3kalbia Industries Art Blog: School

For one of my Design History assignments we had to design a Futurism-inspired poster for our lesson on Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's Futurism movement using a quote. During this assignment, this week actually, I've been processing a lot of visual styles, and learning a lot about my style as well.

Expressionism is where my core is, but it's gated by Graphic Design. I like meshing the random, organic, and at times, chaotic, Expressionism with design elements from Art Nouveau and anything from Modern Design (Constructivism, De Stijl, Bauhaus, Plakastil).

As soon as I get some free time I feel my next personal project is going to be something amazing. There's a strange passion bubbling inside of me, and it's just waiting to attack a canvas.

However, here's the Design History assignment.

We had to create it in Adobe Illustrator.

The quote I used is from Hunter S. Thompson.

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the people that have gone over.
~ Hunter S. Thompson

As always there is more to come...

As I mentioned earlier I've been accepted as an Adobe Software Student Representative this quarter, and in a rush, my fellow colleague, Rachel Douglas, and I put on our first workshop.

We are looking to host a workshop once a month. However, this one was a whirlwind from start to finish. The folks at Adobe announced that if anyone were to host a workshop by the end of the week there would be extra rewards involved. Rachel and I decided, why not! Let's make it happen. So, in two days we conceived, prepared, and presented a workshop. Our workshop was entitled "Starring You!". In preparation for the Oscars we provided students with stills from movies including Jurassic Park, Grease, Titanic, Anchorman, The Shining, and more. Then we took their photos, and showed them how to add themselves into photos.

I had a blast doing this workshop, and working with the kids. They were very eager to learn what we were showing them. So much so, that when I e-mailed them back their finished photos I included a video tutorial on how to do what we did during the workshop.

If anyone is interested in learning more about painting out backgrounds with masks, and importing yourself into photos here is the tutorial I sent to the students.