Creative Future

It was very helpful for me to this brief for creative futures, I heard wonderful talks and saw a lot of brilliant works from students and professionals. I saw a lot at the Creative Futures Week and I did learn a lot from it although I couldn’t understand all the details of those talks because English is not my first language.

I’ll begin with “Motivating yourself to get what you really want” from Denise Chilton as that is the most impressive for me, although she didn’t teach me any skill of game design. An effective persuasive speech includes a summary of the evidence presented. She gave us lots of data from her research, at the same time, she gave each of us a questionnaire. Everyone there thought of how satisfy of their lives, what they really need and what they need most at the time. Also she ask some questions and some of the answers she got were quite fun. I should say the atmosphere there was celebratory and I felt happy when I heard it. 

Although everyone could answer the questions as what motivates you, but I realized it was a problem when she want to get personal goals from audiences and there were few answers. A clear goal could help people works twice as fast and with half the fatigue, but there were few people have personal goal.

Back when I was a kid I wanted to be a animator and I drew on a wall of neighbour, then I wanted to be praised and signed my name, but what I got was just scold. After that I was barred to want to be a animator. Although I am doing this, I still believe drawing can motivate me more if my wish was been supported. I realized the importance of goals through this talk. Ensuring a clear goal is not enough, there will be varied things can stop you. Denise Chilton also told us methods to continue our efforts for our goals. The thing what I learned from this talk may be quite simple but it is really important for my work in the future, it is the most basic thing.

Design studio overview and Insight (Fashion)

                   

Having run a business for 20 years, Jane Davies has worked with many big names in Industry from showcasing alongside Burberry in Kuwait to delivering colour and style predictions to leading design organisations in Wales. The business has sold products globally and has experienced many highs but not without a few lows.
It was very helpful for me to this brief for creative futures, I heard wonderful talks and saw a lot of brilliant works from students and professionals. I saw a lot at the Creative Futures Week and I did learn a lot from it although I couldn’t understand all the details of those talks because English is not my first language.

Background Information on Speaker Designer with own label trading for 20 years, Jane is the Welsh designer who put the red dragon in the fashion limelight - by using the national flag in her outfits.

That was back in the late '90s and since then she has moved north from her native South Wales to Holywell, Flintshire, where she now runs a studio. In 2006 her career took another turn when she became a TV presenter for ITV Wales, hosting the programme Family Fashion.

The Dragon collection was developed in 1999 where at the time Wales was having its own Assembly and holding the Rugby World cup. The concept was created from a Welsh dragon dress made for my niece and the collection developed into a 10 pieces aimed at adults and children. Overnight orders rolled in and sold through websites, independents and department stores globally.

The visual idea caught the attention of the Worlds media and the collection was produced in National flags of the world. Many private orders came from Celebrities, Ambassadors, Media and Governments.

The collection was produced all in Wales which in turn helped the economy and small businesses.

The inspiration came from the colors of the peacock feather itself and the collection was created to showcase at the British Embassy Dubai.  From there the collection was taken as part of Best of British in Kuwait a great achievement for a small company based in Wales.

Pieces of the collection were commissioned by the Chrysler Building New York and awarded ‘Top 10’ at Showcase Ireland.

Talk about peacock feather, in the traditional Chinese culture is the embodiment of beauty, a symbol of the kind, beautiful, elegant, good luck and love. Chinese senior officials of the Qing Dynasty(1636-1912) use the peacock feathers as hat ornaments, called HuaLing (花翎), with one eye, two eyes, three eyes. So-called "eye", refers to the peacock's tail tip color stripes.

Send the peacock's related works of art  is a wish that wish you promotion.

A long time ago, a Chinese ethnic minorities(傣), had already apply the peacock feathers on the adornment of the clothes, ornaments. There is a kind of folk dance in China named peacock dance.

It has great inspiration to me, peacock can be a wonderful element in my work.

Bauhaus School

Bauhaus, is known as 'the cradle of modern design' and made European modernism design movement to an unprecedented height, finally in the second world war development into a new design style, modern design, international socialist style. It was founded from 1919, and forcibly closed in 1933, has a profound influence in the history of modern design education system establishment and the development during 14 years.

In 1919, Bauhaus school established in Weimar is a design university with architecture primarily and including textile, ceramic, metal, glass, printing, stage art and murals many other professional design. Its purpose is to create an artistic and technical standards in the education environment, and develop the suitable for mechanical age ideal modern design talent, create a new kind of design education mode.

In 1925, Bauhaus moved, started its new mature development period. In the local government's support, Walter Gropius(the first president of Bauhaus) designed  a multi-functional, comprehensive completion of the new school. In the design, Gropius using a very simple form and modern materials, processing method, highly stressed functionalization principle, the whole building without any decoration. It become the 1920 s best masterpiece in modernistic design, modern architectural history has a milestone in the twentieth century,  has produced profound influence in modern architectural design.

 The Bauhaus' teachers and students do a large number of design product in the teaching and learning process, many design with its typical modernist features lead the design area, it make the Bauhaus become the international center in modern design.

Although the history of Bauhaus only had 14 years, but it has an indelible contribution in modernism movement's  development, the establishment of the modernist design features and modern socialist education system , it is an important milestone in modernistic design, it has enormous and far-reaching influence.

Constructivism.

What i am learnt from itself is like lead people to found the emphasis (focal point.)
the way to achieve it is just accept point line,and range this components to balance the structure of it picture self. like proportions scales comparisons and construct.
question is how to use it and make the idea affections.

