Aubrey Beardsley.

Aubrey Beardsley was born on 21 August, 1872, in Brighton, England. Growing up in a middle class family with a piano teacher as a mother, both him and his sister were considered musical and artistic child marvels. At the age of nine he wrote his first play which was proformed by him and others at his school. in 1884 appeared in public as an "infant musical phenomenon", playing at several concerts with his sister. His sister later went on to become an actress.

As a young child he was often sick which was a condition that followed him into his adult years. At nine he had his first reported attack of tuberculosis, the disease which was to reduce him to an invalid several times and finally cause his death.

In 1883 his family moved from brighton to London, where he attended Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School. A year after this his art work was being published in the school newspaper. After leaving school he worked as a clerk in an insurrance office. It wasn't till 1891 that he took up art as an actual profession and in 1982 he started attending art classes at Westminster School of Art. He also travelled to Paris where he fell in love with artist and poster designer Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and the obsession with the Japanise prints that had kicked off in paris at the time. this later went on to be major inspiration for his work.

He can definatly be described as an art nouveau artist but his work was probably the most contreversiol of the work that was produced in the era. He was known for his pictures being only black and white, both quite sharp bold colours, where as it was much more common for light colours and pastels to be used. he also used some quite disturbing and erotic themes in some of his work and some have described some of his work as 'grotesque'. He played on this fact and was quoted to say "I have one aim—the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing."

In 1897 he converted to Roman Catholicism. He begged his publishers to destroy any work that would be considered unholy or obscene but this wish was ignored and his publisheres 'Smithers' continued to sell prints and also forgeries of Beardsley's work. Many think that the reason he had such a turn of heart was because of worries he faced due to his illness and fear of dying and what would come next, if anything does.

His private life and sexuality has been constantly questioned. Beardsley was associated with the homosexual clique that included Oscar Wilde. Most people believed that he was asexual (not interested in having a relationship with anyone, man or woman) which would make sense because of his re-occuring chronic illness and his devotion to his work. Some rumors came out that he had an inncestual relationship with his older sister mabel and that she misscarried with his baby. During his entire career, Beardsley had recurrent attacks of tuberculousis. He suffered frequent lung hemorrhages and was often unable to work or leave his home. In 1897 deteriorating health prompted his move to the French Riviera, where he died a year later on 16 March 1898 at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Menton, France.

Here are two of his more controversial works. I think it can be agreed that as an artist he is very good at what he does but I am not sure if I particularly enjoy his images. They are interesting to look at but for me personally they leave me feeling quite perverse, especially the ones featuring genitalia. But it can be questioned weather this is because it is disgusting or because society has made me feel like it should be.

Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau is slightly more than an art style, or a architectural style, for some people it is seen as more of a lifestyle. One that is eco friendly calm and peaceful. The word its self comes from the french language and means 'new art'. Art Nouveau aimed to get away from the academic art seen commonly through the 19th century and before. Noted academic artists include Sir Edward John Poynter, Albert Moore and Alexandre Cabanel. Art Nouveau was much more abstract and elegant. It was inspired by nature. The natural shapes made by growing plants and tree's. 

I found a quote on art nouveau although I cant find who it was spoken by but it sums up the subject perfectly. "Think of a sensuous line, of a flowing line, a line which bends and turns back on itself. Think of a feminine form, swirling and curving. Think of plant forms growing and flowering. Think of lines which seem not to confirm; think of waves, think of womans hair; think of twisting smoke. Think too of contured lines, lines which begin parallel but converge and actually contradict each other."

It was most popular at the very end of the 19th century through to the first few decades of the 20th century. Mainly in Europe but it did effect design across the world. Art Nouveau was not the styles original name, and it is called different things in different courtries but in 1895 German art dealer Siegfried Bing set up a gallery Maison de l'Art Nouveau (House of New Art) that was exclusively showcasing modern art. The gallery gained a lot of fame quite quickly and at the 1900 Exposition Universelle, he exhibited installations of modern furniture, tapestries and sculptures. The beautiful abstract curves became very popular and they were so heavily associated with the style that the name from his gallery became the name of they style that we hear of so commonly today.

It took a lot of influence from japanese work. Japanese woodblock prints (or woodcuts) and paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, featuring motifs of landscapes, tales from history, the theatre, and pleasure quarters.

Famous artists from this time include Gustav Klimt, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Koloman Moser, Koloman Moser, William Bradley, Aubrey Beardsley, Ernesto Basile and many more.



