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14 years ago
Monday, June 14, 2010
Stock Images
i Stockphoto
http://www.istockphoto.com/
How to buy the images
1. Sign up for iStock member.
2. Choose a plan that suits on you from; Pay-as-you-go, Subsctiptions, or Corporate Accounts. Each plan gives you different credits.
3. Search the images that you need by entering keywords.
4. Buy the image with your credits and you can download the high resolution image without a watermark.
Images for the sport logo applications
-Cap
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-1866303-clothing-hats.php
XSmall 425 x 282px...........2credits
Small 849 x 565px.............5credits
Medium 1698 x 1131px.....10credits
Large 3504 x 2336px.........15credits
-Hockey jersey
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-10889214-sport-jerseys-templates.php
Vector image 650.82KB.....10credits
-Hockey pack
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-654473-old-hockey-puck-clipping-path.php
XSmall 381 x 315px...........2credits
Small 761 x 631px.............5credits
Medium 1522 x 1261px.....10credits
Large 2778 x 2304px.........15credits
The different amount of the credits is set for each plans.
Here is Pay-as-you-go credit packages;
Credits.....Price in AUD
12.............$25.50 ($2.12/credit)
26.............$54.50 ($2.10/credit)
50.............$102.00 ($2.04/credit)
120...........$237.50 ($1.98/credit)
300...........$544.75 ($1.82/credit)
600...........$964.00 ($1.61/credit)
1000.........$1,501.75 ($1.50/credit)
1500.........$2,165.25 ($1.44/credit)
2000.........$2,654.25 ($1.33/credit)
Terms and conditions
The images can be used for:
- advertising and promotional projects
- entertainment applications
- on–line or electronic publications
- prints, posters and other reproductions for personal use or promotional purposes specified in above, but not for resale, license or other distribution
- any other uses approved in writing by iStockphoto
Sunday, May 30, 2010
My Team Logo 2
Inline Hockey Team, Komazawa NEXT Logo
30 May 2010
Komazawa NEXT is a team to enjoy playing hockey rather than to stick to the wins. Their strategy is well thought-out just like Odysseus' one during the Trojan War.
(Odysseus is a Greek king in Greek mythology. He is renowned for his intelligent attack. During the Trojan War, he made a wooden horse for the Greek to hide inside. The Greeks pretended to sail away, and later the Trojans found the horse. They pulled it into their city as a victory trophy and celebrated that night. When the Trojans started getting drunk, the Greek came out of the horse's belly and attacked the drunk Trojans.)
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Concept 1 (image 1 & 2)
The first concept is typography with a little icon of a bulb.
This logo is symmetric in its form. However, to give a dynamic feeling of potential hockey nature, both ends of 'NEXT' are enlarged like a fish-eye lens. 'KOMAZAWA' is placed along the top edge of 'NEXT'.
It will be made by vector art. They will be not too neatly lined up, but slightly moved like American old cartoon tytles' style such as the Popeye, the Pink panther, the Woody woodpecker, etc. The idea is not to make it look too serious as the team is more to have fun.
The bulb represents that this team plays based on its well-thought strategy. This will be kept very simple vector shape not to distract the team name.
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Concept 2 (image 3 & 4)
The other concept is a hockey mask with two sticks crossed each other. This kind of mask is rarely used now, but it could be a symbol of aggressiveness as it looks like a scull and reminds of Jason's mask.
Two sticks are cossed behind so that the mask looks more like a scull.
The colours used are red and brown. Red is aggressiveness, and brown is from Odysseus's winning icon, the Trojan Horse.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
AGIdeas 2
Concept Evaluation
"Intelligence is remembering what you are interested in."
Michael Mabry is not only a graphic designer but also an illustrator.
He has dedicated his career to creating visual images that challenge the mind and touch the heart.
One of his clients includes The Land of Nod, kid's bedding and furniture store.
In the end of his talk at AGIdeas, he actually showed us how he created his illustrations.
The process was:
He starts working on computer first to decide the composition, and then draws some sketches.
Then brings them into computer and divide them into hundreds of layers.
To create a nice warm texture, he used paints, sand paper, sticky tapes, and many more things.
The outcomes appear like these:
Images from: http://www.michaelmabry.com/
Although he uses computer largely to create these images, the outcomes have very nice hand-drawn-like feeling. The images are very fun and lots of animals and insects appear, which kids definitely love. There are many tiny things hidden in his illustrations, so I found that makes people feel like taking a closer look at them. I remember I always felt happy to find tiny things behind the main characters on the story books when I was a kid.
I was very inspired with his works and I reconfirmed that I would love to be involved in these types of works in the future.
Monday, May 10, 2010
AGIdeas
Trends & Designers
Trend 1: Grotesque/Quirkiness
-Ghostpatrol-
Ghostpatrol is a Melbourne-based illustrator.
He's drawn many illustrations since he was a kid, and he keeps on drawing on his sketchbooks now as well. Some of them have very strong concepts behind, the others are just some sketches from his daily life.
Images from: http://ghostpatrol.net
His illustrations are very quirky, which I think is very interesting and stays in your mind strongly. Most of the kids in his works don't have any facial expressions at all and they often appear holding knives. They never be happy smiling faces, and I think this is a big trend in illustrations recently.
-Webuyyourkids-
Another example is Webuyyourkids, the sydney-based design team.
