What i think of this module

Assessment
The model that that I delved into filled me with much insight into the world of modernism and the history of arts development.through this module I was able to learn various artists work, there styles and the way situations at the time effected the artists works. I was able to see how modernism effected britain its people and how items changed with more variety available to the public. I found that this module was most insightfull into how modernisim effected how people saw children, slavery and women during this time. Women became more respectfull, slavery was abolished but it helped mass consumption and the idea of childhood was invented through modernism. Different products were designed for different purposes, products for cleaning and different age clothing. I liked how salividor dali and others dramaticly changed our views on art and the way we look it.
I learnt over the course of this module about how advertisement has made have a dramatic change in in the way things were sold and how the concept of shopping was invented.

Assessment

Assessment
Research folder

My essay will be researching and investigating children's book s. Following there development from 1795 to 1945 .I will looking at there illustration that surrounds it and there artists who developed the wondrous fictional characters that inspired children's imagination for over 200 years.
I will be comparing the artists work by many different factors such as dates, mediums, and references.
Children's books were at first made for the purpose of education with differences being that they have more illustration to describe situation's and events then adult books. That being said there are many adults books that could be considered for children such as “Tarzan of the apes” and “The adventures of Tom Sayer” . However there are also children's books that adults also enjoy such as J.K Rowling's harry potter series.As time has past children's books have changed from more adult fictional novels to simple illustrated pages such as alphabet books.This has helped childhood as being a time were young people became children as the were given a period in life captured within the pages of these books. It shows that it is a time of imagination, learning and simplicity unlike adulthood where things are complex ed and complicated. By changing illustration, by changing books it gave a name to this age period and help stimulate the creative mind of a younger generation this can be seen from as far as the 16th century to as recent as the 1930’s shown below.





The first image is from one of the earliest children's books found in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (1679).A story of a man who runs away from home to seek answers and certainty he is challenged by a numbers of problems which he overcomes with faith.
Dr Andersen was the one who illustrated this in the first addition copies in 1806. He used detailed wood engravings and printing to achieve the sharp black lines and quality's which can be seen within this picture.
The second is Attwell Mable Lucie a popular illustrator in the most of her paintings are based on her young daughter penny and are done in detailed watercolors and pencil.this picture was from the novel The ugly duckling.
The two come from very different area’s one post modernism and and the other is modern. Dr Andersen reflects a time where violence and graphical detail had no meaning in terms of what it could do for a child its was simplify socially acceptable as it was mostly adults who were expected to read these books. Although these stories were filled with imagination and many biblical references to help provide moral values in society they never portrayed innocence and youth during this period.However after 200 years of change and the second book is the complete opposite it reflects a time of joy and colour.the illustration is more brighter and rounder, visually pleasing then the hollow faces of the people in the previous image. Anderson's picture shows a high reference to death yet the other is filled with hope and laughter and dramatic change in mood yet a change in views of what was considered a children's book in there era. Both use too completely different ways of design the first image consists of black print most likely for mass publishing by printing machines. The other is a soft painted water made by hand and then photocopied and distributed by mass copiers. During The first images time they could not colour the images as this would be too time consuming yet the second because the technology was available could freely do this. But the add to overall charm of the pictures.
Below are images that reflect a changing Britain they are both from the same period using the same type of fictional characters yet have dramatic styles and differences that reflect there place in time.





