Process

This is the process of starting off hand drawing my own style pasifika design patterns. It will either be an A4 or A5 size booklet to fit on any thin books in the library.

Field trip to Auckland Art Gallery

On Friday 26th May 2016, half the class attended another field trip to Auckland Art Gallery and Elam Building B to view Rebecca Hobbs Art space back in the years completing a course. We have viewed alot of Art works in every Art spaces in the Gallery. It was a wet morning walking all the way to the other side of town near The university of Auckland faculties

chapter book cover research

So my final cover will be very similar to one of these covers as part of my final book cover project.

Ipad research

The website that I've researched was from Zazzle.com.. I couldnt find any artist who does these type of work which they remain anonymous. I've also search through pinterest and Zazzle was the owner of the page.

Polynesian IPad cover design

I've also done another research on looking for tribal ideas on different sorts of covers such as ipad covers, chapter books, small page books etc.

Book cover research

I have researched some polynesian book covers through pinterest and I am planning to do something similar to this design. The patterns will also give me some ideas to draw it in my own way.

Recipe: Polynesian book cover design (Final one)

Ingredients:

• Any colour A4 hard or light piece of paper
• Couple of thin black permanent marker
• Print out polynesian design
• Lightbox (Located in MIT screenprinting studio)

Method:

• Grab any colour A3 or A4 piece of paper to start on the design
• Get a black permanent marker to start on the polynesian drawings
• Either trace or Freehand your own drawings
• Trace your polynesian printouts on a lightbox
• Scan and print through a glossy paper ready for making books 

St Pauls Gallery field trip AUT City campus

As part of photographic class, we have attended a field trip to Visit St Pauls Gallery in AUT to view Rebecca Hobbs art exhibitions plus 1 other artist work. I have also met 1 other student who is currently studying Year 2 Bachelor of Visual arts and I have known him from attending the Tautai road trip to Wellington. I've been inside his class to view their studio spaces and what the class looks like. Viewing the lecturers exhibition was a good opportunity to watch the videos of the bushes and fields where Rebecca Hobbs is lifting up a green 3d foam work with 1 other.

Recipe: POLYNESIAN TSHIRT DESIGN

RECIPE:

Serves 1

Ingredients:

• Adobe Illustrator
• Fine point black marker
• Black ink pen
• Blank white paper
• Photo scanner
• Imac computer
• Screen
• Water blaster
• Plain color t shirts, long sleeves, jumpers etc

Method:

1.  Create your own polynesian design in a typography, quotes or shaped style on a blank white paper using only black pen and felt (Finely pointed)

1. Scan your design onto a computer
2. Open up the image on Adobe Illustrator
3. Edit the photo using the image trace tool under the windows tab to darken the image
4. Export the photo into JPEG and start printing it out
5. Once image is printed in A3 or A4, Find a coated screen ready to expose before printing onto any plain clothing's after water blasting the screen and blow drying it