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TYPOGRAFIE & Formenlehre
This task was to create a pattern with different kind of shapes and
colours. I used the computer programme Adobe Illustrator to create the different shapes, like the squares and circles and also to
put them together as a pattern. I decided to only use black and
white, because I thought it worked better and because it had a bigger impact. Here I chose to work with circular shapes made out of
curved lines and put together to make it a circular shape.
This task was to create a pattern with different kind of shapes and
colours. I used the computer programme Adobe Illustrator to create the different shapes, like the squares and circles and also to
put them together as a pattern. I decided to only use black and
white, because I thought it worked better and because it had a bigger impact. Here i chose to work with squares that had different
kind of patterns inside them and when put together it looks like
cracked tiles.
This task was to create a pattern with different kind of shapes and
colours. I used the computer programme Adobe Illustrator to create the different shapes, like the squares and circles and also to
put them together as a pattern. I decided to only use black and
white, because I thought it worked better and because it had a bigger impact. Here i chose to work with circles again and I put together two different kinds of circular shapes that I experimented
with before putting them together.. This one I find interesting, for
it created an affect that the circles threw shadows on the background.
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Here are three posters of a party, that I designed with the computer programme InDesign. I tried out different kinds of styles here.
The first one was based on the idea of putting the text into shapes,
which I thought worked allright in this case. The second one I tried
to loosely put the text around the objects in the poster. The third
poster was a try where I made the text into shapes, like a colourd
rectangle.
10: 00–03: 30
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10:00 - 03:30
0 8001 Zürich
Pelikanstrasse 10
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0 8001 Zürich
Pelikanstrasse 10
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PELIKANSTRASSE 100 8001 ZÜRICH
This was a task to create an interesting shape by cutting out one
piece after another out of paper. By using six pieces of paper at
the same time I made it possible to see the development of the shape
and transformation.
I tried to create excitement with the difference in size and the ratio of empty space and the black paper. I found it a very interesting way to transform absolutely anything, because there are no
limits to the possible transformations and changes you can make
or cut out.
bildwelten
This is the picture I photoshopped for my application sheet. It is
put together with three different pictures. Two pictures of me sitting somewhere and a picture of a fire on a beach. I cut out myself
and set myself on the beach. I also coloured in the fire with strange
colours, to give the picture some suspense. I also created the shadows myself.
I had a lot of fun doing this, because I love to change a picture into
something completely different just with a couple of mouse-clicks.
These are two analogue portrait collages. They both have me inside them and were made with cut-outs from magazines and newspapers. I tried to bring a certain style into each one of them and a
certain theme. My theme in these two were «Superhero» and I put
a statue of a man in each one. I tried to stay in a single hue of a colour, so that there was a connection between the cut-outs on one
collage. After sticking it all together I scanned it and also used
photoshop to make some colour adjustments.
These are two analogue collages where the goal was to hide myself in the picture and to make myself blend in with the background.
I used pictures from magazines and newspapers and cut them out
and put together the collages. To blend myself into the background
I used photoshop and painted my clothes in the pattern of the background. That way I am hard to find and look like a part of the colourfull patterns in the back.
These are two sketches of a dog made with ink. The aim was to get
the direction and the strukture of the fur right.
The big picture is a drawing of a dog with ink. My aim here is to differentiate between the gaps of the lines to create darker and lighter
spots. It was a more graphical approach and I also enjoyed it more.
This is a series of paintings that I did with ink and a brush. It›s a
story about a man finding a bag and reaching into it and finding
something unexpected. I didn›t use any other colours, for it had a
bigger impact, especially with the face in the dark abyss. I used a
lot of water to create the greys and to make the colours run into
each other.
DIGITALES GESTALTEN
This is a digital collage that I put together on photoshop with a photograph and
other pictures I found. I cut out different shapes and patterns and put them together in an interesting way. I decided that the colour red would be the overall
hue of the picture, to make it fit together better. I also used the effect of shadows behind every layer to give it more depth.
This is a digitalisation of a painting I made of my bag. I used the pro-
This is a version where I changed all the colours around with photoshop
This is a version where I changed all the colours around with photoshop
This is a version where i changed all the colours around with photoshop
gramm photoshop to turn it into coloured surfaces of greys, blacks,
and completely changed the picture and its effect. This has a more sub-
and completely changed the picture and its effect. This is a version
and completely changed the picture and it›s effect. This is also a ver-
greens and yellows. These are the original colours used in the pain-
tal effect but is still impressive.
with much stronger and more luscious colours.
sion with stronger colours but with more blue. I find it interesting to
ting.
transorm a picture just by changing all the colours. It shows how big
a change you can make with such small tools.
