Sharnia King Design: Inspiration

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Today's inspirational things:

Postmodern Lettering

Table made of a branch. Combination of natural and synthetic design.

Good package design also good interface design

Modernism, displaying Bauhaus principles of working the eye around the page. Seeing not just looking.

Fluidity

I lived in Stratford, Taranaki for about 5 years and am looking at what I used to take for granted as inspiration. The whole town was based around Shakespeare and his plays. All the streets are named after things to do with him or his plays, the town is even named after Shakespeare's birth place in England.

We have a clocktower with New Zealand’s largest Glockenspiel clock:

I lived on Hamlet Street (not my street sign though):

We have an old fashioned theatre:

And then I realised that there isn't much else in this small town. The idea is really good but the town could be designed to have more features that take people's interest in learning about Shakespeare.

There's also pioneer village which is a cool replica of old time Stratford when the settlers arrived. There are many different types of buildings from the butchery to the blacksmiths, but there are also urban and rural farms to show how all people lived. Its a really fascinating place.

http://www.newzealanddesignblog.com/

http://designcloud.tumblr.com/post/23327039507/optical-illusions-by-justin-fantl-by

http://design.org/inspiration/create-or-die-ryan-frease

http://designcloud.tumblr.com/post/44084223556/water-light-graffiti-by-antonin-fourneau-video

I have always found figure ground relationship very confusing so I thought now would be the perfect time to break it down and learn about it. I have been looking at some images that are more complex examples of figure ground studies, because I can understand the simple ones. The simple ones are easy to understand what is going on because of the obvious light/positive space and the dark/negative space creating the figure ground relationship.

This image is a good example of how using a contrast of black and white defines the foreground and background of the shape within the pattern. This is particularly helpful to help me understand a drawing that has a figure ground relationship but is also three dimensional.

Other examples of figure-ground studies:

I found these patterns in a bookstore while waiting for the bus, they just happened to catch my eye as I was looking through the window at the display.

I was also looking around in Recycle Boutique and saw a really awesome shirt that had a very distinct, patterned material. I had to take a photo.

I have looked and explored the movment and art of Poi. This abstract video have been really helpful in seeing the pattern created by drawing it digitally as well as being able to see how the arms work to create the pattern.

These are some of the common patterns that are displayed when using poi. I used multiple lines to represent the repeating pattern created by the poi.

I have found some images that show good examples of working with light and shadow to create a contrast between the 2D and 3D dimensions.

I have researched the colours I want to include in my pattern. As I am looking at two different cultures, the culture of the police and the Maori culture, I want to combined the colours of the cultural flags. Some of the colours are the same, but some are different. It is these differences that I want to encompass in the colours of my pattern to show how these two cultures have merged into the present day.

I have found some inspiration of exhibition posters that show interesting ways of displaying information. These are to come in useful when creating my own curatorial poster. The show examples of modernism in the form of presenting information, to attract the eye and present the exhibition in an interesting manner.

Inspiration of fluidity

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