I’m captivated at the idea of Juilen’s drawing, they tell a complex story with clear sketches and humour that i call ‘draw blood on the first prick and hit the nail on the head’ but I also see a seriousness of his intention.
Vasarely is a French graphic designer that create perspectives with geometry shapes. I like the use of arrows in this drawings and throughout Juilen’s sketches.
Drawings by Juilen Berthier
Video of Dual Coding theory explain how we interpret information with graphics and language.
Video of the importance of drawing objects.
Chapter : Expation
Bird feather is initially thought for warmth but when they tried to fly with them they found it can change the direction of the flight.
I was finding examples of how an object can have alternative use when the environment and conditions allow it.
Mediation take place in our mind, the body stop and let the brain moves. There are some rules that i learned from architecture that can help us enter mediating more easily, for example in Le Corbusier’s Cloister each room has a smooth concrete finish at the desk area. As far as our body goes most of the time we are constantly moving so the distressed concrete that have plethora of information does not make a good entrance to mediating.
Floral, Tada Asuka (source)
Tada Asuka has created x-ray images of skeleton using a petals dipped in special chemicals. Arranged like a flower ceremony, the vivid colour and the white skeleton developed a mysterious relationship.
Carsten Höller is a artist who had done this slide inside the Tate modern museum, London in 2009. Although the first one was in 1998 Berlin, it had finally reached oversea after 10 years.
I was researching fire stairs because i was constantly using them while working in Hong Kong, the sizes they take up equate to more 50% of building considering how little we use them as an alternative escape. I was looking so other methods of kinetic transportation and this is when i came across Carsten Höller.
master of imagination and drawings, Yorifuji Bunpei (source in Japanese only!)
I have learned to draw with many help from this book by Bunpei, Yorifuji Bunpei is a graphic designer known for his Japanese railway manner ads.
I particularly find the chapter in figure posture helpful, it show how the basic form can be achieved with a doll figure, important parts like hips and joints are also talked about here.
Another chapter show how to draw sections with different weighted lines to show transparency and depth. There are also warmup exercises included.
This book has helped me in numerous aspect of my drawings, it also taught me to draw what is not in front of you but what is imagined that I found it very interesting because we are naturally curious about the unknown.
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