Bauhaus Notes
.found by Gropius 1919
.doesberg taught  began teaching 1922
.moved to dessaus 1925
.1926 new building finished
.architecture class 1927
.Gropius left, hanneys lead 1928
.photograph class 1929
hanneys left 1930
.Bauhaus moved to berlin 1932
.Bauhaus closed by Nazis 1933

Josef Albers

Albers was a German-American was a painter, sculptor, architect and teacher who became Bauhaus master in 1925. He started studying art in Munich, then the Bauhaus in the early 1920's. He was asked to begin teaching a glass workshop at the Bauhaus in 1923 that mixed painting, crafts and design. In 1925 Albers moved with the Bauhaus to Dessau and then Berlin, teaching glass making and furniture design.

After the final closure of the Bauhaus in 1933, Albers moved to America and gained his citizenship in 1939 he taught at Black Mountain college and Yale university and painted some of his most famous pieces such as the square series where he experimented with colour theory this inspired Albers to create further series such as Variants, Biconjugates, Structural Constellations, and his sandblasted glass paintings.  Albers died in New Haven in 1976. The same year, the Josef Albers Foundation was established, and, in 1983, a museum dedicated to the artist was opened in Bottrop, Germany.

Oskar Schlemmer

Oskar Schlemmer studied applied graphic design at a marquetry workshop in Stuttgart from 1903 to 1905. Between 1906 and 1910, he studied for one semester at the school of applied arts in Stuttgart and then received a scholarship to the city’s Akademie der bildende Künste (academy of art). In 1911/12, Schlemmer worked as a freelance painter in Berlin and made contact with Herwarth Walden’s gallery, Der Sturm. In 1912, he returned to Stuttgart and became one of Adolf Hölzel’s master students. In 1913/14, he opened and directed the Neuer Kunstsalon (new art salon) in the Neckartor district. Together with Willi Baumeister and Hermann Stenner, he designed murals for the main hall of the Deutscher Werkbund (German Work Federation) exhibition in Cologne in 1914. From 1914 to 1918, he served in the war. In 1920, he produced his first figurines for the Triadic Ballet, which was first performed in Stuttgart in 1922.

In January 1921, Schlemmer was appointed by Walter Gropius as one of the first masters at the Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. As a master of form, he initially directed the wall painting department (alternating with Johannes Itten) and the stone sculpture workshop, and he also taught life drawing. From 1922 to 1923, he directed the stone sculpture workshop, the wood sculpture workshop (and the metal workshop temporarily) as a master of form. He also continued to teach life drawing. For the Bauhaus exhibition held in Weimar in 1923, Schlemmer contributed significantly to the fields of wall design, painting, sculpture, print graphics, advertising and the stage. From 1923 to 1929, he was the head of the stage workshop at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau. In 1927/28, he taught figure drawing and offered his course Der Mensch (the human being) from 1928. Schlemmer was the director of the Bauhaus stage’s national tour in 1928/29. He left the Bauhaus on 11th July 1929.

Triadisches Ballett
Inspired in part by Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and his observations and experiences during the First World War, Oskar Schlemmer began to conceive of the human body as a new artistic medium. He saw ballet and pantomime as free from the historical baggage of theatre and opera and thus able to present his ideas of choreographed geometry, man as dancer, transformed by costume, moving in space.
The idea of the ballet was based on the principle of the trinity. It has 3 acts, 3 participants (2 male, 1 female), 12 dances and 18 costumes. Each act had a different colour and mood. The first three scenes, against a lemon yellow background to affect a cheerful, burlesque mood; the two middle scenes, on a pink stage, festive and solemn and the final three scenes, on black, were intended to be mystical and fantastic.
He saw the movement of puppets and marionettes as aesthetically superior to that of humans, as it emphasised that the medium of every art is artificial. This artifice could be expressed through stylised movements and the abstraction of the human body. His consideration of the human form (the abstract geometry of the body e.g. a cylinder for the neck, a circle for head and eyes) led to the all important costume design, to create what he called his ‘figurine'. The music followed and finally the dance movements were decided.
Schlemmer saw the modern world driven by two main currents, the mechanised (man as machine and the body as a mechanism) and the primordial impulses (the depths of creative urges). He claimed that the choreographed geometry of dance offered a synthesis, the Dionysian and emotional origins of dance, becomes strict and Apollonian in its final form.



video art

Video Art

Kenneth Anger

Anger was an underground film maker in america striking popularity in the early 1960's he had been making films since the late 1930's. His work focused around controvercial subjects such as homosexuality, Nazism, drug use and the popularity of evil figures.

