SF girl by bay

http://www.sfgirlbybay.com/

I follow this blogger because her images are mainly photography, it looks as if it is mainly based on interior design and sculpture, each photo have a special meaning and why it has been took in the first place.

I like this blog as it seems clean and fresh, quite modern compared to other blogs I have previously seen. Each image are very similar, as they all have pretty much the same colour sceme but it works with one and another.

Maricor/Maricar

http://maricormaricar.blogspot.co.uk/

The main reason I love this blogger is the fact that they have their own style of work which they call 'Tactiles', this is something I do already but I would like to try it more in detail which is what they do, they sew their own designs and writing into fabric which looks really good as it makes it stand out and makes it more realistic instantly due to the 3D effect.

This inspires me to try and experiment with different colours and to use different shapes which would allow me to create actual images, like the ones they have done involving the headless man and women and the cartoon figures.

Amy Mingkwan

http://amymingkwan.blogspot.co.uk/
Amy is a Textiles Designer who has created some beautiful pieces, she is capable of doing some freelance print designing where her prints seem elegant and girly, to doing some photography on her surrounding such as nature and landscape.

There is one particular design which I absolutely love and that is a print of a bird cage and some birds which overlays on what looks like a vintage document, it all strangely fits in perfectly and makes the birdcage stand out even more, even though there are so many colours going on.

Print & Pattern

http://printpattern.blogspot.co.uk/
This blogger specialises mainly in textiles such as designing prints onto fabric and using that to make bags, clothing and even wallpaper, which I especially like, the patterns they have created are usually based around nature such as flowers or leaves, and they just mix it all up making some of their patterns look almost abstract.

When looking through their blog, I notice that nearly all their patterns are colourful and bright, rather than it being dull and boring. I like the choice of colours that they usually use as it gives off a good and happy vibe because of the bright bold colours

Trainspotting by David Amblard

Trainspotting is a British black comedy film done in the 1996 about a group of heroin addicts in the late 1980’s, following and seeing how their journey through life goes, which is directed by Danny Boyle.

By looking at the cartoon like poster art which David Amblard designed I can already tell that these are the main characters, and in a way gives an image of their personalities.

 

The layout is simply in four squares where inside each one is a portrait of the character, two however are looking forward at you where as the other two look like they are looking to side at the other characters. To me the design of this is rather simple yet effective and quite basic in colour. The background of each square contrasts the actual portrait making it stand out even more and making it look 3D.

Shepard Fairey

“Fairey created a series of posters supporting Barack Obama's 2008 candidacy for President of the United States, including the iconic "HOPE" portrait. The New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl called the poster "the most efficacious American political illustration since 'Uncle Sam Wants You’Fairey also created an exclusive design for Rock the Vote. Because the Hope poster had been "perpetuated illegally" and independently by the street artist, the Obama campaign declined to have any direct affiliation with it. Although the campaign officially disavowed any involvement in the creation or popularisation of the poster, Fairey has commented in interviews that he was in communication with campaign officials during the period immediately following the poster's release. Fairey has stated that the original version featured the word "PROGRESS" instead of the word "HOPE," and that within weeks of its release”

 I like this design as it has a meaning that obviously won thousands of people over, and managed to sell over 300,000 stickers and 500,000 posters during this campaign. I quite like how Barack Obama’s actual face has a pop art sort of theme going on which makes it more quirky

For me this picture stood out from the rest simply by the way the lines in the background change colour from left to right, on the left its red and black whereas on the right side it is red and a crème colour. This strange effect made the rock chick woman stand out, being in front of the lines made it look 3D.

The title for this poster design is called “Eat The Rich”, this probably came from what her t-shirt actually says and that she is holding a fork maybe to resemble that she is literally going to “Eat The Rich”.

Like most of Shepard Fairey’s designs such as ‘The Barack Obama ‘Hope’ poster’ he has just stuck with three main colours that have been used in different shades so parts of the picture don’t blend in and actually look realistic with the shadings around certain areas.