Illustrator Zutto

Zutto

I found these illustrations created by the artist called Zutto who is graphic based in Russia. The illustations are very dreamy looking and surreal with the use of vibrant colours and character design.

Matthew Skiff, a vector illustrator who combines graphic and illustration to create his artwork which is normally created for t-shirt designs and for bands. I like the style of the black lines and shading with the simple block colours. They all work wel together and arent too busy or too much to look at.

Type Adamas Regular

 

 This is a free font I found called Adamas Regular. I thought the font was very interesting and decided to save the link just incase I decided it would be useful through this project. The lines create nice dimension and effect of depth into it.

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Adamas-Regular-Free-font/2849429

7 Sins Illustrations

Illustrations collage testers for Greed and Pride.

Illustration for Wrath and Envy.

Some of my designs for illustrations on the 7 deadly sins. Lust, Gluttony and Sloth.

Love designs

These are some tester collage illustrations I made for the subject love.

Further Idea

I have decided to make different books about the main subjects I feel makes up humanity.
The books I am thinking about are:

Love
Hate
Life & Death
Fear
Triumphs as Humans
Mistakes as Humans
Hope & Dreams as Humans
How we imagine we will be in 50 years

They will all be created in different media's such as collage, photography,Sewing fabrics,drawing,illustration and type.

Karen Michel

work is about bringing something into the world that enhances and elevates the environment in which it lives. Alot of her work is inspired by nature, urban environments, native folklore, moon lore, creatures, sustainability and  music.

Erin Ciulla, Canada
Phase I
Suitcase containing miniature books with mixed media, found materials, and handmade paper.

Book art



Su Blackwell




Cathy Berg
The Lord God Made Them AllAltered book with hand trimmed painted pages, and pencil illustrations inside front and back cover.

 

 

 

 

Beth Cote




 

Teesha Moore
http://www.teeshaslandofodd.com/

http://www.teeshamoore.com/techniques/pages1.html - videos on her work

Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist who addresses issuses such as feminism and consumerism. She uses advertising and communication to explore identity and gender in her work. She normally merges together photography and typography with the use of black and white and bright blocked reds,this makes it quite aggressive to look at with the contrasting colours. You, your, I, we and they is used alot in it to create a target audience making it more personal to people who read it. I would like to look at how she uses simplicity yet makes it so effective, I like the idea of the black and white mixed with the bright red and may consider to experiment with this in my work.

This is a website to the 40 best free fonts on the web I found which I thought might come in handy if I ever decide I need typography on my project.
http://www.creativebloq.com/graphic-design-tips/best-free-fonts-for-designers-1233380

Collage Illustrator - Eduardo Recife

Media that Recife normally works with include pencil, paint, computer, photography, and collages. Recife’s creats illustrations which have a characteristic vintage feel and an old-era style, something I find is really nice to look at. I like the old feel given. His type is beautiful and detailed and really stands out on its own with the rest of the collages.

Propaganda Posters

Propaganda we're posters created around the second world war. I found them to be relevant to look at because they were normally used on quite negative things such as war. I want to show negativeness in some of my designs so they would be quite useful to look at. They are quite quirky with bold colours and text, yet keep it simple to understand in a quick glance. San serif text is used alot through the designs. I think the vintage grainy feel to them is also nice to look at.

Photos that changed the world

http://www.funlobby.com/200902281123/20-photos-that-changed-the-world.html

http://www.biographyonline.net/events/changed-world.html

I collected some of the most well known photographs which changed the world and how we see things. They are very key to how humanity has been shaped and a big part of our achievements,hopes and mistakes.

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
- Bertrand Russell

"All war is deception."
-Sun Tzu

"If we don't end war, war will end us."
-H. G. Wells

Mans Greatest Achievements

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Essay:Greatest_achievements_of_human_history i found this which is a useful list of some things we have created.

Some achievements:

1. Declaration of Human Rights. - The idea of equality, liberty, and justice
2. Understanding Nature of Human existence.
3. Development of Modern Medicine and Vaccinations
4. Moon Landing
5. Art
6. Music
7. Communication through language
8. Emotions and love
9. Law and Government
10. Religion
11. Civilization
12. Architecture
13. Engineering
14. Exploration
15. Being able to control fire
16. Science
17. Technology
18. Internet and computers
19. Transport
20. Science philosophy and math - Albert Einstein, charles darwin ect.
21. Electricity
22. Water and Sewers
23. Building the Great Pyramids
24. The Works of William Shakespeare

Showing how mankind had achieved some amazing things through technology which probably was never believed to be possible.

 

 

 

A mood board which shows some of humanities true nature towards one another at times.

I bought some newspapers and every story seemed to have some kind of violence or made me question what humanity is actually like, how can so much pain and killing come from us? It kinda shows the violent side of us and how destructive we can really be. These stories were only taken from like 2 newspapers between 2 days yet so much death and violence can be seen.

Things that cause war in humanity?