Angers films were almost always over dubbed with sound tracks rather than the actual sounds of the filming excluding the occasional sound effects. 

Anger had a huge obsession of the occult and oftern included satanic imagery into his films.

often Anger would include small thing into his films (often obscured) as a clue as to what is to happen in the future such as in "Scorpio Rising" where a tall cloaked figure is seen in the background whilst Scorpio is preparing to leave his home symbolising that death is soon to come to Scorpio.

During Angers work in the 60's he was a regular user of the hallucinogenic drug LSD and made his films in a way to heighten his high whilst watching.

Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969) is an 11-minute film directed, edited, and photographed by Kenneth Anger. The music was composed by Mick Jagger playing a Moog synthesizer. It was filmed in San Francisco at the Straight Theater on Haight Street and the William Westerfeld House (the former "Russian Embassy" nightclub).
According to Kenneth Anger, the film was assembled from scraps of the first version of Lucifer Rising. It includes clips of the cast smoking out of a skull, and the publicly filmed Satanic funeral ceremony for a pet cat.

Dissonant Film

A dissonent film is usually a mix of twisted and chaotic imagery that can often be very controversial. They usually are made to shock the seances 

packaging for Dave

Product Design

The aim is to create a new product that can help the creative flow of its user, it should be able to Increase focus, energy and memory.

I aim to make a product that can be used without having to disrupt work (e.g. not hand used but is portable)

I had the idea of a burnable incense that could be lit and left to release scents into the room each different to suit different moods.

Incense

1. Incense is aromatic biotic material which releases fragrant smoke when burned. The term refers to the material itself, rather than to the aroma that it produces. Incense is usually made of a mix of dried herbs or plants with scented oils, charcoals, wood fibbers and natural adhesives bound around ether a metal or wooden stick.
   
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   My products will be a range of burnable incenses under the brand name of 'AromA', I have tried to develop a sleek and modern logo resembling the smoke trail of burning incense that flows perfectly into the brand name.
   

   

   
   

   

   
   

   

   
   

   

   in the end I decided upon the ink in water logo however the image I used was from the Internet so I recreated the image myself and created this

   

   I kept the image black and white to allow me to change its colour to fit the theme of each product (e.g purple for lavender) I was happy with this image as it captures the natural curves that smoke creates. However this image has a very wide shape rather than the smooth thin shape that I was looking for and will have to be developed further.

   
   

   Smells and their mental effects

   
   

   I also looked into the mental and physical effects of scents, I chose these 6 scents as each one had an effect that was individual to it, meaning I would be able to create a wider range of product.

   Lemon

   .boosts concentration

   .removes aggressive/anxious/run down feelings

   Lavender

   .removes emotional stress

   .calms nerves

   .removes depressed feelings and headaches/migraines

   Jasmine

   .Boosts confidence and optimistic feelings

   .boosts energy levels

   Rosemary

   .increases memory

   .fights exhaustion, headaches and mental fatigue

   Cinnamon

   .fights mental fatigue

   .boosts concentration and focus levels

   Peppermint

   .boosts energy

   .invigorates the mind

   .stimulates clear thinking
   
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   I looked into the packaging used for incense and found that is usually stored in long thin polygonal prisms supported by a card tube to protect their contents. I have made several versions of these prisms for my packaging but plan to create something that would stand out against other forms of incense. 

   
   

   

   
   

   

   
   

   the two images above were my first design however they were far too short to fit a standard incense stick and were far too wide as about 2o sticks can fit in a 2cm by 2cm space, I used my smoke image to create the design on the packaging

   
   

   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   

   
   

   the above packaging is my latest design (from late November) this was based on the size and shape of common incense packaging however the packaging itself seemed far too bland.

   
   

   
   

   
   

   Product

   
   

   I plan to make 3 separate scents, lavender, to calm the user and relive emotional stress. Peppermint, to boost creative flow and cinnamon to boost energy levels.
   These products will be aimed at people from all walks of life as these are the three main things that slow productivity. 
   
