Shantell Powell

My next photography assignment is to do reflective photography. I found what looks like a good tutorial at Photographing Highly-Reflective Products: How to Control Reflections.

Here's a visual excerpt:



I also found a tutorial on how to use light painting with reflective surfaces, so this appeals to me. How To Take Psychedelic Photos of CDs

Here's one of the CDs photographed using light painting.




Here are some other examples of reflective photography that I found interesting.

Waterfall Card Tutorial: Although she uses specialized scrapbooking tools in the video, the project is easily adapted to more basic crafting supplies.





Penny Slider Tutorial

I am to research an art period/movement and implement it in a large design project. At first, I thought I'd do my project on surrealism, but then I thought it might be interesting to do it on an art style which isn't typically approached for this sort of project. I considered Inuit art and naive art, but unfortunately had to discard them as typography and/or photography wasn't sufficiently represented in these styles. And so I've come back to surrealism, which has a rich history with many colourful characters encompassing all sorts of design media.

Aside from research online, I've visited several libraries and spoke to librarians. I was introduced to the database system used by the Kitchener Public Library system, and found out I should be able to qualify for a community library card at Wilfrid Laurier University, thus giving me access to university libraries (and interlibrary loans).

I also went to the AGO twice to study the surrealist works at the Guillermo del Toro exhibit. I did several drawings of works there and took many photographs, including close-ups of various details.

Research resources:
The History of Visual Communication: The New York school included surrealists.
A Dictionary of Surrealism and the Graphic Image
Manifesto of Surrealism, by André Breton
Japanese surrealism
List of surrealist artists
Surrealist Artists: List of Painters, Sculptors, Photographers Associated with Surrealism.
Surrealism and the Occult
Drawing Surrealism
Decalcomania
SPECIAL SECTION ON NATIVE AMERICAN SURREALISMS, GUEST EDITED BY W. JACKSON RUSHING III



Typographers and Typography:
Normality Tinged With Perversion: David Lynch's Use of Typography
Isidore Isou - founded Lettrism
Diter Rot - Diter Rot Copley Book, Letterpress text
Elaine Lustig Cohen
Roman Cieslewicz: Typographer for The Mysteries of France:
A Gothic Guidebook. A copy of the book is at the Kingston Queens University Library.
Eugen Gomringer
Oyvind Fahlstrom
Zdanevich
The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-1923 By Johanna Drucker
Salvador Dali made a few letters for his Paule Gala alphabet. More at Erotype.
The Art of Graphic Design: Lustig, Albers, Johnson, and the 1945 Summer Session by Julie J. Thomson
Edward Fella: Letters on America
Joop H. Moesman: Petronius
Typophile forum
The Man Who Married Text and Art: Isidore Goldstein and Lettrism


Colour Theory:

Josef Albers and Colour

Artists:

H R Giger Illustrations: includes early works from the 60s and 70s
Kansuke Yamamoto
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Jopie of Joop
Jindřich Heisler: Surrealism under Pressure
Wilfredo Lam: Cuba's last of the true surrealists

Techniques:

Decalcomania tutorial
Accordion book tutorial
Cubomania: Gherasim Luca and Non-Oedipal Collage by Krzysztof Fijalkowski at Norwich University of the Arts
Surrealist techniques