Here is a good example of art nouveau in architecture. You can see it especially on the cast iron bars which is a common thing that you see all over cities on and inside buildings even now. 

This is a poster designed by famous art nouveau artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. These colours are colours often used in art nouveau works. The beige and yellow, all light colours that work well together, nothing to gaudy and bold. 

This is a famous piece by Alphonse Mucha, a czech artist who was well known for his inclusion of woman in his work, often with long flowing hair and always looking beautiful. 

"Less is More".

Earlier on I was talking about how I thought that the bauhaus and the swiss style have really influenced a lot of graphic design and packaging design that we have seen come about in the more recent years so I thought I would find some pictures and give you some examples of what I am talking about. 

This woman's body spray is a perfect example of what I am talking about. Simple sans serifed fonts and block colours. Also the shape of this bottle is really interesting, the smoothness yet unusualness is another thing that is defiantly descended from swiss and bauhaus styles. 

I think these bottles are really impressive. I love the use of misted glass on the bottle in the middle and it ties them together really nicely as a trio. The alignment of the text all being to the right hand side is another common thing you see with the swiss styles and I love the effect the text being on its side has to the overall look. Very Impressed. 

These bottles are quite similar to the last one but the black with bright coloured type packs a little bit more of a punch than the last ones, which were much more elegant and airy.

Even Pantone probably the biggest paint company on the globe are using this style, and the matt effect of the colour finishes these tins of nicely.

Festival of Britain.

The festival of Britain was held throughout the United Kingdom in the summer of 1951. It was to give the people of Britain a sense of unity and strength to help them recover from the aftermath of World war 1. It was a series of exhibitions promoting british technology, science, architecture and the arts. The main part of the festival took place in London on the south bank of the main london river the thames but there were also events in Poplar, South Kensington, Glasgow, Cardiff, Stratford-upon-Avon, Bath, Perth, Bournemouth, York, Aldeburgh, Inverness, Cheltenham, Oxford and many other cities and towns. In total there were 187 shows the official programme map with events and exhibitions around the country.

A view from across the thames of the festival of Britain's main event. 

The festival, organised by the labour government, aimed to celebrate the best of Britain and give people a real sense of national identity. It was an exiting thing to happen after the long boring years of the war and a good way to set people on the path to 're-building Britain', showcasing lots of design and architecture to inspire people.

Displayed in the main part of the festival was lots of modern, and modernism architecture which also helped the boom of artists working in this style, such as muller-brokmann, come to light in the years to follow, and is where lots of the inspiration of the new architecture that was see around our cities comes from today. 

Here is one of the images that was displayed at the modernistic section of the south bank exhibition. It is a bus shelter.

Henry Moore is another artists who's sculptures could be seen at the festival, based at the Tate gallery. In 48 Moore had won the International Sculpture Prize at the Venice Biennale which was a major achievement for him. His sculptures were seen as modern but also accessible which made him a leading role model for sculptures in the years to come. 

I couldn't find any imagery of Moore's work being showcased at the FoB but here is an example. As you can see it was around this time that things really started changing and becoming much more minimal and abstract and the FoB defiantly had a big part to play in that. 

Even the poster for the festival is pretty modern looking with a simple use of colours and some quite abstract and stylised shapes. Though a serifed typeface has still been chosen. 

The festival was something devised by the Labour Government and was associated with Clement Attlee, the prime minister at the time. When the Conservatives were elected and Winston Churchill came into power the exhibition at the south bank was soon demolished.

Josef Müller-Brockmann.

Josef Müller-Brockmann was one of this first designers that really brought the Swiss style to light. He was a swiss designer and teacher who had studied architecture, design and the history of art himself at University. He opened his own design studio on 1936 and this is when he really started focusing on the style of design that made him such a big name in the art world in later life. He also wrote books on design, "The Graphic Artist and his Design Problems", "Grid Systems in Graphic Design" , the publications "History of the Poster" and "A History of Visual Communication".


I quote " I became a graphic designer by accident". At school I was loth to write much for compositions so I put in illustrations instead. My teacher enjoyed them and thought I had talent. He suggested that I should pursue an artistic career: gravure etching or retouching, for instance. So I was apprenticed as a retoucher in a printing works. I lasted one day because I said that this wasn’t artistic work. After that I was apprenticed to two elderly architects. With them I lasted four weeks. Then I went to see all the graphic designers I found listed in the telephone directory because I wanted to find out what they did. Afterwards I enrolled to study graphic design at the Zurich Gewerbeschule." - Josef Muller-Brokmann



He has been noted for his clean and simplistic style of design, his interesting use of geometry and colours and his love of the helvetica typeface. A sans serifed typeface, now widely used and developed by Max Miedinger in 1957. His skills included letterpress, silkscreen, and lithography.


