Experimental Illustration, Vol.2

I have been working some illustrations in my free time, and I am really enjoying the time I have spend on those images. I am hoping that I had some progress since my first illustrations, however it is not very easy to decide the color palette, the shapes and their positions. I am developing those images mostly on Photoshop with the help of my drawing tablet and it is amazing to discover what you can do when you position right shadows and highlights at the right places.

Little Treasures, Vintage Shop, Poster, 500x700mm

It's much more easy to create woman's silhouette rather than man's. And I really like to exaggerate the neck line and legs a little, this gives the images a different, kind of a cartoon touch I believe. Therefore, I'm having a hard time to create a signature style, because I'm keep discovering new aspects of illustration, as much as I study the body moves, especially the hands. I am hoping that I will have a certain approach in time.

Prim and Polished, That's how I like it!, Poster, 500x700mm

Prim and Polished, Retro Shop, Poster, 500x700mm

The image above is my favorite so far. It was so much fun to work on this one, and I also love designing the clothes as well. Moreover, I believe that faded colors fit really well if you want to create a vintage effect on your illustrations. I love those two greens, hope I can capture the soul of vintage and 50s in all images.

For more illustrations please check: www.dilsahdesign.com

Vote for the 50s!, Poster, 500x700mm

Major Project: Research - Gotta Share!

I am trying to build an outline for my major project, that is why I am expanding my research about collaborative consumption in order to came up with actual solutions. The whole notion of collaborative consumption is amazing, there are tons of research, articles and videos spinning around on the internet about this new movement. However, most of the research is done by authors or social innovators, and they are not very marketable or user friendly for most people to adopt. Moreover, since sharing is a very abstract concept, I feel that it is going to be a challenge for me to design an identity, a campaign and an interface for the solution. Therefore, my last two projects showed me that, the real solution for the environmental contamination and global warming is not recycling tons and tons of garbage we compose everyday or a crazy scientific invention which will change the world, the real solution is all about changing the way behave about the problem. So I am going more deep this time and my aim is to carry this online sharing craziness into offline part of our lives too. 

Major Project Maps, Collaborative Consumption, Vol.4

I was watching Tony Deifell's speech called "Seeing Beyond Sight" at TED about my research. Tony Deifell is managing director of Q Media Labs, which explores how to change the world through media, technology and business. Besides his bright career, he is also teaching photography art to blind children. And at his speech he told an amazing folktale about sharing, which was:

"The creator of the world has a lamp which lights the whole world and she gave them the lamp to her twin sons to share, but they fought over the lamp and it dropped and broken into million pieces, and scatted across the world and today each one of us posess a small piece of that lamp and our work in the world -no matter what- bringing the pieces of the lamp together to make the lamp whole, to bring the light back to the world. But the trick is even though we have one piece of the lamp, we think we have the whole lamp."

This small story inspired me deeply. To find the happiness, to make the world a better place we need to act together and share. I will make sure that the campaign I will design make people people feel the same way I am feeling about this. 

Refrences 
Best of The Web, TED speech, Available at: http://www.ted.com/talks/gel_gotta_share.html
Tony Deifell TED speech, Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYZuu939pb8

Experimental Illustration

Since I know myself I am a huge fan of all kinds of cartoons. I still watch vintage classics like; Jetsons or Flinstones and try to keep up with the new cartoon networks. Therefore here is some experimental illustrations I have been working on to find out what I can do. Before I started my degree here, I have given up drawing a long time ago. Still it is a little intimidating for me, however I am enjoying to see what you can make from simple shapes at photoshop very much.

Julia's ice-cream - Can I?

While I was working on those images I find out that creating new characters is much more fun and easy than working on the background. After searching, some Nickelodeon cartoons -which was a very enjoyable research- and illustrators, I release that different cartoons for different age groups have common styles and languages. However, I still like the vintage look without too many patterns and 3D effects like Jimmy Neutron, which is a good character but watching that cartoon for too long just exhausts me. 

Balloon-Boi is afraid of all kinds of germs and accidents!

Those characters I have been working on may not be related to my major project and they are still very unfinished. But working on those kind of illustrations turned out to be my new passion which I discovered after working on Roger Mad.

The butcher - Well he likes to cut-mostly-things...

To the Batmobile! I am too tired for walking...

I also like to read about celebrates and their mysteries lives such as; Marilyn Monroe, Kennedy's or Elvis Presley. Moreover, Monroe was the one who grabbed my attention the most. Her incredible beauty brought her nothing but misery. And I wanted to make a project about her unfortunate death since the early years of collage, called "Marilyn's Grave". So the image below is a very simple photo-collage, but I tried to make it simple and powerful.

Marilyn's Grave

A Review On My Bog

When I was customizing my blog I try not make something overwhelming and my goal was to create a simple background which can easily display my work. Therefore I designed my header in that context: simple and explanatory. To achieve that I use a combination of Helvetica and Trebuchet which are my two favorite font families. When I was organizing the gadgets I consider people who are going to read my blog and I did my best to keep it as simple as possible. I prefer to use white and grey because I believe that colors pops up the work I load and I use light grey frames to separate my jpgs from the background.

