Evaluation

Stamps

I didn't really like my post stamps. I tried to keep them flowing with the same theme of the poster and postcards but I think they came off less effectively.

I tried to use the same colour palette as the rest of my work for a more effective set. 

I think the circuit board one worked well i was inspired by a florucci patch i saw online which was from the same era as Giorgio and saw it as a good connection to his work and the fashion of the time.

Giorgio Moroder research responses

At the beginning of my research I mainly focused on his image and the basic elements of Giorgio. 

This made made me feel stuck and a bit clueless into where i was going to take this project as i didn't want it to be an obvious portrait project. After talking to Jamie I realised that i should be looking into more about what Giorgio has done and influenced instead of his apperence.

This is when i started to focus more on Giorgio's influence on electronic disco music and 70's disco culture.

 i never usually use paint or create a full bleed image but i think this worked out well and will be something i will want to experiment with more in the future.

This was one of my influences to do my work in a digital format as i think this made me realise how effective shapes can be digitally.

This image was the starting point for my final work. This was done as paper cut outs but it inspired me to see what this would look like in a digital format which eventually became my final postcards. 

Postcards

I was initially inspired to do these by a paper cut out image i made in the research.

From researching Giorgio Moroder i realised how many different elements of a synth he uses to create his disco songs. So i decided to create this separately as an initial experiment at first moving on from the paper cut outs to digital. however, from creating the first one i decided that it was an effective way to create these images. Maybe i should of experimented more with paper cut outs or other formats? 

However, i felt like i wanted to create this work in a new format which is why i stuck with digital.

I wanted to make them all separate colours as they are separate elements of the same instrument which Giorgio is known highly for making mainstream which is the synthesizer. 

None of the images are entirely accurate i mainly just looked at old synth and the shapes and then translated this on illustrator. 

Poster for Giorgio Moroder.

I wanted to approach this project with a format that I'm not too used to just because I wanted a change from my child like crayon and ink drawings.

From my research I decided that digital would be a suitable format for Giorgio Moroder and also a change from my previous work.

The poster features all 4 of my postcards slotted together. 

When I originally put them together the colours of them all clashed therefore I decided to make the poster one colour. I chose orange to relate to the 70s era in which Giorgio made his music.

I didn't however change the colour of the wires as i thought this slight mix of a different colour added emphasised the confusing wires that you might get on a Moog synth.

I then completed it with a similar looking piano synth that Giorgio would of used to combine the elements of how he creates his songs and the digital instruments he uses.  

If i could maybe develop this poster more i would of quite like to of seen what it would of looked like as a screen print and the shapes might of translated well through this format.

sticker design and development

This is my ideas and development for the stickers. I started thinking of a nice selection of random acts of kindness. 

 I thought about what sort of things would translate well into digital vectors and shapes so i played on this dog idea for a bit

 i really liked my builder slogan so i decided to work on that i wanted to do it 100% digital so I drew out some concepts on paper first to make it a bit easier.

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I found it hard to draw it out well cause i knew it would eventually be done on a computer

The bottom one was the final one i decided on after that i would play around with it on illustrator to decide on the colours and the final composition. 

FInal Sticker

I found it very difficult at first to work with vectors i have used illustrator before but usually avoided it as it has always been a long painful process for me. However i think this went quite successfully. I like working with shapes so this was a nice way to experiment with shape building. However, once i finished it felt like it didn't seem very original to me i think vectors are hard to but your own spin on it. I would love to develop  this however, and work with digital shapes more and see if i can develop this.

Giorgio Moroder

I have been familiar with this disco man for a while now, but i never took the time to really look into him. I'm glad i did though, because this guy is as disco as it get's i searched for him on youtube to see if he had any music videos i discovered this gem. This is probably one of the funnest videos on the youtube. It has everything a disco video needs.

• intense fast synth stuff 
• sparkly woman that look like stars dancing 
• lots of weird shapes and colours 
• occasional shots of Giorgio wearing this crazy silk bomber jacket with what appears to be a beach scene on the back
• lots and lots and lots of flashing lights.

i have linked it below to show you what i mean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfAu8vqAHxc

Giorgio is the pioneer for Italian disco which is seen as more unique form of disco. Which later with giorgios help paved the way for EDM.

He helped shape a 70s italy and really captured the style of what was going on at the time into his songs.

 to create his music he used a lot of complicated synths and moog synths and was obsessed about trying to make the sound of the future and a lot of his work does sound ahead of it's time especially for the 70s.