Daniel Samson

A quick visual summary of some of what I have been working on for the final project, in no real order.

Lots of it is visualisation stuff, that I have failed to provide any real explanation of. But the red lines and the dots are London, with art galleries mapped out onto it.

Here is some of the visual materials I have collected during my research.

After reading up on how to get hold of cheap lenses, I came across a very effective and cheap solution to buying a macro, reverse the lens you are using… simple as that. I held my 18-55mm lens the wrong way round and tried to take some photos. Some of them work, others not so much, but its a really beautiful way of creating images. I am ordering a mounting ring so I can mount it without holding it on. Most of these were taken at 18mm. Anyway, check them out and try it yourself.

Today we took part in Darrens workshop on image making, we all took some photos and then combined them in a simple 3 colour digital collage. The point being to generate new ideas or to develop further into a final piece. This is so we can use all of the research images we collect.

The grass greener is from a letterpress poster done earlier in the year, the arrows were from darrens stuff, the elephant from the small elephant toy I own and took a photo of and the white shapes at the bottom are from an illustrator thing I was working on. Darren made a comparison to the ‘North by Northwest’ Saul Bass title sequence, looking now I can see the connection.

As part of Jo’s workshop we were to redesign the MTV logo, as the recent version was such a boring affair. So here is mine.

Playing around with ‘Spatial Forces’ as described in ‘Basic Design: The Dynamics of Visual Form’ by Maurice de Sausmarez.

Here are some early examples of ittens contrasts. I will do more of these.