In todays PPP session, Penny Lee wanted the class to explore what things: website, blogs, pinterest, Instagram etc. That inspire us to do our type work, like they're style, colour, layout and so on. We got into groups and wrote down on our big sheet what kinds things inspire us in our life.
In our group we wrote down how many famous people from the internet such as makeup artists, how films like Tim Burton and his art style inspire us, how the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the art work there inspired us. i.e, Buddha, Poppies, and Rob Ryan. Artwork of food also inspire as chefs can present food in such an artist way. There are some of my inspirational sites, people, blogs etc...
10 Things that Inspire Me:
1) Yorkshire Sculpture Park - After visiting the "Yorkshire Sculpture Park" with the year group, to do some research for our study task to create a new symbol. It left me inspired and amazed, this is due to how creative it was to combine sculptures within a natural environment. I especially loved the Poppies sculpture, the idea of making the Poppies into a big stream coming up to the bridge and the craftsmanship of it was truly fascinating. Also Ai WeiWei Tree sculpture was really interesting as the tree looked quite realistic, especially how the rusty material was selected well to match the theme of nature within the park. This inspires me to do my work within a mix media format, as I want to explore how I can make things as powerful and impressive by combining two different themes together.
2) Michelle Phan - Michelle Phan is a famous makeup artist, on Youtube. She has about 8 million subscribers, She is inspirational to me as she explains how your face is a canvas. And teaches her viewers how to transform your face into an amazing piece of artwork. And she has many tutorials on how to produce them. She is also a very good artist as she does shorts animations based on her life experiences, not only her art style impresses me but the story she tells and imagination intrigues me. It makes me want to improve my drawing skills and makeup skills to, by following her techniques.
3) Bentomonsters - Bentomonsters is an instagram page, by a mum who likes to create these amazing lunch boxes for her two boys. She is inspiring as she transform food into art pieces, to me food art is a very artist field. However, her style is not the fine dining style, it is more the cute and japanese influence bento boxes or lunch boxes. Taken to a completely new level, the way she uses the ingredients are stunning as she creates cartoon characters such as: Baymax, Totoro, Snoopy, Hello Kitty, Winnie the Pooh so on. This inspires me to get my work to this funand playful professional standard and have a perfectionist style as her work photographed looks remarkable.
4) AH-HA Studio - AH-HA Studio is a Graphic Design Studio which has a very individualistic style to their work, which brings out each clients uniqueness. The work that they do is very minimalist, simple and abstract. This can be emphasis by the photography which is presented in their website: studioahha.com. Compared to other Graphic design based Studios, they have an uniqueness working with paper. Their style is a combination of paper, graphics and photography. They also work in many different fields as they can do: business cards, interior design, packaging, logos etc. This inspires me to become more varied in my work as I can develop and be more advance, due to having experience doing different types of professions.
5) LCA Peers - During my few weeks doing this course, I believe that my Peers in my class are very inspirational. When we critique each of our work, I receive a lot of feedback on how my work can be improved and made effective. This is due to the cross-cultural/influences and the variety of backgrounds each person brings to the class. Also their artwork is also inspiring as it makes me want to improve my skills and also take what they have create to my own work.
6) Andrew Bannecker - Andrew Bannecker is a Graphic Designer, I discovered him in a illustrative book that I got given for Christmas. I found his work most interesting as I like simple and minimalistic style of artwork, thus I want to make my kind of work like that. So I did a bit more research to him and found his website (http://www.andrewbannecker.com/). Not only he is a professional Graphic Designer, he also does animations and illustrations. He also does a lot of advertising for well known companies like Starbucks and Oreo. He inspires me as I want my work to be shown like his, working for companies who like his style of artwork.
7) "The Secret life of Walter Mitty" - Is a fantastic movie, that I would recommend as it has aspects of typography and a creative arty imagination. This movie stars the actor Ben Stiller, as a man called Walter Mitty. He has a typical boring life style, however it has humorous scenes of him imagining himself doing a lot of crazy things that would never could happen realistically. Nevertheless he does find himself going on an adventure of finding a photographer with the last piece of film or picture for the publishing magazine for it to be completed.
8) Leeds - Leeds the city is also very inspiring as we did some research for another brief for recreating a logo for a international or national brand and producing a map for people who do not know the city well. During exploring the city there are many artistic places there to get inspiration of, such as the galleries, statues, events etc. Therefore, the surroundings/architecture/posters are quite inspirational, as there is a lot of art within the city.
9) Cereal - Is a website full of photography which was suggested by another group. So I thought to explore this and I really like it. The layout of the photography is organised and simple, it has a clean and fresh look to it and the colours are very sharp and varied. This inspires me to make my photography skills just as good and capturing simple but effective pictures for my work.
10) Disney's short film "Paperman" - The Disney short film 'Paperman' by John Kahrs is very inspirational to me as it combines computer-generated and hand-drawn animation techniques. It also won an Oscar for its creativeness. The reason why I adore this animation, as Disney have finished with their signature hand drawn 2D animation and I especially loved that style. So I was so happy when I saw this as it was so simple but effective and I though the story line was very loveable, appealing and engaging which is Disney's main purpose of its animation stories. Therefore, I want my work to be inspired by the hand drawn style and graphics as well.
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