Monday, June 4, 2012

Cabinet of Curiosity

 Picture 1, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_curiosities    From Wikipedia.

Cabinet of Curiosity(Research)

1, The cabinet of curiosities was originally a personal collections of things of wonder (The cabinets were also referred to as Wunderkammer- or cabinets of wonders)

2, These cabinets reached the peak of their popularity in the 17th century; they were the personal and often idiosyncratic collections of individual, wealthy owners and contained both natural and man-made objects.

3, The main function of cabinets was to provoke a sense of curiosity and wonder in viewer; in many ways they represented a world-view that valued the "wonder" in an artifact much more than the need to analyze and classify that artifact.

How do I think about Wunderkammer? 
 In my personal view, Cabinet of Curiosities is a very interesting thing to do, I rarely collect stuff, but collecting stuff is to enrich people's knowledge and provoke people's curiosity. Different generations have their own kinds of Cabinet of Curiosity, it helps people with the history. And different cultures have their own curiosities, so it helps us to know about different cultures.
Cabinets of Curiosities is different from museums, in museums you can find stuff with the timelines and all kinds of information. Museums are there for people to understand what the objects in the museums for, and for them to know the background history or story about the objects; though Cabinet of curiosities if a room or /a cabinet for people who are interested to the stuff inside to ask many curious questions and dig out the information by themselves.
So basically I think Cabinet of Curiosities is a very important thing in human generations, it's there to help people, it's there to make the world wiser; (or we could say "make the human race wiser) and 1 more thing, digging your own curiosity is a very easy way to learn and study.

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Illustrator

WHAT IS ILLUSTRATOR?
1, Adobe Illustrator CS5 helps you create distinctive vector artwork for any project.
It is the industry standard when it comes to scalable vector artwork.
2, As a designer, illustrator is the right tool for graphics that need to be scaled.
3, A prime example are logos which often need to be adapted for small mediums such as business cards, larger mediums like bill board signs, and converted to gray scale or black and white for medium such as newspaper.

Vector art = Vector graphics: artworks are done by illustrator software.

 

Graphic Design Defination(Research)

1, Graphic Design is a creative process-most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers form like printers, sign markers etc.)
- undertaken in order to convey a specific message (or messages) to a target audience.

2, The term "graphic design" can also refer to a number of artistic and professional disciplines that focus on visual communication and presentation.

3, The field as a whole is also often referred to as visual communication or communication design.

4, Various methods are used to create and combine words, symbols and images to create a visual representation of ideas and messages.

5, A graphic designer may use a combination of typography, visual arts and page layout techniques to produce the final results. Graphic design often refer to both the process (designing) by which the communication is created and the products (designs) which are generated.

6, Common uses of graphic design include identity (logos and branding) publications (magazines, newspapers and books) advertisements and product packaging, composition is one of the most important features of graphic design, especially when using pre-existing materials or diverse elements.

HISTORY

While graphic design as a discipline has a relatively recent history, with the term "Graphic Design" first coined by William Addison Dwiggins in 1922.
In graphic design, "the essence is to give order to information, form to ideas, expression and feeling to artifacts that document human experience.