The first image is from the book The water babies by Charles Kingsley and illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith made in 1862. This book is based on the adventures of a young boy being tragically killed and turned into a waterbabie were he learns valuable life lessons to become a real boy again.The second is Alice in wonderland made in 1865 by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by Arthur Rackham.It follows the journey of a young girl who travels to a mysterious land of fantasy and nonsense.
Both stories are a large resource of life lessons and learning for children such as in the water babies the book make many references to worshiping the Christian God such as when the book states “grace Of Highest God that loves His creatures so”.its encouragement to children to be christian as most people at that time were made to practice this religion. As well as The water babies ,Alice in wonderland also teaches children as it quotes many of the lessons that were learned during this period. Such as “How doth the little busy bee” a popular rhyme in schools to help children remember things.yet there importance lies not with there ability to teach but the way contradict many of what many great scientists and theorists at the time were discovering. Such as Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Many children were so drawn in to this way of thinking of creatures that were not real existed, which was what parents or teachers did not want at this time.The two images are made from ink and watercolour yet the water babies is made with pure water colours. Smith uses a soft form of watercolour making the characters seem gentle and innocent.Yet Rackham uses dark mysterious colours to give a sense of isolation and confusion. Both are fables of enchantment yet one resembles the lighter side of stories whilst the other seems a lot more detailed and cynical.
My conclusion is that although the books over the years have dramatic changed they still retain that imaginative world that is still respected today . I set out to find out how childhood and technology's have changed during the times of modernism and in return gained valuable incite to how children's stories have dramatically altered.

Bibliography

The water babies Lewis Carrol


These are the sites Ive used.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Anderson_(illustrator)
http://www.ortakales.com/illustrators/Attwell.html
http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/biographies/mainbiographies/S/SmithJ/SmithJ.htm

Lecture Notes 28th October

Lecture Notes 28th October
What is moderinsm? moderism is ideas,beliefs and attitudes. Modernism is sciance and industry.But modernism is a time in the 20th cenury we all look back to as a period where hundred perhaps thousesnds of diffrnt changes were accuring.it is this time where poets and artists got there greatest freedom and insperation from. modernism changed the way people think the way things where contrained and realesed a whole diffrent approach to life.

post modernism
During post modernism times where much diffrent god and relidgion governed how we thought and believed. Yet in the 16th century this became challenged by the masses and the system of place and status in the 16th century began to be disused.People began to have more faith and supposrt in themselves and not just in the teachings of god.Printing and inventing also emerged in this changing time. The catholic church views no longer governed the masses lives and people began to see that the world was round and that it did go around the sun.
People began to debate and produce more ideas they questioned past beliefs and explored sciance and nature.somthing that was never attempted befor. and in doing so opend new possibilitys and created a more open society.

With this new way of thinking inventions came from far and near and enabled people to build trains to go to new places and speed up industry. Artists where able to express themselves more questioning there viewiners and experienment with new ways of painting. yet moderisim had its flaurs it disreagarded the past losing its respect in those that came befor only moving on for the sake of development.


Such notable people from this period where
Braque
Picasso
Delauney

New forms of art emerged too such as
Collage
Cubism

Lecture Notes 14th October

Lecture notes 14th October
Consumption can mean to satisfy the needs of the masses such as food,clothes and travel. Consumption could be to do with needs which are biological physical and phsycolodgical. because of mass production there were many more good that the public could choose from and thus led to the development of more diversity's of taste retail development and new design in products.

Because of the need for different products new inventions were made such as domestic appliances that soon replaced maids and butlers for cleaning.
because more goods began to appear on the market manufacturers help make whats we know as diversification which made differences between classes.
men and women became different from each other as products were made for women and men. children had toys and clothes different from adults which created the period we know as childhood.
soap was a important issue as soaps for diffrent puposes which made people become more contious of cleanlyness. paris began to change due to the growth of shops and department stores.

-advertising was developed
-new typeface for editing
-education system for children

Lecture Notes 7th October

Lecture notes 7th october
Society wanted to make more goods then supplies could manage and so the industrial revolution came about to supply that need.

Feudal society
Hierarchical
Traditional
Religious

Befor their was limitation to products that people could purchase but with machines production a wide range of products more people had more variety to choose from. Examples of this date back as far as the feudal society.

People all had a station and place and there were little diversion between them. The church was very influential and their was little people could do to improve this unlike today where we can improve our social standing.

In the feudal system there were peasents and cratsmen the peasents worked the land but the craftsmen were given permission to use there skills by lords.

