Project Tutorials

Some great project ideas are developing this week:

Sam - creating posters to advertise New York City
Jess - Creating her own fantasitical festival
Fran- An illustrated Day and Night in the City
Charlie - Morphed cities into humans, humans in to cities.
Jack - Graphic novel of a bizarre story set in Oxford in 2040
Tom VDB - Poor/rich city using a wall to the two.
Trisha - Social classes and ranks of of the city
Katie - Dream utopia illustration

Make sure you have a tutorial this week with any of your tutors. Create a timeplan this week too- you have 5 weesk until assessement...not long!

Your ideas in a nutshell

Monday 14th February - Tasks

WRITING & RESEARCHING YOUR BRIEF

1. Review the the blogs.
2. Research your idea
3. Write your own brief (using the template)
4. Review your brief
5. Blog a summary of your brief

Homework! ...for Monday 14th Feb...

1. Make sure your blog is connected to this blog.
2. Upload some of the photographs of your drawings in progress onto your blog
3. Edit, crop and upload an image of your drawing as a banner for your blog.
4. Print and mount a screen grab of your blog banner. A live 'Graphic Product!'

Utopia, Dystopia and the 'grey areas'

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brasil. Population 12 million.

Rio - Utopia?

Rio - Dystopia?





Heleno Bernardi lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. He works with a variety of mediums: photography, video, objects and installations. He recently realised a series of urban interventions

http://www.rojo-nova.com/2011/rio/artists/

MUMBAI, India. Population 14 million

Utopian Mumbai?

Dystopian Mumbai?

Bhupen Khakhar  (1934 - 2003)



For more leading Contemporary Indian artists go to:

http://theory.tifr.res.in/bombay/leisure/art/list.html

NEW YORK CITY, USA. Population 900,000

Utopian New York?

Dystopian New York?

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)

TOKYO, Japan. Population 13 million

Utopia & Dystopia?

Work by Haruka Hirose, contemporary Japanese artist.

http://www.101tokyo.com/en/exhibitors/gallery_terra_tokyo/index.html

Safer Internet Day 2011

"Think B4 U post" tips

Stay Safe on your Metropolis Blogspot:

Sign in> New Post> Dashboard> Settings >Permissions

>Blog Readers Your blog can have up to 100 readers.

Who can view this blog?

Top of Form

Anybody Only people I choose Only blog authors

·         - use the privacy settings offered by social networking services?

·         - select friends online that you can trust?

·         - publish yourown photos after thinking carefully about the potential consequences?

·         - publish pictures of your friends with their permission?

Mini-Metropolis in the Making...

Emma says an extra well done to Tom R and Tom VDB for creating spectacular mega structures