Melbourne Sports Museum Critiques

Salt Lake Winter Olympics 2002 Logo

Unknown designer, 2002
Vector graphic logo

This is the logo used for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. The design is dynamic using diagonal lines to create movement. It also uses symmetry which gives it balance. The orange creates hierarchy over the blue and draws the eye from top to bottom.

The design is primarily shapes made up of geometric lines using strong complimentary colours and is very dynamic. All these elements and principles give the design vibrance and a sense of visual action. Which represents the winter games. It’s good because doesn’t portray the winter games and something too wintery, that being cold and bland.

The style of this logo is could be classed under geometric abstract art and modernism because of it’s geometric shapes and lines and vibrant colours.

The logo is a snow flake which is representaive of the winter period obviously being the time of the winter games. The orange over the blue could represent sun rising over the snowy landscape (the blue).

I think the logo is succesful because of it’s simplicity and while it’s abstact you can still understand what it’s portraying.

Sources.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/47/2002_Winter_Olympics_logo.svg

Western Bulldogs Jumper

Unknown designer

Vector graphic logo

This is the Western Bulldogs AFL Jumper with logo. The design is symmetrical which creates balance. The strong red line reates a vocal point which draws your eye across the jumper.

The design uses both line a shape to create a simple design. The colours are obviously an important part of the design because must reflect the team's official colours.

The design is reminiscent of modernism because of the heavy use of line and bright primary colours.

The logo represents a bulldog, which is the team's mascot and symbol. I can't really identity any other themes or motifs. The stable design might represent the team's strongness.

I think the design is successful because of it's simplicity and eye catching colours. This works especially well when in a fast paced game such as AFL when visibility might be low.

Source:

www.wikipedia.com

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Western_Bulldogs_Jumper.svg/263px-Western_Bulldogs_Jumper.svg.png

Critiquing Tools

Art Vocabulary List


Proportion

The symmetry, harmony, or balance between elements within a design.

Negative space

The space around an object. This can create contrast and scale within an image.

Hierarchy

The arrangement of objects based on their importance. This can be achieved through elements and principles such as colour and scale.

Symmetry

A mirrored image which is equally balanced on two sides.

Transparent
An image or object which allows light to pass through and other images or objects can be seen behind it.


Adjective List


Geometric
Regular straight shapes or lines free from curves.


Tint
A hue that has had white added to it.


Shade
A hue that has had black added to it.


Concave - Convex
Concave is a line that curves inwards, while convex curves outwards.


Matte
A non-glossy finish free from shine or reflection


Principles and Elements of Design List


Elements


Line.
A linear mark made between two points.


Colour.
Valus on a spectrum of light. Consists of three characteristics. Hue, value and intensity.


Texture
A surface quality the can be both visual and tactile.


Shape
A 2d closed line with both length and width.


Form
A 3 dimensional shape with length width and height.


Principles


Stability
Stability represents balance. Straight vertical and horizontal lines help create a stable composition.


Dynamics
The opposite of stability. Diagonal lines give movement and action the the composition.


Rhythm
Movement and action. Repetition within the design helps create rhythm.


Scale
The relative size of objects within a design.


Sources:
http://www.n4hccs.org/projects/kidspace/E-P.html
www.wikipedia.com
http://tiny.cc/2ogv4
Mac Dictionary

Style Timeline

Street Art
Ancient Rome

Street Art is any art that is produced and displayed in a public place and is usually done without government or council permission. Street art can include traditional graffiti artwork, stencil graffiti, sticker art, wheat pasting and street poster art, video projection, art intervention, guerrilla art, flash mobbing and street installations.

Famous artists include:

-Banksy

-Shepard Fairey

-Above




Ukiyo-e 

1620’s - 1920's

Ukiyo-e, which means “pictures of the floating world” is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints (or woodcuts) and paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, featuring motifs of landscapes, tales from history, the theatre, and pleasure quarters. It is the main artistic genre of woodblock printing in Japan.

Famous artists include:

-Utagawa Hiroshige

-Ogata Gekkō

-Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Bauhaus
1913-1933


Bauhaus was a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught. It operated from 1919 to 1933.


Famous artists include:
-Max Bill
-Josef Albers
-Herbert Bayer














Precisionism

1920’s

Precisionism, also known as Cubist Realism, was an artistic movement that emerged in the United States after World War I and was at its height during the inter-War period. Paintings were often of  industrial or mechanical architecture and objects which were painted in a very simplified geometric style. 

Famous artists include:

-Charles Demuth

-Charles Sheele



Swiss International Style

1950's

The International Typographic Style, also known as the Swiss Style, is a graphic design style developed in Switzerland in the 1950s that emphasizes cleanliness, readability and objectivity. Sans serif typefaces are mainly used in designs.

Famous artists include:

-Paul Rand

-Josef Müller-Brockmann

-Armin Hofmann

Underground Comix

1967

Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books which are often socially relevant or satirical in nature. They differ from mainstream comics in depicting content forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority, including explicit drug use, sexuality and violence.

Famous artists include:

-Robert Crumb

-Gilbert Shelton






Pixel Art

1982

Pixel art is a form of digital art, created through the use of raster graphics software, where images are edited on the pixel level. Graphics in most old (or relatively limited) computer and video games, graphing calculator games, and many mobile phone games are mostly pixel art.

Famous artists include:

-EbOY

-Paul Robertson

Retro-Futurism

1983

Retro-futurism is a trend in the creative arts showing the influence of depictions of the future produced prior to about 1960. Characterized by a blend of old-fashioned “retro” styles with futuristic technology, retro-futurism explores the themes of tension between past and future, and between the alienating and empowering effects of technology. Primarily reflected in artistic creations and modified technologies that realize the imagined artifacts of its parallel reality, retro-futurism has also manifested in the worlds of fashion, architecture, literature and film.

Famous artists include:

-Klaus Bürgle

-Kurt Röschl

-Eberhard Binder-Staßfurt

Deconstructivism 

late 1980’s

Deconstructivism is a development of postmodern architecture that began in the late 1980s. It is characterised by ideas of fragmentation, an interest in manipulating ideas of a structure's surface or skin, non-rectilinear shapes which serve to distort and dislocate some of the elements of architecture, such as structure and envelope. The finished visual appearance of buildings that exhibit the many deconstructivist "styles" is characterized by a stimulating unpredictability and a controlled chaos.


Famous artists include:
-Günter Behnisch
-El Lissitzky

Toyism
1990's

Toyism is an art movement that rose to prominence in The Netherlands in the 1990s. Introduced by an artist using the pseudonym Dejo at the Veenmuseum in 1992, the toyist style of painting emphasizes narrative depictions featuring figurative rather than abstract objects focusing on aspects of the human condition. Stylistically, it features the heavy use of outlining, bold colors and craftsmanship. Toyist artists select a pseudonym and an icon which is incorporated into their paintings.




Famous artists include:
-Amukek
-Cluv
-Dejo
-Eiiz

Sources:
www.wikipedia.com

http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/p/precisionism.html

http://www.aisleone.net/2009/design/astrid-stavro-studio/

http://www.retro-futurismus.de/buergle.htm

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http://www.liveprint.de/pictures/TS00/TS00_00002.jpg

http://compassmania.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/banksy1.jpg