Unit 1
Non-verbal Communication
SIGNAGE
Key Concept: Connections
Related Concepts: Audience / Visual Culture
Statement of Inquiry: The significance of art forms as an integral part of life, as seen in signage, become connections across the globe.
Inquiry Questions:
Conceptual - Can we communicate when we don't speak the same language ?
Debatable - Can colour alter the feel of an image? How?
Factual - What colours are the warning signs on the roads? Advisory signs? Informative signs?
Students will:
• Understand how to communicate in more than one way
• To be aware of the power simple patterns and flat colour can hold in design
• To plan for design constraints
• Develop the use of application of studies to interpret illustrative concepts
• Develop systematic drawing
• Develop equipment manipulation skills
• Develop the use of colour to communicate
• Develop and elaborate ideas, themes and composition to a point of realization
• Develop knowledge of subject reproduction
PROCESS JOURNAL & CREATIVE OUTPUT
- 4 coloured mugs exercise.
- Criteria A knowledge and understanding research task (4 pages).
Download the Non-Verbal Communication Resource document and read through it, using this document and its links as your primary and secondary resources, create 4 pages in your process journal. To structure this you may select 10 facts / aspects of interest, to focus your research pages on. Note: All information presented in the process journal must be a creative combination of written formats, printed images and drawings.
Week two:
- Continuing and completeing research pages.
- Collect images of topics of interest to you to begin brainstorming ideas for signage. With these images create an attractive 'collage' (1page) in your process journal. What does effective mean? Create a list of answers...
- Present your work (research & collage = 5 pages) amongest each other, which images are more effective and why?
Week three:
- Make some small observational drawings relevant to the kind of sign you are thinking of creating. (This is continued research gathering).
- Create a page of thumbnail sketches in your process journal of some ideas for signage. (Use the correct tools, e.g. compass, ruler etc).
- How do I know if my sign easily communicates the idea I want? Is it transferable across countries – does it need language? Will it be an effective print? (Questions to be answered in a peer discussion and self evaluation, answers to be written in PJ). Week four:
- Continue design ideas & observational drawings linked to sign – plan your final sign and where its location would be.
- Transfer print to lino, begin linocut and printmaking process.
UNIT 2
"STOP COPYING ME!"
Appropriation in Art
Key Concept - Global Interaction
Global Context - Fairness and development
Related Concept(s) Interpretation / Audience
In our ever-developing global world, where interactions with diverse audiences are an important part of our lives, standards of fairness can be interpreted in different ways.
Factual— What legal laws are there regarding copying Art in Brazil?
Conceptual— To what extent could an artist copy another’s work and it be fair and acceptable?
Debatable—Is it possible to make a truly original work of art? Is copying someone’s work a form of flattery?
Research task and artist exploration in Process Journal
All pages must include printed images, research, media explorations (drawing and painting), analysis of art elements, theme and context for the artist work you are researching.
Research task could take one of two routes (or both). The first one is researching and writing about the legal and ethical issues of appropriating images in a work of art. Or, students can write about an artist who uses appropriation in their work.
Four workbook pages minimum. Two on your chosen artist, Two on your chosen research angle.
Here are some websites to get you started...
http://arthistory.about.com/b/2009/01/26/good-artists-borrow-great-artists-steal.htm
http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-fairuse.html
http://painting.about.com/cs/artistscopyright/f/copyrightfaq11.htm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/25/richard-prince-copyright-case-appeals-court-appropriation-artist_n_3157852.html
Or, you can write about an artist who uses appropriation in their work. Here is a link with a list of some artists who use appropriation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriation_(art)
Remember - Cite your sources correctly (MLA format) If an artist can’t be found in at least two sources don’t use them.
Layout – pictures and text on every page. Make sure your pages are readable.
Go in depth – analyze don’t just describe
Creative Output:
Objective: To make an artwork that appropriates something from another source. (Your chosen artist)
Your artwork should include something that you appropriate from another your chosen artist. You may use other elements in your work but it must show a clear emphasis on the appropriated source you have chosen.
Think about...
Changing the Media, Changing the Context, Parody (a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of art)