   Final designs
   
   I remade my packaging and redesigned it. I made a basic template in neutral colours so I would be able to alter the colours and product names.
   

   

   Lull lavender

   

   Rejuvenating Jasmin

   

   Pickup peppermint

   

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   Information graphics are visual information guides that show the use of a product. I wanted mine to be made up of simple flowing illustrations that link to the calming effect of my product.

   I drew all of my images in pencil before editing them in photoshop.

   
   

   

   
   

   

   
   

   

   
   

   

   
   

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   When I first put my images into photoshop I realised they were very thick and needed to be slimed down and redrawn to regain their flowing form, I drew around in red and then traced over in black to give me my flowing shapes.

   
   

   

   
   

   

   
   
   

   

   
   
   

   

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   Once I recreated my images I put them into Illustrator and added written instructions, I also added contact information and warnings to the bottom of the sheet.

   
   

   
   

   
   

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   A point of sale is a shelving unit that is used to place your product to make it stand out from the rest.

   
   

   

   
   

   I created my pos in Illustrator, once made it will have three individual shelves for each of my products.

   
   

   

   
   

   I coloured the pos net in Photoshop, I used a gradient tool to give a softer transition to each shelf and product, the three colours were chosen to represent each product. 

   I used the image of the burning incense from my info graphics on each side to break up the colours and the logo was placed at the top.

   I wanted to try adding the smoke effect I used on my packaging on the pos but when I tried colouring it with gradient it lost its form and came out as a solid shape with no texture.

   
   

   Looking Back

   
   

   When looking back at my work I wasn't as comfortable with some of the final choices I made for a logo and packaging design. I felt the logo was very basic and didn't have a great deal of visual impact or show any idea to what it could be a logo for (for example the block text AROMA could be for a deodorant company) I wanted a logo that could easily be recognisable as an incense brand and wanted to incorporate the incense stick itself into the logo of the product.

   
   

   

   
   

   

   For my first design I worked close to my previous logo with the block AROMA surounded by a box, I stuck with the same typography but replaced the fraim with two incense sticks

   
   

   
   

   

   For the second logo I used incense sticks to form the As in the logo, I felt that this was a much more chic design however I felt that the text overpowered the incense sticks

   
   

   

   for my final design I wanted to make a logo made entirely from incense sticks and looked at the CFTHY logo as inspiration as it followed the same idea of straight lines making letters.

   I  felt that this logowas much stronger than my original and showed a little  more individuality ralther than straight block letters.

   

   I made a mock up design of the packaging with the new logoto see how it would look. I removed the smoke effect that was originally on the box as it didnt look refined or elegant enough so I replaced it with the silhouette of an incense stick to break the space between the two logos. I felt this made the job of colouring much easier as well especially for the Rejuvinating Jasmin that was solid white with a yellow blob of smoke placed on it.

   
   

   

   With the new logo i also decided to make an advertisment poster to go with it, however this was a very last minute decision on how the logo could be used for things other than the packaging. Looking at it now I believe if I had more time at hand i would have illustrated the poster by hand and then manipulated it in photoshop, however I feel that the new logo works well as a very interesting form of typography.
   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

Art from Tablet

Art History

The Pre-Raphaelites

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (also known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The three founders were joined by William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner to form the seven-member "brotherhood".
The group's intention was to reform art by rejecting what it considered the mechanistic approach first adopted by Mannerist artists who succeeded Raphael and Michelangelo. Its members believed the Classical poses and elegant compositions of Raphael in particular had been a corrupting influence on the academic teaching of art, hence the name "Pre-Raphaelite". In particular, the group objected to the influence of Sir Joshua Reynolds, founder of the English Royal Academy of Arts, whom they called "Sir Sloshua". To the Pre-Raphaelites, according to William Michael Rossetti, "sloshy" meant "anything lax or scamped in the process of painting ... and hence ... any thing or person of a commonplace or conventional kind". In contrast, the brotherhood wanted a return to the abundant detail, intense colours and complex compositions of Quattrocento Italian art. The group associated their work with John Ruskin, an English artist whose influences were driven by his religious background.
Through the PRB initials, the brotherhood announced in coded form the arrival of a new movement in British art. The group continued to accept the concepts of history painting and mimesis, imitation of nature, as central to the purpose of art. The Pre-Raphaelites defined themselves as a reform movement, created a distinct name for their form of art, and published a periodical, The Germ, to promote their ideas. The group's debates were recorded in the Pre-Raphaelite Journal.