Here are two famous posters that he made, the first for a Beethoven concert in Zurich. The were supposed to represent the flow and harmony of Beethovens music. It was made in 1955 and many people were impressed with the modern looking design. It was something a lot of people hadn't experienced before and it represented the future.


Again I quote "In my designs for posters, advertisements, brochures and exhibitions, subjectivity is suppressed in favour of a geometric grid that determines the arrangement of the type and images. The grid is an organisational system that makes it easier to read the message...The grid is an organisational system that enables you to achieve an orderly result at a minimum cost. The task is solved more easily, faster and better. It brings the arbitrary organisation of text into a logical system in keeping with the conflict. It can demonstrate uniformity that reaches beyond national boundaries, a boon to advertising from which IBM, for instance, has profited. Objective-rational design means legible design, objective information that is communicated without superlatives or emotional subjectivity."

The second one, made in 1959, pictures the overlapping of the two words which is meant to remind our brains of the flicker you get on the film, much more common in older black and white films. And this is why he has used the black and the grey also. Apart from anything I think it is just a really nice example of what you can do with text and the idea of text being the main object of a picture not just the support. I think it is a impressive thing to be able to make a poster look good without the use of any imagery at all and this I think is something that I would be really interested in doing in my own work. 

I really like the swiss styles and the idea of simplicity as a form of beauty. It is also something I think that is coming back into light quite a lot in design recently especially since we have the importance of being eco-friendly and not using so much packaging or paper or ink. You see a lot of packaging today that has taken obvious influence from the swiss style and the phrase 'a little is a lot' springs to mind in both areas.

Swiss International Style.

The Swiss International Style was something that came about in graphic design in the late 1950's. It was clean and sharp and direct, often not featuring any imagery at all. Either just text or single tone shapes. It used sans serifed typefaces and the text would often appear to the left or too the right, rarely centred. Famous artists from the time of the Swiss Style are Max Bill, Afrian Frutiger Josef Muller-Brockmann, Paul Rand, Jan Tschichold and many more. However although the style only really started appearing around the 1950's its origins can be seen in lots of other artistic movements that came before its time.

Akzidenz Grotesk - 1896

This is the name of a typeface that was released by the H. Berthold AG type foundry in 1896. It was one of the first sans serifed typefaces to be widely used and was inspiration to a lot of people that were first designing when the Swiss Style came into swing.

Neoplasticism - 1917

This movement started in 1917 in the Netherlands and sought to bring peace and harmony and order. The work was completely abstract, using only the basic colours and shapes often using horizontal and vertical lines. Piet Mondrian is probably one of the most famous artists known for working in this style. 

One of Mondrians most famous paintings.

Bauhaus - 1919

The bauhaus was a college in Germany specialising in the arts and was famous for the specific styles of art that it taught and the work that came out of that. It influenced every aspect of design that be architecture, graphic design, interior design, art, typography even industrial. It was about keeping things simple and functioning and taking away all the ornamentation and frills, but still keeping it sleek and beautiful. 

Here is a picture of the Bauhaus school.

And here is the Bauhaus centre it Tel Aviv, the curved white walls are common features of bauhaus influenced architecture.

Negative Space

Negative space, in art terms, is the space around an image, and the space inside it. So if you imagine a black background with a white silhouette of a bird in the middle, the black part would be negative and the white part would be positive, or the other way round. One negative and one positive.


Here is a well know example of the use of negative space. This picture, made in 1915, by Edgar Rubin who was a Danish psychologist is called Rubin Vase and shows the when you make the tone around the outside of the vase darker than the inside of the vase, and make it a silohette image, your eyes focus on the white and instead of a vase you can see the profile image of two men.

 

This was done as a psychology test but has now become a popular thing among artists and designers all over the world.

Tang Yau Hoong

I recently came across an artist while looking through a graphic design magazine I subscribe to called Computer Arts. His name is Tang Yau Hoong, and he is a graphic designer from Malaysia, which is where he is still based now.

 I quote.. "I love to play with negative space and illusion in my artwork. My illustrations are mostly conceptual, surreal and minimalist." - Tang Yau Hoong.