Business for Design: Continue with My Design Concept Development

Any Ideas: Design Solutions Firstly I want to write more about my inspirations on this concept. While I was thinking about Any Ideas my intention was to create something without a logo, just with a basic, vintage and legible typeface. That make me think about old computer games, and the basic, square typefaces of late 80's from Super Mario or Street Fighters. Therefore I find those images very simple and playful and I strongly believe those games are still a link between my generation.

An example of what inspires me and my solutions.

However I had some problems with the legibility and weight of my design. So after considering carefully I decided to create a font family (Thin, medium and bold) to support my design and I use Design Solutions with the same font to create an integrity. Moreover I feel the need to change the location of the Design Solutions and put it under the logo to separate them. I believe the question mark completes the square and the weight of the typeface is equal and proportional. After working on the font family and separating design from the sub-title, I feel the design is more successful than old version so I started to expand my experiment and instead of fixing the existing problems I started to search on new inspirations and created a couple of different versions of my work. Eventually I like this logo and I am happy with my results so far.

Font family of my design.

All the weight and prepositions are explained below.

A small experiment about patterns.

After changing the locations of the letters the logo is still legible but I have some problems with the location of the sub-title.

24: Full-Time Design Solutions For my second concept, the challange was to create a balance between the logo and the typeface. So instead of changing the typeface I decided to use dynamic shadows to compensate the elements of my design in an equal way. For creating that effect I use a little bit mathematics and state a "X" lenght and use this and its doubles for each space on my design. That way I eliminate the need of using perspective on my typeface and increase its legible.

The application of my design.

With the new solution it is easier to read the sub-title.

Besides, I worked on this business card to show how my design works on different environments. And according to my experiments it is possible to use it in variety of forms and subjects. Therefore I am happy with the results again but I am still working and experimenting.

An experimental business card for my corporate identity.

On Matt Marsh Speech: Making New Stuff Is Tricky!

The speech we listened today was very inspiring for me. I really admire Matt Marsh and I can't help my self to play the video over and over again. He was talking about "Putting the proposition at the beginning" and I couldn't agree more about that. Because finding an idea that works gives the designer enough time to processing and making it perfect. All those ideas make me think about my RSA project and some questions raised in my head:

• What I need to express by my project?
• What kind of interactions I need to offer?

And I certainly want my project to be people-shaped, so instead of working on small details I should think more on my proposition for this project.

This is the first map of the speech. Walk&Talk.

This is the second-my favorite-map.

The third map of the Observing and Analysing User Behaviour.

Logo Study Inspired by Business for Design Module

I started with using the typeface Rammstein

I wanted to create a flexible and aesthetic logo for a while, and last week in the classroom I started to think about typefaces and form which can be suitable for my personality. And I thought that this font called Rammstein, which I saw in front of my classroom, can tell what I want to show about my character because of its strong, confident and at the same time unusual shape. So I started to work on it, I designed a couple of different logos for my name, they are still experimental and I am open to criticism and feedback.

I imagine this on a brick wall

Greetings from a recent Brit: Story of my inspirations

Slimane's new book: "London Birth of a Cult"

 

 

Even through it's harder to impress myself like that, I am gonna keep this blog in English. So sorry about my lack of grammar skills. I want my fist posting to be about the big artists and designers that impressed me for many years and I want to pay my respects to them. So I'm gonna write about my muses, images that impress me. Inspiration is a extremely important for designers because design born from the subconscious images that you have collected blindly. You just put another brick to the wall that has been building since the beginning of human kind. I've started to interested in design because of fashion, Oscar de la Renta, Yves saint Laurent, John Galliano always fascinate me with their style. 

 
But there is one designer that has a different voice, glamours me was Hedi Slimane. His innovative touch on suits make them very different and asexual. His unlike design perspective also reflects on his blog and all the other things he do. He is the man responsible for the way rock 'n' roll looks today. His slim-line aesthetic, a cross between sleek and slacker, mod and 1980s punk, is everywhere — on David Bowie, Beck, Elton John, Bryan Ferry, Jake Shears of the Scissor Sisters, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand. Birth of a Cult focuses on the most iconic character within this heady milieu. The project began with Slimane’s video piece (shown at Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, Sept. 2004) a study of Pete Doherty and his new band, Babyshambles. Slimane started documenting Doherty when Doherty had just completed the second Libertines album and was then kicked out of the band for crack addiction. Babyshambles created an immediate sensation and a loyal following. Most of their performances have been ‘guerilla gigs’, irregular or unplanned events which have always generated enormous fervour and excitement and which on occasion have degenerated into riot. Between jail, crack addiction and tabloid coverage, Doherty’s public persona has been distorted and manipulated. This has failed to hide that fact that he is a truly original musician, a charismatic frontman, songwriter and performer, and an authentic poet of our times. Birth of a Cult is about music, and poetry, and is also a perfect example to combining arts.

Slimane's multi-disciplinary works make me believe that if I can be a good graphic designer I can use my graphic skills in every field of design. So I started to take pictures, sketch and observe great artists and of course the world. After many years, I am quiet happy about my choice on occupation and still inspired by Slimane...