In the idustrial revololution population also increased this was due to more jobs and more resorces being available which cuase fear amoung the growing society.
Middle ,Upper and poor class was created and citys were seperated into diffrent areas to satisfy the needs of its people.Transport influenced the growth of its people as it enabled people to see more of the world. This influenced artists like Turner. There were banks available for storing money and there were explorations that created the slave triangle.

Diversion of labour
-dividing the production process up into a series of steps.
-no one person has controle of the product
-the role of the designer becomes one stage in the design process
-alienation a sence of lack of controle and power after ones life and fruits of ones labour.

Standisation of parts
-can be replaced
-morable metal type is earliest example

Lecture Notes 30th September

Lecture Notes 30th September
Design is a range of drawings or ideas which can be developed into a a final thing. it is the creation and realisation of an idea created or recorded via many different mediums.

-Researching visual perfection for a specific user using skill craft and creativity.
-Gradual development of a idea or subject.
-Difficult to agree or disagree with what design is.
-Perfection is a difficult thing to agree on relative levels of perfection ,The functual,The perfect,The ideal.

Its a matter of opinion. Different audiences, tastes, needs, likes, and wants will be diverse. We live in a pharalistic society- more then one point of view.

Illustration is a detailed piece of artwork based for a specific theme or need. Forming and image to suit or assist in understanding things.

Design and illustration
-how technolagy fas shepard our lives ,Design can produce economic value/profit.
-design can produce moral dilema
-design as persuation/propergander
-creation as a identity/promotion
-illustration as a author
-design and illstration are anonimus

The relationship between design,illustration and the enviroment and ideas help quality of life.

People 13

Final Report

My response to this project was to develop a product that could help people. I thought of a device that could help people find there grocery's in supermarkets.my device is perfectly suited for family's and people who are looking to find food easily in stores.I hope my device will be small practical and easy to use.
My first priority was to look at ways this could be done and the technology behind them. To do this I
looked at RFID a form of data tracking which is used in most stores to help find products, keep stock and organise them. It reads barcodes but it can read them while the items are moving. It is similar to other forms of tracking like Wifi, found in stores, Internet cafes’s and some phone box’s in major city's.
Bluetooth is also something I thought of using as it’s a device that transfers data in a short range, which in a store full of products all within close range I believed this would be use full. I also looked at barcodes and how they work in stores read by RFID but are also read by USB scanners.
so even after looking at these major forms of data trasference I discovered that my device would be better as a application they are found in I-phones and mobile devices. They are easy to download and are easily available online. The program works by using the application software to use RFID to lock on to the location of the item and directs the customer to the item in question.
The user must first turn on the device enter the items into the application and then go to the store. The RFID scans the items and transfers the data back into the device. It also helps the user by telling them how far the items are and also alternatives if the customer cannot find or wants a cheaper option. I feel companies may want to purchase this device like Tesco or ASDA because it will speed up shopping for customers make things less stressfull and suggestive sale for the users which will increase profit for the company's. However if it is a child or old age pensioner it will not do suggestive sale as this this is taking advantage of there age.
I made some sketches of the device and what it will look like on my device and how it functions and works. I thought perhaps this way it would be easy to show how the product works and how the user can manage it. More importantly demonstrates how simple the item is to use in a crowded store. As the application is found in mobile phones it will be light weight and easily moved around. Easily accessible and its destined that way so it will be comfortable for any user. But also because they will be expert users of a phone and novice users of the device it will also be simple to learn how to use and access.
I looked at the Christene Faulkners Theories of computer interaction found that applications, software and programs and found that her theories help me develop what my device should or should not do. They should be easy to function and should give sufficient feedback and they should have not have too many options to confuse the user.they should also give help the user and that no special training will be necessary. This can be found in the book called The essence of human computer interaction where she has many theories on how applications and software should work.
I found after the application “Tasty tracker Mk 1” was completed I was satisfied how the software would work and how the application on mobile phones would work. I feel that this idea will benefit shoppers and family's alike and that it will enrich the shopping experience.