His work is very good and this idea about the use of negative space is something that really interests me . Its very clever and its almost like a puzzle for the brain to look at. 


Here are some examples of Hoongs work. These examples are not commissioned piece's of work, though he do commissions as well as his own pieces. 

This one is called 'Coexistence' and it is about the relationship between our cities and buildings and the nature that we have built it on and the nature that surrounds it. I really like the use of colours in this picture, the watercolour effect means the colours merge into each other nicely and he has stuck to colours close together on the colour spectrum. I think it works really well.

This one is called night and day which is a fitting title as the picture pretty much speaks for its self.

'Little red riding hood'

'Lost Memory'

Photomontage

pho·to·mon·tage 

Noun A montage constructed from photographic images. The technique of constructing such a montage

Basically a Photomontage is where you combine lots of different photo's or pictures together to make a bigger picture. There are different kinds of photomontage now that we have developed editing software for computers, and it is possible to edit many photos together to make them look like one shot. But before we could do this photomontages were much more surreal looking and were used heavily by surrealist artists through the 20th century. 

This picture is a landscape made up of 16 different photos, manipulated using photoshop to make it look real, it is very clever.

Here is a comparison between a photomontage made by Herbert Bayer in 1932, and a photomontage that I found on the internet. As you can see the images in the first picture look like they have been cut out and placed together, where is the woman looks like that actually is her beard growing from her chin, with the use of computers it is much easier to create realistic looking photomontages, but they all stem from the works of surrealist artists such as Herbert Bayer and other artists working in the way around the same time. 

Hannah Hoch 

Hannah Hoch is very well known for her use of photomontage and is described as one of the originators of the art form. She was a German artist working who's work became well known around the early 1920's. She was part of the Dada movement in Berlin and worked closely with a lot of other artists involved in Dadaism. She was a strong feminist and a strong woman, which must have been very hard for her at that time. 

I like her work, although I do think a lot of the work being produced by artists working under dadaism was very similar, but I like this one in particular. Hoch is trying to challenge people's views on femininity by taking these pictures of legs and eyes and lips and other female body parts that are so well known for being considered feminine and beautiful, and used photomontage to create a weird, unusual and not so beautiful image. I really like the way she has changed the proportions to make it look even more unusual and surreal. The more research I do the more I am coming to like the work of surreal artists, but I find it so hard to work in this way myself.

I had to do a project on photomontage at college, we had to chose either a film/game or T.V series but I couldn't decide and I really wanted to do something I really enjoyed as I thought that then I would be able to design it better. I asked if I could do a music label, which I was aloud so I chose 'Bad Boy Records', a record label focusing on rap music in the 1990's.

This is the final poster I produced for the brief, in which I had to pretend I was producing a poster for the company themselves.

Illustrator tutorials.

I have recently become much more interested in the work of illustrators using programs such as illustrator and I have also been doing a little bit of messing around with the program myself. I recently purchased a new Macbook computer so that I could get better at using software in my spare time and also got the new Adobe Suit edition at the same time (CS6).
There are loads of tutorials on the internet but a lot of them are focusing on teaching you a specific thing, where as I wanted some simple beginners tutorials. Another good reason to get practicing with these tutorials is because the more that you do the faster you can do it, learning all the keyboard shortcuts had become useful and I have started remembering them as well which makes my life easier and speeds up my pace a little bit. I found a good blog with 50 good illustrator tutorials so I had a look down the list and picked one I fancied.

I like the look of this cute little strawberry and it didn't look too hard or too easy so I gave it a try and I really enjoyed it. It was harder than I thought it would be but I learned some good tips on how to create shadows which was useful. This is the image that I was trying to create...

And this is my end result. Not exactly the same but I was proud of myself and mine doesn't look bad, especially when half of the things I had to do I had never done before.

 50 Great Illustrator Tutorials You Should Try.

Click the link above if you are interested in trying some yourself.

Dadaism.

Dadaism first appeared durin and in the aftermath of World War 1. People were angry about the fact that over 10,000,000 people had been killed and some people didn't agree with standing about and watching it happen. Obviously it is hard for a group of citizen people to stop an event such as World War 1 but people wanted to make there opinions heard, and some people, starting in Barcelona, Zurich and New York and then also in Berlin, Cologne and Paris, began a movement they called Dada. 