Constructivism has a very big breakthrough in art, perfect and create a more modern design theory and forms, its "form far away from the concrete, pay attention to create pure forms of visual picture" of the whole new concept of modeling, injected fresh blood into graphic design.

In a word, construction is a subject of visual language, is a design language which have all kinds of similarity of all kinds of design, because in many design field is inseparable from the modeling, scale, space, color, texture, factors such as dimension sense. The design of material, modeling, color need to use aesthetic vision to combination, so, consisting of the visual language, way of thinking, form exploration,  have a lot of inspiration to the world art and graphic design concept.

The suprematism

Suprematism, like it self it is a kind of using the abstract geometric drawing art sport.
for me . the important things they suggesting me is like semiotics isolated the images, groupe with totally different things. we can put it in the architecture,also graphic picture design, and products design as well.

In 1913, Malevich's  cubism suddenly turned to a chart type image together, constitute half rebus, half poster type property. This picture "an Englishman in Moscow" is a typical example.

In this picture, the image with the logical way to coordinate, is a former dadaism idea. In this picture, there are Russian churches, sabre, candles, scissors, text, saws, fish and ladder, etc., completely according to the artist's feeling and exist in the picture disorderly. Their size is uneven and things is no cennection for associate factors.

Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

   Kazimir Severinovich Malevich was born in February 23, 1878 in Kiev. His parents are with polish descent, birth nine children, by his father management sugarhouse income, a large family lived a well-off life. His father's work need to run from one place to another place in villages and towns, from childhood he is familiar with the rural life. More than ten years old, he see a group of artists from st. Petersburg come out to the countryside decoration church, this lit his paintings, he began to study enthusiasm, the farmers and rural scenery as describe object. Before long, he met Pimonenko in Kiev art school, and enter the Kiev art school start learning. But the professional study could not continue, in 1896, when his father go to Kursk railway departments for work, he had to stop learning, along with the family moved to Kursk. He got a drawing of the work there, and then get married, started a new life. When he is 21 years old, nobody can see his future development.

   Fortunately, in Kursk, he met a group of young people who love art, they make up a local art community together, painting together with the joint exhibitions and had a meaningful happy time. But this kind of remote areas of the art activity far cannot satisfy him, he finally move to Moscow in 1904, hopes to get a formal art education, to improve his skill.
  When he arrived Moscow, he enter a famous private cram school , ready to have an examination to enter Moscow painting sculpture institute of architecture. But
things go athwart, from 1905 to 1907, Malevich can't pass the exam, always can't get into the longing for a full and best academy of fine arts. Until 1910, he just stay in the studio.

Suprematist Composition

White on White

Living conditions has not been very good, since 1933, Malevich feel unhealthy. In 1934, he was diagnosed with cancer. At the end of his life, he want to go to a doctor's marxism abroad didn't come true. On May 15th, 1935, Malevich died in his home. In accordance with his wishes, Malevich's ashes were buried in village under an oak tree. The world war ii destroyed it, the Soviet union also don't mention Malevich for a long time, until 1988, Leningrad Russian museum held an anniversary for him.  Tombstone design is reproduced in Malevich's favorite supremacy square. Nowadays, Malevich are already not a person that just few artists and appreciator  know, but a artist who was wrote in each twenty century history book of art as a big shot, recognized as a pioneer of geometry abstract art, an artist who have great influence on the development of abstract art.

The Futurists

   Futurism is originated in twenty century art trend.  The future socialist thought mainly produce and development  in Italy, but also to other countries have been affected, particularly Russia.

In the art field, creativity comes from the development of the society and the innovation of art, creative rooted in the society and art. For the futurist, as long as see things in an entirely different way, as long as to destroy follow one's inclinations practice action (this follow one's inclinations practice always want to browse leading position), art will have a new meaning: that is, we should refuse to already familiar format, from violence and ruthlessness, from the center of the injustice and aggressive absorb nutrition, not only to force yourself to take cautious attitude, and full of enthusiasm and passion. Futurist willing to celebrate life and freedom, they are about their age on the problems that attitude, and express the political and cultural universal Germanic socialist rejected as well as to the authority of the fort hals shame, promote to trent holder and trieste implement open territory regain socialist, and also show them from the war, the intake of blazing inspiration war as "the world's only savior".

   Teenagers want to change the world through design. Designers show their meaning in manifesto, and manifesto include many media like posters and magazines.
   Futurists were well versed and practiced in nearly every field of art including painting, illustrating ceramics, sculpture, graphic design, interior design, theatre, film,
literature, music and architecture.
   It was a movement that particularly despised not just certain aspects of classical antiquity, but everything that was not totally new.

No deny that the futurism admitted that art is a means to understanding and reflection life, did variety of novel test, and has its contribution  in growth performance technique. But as a result of this genre poets are mostly from the standpoint of the subjective idealism, some expression to extreme, infinite exaggerated, often make them to the point of absurdity. Futurist poetry and drama stressed intuition, with messy imagination, mysterious consciousness, reflect inscrutable things, performance morbid, dreams, the dark night and even sing praise to death. It is the similarities with futurism and other modernist art. Some western critics said, in early Western Europe symbolism, has seen a futuristic sprout, and in subsequent modernist literature and art, from Luigi Pirandello's weird play, to French Theatre of the Absurd, all can see the futurism's  shadow.

Luigi Pirandello