Cool Packaging 6

Packaging doesn't have to be some crazy shape or form for it to be interesting or even successful. The branding and the colour design is just as important for the product to be successful. The idea that the packaging has to catch the eyes is well known but to keep the eye on it for even a couple of seconds for the brain to register the product and desire to take place is crucial.
Minimalistic packaging like the Polaroid's early 1960's instant film packaging was the most successful packing of its day with its striking rainbow colours that emulated the 60's was an instant hit and even today the boxes are collectors items for camera geeks around the world. Whats more interesting is what came next, with the Polaroid camera been regard as the ipod of its day it was kind of ironic that apple should follow similar direction in the design of their logo. As Polaroid started lose steam in the mid 1970's, Apple started to build and released their famous rainbow apple logo. It was thought that Apple had many meanings for their design choice one being Knowledge (apple) Hope (rainbow) and Anarchy (rainbow not in order). Even though i like this i feel that this next reason is more suited, on the tail end of Polaroid they create a logo that makes people stop and think, ask where have i seen that before, Dajavu. And its that time that keeps you thinking. enough time for desire to step in. 

In Focus

Watch the video, it shows the a new light field technology on its way out, a system called Lytro. This enables users to take photographs and change the focus point as many times they want AFTER the photo has been taken. Not only that but if you share your pics it allows the recipicant to chjange the focus points too. This is some crazy technology coming aoutr but i kind of feels like taking photo has just got easier, it will obviously come with a cost but still theres nothing like taking a photo, uploading and then finding it focused on the wrong point.

Graphic Type

First assignment is complete this week for the 1st year Graphic designers, and after 3 weeks of making and investigating the materials processes and techniques they have come up with some great looking illustrations using 3D. Here's just one of the bunch, well done guys great works, keeps it up.



Cool Packaging 5

Cool Poster 5

Phonar Creative Workshop Task 1:

I recently join Phonar which is a free course you can join over the Internet which is ran at Coventry University. Check out the link here to find out more. I like idea of sharing with other photographers and also taking part in something where you get free education of sorts.

The New Task

Completion date: 13th October 2011 (first session back)

Garner a portfolio of 8-10 images from different photographers whose work inspires you. Choose carefully, as though your edit was going to appear as a spread in a printed magazine, you may choose to lay them out as such if you wish, with attention to scale, pace and flow etc.
The portfolio must directly address a theme of your choosing – it could be a personal theme or a topical one, the choice is yours.

So here's my selection.

Paul Trevor
Most famous for documenting post war Liverpool and discovering that children in the midst of poverty and deprivation were fun loving and free with a tight nit community. What i get most out of these photos is the brutal truth of life before we got greedy and paranoid.




Alexey Titarenko
When i first saw Alexey's Photographs they drew my eye to the movement in the vast streets and open spaces of St Petersburg. The haunting images that he creates intrigues me and inspires me to play with the development of film and experiment taking the process to its limits and the creativity to endless limits.


Henri Cartier Bresson
One of the most original, accomplished, influential, and beloved figures in the history of photography. His inventive work of the early 1930s helped define the creative potential of modern photography, and his uncanny ability to capture life on the run made his work synonymous with the decisive moment and its this reason i carry a camera around in my bag all the time. Just when the time strike when an opportunity arises and a chance to capture that space and time in a fraction of a second.




This concludes my selection for the task.
Cheers for reading.

Behind the Camera

The video below is being banded around the web alot the past few days but it shows the fine line of responsibility of that of a photographer. Ones who are driven by money and politics and those that go out to open peoples minds to the real world and inquiry. Photographs are not always about the actual image that we see in front of us but also the image around and outside the picture. the way we perceive  them is just as important as how we take them and this can be applied to all kinds of photography not just documented or journalistic. ( is journalistic as word? if not I'm having that.)


Photojournalism Behind the Scenes [ITA-ENG subs] from Ruben Salvadori on Vimeo.

Also check out these, it took me ages to find them some serious backtracking.
http://www.businessinsider.com/pyongyang-north-korea-2011-5?op=1

Animation By The Sun

No CGI just the Sun and a very patient young lady.

Chris Orwig Video

I just watched this video off Anthony Luke's blogg, its about Chris Orwig and the passion of Photography. some parts of the video are quite cheesy but there are some really relevant points for photographers just starting out. Its about an hour long but well worth the watch and i personally got alot out of it from a student and teacher point of view. Plus he gives some really good tips on taking pics and post production.