They were formed in 2005 by Sonny Day and Biddy Maroney.
"Computer Arts magazine described our work as "Harsh Majical" and "Fresh As Fish In Restaurant". We like to draw pictures about witchcraft, mishaps, misdemeanours, and voodoo."
http://www.webuyyourkids.com/site/about/
Sonny's inspirations are comic, skateboard, and Neckface, an American graffiti artist.
Biddy was inspired by the collections of his grandfather's (or father's?) 50's movie posters when she was a kid.
And they both like horror movies but artistic ones. I can see they give them a huge impact on thier works.
Images from: http://www.webuyyourkids.com/
Trend 2: Bold sans-serif
(International typographic style)
This trend has been seen for a few years, but I think it still works very well when the design has very strong concepts.
-Andreas Uebele-
Andreas Uebele is founder and director of the bisual communications agency Buro Uebele in Stuttgart. In recent years, his agency's sork has honoured with more than 240 national and international awards.
Images from: http://www.uebele.com/
-Dean Poole-
Here is another designer who uses International typographic style very well.
Dean Poole is a creative director at Alt Group in New Zealand.
His works are made in a very clever way. Among them, the works he has done for Hudson Gavin Martin gave the most strong impression on me.
Images from: http://www.hgmlegal.com/People.aspx
http://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen-maerkte/galerien/die-gewinner-des-red-dot-grand-prix-2009-796/2/corporate-design-hudson-gavin-martin.html
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Aboriginal Motifs
http://www.ozmall.co.jp/trip/kaigai/001/uluru.asp
1. Respect
Respecting Indigenous rights to cultural heritage includes the following protocols.
Acknowledgement of the country
Indigenous Australians, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, are the original inhabitants of Australia.18 As such they have a strong link to country, meaning the totality of life and the spirit of the particular area of land they and their ancestors inhabited.
When organising an exhibition, installation or event of local, state or national significance, it is respectful to invite a representative of the traditional owners to attend and give a ‘welcome to country’ address.
Public art - acknowledging land
For Indigenous artists, it it common practice to seek approval from the Indigenous community for public art-based projects in any particular ‘country’ in Australia. This ensures it would not be offensive to the local community.
Accepting diversity
There are many experience and cultural context within Indigenous communities. The Indigenous cultures are living and evolving entitles. Avoid inappropriate or outdated perspectives and terminology when dealing with any cultural groups.
2. Recognition and protection
The Indigenous visual artists own copyright in their artworks. They can control the reproduction and dissemination of the artworks. It is important to understand the Copyright Act and how cultural material might be protected under them. However, there are currently no special copyright laws dealing with Indigenous cultural material.
Moral Rights and Issues
The Indigenous arts were created not just for entertainment but for passing their messages over the new generations or for the sacred reasons. The techniques has been taken over from the old to the new generations for long time.
Their culture must be respected and the moral rights are to be thought about as well.
The alteration of the work by adapting, cutting, editing or enhancing may materially alter the original intention of the work and infringe on the artist's moral rights. It is also important to note that with Indigenous cultural material, maintaining the integrity of the work is important for the source communities as well.
Source:
Protocols for producing Indigenous Australian visual arts:
http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/32368/Visual_arts_protocol_guide.pdf
Native American Motifs
Cleveland Indians
"Chief Wahoo"
THEIR LOGO'S HISTORY
1915-1920
1921-1927
1928
1929-1932
The 1st "Chief Wahoo"
1980
Symbolism and Racism in Sports
The findings about symbolism and racism underscore observations that the Chief Wahoo icon is an appropriated image of American Manifest Destiny ideologies that is difficult to study, and impossible to root out. In a perverted sense this "honoring" or inferiorizing of the "natural" noble-savage Native, is an integral symbol of American popular culture and history. An "Indians" team is generic language shared by "the major six" (National Coalition Against Racism in Sports): Washington "Redskins" and Kansas City "Chiefs" football teams, Atlanta "Braves" baseball team, the Florida State "Seminoles" and the Illinois "Illini" university named mascots, including dancing "Chief Illini" and horseback riding fake warchiefs in feather headdresses at Florida games.
Racism is thus controlled and defined by dominant group ideologies (Thompson, 1990), that responds differentially to similar cases of different ethnic groups. "Frito Bandito and Black Sambo were eliminated, but Chief Wahoo and his ilk live on...." Bellecourt, (1997) maintains, speaking for the suppressed American Indian Movement. Responding to social movements, protests, economic and demographic pressures emanating from minority ethnic groups in relation to institutional structures with specific goals and objectives, our American society, collectively, does not include small groups with idealized or denied histories, like Native American "Nations."
Racism is thereby expressed through the Wahoo icon as being socio-politically acceptable, especially in accordance with group behavior and ritual, continually reinforced by its own leaders.
CONCEPT/THEME
The name of the team was changed to "Indians" for the honour of the first native American player, Louis Sockalexis.
Then the logo was created, which is modeled on a character in a cartoon called "big chief wahoo". This cartoon was very popular during the 30's.
Sources:
http://www.toonopedia.com/wahoo.htm
http://www.sportslogos.net/team.php?id=57
http://www.aistm.org/symbolic.racism.htm
http://www.bluecorncomics.com/wahoo.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Wahoo
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