They believed that the fact that people who were seen as 'sane' or 'rational' stood by and didn't say anything about so much life lost was the reason such things were able to happen and they made art that was the opposite, it was insane and irrational. It was completely unusual and unlike anything a lot of people had ever seen before. Especially calling its self art. Often it didn't have any meaning, just like the name Dada, which has no particular meaning. Dada in French is a childs rocking horse, in Slavac it means yes, yes. 

Famous works of Dada art are Meret Oppenheim's Fur Covered Teacup, Marcel DuChamp's bicycle wheel stool and Hannah Hoch's photomontages. 

Eddie Opara.

Born in London in 1972, Eddie Opara studied graphic design at the London College of Printing and Yale Uni- versity. He started working at a few firms after he graduated and then went on to building his own firm, The Map Office in 2005. In 2010 he went on to join New Yorks design firm pentagram, bringing all of his other Map Office designers with him, and being the first ever black partner of the company. Much more a designer than an artist, he works on varied types of project briefs such as brand identity, publications, environments, interactive installations, websites, user interfaces and software. 

Above are examples of a project that Opara did for UCLA Architecture and Urban Design. The first image is the Identity he created, the second some of the designs out of the catologue, and the third a snapshot of there website which he akso designed himself. His work stands out as clean and stylish. Nothing to bright and gairesh, much more sleek and interesting using unusual shapes and patterns. It is clear that looking through his work he has taken big influence from the swiss designers and the bauhaus that became big in the 20th centuary.

He started out his career based on his love for designing posters. In interviews he often talks about design with a purpose, that is shared and contributing to the greater good.

I think that he is a good designer to take notes from as he is very aware of his clients and the job as well as just making things look good. He talks about ‘design thinking’ where he views himself as a psycologist listen- ing to his clients wants and needs, and also picking up on other things about them and their personallity so that he can fully understand them and their needs. 

Pete Mckee.

Pete McKee was born in 1966. A cartoonist and illustrator from Sheffield his work holds emotion that can have you on the floor or reaching for the tissues. He ownes a small gallary in where he showcases his work in his hometown of Sheffield.
Recently he was commisioned by Warp Films, another well to do company from Sheffield, to re-create post- ers from some of their most famous films, for their 10th anniversary. Films included This is England, Dead Man's Shoes and Four Lions.

Pete’s work is heavily based on things relating to Sheffield, especially the arcutecture, the ‘hot spots’ and the music scene. His art is done in such a simple, one lined style yet he still manages to capture so much emotion in the works he produces. His work feels deadly serious, hitting home and relating to real lfe people, but also like something you might see on a childs t.v program. In Sheffield he has become a little bit of a local legend with his work being on sigt in many places including the side of buildings, but also he is becoming more and more recognised internationaly as his name is being wider spread.

This video was made by John Smith. I could tell you about it but I think part of the fun is working it out for yourself. I first watched it in the Liverpool Tate, and I think it could be enjoyed by anyone. 

Liverpool Tate.

I recently had to get an emergency passport after a washing machine disaster 2 weeks before my holiday. I had to take the day off college to go to Liverpool for my appointment so to make me feel like I hadn't completely sacked off a day of learning, I decided it would be a great opportunity to visit the Liverpool Tate and have a look around. It has been years since my last visit and I was interested to see what new things they had on show. 

This strangely painted 'banana dog' that I found outside the gallery defiantly wasn't there last time I visited. I couldn't find any information about what it was or who it had been made by but when I got home I did a little bit of research and found out that the original piece called "Superlambanana" was made by a Japanese artist called Taro Chiezo and was put up in Liverpool to signify the re-opening of the 'Liverpool Tate'. The original is much bigger than this one and still stands tall in Tithebarn Street, outside the Liverpool John Moores University. 

Here is a photo of the original thing. 

One entering the Liverpool Tate the first thing you are greeted by is this massive glass chandelier. Its slightly gaudy. But "if you've got it, flaunt it" and a chandelier is a chandelier at the end of the day, there's no point in pretending to be simplistic and minimal if your a chandelier as you wont be fooling anyone!

The piece is called Astrophotography…The Traditional Measure of Photographic Speed in Astronomy…by Siegfried Marx(1987) and was made by Cerith Wyn Evans in 2006 and it flashes under the control of a morse code, although I dont know morse code so I dont have any idea what it was saying. 

On the first floor they had a collection of sculptures or 3D objects by a variety of different artists. I couldn't get any pictures but one that really sticks in my head is three basketballs suspended in a glass case made to look like they were floating. I have found a picture on the internet to show you what I mean. The three balls are all signed by different famous basketball players and the tank has been completely filled with distilled water and a bit of sodium chloride reagent to give the balls the suspended effect. The piece is by an artist called Jeff Koons. I often find it hard to decide what I think art means, and this is another one that I am not sure about, so I looked it up and this is what I found. 