The P.R.B

James Collinson: (9 May 1825 – 24 January 1881 London) was a Victorian painter who was a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood from 1848 to 1850.

William Holman Hunt (2 April 1827 – 7 September 1910) was an English painter, and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882) was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, and was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones.

William Michael Rossetti (25 September 1829 – 5 February 1919) was an English writer and critic.

Frederic George Stephens (1828 – 9 March 1907) was an art critic, and one of the two 'non-artistic' members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Thomas Woolner (17 December 1825 – 7 October 1892) was an English sculptor and poet who was one of the founder-members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was the only sculptor among the original members.

Raphael

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (April 6 or March 28, 1483 – April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.
Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates.

The Renascence

The Renaissance (from French: Renaissance "re-birth", Italian: Rinascimento, from rinascere "to be reborn") was a cultural movement that spanned the period roughly from the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. Though availability of paper and the invention of metal movable type sped the dissemination of ideas from the later 15th century, the changes of the Renaissance were not uniformly experienced across Europe.
As a cultural movement, it encompassed innovative flowering of Latin and vernacular literatures, beginning with the 14th-century resurgence of learning based on classical sources, which contemporaries credited to Petrarch, the development of linear perspective and other techniques of rendering a more natural reality in painting, and gradual but widespread educational reform.
In politics, the Renaissance contributed the development of the conventions of diplomacy, and in science an increased reliance on observation. Historians often argue this intellectual transformation was a bridge between the Middle Ages and Modern history. Although the Renaissance saw revolutions in many intellectual pursuits, as well as social and political upheaval, it is perhaps best known for its artistic developments and the contributions of such polymaths as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, who inspired the term "Renaissance man".
There is a consensus that the Renaissance began in Florence, Italy, in the 14th century. Various theories have been proposed to account for its origins and characteristics, focusing on a variety of factors including the social and civic peculiarities of Florence at the time; its political structure; the patronage of its dominant family, the Medici; and the migration of Greek scholars and texts to Italy following the Fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Ottoman Turks.

Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau (style of art, architecture and applied art, especially the decorative arts, that was most popular during 1890–1910). English uses the French name Art nouveau ("new art"), but the style has many different names in other countries. A reaction to academic art of the 19th century, it was inspired by natural forms and structures, not only in flowers and plants, but also in curved lines. Architects tried to harmonize with the natural environment.
Art Nouveau is considered a "total" art style, embracing architecture, graphic art, interior design, and most of the decorative arts including jewellery, furniture, textiles, household silver and other utensils and lighting, as well as the fine arts. According to the philosophy of the style, art should be a way of life. For many well-off Europeans, it was possible to live in an art nouveau-inspired house with art nouveau furniture, silverware, fabrics, ceramics including tableware, jewellery, cigarette cases, etc. Artists desired to combine the fine arts and applied arts, even for utilitarian objects.
Although Art Nouveau was replaced by 20th-century Modernist styles, it is now considered as an important transition between the eclectic historic revival styles of the 19th-century and Modernism.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (7 June 1868 – 10 December 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist. He was a designer in the post impressionist movement and also the main representative of Art Nouveau in the United Kingdom. He had considerable influence on European design.

Arts and Crafts Movement
The Arts and Crafts Movement was one of the most influential, profound and far-reaching design movements of modern times. It began in Britain around 1880 and quickly spread across America and Europe before emerging finally as the Mingei (Folk Crafts) movement in Japan.
It was a movement born of ideals. It grew out of a concern for the effects of industrialisation: on design, on traditional skills and on the lives of ordinary people. In response, it established a new set of principles for living and working. It advocated the reform of art at every level and across a broad social spectrum, and it turned the home into a work of art.
The Movement took its name from the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, founded in 1887, but it encompassed a very wide range of like-minded societies, workshops and manufacturers. Other countries adapted Arts and Crafts philosophies according to their own needs. While the work may be visually very different, it is united by the ideals that lie behind it.
This was a movement unlike any that had gone before. Its pioneering spirit of reform, and the value it placed on the quality of materials and design, as well as life,
shaped the world we live in today.

