Media Diet
- 1985music - drum 'n' bass and bass music label on my instagram feed that showcases moving image and cool designs that I am interested in.
- Creators + Team. Label owned by Alix Perez who works with and uses multiple designers to create a visual identity for the music released. He does some design work himself. Common designers featured include
- Yasseen Faik - Riso printing, physical photo collage work. mono-prints and silk-screen prints. Own photos taken, lots of black and white work, ripped and crumpled physical photos and then scanned and assembled digitally. Digital layout alongside analogue methods, textured scans to build layered compositions. Physical stills that then seems to be brought to life and animated using software like after effects and others that give the ability to manipulate and move the image. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-807IaW-XE https://www.instagram.com/yasseen_faik/?hl=en-gb
- Offline.mov - Lots of use of TouchDesigner on own footage to create glitchy, technical effects. Mix of analogue and digital. Use of blender for renders. Handrawn typefaces
- Sineater - Handrawn illustrations, pencil and pen. Lots of detail.
- Entry points to learn this stuff includes a knowledge on moving image software such as after effects, looking at glitch overlays. Using photoshop to play with thresholds and image distortion for a grungey, rough round the edges look experience with analogue methods such as collage and altering/re-scanning imagery for textures. Learning software outside of adobe such as touch designer and blender.
- OPENRNDR - Open source framework for creative coding
- Created by Edwin Jakobs, an interaction designer and visual artist. Jakobs is the principal developer and has led the development of the framework since its inception.
- Its main members have years of experience as partners, computer scientists, designers, art directors and developers at LUST and LUSTlab.
- To use - Install a Git and download Intellij IDEA Community Edition and install it. Use the guide which goes on to show you basic functions and how to use it. Following the OPENRNDR Discourse which includes tutorials.
- Some knowledge of coding. https://openrndr.org/about/ https://medium.com/openrndr/what-makes-openrndr-different-from-other-frameworks-for-creative-coding-12b4919b0a49
- Umbro Instagram Promotion Fashion Photos - Promoting its new apparel, promotion through still shots featuring cool angle, location and lighting choices, some video footage and trailers as well as cool clothing designs in general.
- Internal teams run the social media with no specific names being highlighted. Agency collaborations for creative direction.
- Mentioned creatives in captions include:
- Natas3000 - Director and Photographer - Brought me to his book 'GHOST TOWN'.
- Simon Wheatley, cultural and street photography. Streetwear photography also does work for other clothing brands. Style is primarily London shots and include interesting composition and urban content. https://simonwheatley.studio/ https://www.natas3000.com/photography/
- Entry points simply include having a camera and having a photographic eye. Emphasising use of streetstyle photos. For works more suited to the likes of Natas3000, looking for textures and grungier environment.