Welcome to the Metropolis Project blog...where National Diploma Art & Design students from Abingdon and Witney College link to their individual project blogs

Monday, 28 February 2011

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!

Monday, 14 February 2011

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

Tuesday, 8 February 2011

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'

Saturday, 5 February 2011

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

MUMBAI, India. Population 14 million

Utopian Mumbai?

Dystopian Mumbai?
Bhupen Khakhar  (1934 - 2003)

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