FOTOGRAFIE
This is a photograph I spontaneously took of myself while walking
around the city. I find it an intriguing picture because of all the
things you can find in it and because of the colours. I am standing
behind a piece of art in Zürich that had a big hole in it and long
cracks running down it. I am looking through the hole right at the
camera and all of my face apart from my eye isn't visible because
of the cracks.
This is a photograph of me and a friend of mine dancing in the street. I took the picture with a long lighting
time, so that our movements go all fuzzy and blurred.
It looks like the picture itself is moving.
This is a photograph that I took of smoke. It was difficult to make the smoke freeze on the picture because it
was so translucent. The end result is amazing though,
because if you look carefully you can see a lot of things
and creatures in the smoke. I personally see a horse or
a dog.
FARBGESTALTUNG
These are gouache paintings of a sector of an oil lamp. I chose a
pinkish salmon colour for the background because it fitted well
with the yellow and gold. You can see the development and progress that I made.
This is the large version of the gouache painting of the oil lamp. I
tried to get the colours and the highlights of the metal right. I think
the shadow succeeded very well.
ZEICHNEN
This is a drawing with a black marker pen of a crumpled piece of tin foil. I had to decide which surfaces to
colour black and white and how to make it look three-dimensional. I think it looks like a section of some mountains.
This is a painting of two sweets. The aim was to get the colours right and to make a visible two-aligned perspective.
I like the way the colours of the wrapping and the sweets
themselves work together and how the shadows make it
look more three-dimensional.
KOERPER RAUM FARBE
This is a photograph of a sculpture I made out of paper and
the room that I also made myself. The sculpture itself was
made by cutting into the single pieces of paper and folding
them together and then sticking them together to create
something similar to a bowl. I created the room with photoshop to bend the walls to make an illusion.
KUNSTGESCHICHTE
Es ist ein sehr dunkles Bild mit einem dunklen Motiv. Es hat im Hintergrund 2 verstorbene Korallen und im Vordergrund viele verschiedene Muscheln. Alle Objkte befinden sich auf einem Tisch und darauf ein verknülltes Tuch. Der Hintergrund und die Umgebung ist unerkennbar weil er so
dunkel ist. Die Muscheln und die Korallen stechen im Gegensatz heraus.
Ich denke alles symbolisiertetwas Verstorbenes. Die Korallen sind tot und
vertrocknet und nur noch als Dekoration verwendbar. Die Muscheln waren einst bewohnt von Meeresschnecken oder Krabben. Jedoch sind sie
jetzt leer und verlassen. Alles sind Symbole der Vergänglichkeit.
SPRACHGESTALTUNG
Er lief gemütlich die Landstrasse entlang und ignorierte
die rasenden Autos, die an ihm vorbeisausten. Es war nach
Mitter­­­nacht und nichts als der Mond beleuchtete die Strasse.
Jedesmal wenn ein Auto an ihm vorbeifuhr, wurde er für einen
kurzen Moment vom Licht der Scheinwerfer geblendet.
Um diese Uhrzeit waren nur sehr wenige Leute unterwegs und
schon gar nicht zu Fuss. Er fühlte sich ein bisschen einsam
u nd d ie ho c h r a genden Ta n nen a n den Seit en der St r a s s e
gaben ihm das Gefühl winzig und bedeutungslos zu sein.
Es erinnerte ihn an sein Buch, das er diese Woche angefangen
hatte, an die Stelle, wo der Protagonist an einem Gleis entlang
rannte und wie in seinen Augen das Licht eines Zuges gespiegelt
wurde, bevor er von der riesigen Maschine überfahren
wurde. Er wurde abrupt von seinen Gedanken weggerissen, als
ein vorbeifahrender Lastwagen laut hupte und er fast über
seine eigenen Schuhe stolperte vor Schreck. Als er wieder seine
Balance fand, bemerkte er ein Blatt, das von dem schnellen
Lastwagen aufgewirbelt wurde. Er schaute um sich um sicher zu
stellen, dass kein Auto kam und lief zügig dem Papier
hinterher, bis er es schnappen konnte. Im Mondlicht versuchte er
zu entschlüsseln, was abgebildet war.