1. Jealousy
2. Money
3. Power
4. Democracy
5. Religion
6. Nuclear Weapons
7. Restricted Warfare
8. Narrowminded people
9.Land
10.Resources 
11.Greed
12.Governments
13.Fear

Conflict.
The way a society is organised can create the causes of conflict and the conditions which can happen. A society which is organised wrongly such as with people being treated unfairly or unequally is likely to have conflict. 
As humans we have basic needs such as everyone being recognised as individuals with there own opinions and personal identity, everyone needs to feel secure and safe in everyday life ect. If these things arent met it can further the problem and create rebellion,violence and protests among society's. This will all create conflict and pain in humanity meaning really we are ruining what we have achieved and built as a race.

Suarez Art

http://suarezart.blogspot.co.uk/

These pieces or illustrations are created by using different brush strokes on photoshop. I really like these illustrations even though they seem abit messy and un-organised with some of the brush strokes, The roughness adds this effect of anger and danger which is something id like to show in my work symbolising the angry side of our planet and what we have done to it. The use of black and white and maybe one colour also works really effectively, just one little bit of colour can totally change how we read the image which i think is very important to think about.

7 Deadly Sins

The Seven Deadly Sins, also known as the Capital Vices or Cardinal Sins, is a classification of objectionable vices (part of Christian ethics) that have been used since early Christian times to educate and instruct Christians concerning fallen humanity's tendency to sin.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins

what are the 7 sins?

# 1 Lust - an intense desire,sexual,desire of money, fame, power ect.

# 2 Gluttony -  is the over-indulgence and over-consumption of anything to the point of waste.

# 3 Greed -  is, like lust and gluttony but rather to do with disloyalty, deliberate betrayal, or treason,especially for personal gain.

# 4 Sloth - defined as physical laziness or even spiritual laziness.
# 5 Wrath - self-destructiveness, violence, and hate that may provoke.
# 6 Envy - is similar to jealousy in that they both feel discontent towards someone's traits, status, abilities, or rewards.
# 7 Pride - considered the  most serious of the seven deadly sins. It is identified as a desire to be more important or attractive than others, failing to acknowledge the good work of others, and excessive love of self ect.

These are all traits which some of humanity posses or feel towards others.

Fears

fear

noun

1.a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid. Synonyms: foreboding, apprehension, consternation, dismay, dread, terror, fright, panic, horror, trepidation, qualm. Antonyms: courage, security, calm, intrepidity.

2.a specific instance of or propensity for such a feeling: an abnormal fear of heights. Synonyms: phobia, aversion; bête noire, bogy, bogey, bugbear. Antonyms: liking, fondness, penchant, predilection.

3.concern or anxiety; solicitude: a fear for someone's safety.

4.reverential awe, especially toward God: the fear of God. Synonyms: awe, respect, reverence, veneration.

5. something that causes feelings of dread or apprehension; something a person is afraid of


 Top 30 Fears of mankind
1. Fear of Snakes
2. Fear of Heights
3. Fear of Flying (on a plane)
4. Fear of Public Speaking
5. Fear of Darkness and Dark Places
6. Fear of Not being able to Escape
7. Fear of Spiders
8. Fear of Terror Attacks
9. Fear of Rejection
10. Fear of Getting Cancer
11. Fear of Small Confined Spaces
12. Fear of Failure
13. Fear of Vomiting
14. Fear of Intimacy
15. Fear of Poverty
16. Fear of Getting Hurt
17. Fear of Losing Good Health
18. Fear of Choking & Suffocation
19. Fear of Testing HIV Positive
20. Fear of Bridges
21. Fear of Ghosts
22. Fear of Clowns
23. Fear of Storms
24. Fear of Death
25. Fear of Drowning
26. Fear of Being Buried Alive
27. Fear of Needles
28. Fear of Mice
29. Fear of Lizards
30. Fear of Getting a Shot
 
http://www.saviodsilva.net/top-10-fears-phobias-ten-common.htm

Corruption in Humanity

cor·rup·tion

   [kuh-ruhp-shuhn]  Show IPA

noun

1.

the act of corrupting  or state of being corrupt.

2.

moral perversion; depravity.

3.

perversion of integrity.

4.

corrupt  or dishonest proceedings.

5.

bribery.

The effect of corruption can be found and related to many topics such as political,social and environmental effects. The greed and lack of empathy in some of humanity.

Polictical and democracy: Misuse of power and private interest.

Economic Effects: National wealth such as increasing of costs of goods and services. It can effect things such as education and work for people along with cuts on other needed things such as hospitals and resources.

Social corruption: frustration can create a weak society between people making it hard to work together. It can make a wider gap between rich and poor increasing poverty and change peoples views on basic needs such as food,water,jealousy and hatred.

My idea of Bad human qualities.

Greed
Desperation
Promiscuity

Ignorance
The failure of recognizing different points of view other than your own (Egoism)
Sometimes emotions take the better of humanity
Lack of compassion to others
Hate 

Other things.
Materialism
Seeking perfection

Created by Manfish Inc. The simpleness and elegant shapes used on these illustrations are lovely to look at. The concept of the images themselves don't really have anything to do with the project but I really like the limited colours used and block effect of it all. The lines add a touch of detail making them more interesting to look at also. I think I would like to have this simpleness on my designs because it makes them easier to read into and less busy and complicated to understand.

http://society6.com/artist/ManfishInc