or barriers to the development of my project? 

I will....

I want to design an  object based on buildings and shop facades and structure. It’ll be aimed towards children, using screen print for the main blocks of colour, and gouache, as well as other mixed media.

A character could move through a scene of the town, making it interactive and engaging.
This could be done with a magnet covered with the design.

I could create a map - like the ones I picked up in Antwerp. The illustrations mixed with information made them fun to read and simple with pictograms.
They also could be collectables as each town had a cover by different artist.
I could make a map of cheltenham for new students to the area or tourists, as it popular with many.

From my observational sketches of the shop fronts, I can create and merge them into imaginary buildings, using my imagination.

Maps found in Antwerp -

Front cover of Leuven. Fun font and limited colour pallette.

 

List of bars are matched with coloured bottles.

The map in the centre is surrounded by advice from locals, they say where the best breakfast cafe is, or where thee is secret markets.

Front cover for Ghent. The tourists are swept up in the middle, with their backpacks, looking lost. A black and red pallet are used for this map.

Places nearby that also have maps. 

I looked up these maps, they’re made by USE-IT who create up to date maps for young travellers, made by locals.

The artwork this year is different from last year! They update it all the time. 

https://www.use-it.travel/home