Rotterdam Walk GPS Tracking

Types of portraits that can be found in Art History:

-Statues/Sculptures
-The self-portrait - Painting (Rich/Poor difference)
-Self-portrait - Photography (black/White)
-Photography
-Film
-Agriculture
-Bibliography
-Poems
-Books
-Music
-3D Prints of photography into sculptures

Types of portraits that can be found in Art Design:

-Geometric portraits
-Two dimensional/three dimensional forms/shapes
-Realistic or Naturalistic portraits
-Abstract portraits
-Forensic
-Colours/objects
-Futurist
-Apollonian
-Typography (words) portraits

Semester 1:

Design & Exploration

22-09-2014

Assignment:
While walking through Rotterdam, have your GPS tracking device on to be able to trace your walk.

**Notice that the GPS tracking is not precise. For example, when walking on the Wijnhaven, the gps tracking shows that i have been walking on water.

Rotterdam Walk from sketch Book:

22-09-2014

Assignment:
Use your sketchbook to record the path while you are walking through rotterdam.

Assignment:
Merge the 3 walks (Rotterdam GPS tracking walk & Rotterdam sketch map walk, The 3 letter word GPS tracking and the Subjective Map (from Micheal Brenner's Class) Into one Map.

Combination of walks + GPS trackings into one Map:

The background is created from faded images that were taken while walking the "Rotterdam city walk".
The Hart is used to describe that i was walking through the hart of Rotterdam, and the hart was also an image that was used in the Subjective map/poster.

You can see that all walks started from the same starting point, WDKA, there for the starting point is on the right side of the hart.

There are faded words placed into the map, These are onomatopoeia words that describe a few of the main sounds i heard while walking the Rotterdam city walk.

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

What kind of portraits can we find in Art Design & in Art History?

Search up Jan Tschichold & and look at the media tech, look at his page designs.

WHO IS JAN TSCHICHOLD?
Tschichold claimed that he was one of the most powerful influences on 20th century typography. There are few who would attempt to deny that statement. The son of a sign painter and trained in calligraphy, Tschichold began working with typography at a very early age. Raised in Germany, he worked closely with Paul Renner (who designed Futura) and fled to Switzerland during the rise of the Nazi party. His emphasis on new typography and sans-serif typefaces was deemed a threat to the cultural heritage of Germany, which traditionally used Blackletter Typography and the Nazis seized much of his work before he was able to flee the country.

Find good symmetricle design:

Assignment: Make a group Photo

Group Portrait:
- Design the Photography
- Technique of the photo (color) (position)
- Text/attributes in the photograph
- What do i want to tell/express with the portrait.
- Location of the Photograph
- Design (clothes, bags held in a specific way, ect)

A sketch of the layout of the photograph.
The order of people will be mirror image/symmetrical how ever the view of their faces will be different and they will ALL look serious.

FEEDBACK:
Make it your hart, more personal. Put in a title and a key. Maybe make the photographs more visible and linked to the routes

Group Portrait:

Group Portrait Result:

10 students, At the entrance of the school (Blaak) Everyone is mirror image of each other. Everyone is looking into the distance, but in different directions.

The photograph was taking horizontally.

The lightning of the location was not perfect, since the students in the back are hard to see.

My Portrait:

Assignment: You being visible in Rotterdam (self portrait)

This portrait is about how i feel. My feelings about Rotterdam and WDKA.

In the above "Group Portrait" there are 10 students ( 3 absent). We call our selfs the Thirteen Foreign Pioneers.
How ever in this self portrait, I don't feel like i belong with them, yet.
This is due that most of them already live in Rotterdam and know their surroundings, and that most of them have had a previous education within the art design subject. Thus I feel like I am the only one still lost in what i am doing.

As you can see in this poster, I have represented my feelings with a puzzle piece, since i still feel puzzeld about everything, how ever a puzzel piece will eventually find its right place, and that i what i am here for, to find my place, even though it will take some more time then the others.

Colour choice:
I had 3 options "back ground color: Blue/Yellow or Gray" I have chosen to present my poster with a strong yellow background because the colour contrasts better with the image within the poster and it makes the message, I think, more obvious to the audience. As well, yellow is a strong colour, appealing the attention of the audience, and their by i am wanting to show that I am here.