Category: Images

  • Photoshop Art Effects

    Photographic creativity: colour, sharpness/focus, abstraction – NikFX and/or Lightroom and/or Camera RawArt brushes and filters – Photoshop/Corel Painter/ iPadMasking and compositing – Photoshop Monochrome Processes Photographic platesfor printmaking Screen printing/lithography duotone positives solarplate??? To prepare photographic positives for photoscreen and photolithography all digital images or photographs need to be converted to greyscale and printed in…

  • Image Resolution

    Pixels and vector graphics There are two distinct ways in which your computer stores visual information digitally: you can have either pixel images or vector graphics. If you take a magnifying glass to any computer screen you will see that it is made up of tiny squares or dots. These are the smallest single components…

  • Concrete poetry

    Source: edited from Wikipedia. References to be followed up and expanded as part of my exploration of experimental typography. Google images You Tube Concrete, pattern, or shape poetry is an arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance. As such, concrete poetry relates more to…

  • David Carson

    David Carson

    David Carson (born September 8, 1954) is an American graphic designer, art director and surfer. He is best known for his innovative magazine design, and use of experimental typography. He worked as a sociology teacher and professional surfer in the late 1970s. From 1982 to 1987, Carson worked as a teacher in Torrey Pines High School in…

  • Dan Eldon

    Dan Eldon

  • Sara Fanelli

    Sara Fanelli

  • Guerilla Girls

    Guerilla Girls, a feminist group fighting sexism in arts practice. Formed in New York in 1985, the group maintain their anonymity by wearing gorilla masks and using the names of dead female artists as pseudonyms, e.g. Frida Kahlo and Hannah HÖch. They put pressure on organisations such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York by…

  • Martha Rosler

    Martha Rosler photos and photomontage to give you some ideas: http://home.earthlink.net/~navva/photo/index.html

  • Jim Goldberg

    Jim Goldberg (born 1953) is an American photographer and writer whose work reflects long-term, in-depth collaborations with neglected, ignored, or otherwise outside-the-mainstream populations. Goldberg photographs sub-cultures, creating photo collages, and including text with his photographs, often written by his subjects.Goldberg is part of the social aims movement in photography, using a straightforward, cinéma vérité approach,…

  • Wendy Ewald

    Pedagogy of Hope Wendy Ewald’s work is directed toward “helping children to see” and using the “camera as a tool for expression.” Starting as documentary investigations of places and communities, Ewald’s projects probe questions of identity and cultural differences. Over thirty eight years she has collaborated in art projects with children, families, women, and teachers…