Online Artist #5 David Airey

Alex Ingram

Alex Ingram is a colleague of mine in the Arts & Technology. We have taken classes from photo courses to video, so I know of his work. I also had a chance to work with him in the Communications department as a graphic design intern, even though we didn't have any projects together, I still see him in the office and see the work he does.

When Alex came into our class to talk about his plan after graduating, I was happy that he got into an awesome art school with Pratt. He mentioned that the work he put into his portfolio and stuff for his application to graduate school was a lot more grueling compared to the work he's done here at school. He talked about how important it was to put yourself as an artist out there, by setting up a portfolio, a website of your best work, and blogs about your work and thought behind it. Its important to set up an online portfolio because people will look at it and you never know who will be looking and could possibly be a great opportunity. 

Ash Thorp

When Ash Thorp came into our class and talked about his life after college. I was really amazed at how far hes gotten in the art field and how everything is coming into place for him. I really liked how he didn't stop learning new programs and honing his skills on the art programs. He would buy tutorials online that he would need so that he can use that in projects for himself or for employers. All that work paid off when he told us that he got a job at Prologue. To be honest, i didn't know what that was, but when he explained what they do. I was stunned that he was able to have a shot in that kind of industry. Especially someone that came from the same university that I am attending. It goes to show, it don't matter what school you attend, whether it is a private art institute or university, it is the skills you obtain that you obtain and the will power to keep on learning and improving. 

Online Artist #5 David Airey

I found another graphic designer who has more of a professional online portfolio and his name is David Airey. Airey has accomplished a lot as an artist of different mediums. On his website, http://www.davidairey.com/category/graphic-design/, I found it easy to view and is organize, so you can visually see what he has done. He has categorized all his work in different links, he has done works from graphic design, advertising, photography, typography, web and etc.

Berthier


Aspect 46


Giacom

Online Artist #4 Janis

I was searching through graphic designers, and I came across a portfolio of a guy from Riga, Latvia named Janis. He has an online portfolio of his work in a website he called Dreamerlines. In his portfolio, he organized his work well to where he separated his work from web designs, to logo designs, print designs, artworks and animations. What is amazing about this designer is that he has work in different fields of art, from web design, graphic design and animation. Included in his portfolio are soundtracks that he's made.

Volkswagon


Dreamerforest



DJ

One Love 2/23/2008

One Love by Eric Sevilla | BOOK INFO

Online Artist #3: Cristiano Siqueira

Online Artist #2: Chris

While surfing the web, I searched for shoes and vector designs and see what I would get out of it. And I came across a series of illustrations of shoes by a guy named Chris. I wanted to fuse my shoe pictures I have taken and use skills I've learned from Adobe Illustration and turn it into a new work of art.

Online Artist #1: Shaun Venish

I found some artwork online from Shaun Venish and was inspired by it. His work resembled mine in a way because it looks illustrated and designed in a art style that I like doing, which is vector design. Like me as an inspiring graphic artist, Venish focuses on graphic art and illustration designs in logos, posters, and magazine designs.

Poster 3

Katherine Westerhout

Katherine Westerhout is a very inspiring photographer. Her shots consists of bringing something back to life through her photos. She uses abandon buildings that have a great history to it and also has an amazing architectural structure to it. She uses the element of old and decay building with a combination of lighting at the right moment and time to capture its beauty and bring it back to life in a way, as if the place gets risen through the light.

Edward Burtynsky

Edward Burtynskyhad a very interesting topic to focus on in his video and photographs. His focus was on the waste, particularly the electronic waste, like what happens to those electronics when it is being disposed of. In the video, it portrayed the people behind the clean up and how unsanitary and how it is highly risky to be working in that kind of condition and environment. It is interesting to see little kids there on site either using that place as a playground to play or actually helping out and working. If its unsafe for adults to be there, then for sure it is more unsafe for the little children to be there.

Photoframe

Here are some experiments that later became actual pages in my final book project. Here you see photoframes around the photos and some around the actual page it self. There is one texture behind one of the layouts.

Posters

Poster 2


Poster 1

Artist Book: The Long Love

Here is my artist book that I created in class. The book I used was titled, The Long Love, and I decided to title that as my piece as well. When I was making this book, I had no paths or plan on what to do with this book. I simply just grabbed a xacto knife and started cutting inside the pages to see what it would look like. After awhile, I found myself cutting deeper and deeper into the pages of the book and I kept on going and going. Then it came to me, and decided to keep cutting through because I had a plan now of what to do. I've seen before, keepsake books like average looking books and when you open it, theres a little storage place to keep something valuable in it. And so I decided to make one. Here are a few scan images of how it turned out. When I was done cutting, the edges around where I cut were rough and messy, so make it cleaner, I decided to wrap it with another paper and cover the edges so it would look and be smooth, so that no cuts will be coming out or showing up.

Mark Bradford

Mark Bradford's type of art is very interesting and rather unique in a way. Bradford creates collages and installation art pieces that are wall sized. His work correlates with the economy, community, and public space within the city. The materials he uses are what he finds and scavenges around city buildings and streets.

Barry McGee/Margaret Kilgallen

It was interesting to see hand crafted art work still being used. Now a days, it is much easier to make it digitally and print it out somewhere in a form and size. But after seeing McGee and Kilgallen take art back to being hand drawn was interesting. It would take weeks or months to finish one big painting of something that is hand painted. Doing something hand made does have its advantages, because anything can be your canvas. In the video, they've used trains, walls, buildings, and etc. Its like the whole world is your canvas to draw on it. Some people will think when they see graffiti somewhere that its damaged property and that the building or where ever graffiti is done on doesn't make it look nice anymore. But to artist, graffiti is another medium to express oneself artistically. They think it makes a world a more colorful place with their graffiti art. 

Linda Zacks

The artist I looked up was Linda Zacks. I focused more of her work using blurb to create a book out of her findings. Looking through her book, was like looking through a scrap book that had this unique collaborate art work in it. Her book, NYC Soul City, had this urban street feel to it which you can only get when your in New York. She showed her collections that she found in New York and edited or tampered with it in some way that gave it that grungy feel which made it more interesting. 

1000 Journals Part 1

After watching the first half of the video of 1000 Journals. It was interesting that this project that Someguy came up with was able to get people involved in adding stuff into the journal. It was amazing to see the journal tell stories of where its been around the world and the people it came in contacted with. It was as if the whole world became connected through this journal. Not only connect people from around the world, but it also brought back their creativity back that has been forgotten or lost over the years. After watching this, I was hoping that the journals are still in circulation and people are still putting stuff into the journal. It would be great if I was able to get my hands on one of them and see the pages where it has been and for me to put something onto that journal as well.
After watching what Someguy did to the journals, got me motivated to do a project similar to this but keep it centered around cal state san marcos. To see what students and faculty will add to this book if they got their hands on it. To be able to know what students are adding on it no matter what major or interests they have. Even the faculty, no matter what kind of professor or faculty member. The possibility to put something on the journal are endless. It would be amazing to see how cal state san marcos could be connected through a journal like this.