John Ruskin
John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, water-colourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political economy. His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. Ruskin penned essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. The elaborate style that characterised his earliest writing on art was later superseded by a preference for plainer language designed to communicate his ideas more effectively. In all of his writing, he emphasised the connections between nature, art and society. He also made detailed sketches and paintings of rocks, plants, birds, landscapes, and architectural structures and ornamentation.

William Morris
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist. Associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement, he was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. His literary contributions helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, while he played a significant role in propagating the early socialist movement in Britain.

Art Deco
Art Deco, or Deco, is an influential visual arts design style that first appeared in France after World War I and began flourishing internationally in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s before its popularity waned after World War II. It is an eclectic style that combines traditional craft motifs with Machine Age imagery and materials. The style is often characterized by rich colours, bold geometric shapes and lavish ornamentation.
Deco emerged from the interwar period when rapid industrialisation was transforming culture. One of its major attributes is an embrace of technology. This distinguishes Deco from the organic motifs favoured by its predecessor Art Nouveau.
Historian Bevis Hillier defined Art Deco as "an assertively modern style [that] ran to symmetry rather than asymmetry, and to the rectilinear rather than the curvilinear; it responded to the demands of the machine and of new material and the requirements of mass production".
During its heyday, Art Deco represented luxury, glamour, exuberance and faith in social and technological progress.

Film

Dissonance has several meanings, all related to conflict or incongruity:Consonance and dissonance in music are properties of an interval or chord (the quality of a discord)Cognitive dissonance is a state of mental conflict.
Dissonance in poetry is the deliberate avoidance of assonance, i.e. patterns of repeated vowel sounds.
Dissonance in poetry is similar to cacophony and the opposite of euphony.
Dissonance (album), a 2009 album by Enuff Z'NuffCultural dissonance is an uncomfortable sense experienced by people in the midst of change in their cultural environment.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JQiX0wXwhYU

Health and safety

HEALTH AND SAFETY

Health and safety is a very important part of the work place and there is an enormous range of images and posters to promote health and safety ranging from the more formal symbols to humour and full gore. 

Standerd health and safety symbols used world wide

A common safety poster found on construction sites

A more informal approach to using Personal Protective Equipment that can sometimes be more effective

as grim as it is, graphic pictures of the results of poor health and safety are also very effective, much like the imagery now shown on cigaret packets

Some franchises have released health and safety posters that make passers by more familiar with by seeing a character or image they recognise on a poster.

The four images seen above are my own versions of health and safety/ behavioural posters, I chose to take a more minimalistic approach to my designs so that the message is received much quicker than a more busy poster. I stuck to a minimum of 3 colours that contrasted well with one another, this helped  the image and text to be seen better from a distance and also saves on printing costs. I stuck with a similar theme with all of my designs where a central image would be sandwiched between text in a bold font and surrounded with a thick black border, this similarity between designs shows that they are a set and makes them much easy to remember. I tried to mix the humorous and formal elements of health and safety signs together to create my posters as I felt it would allow them to be taken seriously but not seem boring when seen.

When I printed off my example posters I felt that they were very strong designs but also noticed there was large empty spaces on some of my first designed (the bottom row) so I began to look at the spacing of my text to create a more filled image that would be more visually engaging. 

Finalising designs

As our group progressed towards finishing our designs we felt that a good flow of consistency would make the posters look more like a group rather than having a wide variety in designs. Below is our groups original designs and the designs we made by following a brief.

Our groups designs following the brief

Our groups individual work

When we started to make our designs all stick to a basic look we began by having our images in yellow and white on a black background as these colours contrast well and represent hazards and warnings.

We then had to use our own imagery to avoid copy right issues. Once we had our images we had to upload them into photoshop, put them into black and white, add a yellow and white duo tone and then add a fresco filter, we then made the images more engaging by editing curves and layers.

Here are my final two designs, my themes were Forklift awareness and Spatial awareness. My images were taken from work where I had access to a forklift and in college itself where we have a wide variety of PPE on site. Their copy lines were writ in Impact and the information at the bottom of the poster was writ in 12pt Helvetica, the images were cropped into squares and cut off with round edged squares. all over I felt these designs were much more visually engaging than my original ones as they will look more noticeable over a solid white wall.