Quoted from the Tate's 'art and artists' section. 

"This is one of a series of tanks Koons made in 1985 for his first solo exhibition, entitledEquilibrium, at the New York gallery, International With Monuments. The tanks, glass vitrines supported on black steel stands, were made in three sizes, holding one, two or three professional basketballs. The Total Equilibrium Tanks are completely filled with distilled water and a small amount of sodium chloride reagent, to assist the hollow balls in remaining suspended in the centre of the liquid. In a second version, the 50/50 Tanks, only half the tank is filled with distilled water, with the result that the balls float half in and half out of the water. A group of objects cast in bronze, including a lifeboat and an aqualung, were exhibited at the same time. To complement the tanks, Koons framed a series of advertising posters created by the sportswear company Nike and hung them on the walls. These depict American basketball heroes wearing Nike trainers and other sportswear, holding and surrounded by basketballs. For Koons, the tanks were an ultimate state of being ... The Nike posters were the Sirens – the great deceivers, saying Go for it! I have achieved it. You can achieve it too! And the bronzes were the tools for Equilibrium that would kill you if you used them. So the underlying theme, really, was that death is the ultimate state of being. What was paralleling this message was that white middle-class kids have been using art the same way that other ethnic groups have been using basketball – for social mobility."

I am not really sure what I make of this description, and I dont know if I fully understand it, but I thought it would be best to share it so other people can try and understand it. 

On the second floor was something even more interesting. The floor was completely covered in sand and stones, and in the middle were wooden frames covered in rural looking printed material, it reminded me of something you might find in a little village in spain. Inside the wooden frames was an old black and white t.v playing 80's cookery programs. To the side of this construct was a cage with two tropical parrots in them, they were absolutely beautiful creatures to look at. The woman in the room with them spoke a lot about the birds and where they had come from but she didn't talk about what the room was for or if there was any meaning behind the weird t.v, but it made me laugh, and it made me feel happy, and that is a good enough thing for me. I did some research to try and find out more about the mystery room but I couldnt find much on the internet other than a parrot lovers forum talking about how the parrots were being kept unfairly so I cant give you any more information, but here are some pictures of the parrots that I got.

The third and final floor hosted a range of sculptures and painting again by a variety of different artists. I have photographed my favourite ones.

This piece was four cubes, all about waist height. Each face of each cube was covered in a mirror meaning when you stood in the middle of them you could see yourself about a million times. I like art like this because its interactive and that helps gain my interest and make me look at it and think about it more. I think the same can be said for graphic design. I have always been very interested in packaging. Packaging is one of the main methods of advertisement and interest in some products such as food packaging especially. From the research I have done and the projects I have done around this area, things being interactive really catches the buyers attention and its a good method of selling. Now, I dont know if the artist who produced this was thinking about that when he created this piece as art, in some cases, is different and isnt about selling yourself as much as the meaning behind it. The reason why you did it. But that isn't true of all artists and in the more recent years art has become much more a commodity, or something to sell, rather than something for meaning.

I don't know that much about this piece at all as I couldn't find the placard with the infomation, but I thought it looked cool, and I like the use of colours, so I thought I would include it anyway. 

Pictured here is a man lying on a bed of rubble and dust, in what looks like a middle eastern country, wearing a suit and a pair of high heels. I cant remember the name of the picture or who it was done by but I think its a good example of the rule of thirds in photography and I thought it was impressive.

This is a good example of vector art. This is a computer made image. Well actually it is a photograph of a computer made image with two suitcases in front of it, but the large canvas picture in the back of this photograph is a computer made image, using vectors. I have recently started doing illustrator tutorials that you can find on the internet and I really like this form of illustration. It is something that I can see myself wanting to put work into and get better at in the future and if I would ever like to specialise in a certain area of graphic design. 

The last one of the images I thought worth sharing is quite a disturbing one. Again, I didn't note down the name of the artist/photographer and I have scoured the Liverpool Tate's website and there collection of pieces displayed in the gallery. But this one doesn't seem to be listed, which is a shame as I am interested to know when the photograph was taken as that might give me some clue about why this was written, but I cant. However I still think it is a powerful thing to look at and I thought it should be shared.

Overall I thought the collection that they had on display was very interesting and I advise that people go !