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finals!!

New Designs..

This is a final design noticed how the fingerprint is misplaced.

Variations..

From feed back i have, i have changed the layouts of the fingerprints to make them look more spontaneous. It works really well and the everything looks well. The layout now of the fingerprint gives the feel i was always looking for and i feel i have achieved this. Composition is a big thing here and i think it has been achieved.

Evaluation of FMP

DNA:
Arch, curves & similarities
Evaluation of final major project


For my final major project I have adapted a fingerprint theme from the overall topic of DNA. For my final outcomes I have created five type posters based on five fingerprints taken of my family and also including mine. They are typography posters and they contain information inside about various information on DNA. At first I planned to do an animation but I scrapped the idea because I did not see any reason to include it, when I was focusing on five major final designs, and I feel these will be more ascetically pleasing then an animation as well. My aim was to look at the similarities between the fingerprints and see if they look the same. Through the research I did I found out that family’s fingerprints are similar. When I was taking the fingerprints, I used red for female and blue for the males, this was because when showing the original documents I want to show masculine and feminine in my family.
This made me want to show this through my type posters and I highlighted the similarities in a different colour on the poster. The five posters themselves are very intricate and were outlined very detailed in Illustrator, this detail allowed me to be able to place the text on the patterns created very freely and conform to the lines. The illustrating process was good for me because I became more confident in using Illustrator and learnt a lot more about the program itself.

The colours I used were a basic colour scheme and included blues, whites and generally looking medical colours. I chose these colour schemes because I like how subtle it was and that it related to a DNA theme. The body text is various sizes and various typefaces in each this is so that they can look different next to each other when displayed.

I enjoyed designing these and the medical research I done as well as the artist research helped me to develop my ideas. I took some inspiration from Damien Hirst because I liked the way he laid out his medical designs but I did take my composition into consideration because I did not want it to look overcrowded with words or lines.

In this project there has been no constraints however time has been an issue because I procrastinated at the start because I was in two different minds about ideas but when I realised what idea I wanted I made sure I utilised the time I had. If I could re-do the project I would probably take time into consideration and try to do as much research as possible at the start to help kick start the project, also I would try and limit the information in the fingers because there is a lot of information to take in but I suppose the more in there the more better I can convey my meaning of DNA as well as my idea.

Saul Steinberg Ext Reserach

Here are some work done by Saul Steinberg based on fingerprints. The work is good, and its a very interesting composisition of fingerprints. He has used fingerprints to tell stories.
They work really well together.

Finals (5)

I have done my final designs and also included the changes i wished to put in. The outcomes work really well and i have all the pictures completed of my family.

Futurism

This was a movement that took place in the 20th century. It had parrallel movements in the images. The Futurists practiced in every medium of art, including painting, sculpture, ceramics, graphic design, industrial design, interior design, theatre, film, fashion, textiles, literature, music, architecture and even gastronomy.

Futurism was full of colours and that is why i have chosen to mention it.
Futrurism is full of lines and colour combinations that work well together. The early stuff is the good looking stuff.

Fingerprint Art in your living room ??

Looking through the internet i have come across a website that allows you to send your fingerprint in and they will create artwork from your fingerprint.
http://www.dna11.com/gallery_finger_prints.asp

This is a new and unique way to portray a fingerprint, i mean how interesting as the website says why have the same piece of artwork when no one has the same fingerprint.

Henri Matisse

In class we watched this documentry about the artist Henri Matisse. His work was really good and really simple. His early work was very surreal and colourful and was detailed but as he got older and frailer his work started to become based on shapes and simple pictures because of his health.

Colour wise he was briliant with his uses he would look at the colours on the colour wheel the teridary colours and used them in his work.

It was very important to look at the colur uses in ma FMP because the wrong colours will give out the wrong message.

here are some examples of Matisses's work:



His work is simply done and beautiful images have been created.

final change.

as my objective was to show how similiar family fingerprints can be i have chnaged the designes to show this similarities. I will do this by highlighting certain parts of the text with one colour that resemble each fingerprint.
This is a good idea that was put forward and i am changing the designs to fit this. i have one more left, and pictures will be up soon.
this is turnin very successfull = )

Other Reserach

Mark Farrow

Lookin through my blog i have missed out on some realy important research most of which to do with medical things on different things such as CD packaging. A cd package that was very interesting was designed by Mark Farrow called Spiritulised and it was based on a paracetomol/pharamocotical product. It was designed really well and was a intertesing way to portray a CD.





Also here is some other stuff designed by Mark Farrow and was for an album called Songs In A & E, it is again linked to medical things. It has differnt needles which was based on someone haveing loads of needles coming out of there arms..hmm very interesting.




Here is also another design by Farrow and was related to the illness phenoimia.

2nd Final Poster

This looks to be the second poster a final one. = )
just need to get it checked over. but overall this is how i want this one to look, i like the colour schemes in it and also it focuses on a different part of DNA included in the text.

Finalised ThumbPrint Poster (Moms)

As in previous posts, this is again the final design but he has lines in to add to the effect of fingerprints. It has the same amount of information in but now it looks a lot more like a fingerprint.

Mitchy Boy & Ikon Gallery Xhibitions.

So as part of contextual studies, we have been going around to some exhibitions to see different work from artists.
One of the interesting ones we have been to is by artist Mitchy Bwoi. He does alot of work with colour, and contours. & his work is bright and bold, and has typeography in it sometimes. His exhibition was in the Sauce Gallery @ Custard Factory.

Here are some xamples of his work:






Here is some stuff from the Ikon Gallery. Stuff done by various artists:

A Final POster..Created Using My Moms Thumb Print.

