Giorgio Massari:

Giorgio Massari is a italian architect from Venice born in 13 October 1687  and died 20 December 1766 who built civil and religious building in Venice i.e.: The Grassi Palace and Ca' Rezzonico.

Those two building are located on the Grand Canal which showed me the style of construction present there because i've never been to Venice.

I was inspired by this artist because he lived in Venice and he helped creating what is now known as The City Of Water. This is what i'm aiming for, the total transformation of a city onto a different one.

-Joe

Information taken from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Massari

http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giorgio-massari_(Dizionario_Biografico)/

Grassi Palace

Ca'Rezzonico

 

Veniceister.

Venice is famous about its architectural designs and the building and monument just resting on the boards of the river which quite fancies me and inspired me in this project. This project is the main project for my first term and i feel like its really into my progression route which is Architecture as i posted in my bio. For this class, Digital Art, the main idea is to perform digitally an art corresponding to a concentrated idea.

The idea is to turn Leicester into Venice. How?

I compared Leicester and Venice by linking the Grand Canal to Soar River. 

So my first step is taking pictures of Soar River and print them out and draw a plan of the building around the river on a tracing paper which will be my plan for the next 5 week, till due date.

But the idea of digital art is that everything should be digital so i'm planning to use photoshop to edit the pictures ad draw digitally the already planned building on the river soar and hopefully i'll make the editing look a bit realistic which is the hard part because realistic thing includes lots of details and small things so i made this plan for the next 5 weeks ahead of me:

Week 1-2: Take the picture and using tracing paper adapt a plan for the final project.

Week 3: Construct the form of the structure around the river using photoshop.

week 4: Add the small details and make it look realistic and add the final touches.

I will be looking for architect that actually build monuments or building in Venice and share them on my blog.

Feel free to comment and give your opinion about the project and give any tips or advices.

-Joe

Sequenced images 2.0

Our second project consisted also of sequenced images but this time it should describe a story. Our story is about how off we are from the world around us and how can opportunities of socialising with the people around us is low when we are on our cellphones just ignoring our surroundings and the souls passing by one after one and not getting to know one of them just sticking with the social media that is turning us to the least sociable people in the society we live in. 
Basically its just how regular people walk by each other everyday. Both of them are on their phone looking at each other as if this moment is meant to connect them but it was interrupted by the action of each. And that moment was chosen to be capture because its the main idea of our project.
The message behind our sequenced is to spot yourself in the community you live.
Are you really a social person or just on social media?

Feel free to give your opinion or commenting about this project or just site how many social application your using right now..

-Joe

Sequenced images.

One of my first project consisted on capturing a momentum movement and turn it into a sequenced images. The main idea was to take some shots of a dance movement which is called the Cartwheel but none of us could've make it with no broken bones so we had to do it per pair. I was present for support and the girl was the one is being turned. That was our idea that we converted into the sequenced images below and this project was done in King's Garden near De MontFort University. I wanna thank my group mates for helping in this project.

-Joe

Advertising a product.

In my last assignment i had the chance to work in a group of three to advertise something related to our progression route but one of my group mates' progression route is product design so i drifted from architecture a little bit and got into advertising a product which happened to be a spirit drink, Jagermeister. First thing first we had to take the shot. Don't get me wrong, i meant the picture! but because we're advertising this beverage we made two popular cocktail recipes with it and we assorted the picture all together and there we have it, our initial shot.
Later on we thought of turning the background into black and white just to emphasize the main product and he drinks but that didn't worked as we wanted to so we blurred the ultimate background and that what separated the back of the front.
We cut the logo off the bottle and sticked it on the upper left part of the image and added the slogan which describes the product as fun and party based.
Still the image looked normal for us so we had this idea of blurring radially the whole image and erase the middle part to give it that impression of dizziness and phase and that was somehow our vignette effect and for more creativity we added a image of bubbles over the picture and lightened it up so a phase where you can only see the semi vanished bubbles all over the image and that gave the visual effect somehow of the product consumer. All of those effect were made on photoshop, and for some additional safety reasons, we do not own any of the product's logo or recipe neither the drinks' recipes.

Feel free to comment and give your opinion about our ad.

My work and I...

Hello world,

Welcome to my blog site, my name is Joe-18 years old- from Lebanon and i'm an art & design student at De MontFort University, Leicester.

This blog is about digital art, it will represent my work and my passion for art in my own perspective during my foundation year.

As you can see i'm aiming for architectural studies in the following years and hopefully by blogging and practising i'll improve my artistic taste, and hopefully you'll enjoy my work.

Feel free to comment and give your opinion.

-Joe