M SASEK

Paul Rand

whimsical and OGs of illustrator and graph artist

Piet Mondrian

Mondrian is part of De stijil.
De Stijl (Dutch pronunciation: [də ˈstɛɪl], English: /də ˈstaɪl/), Dutch for "The Style", also known as neoplasticism, was a Dutch artistic movement founded in 1917. In a narrower sense, the term De Stijl is used to refer to a body of work from 1917 to 1931 founded in the Netherlands.[1][2] De Stijl is also the name of a journal that was published by the Dutch painter, designer, writer, and critic Theo van Doesburg (1883–1931), propagating the group's theories. Next to van Doesburg, the group's principal members were the painters Piet Mondrian (1872–1944), Vilmos Huszár (1884–1960), and Bart van der Leck (1876–1958), and the architects Gerrit Rietveld (1888–1964), Robert van 't Hoff (1887–1979), and J.J.P. Oud (1890–1963). The artistic philosophy that formed a basis for the group's work is known as neoplasticism — the new plastic art (or Nieuwe Beelding in Dutch).
Proponents of De Stijl sought to express a new utopian ideal of spiritual harmony and order. They advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and colour; they simplified visual compositions to the vertical and horizontal directions, and used only primary colors along with black and white. Indeed, according to the Tate Gallery's online article on neoplasticism, Mondrian himself sets forth these delimitations in his essay 'Neo-Plasticism in Pictorial Art'. He writes, "... this new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary, it should find its expression in the abstraction of form and colour, that is to say, in the straight line and the clearly defined primary colour." The Tate article further summarizes that this art allows "only primary colours and non-colours, only squares and rectangles, only straight and horizontal or vertical line."[3] The Guggenheim Museum's online article on De Stijl summarizes these traits in similar terms: "It [De Stijl] was posited on the fundamental principle of the geometry of the straight line, the square, and the rectangle, combined with a strong asymmetricality; the predominant use of pure primary colors with black and white; and the relationship between positive and negative elements in an arrangement of non-objective forms and lines."

V&A Pattern Series II

Last year, the Victoria and Albert Museum dug into its archives of decorative textile patterns and published its first set of pattern books. Next week, the London museum will release the second set in the series: V&A Pattern Series II. Like the first box set—which included four books arranged by theme and titled William Morris, Indian Florals, Digital Pioneers, and The Fifties—the second series features four books available individually or as a group: Owen Jones, Novelty Patterns, Kimonos, andGarden Florals. In addition to page after page of color images of the textile designs, each hardcover book includes a CD of hi-res images of the featured patterns. If you're in the UK, pick up the individual books or sets on the V&A Shop website or, if you're in the U.S., the books will be available on Amazon for $10.36 each or $31.35 per set. Watch our slideshow for a preview of the designs featured in V&A Pattern Series II.

— Miyoko Ohtake

Read more: http://www.dwell.com/slideshows/v-and-a-pattern-series-ii.html?slide=1&c=y&paused=true#ixzz12BSWjYrX

http://www.dwell.com/slideshows/v-and-a-pattern-series-ii.html?slide=1&c=y&paused=true

OsGemeos from Brazil Graf

http://www.lost.art.br/osgemeos.htm

LIst of Design Books

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Graphic Design as a Second Languageby Bob Gill

101

Interaction of Color: Josef Albers
Graphic Design: A Concise History
Typographie
Graphic Design Manual: Principles and Practice
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul
100 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers
Its Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Want To Be
Meggs History of Graphic Design

202

Graphic Design and Designers
Grid Systems in Graphic Design
Typography: Macro and Micro-aesthetics
The Graphic Artist and His Design Problems
A Life in Typography
Marks of Excellence

303

A History of Visual Communication
Max Bill's Typography, Advertising, Book Design
Typography
Universal Principles of Design

404

Understanding Design
What is a Designer
The Typographic Grid
Typography: Formation and Transformation

Mega force

same guys who did the

Kid Cudi "Pursuit to Happiness" music video.. the good one. not the one with him walkin around the club.

http://www.elnino.tv/category/megaforce/

suitcase speakers

Designing

I've tried to sketch every day and try and design as much as I can. I look and analyze different design pieces and how I can get my stuff to get there and look that good. I've felt like ive gone through so many tutorials for c4d and now I just need to start using it and doing sketches and start putting together to get faster and I feel the more i use the program the faster i get and more time i have to create or come up with more creative solutions instead learning how to do something.

Now days i just try to use and design things for a purpose of animating a certain way which is good. i work smarter not harder.

I find myself just going through and start designing and unload my brain and just let it spew out and then start cutting out and focusing on what im trying to say in the piece or what is my story and asking is it compelling enough and is this me. I am very drawn to lots of different arts and sometimes that can make me lost but by having a story and a reason I also know how to say delete and resized rotate and paste. One thing I hate my work to do is look like others or look like it was cookie cut or made only by a computer which to me looks rigid.

Nothing in reality is perfect. Its when things are put together and contrasting and making up for each other is what is telling a story. Perfection has no conflict, which means there is no story to tell... everything is just dandy. I love math because someone gives you a problem or a puzzle and you solve it. Except in motion graphics, you are given a problem and you recreate and visualize it yourself and then execute your vision. Other course both design, animation, and composite is very important and should coordinating on the same goals and story.

I feel what I bring to the table is the knowledge of different stories of myself and average man and how can I make this speak to all of them in a different way and argue you should do this because A, B, and C. I find the personality and moments in life that which show the complete identity of the object by showing it imagined or exaggerated in a convincing setting.

I am most interested in Mixed media because I think its amazing to have different mediums in one piece. 3D, 2D, hand drawn, and stop motion. But my goal is to have a consistency of being valued piece from the idea to execution. I like mixed media but it can be too much and it might not make sense w the story or distract the viewer. Its also a matter of professionalism, which is time equals money and with less elements and simple animation and simple story means more money in than out and more bang for the buck.

Make your render faster for C4D

http://backroom.renderosity.com/~cinema4d/tips.html

50 motion tips

http://www.computerarts.co.uk/in_depth/features/50_motion_graphics_tips

Demo winter 2009

Demo Reel from jason on Vimeo.

CHocolate Version 1

latest piece

Jacob Valentine- roto
Sam Aono- modeling buildings
Jason Keam- Direction, camera man, composite


Thanks Sam Kim... just because hes my ninja

Chocolate AD from jason on Vimeo.

Chocolate Board

First Day of blogging

Might as well start a blog so I can see how my work has progresssed and to keep track of my photos and stuff i love to make.