Moms thumb print:
This is one of the final designs i have produced. Im happy with the colours, and also the text on there. On the fingerprint itself it just has references to fingerprints and information about it. The body text is Verdna, and i used this because its a writing with good spacing between letters and readable, all the other designs will have different body text in there.
I think this shows difference in the posters.
Overall there is going to be fine, and im keeping to a pastel tone colour shceme.
Also i took note of some comments made on them, and made them look alot more like fingerprints by putting more ridges and lines in the design.

Type Design.

This is a design that i have made. This design is based an actual fingerprint, it was one of mine. The information included in it is random stuff about me. To fill up the typeography on it.

I stuck with a blue, background and kept to a minimal theme.

Plan for final pieces.

Now i have started looking at the comparison with the fingerprints, when i collect my brothers and my dads, i will start to make tyepography posters based on the shapes in the fingerprnt. In previous posts i have posted work that is a type on a fingerprint, but now i can examine how fingerprints look properly, using the information from my family and create some really good posters. I still have not thought about what to include in the type itself, has previously i have included stuff about the DNA database. But i will see how this plans out.

Families Fingerprints..

Here is just a print of my mom's and mine right hand. Done with red ink. There are three lots of rubbings, all from the same hand just was comparing how much ink gave you the most clear print. And it was the 2nd row of fingerprints.



Here is when the comparison for the final project is happening. I have took the thumb print of my mum and me and placed it together to see what i can see is similiar between them both.



Sisters (right and left hand prints) :

Fingerprints (The Interesting Bit..)

Fingerprint ridges (patterns) start to develop during three to four month of the fetal development, the point of the ridges develping is so that its easier to gain grip of objects when older. The friction that the ridges cause on the fingers, aloows the ridges to arrange themselves in more or less regular patterns with the ridge patterns. All fingerprints have a unique combination and arrangement of patterns and ridge characteristics. The patterns of friction ridges, that are created, contain rows of sweat pores that allow sweat and or oil to exit from glands. Sweat mixed with other body oils and dirt produces fingerprints on smooth surfaces.

No two fingerprints have ever been discovered to be alike, not even on identical twins, even though fingerprints are very similiar in familes, but they are not inherited. Fingerprints cannot be altered or changed, even when scar tissue is created the skin that grows back will produce the same pattern.

If it has been proved that families fingerprints do look similar, then how closley similiar do they resemble each other?

Fingerprint identification:
In order for indentification to be made with fingerprints, with crimes and other things, certain things have to match. They have to have a similiar or same amount of fingerprint ridges to be matched up.
Fingerprint identification is assesed with three levels. Level one being the ridges flow and the layout of the ridges, there not extact way of finding out but they can help to exclude certain people from fingerprint enquiries. Level 2 is ridge characteristics and placement and this can allow a individual to be matched, and level 3 looks at the angle of the paths, width, shape, pores, edge contours, breaks, scars and cuts and this can lead to prosecutions.

Here is an example of level three identification:

Different Types Of Fingerprints.

Everyone has unique fingerprints. Whether thy are simple loop, arch, whorl and double loop. Most of these patterns high easily determined just by looking at your own finger but in the main catogries there is sub catogries to a finger print patter such as:
Arch:
- plain arch
- tented arch

Loops:
- radial loop
- Ulnar loop

Whorl:- Plain whorl
- Central pocket whorl
- double loop whorl
- accidental whorl

Feed Nite. 01.03.10

Okay so this has nothing to do with the DNA final project, but i just wanted to comment, on the night. The arhcitecture company Make came in and it was a really good night. The way in which the company guy, did the presentation was very different, he used visuals to show us what he meant rather then just stand there and talk.

There architecture is beautiful and interesting and they have some very intricate designs that looks stunning. They possibilities are endless for them. Its great to see a unqiue company.

Overall a good night.
(:

link: http://www.makearchitects.com/

Gattaca (:

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On Thursday we watched a movie called Gattaca. It ws based on a theme of DNA and human genetics. The movie itself was very very good. At the start it was very slow paced, and you didnt really know what was happening, but as it gradually got further in the movie the plot came to the surface. There was this guy who was knowen as an 'invalid' and this was because he was born naturally, and from that natural birth they were able to determain what problems he will have in life e.g heart diseas etc and his brother found it hard to except beacuse he was a 'valid' person born in a not normal way. The invalid guy takes on a roll of a valid person, and he becomse him. The 'valid' guy gives the 'invalid' guy blood, urine and also sweat and other bodily fluids, this is so he can take on the identity of the 'valid' guy for a job on a space shuttle. Its a very good film, and i really liked it and it really has put in perspective what DNA and genes can really mean, and what they can create.
Here below are screen shots of the most defining moments in the movie.

Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst created several artworks. He is a very talented artist, and here are some of the works of art he has done to do with medical things, and its got a sub title of:
Pharmacy.






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Gina Glover.

-> Chromosomes Take To The Sky. Glover has also created several images for IVF clinics inspired by images and concepts on the subject of assisted conception


->Sperm Morphology. These ties belong to staff members at the ACU and have been rearranged to show variations in human sperm structure


->Yes! Monthly test strips in which pregnancy is indicated by the presence of two blue lines. The title indicates the excitement of a positive result – eventually


->Chromosome Socks, displayed in the genetic department at Guys hospital in London


-> Donated Eggs, on show at the IVF clinic at Guy's hospital, London. These eggs were donated by assisted conception unit staff, family and friends. Guy's and St Thomas' Charity commissioned Glover's one-year residency at the Guy's and St Thomas' NHS foundation trust ACU


Gina Glover is a photographer and artist that makes interesting artwork.
Here is some stuff she has done to do with DNA ; chromosomes, IVF etc.