Cyber Media Arts Reflection
1a) Outline the main ideas of your final piece. What artist(s) did you research and how did you connect them to playing cards? /3
I wanted to create collectable cards based on shoes. Shoes are currently and always be all time trending. Each pair of shoes has a unique style and details which catches consumer's attention and will cause social trend. I had been one of those consumers and is engaged in shoes. Many of collectable cards I've seen are mainly based on toys, or sports or, games. I want to create shoe collectable cards that can be shared among people who have passion on collecting shoes, sneakerheads, and have an interest. There were/are variety of shoes that people or designers who creates newer versions or a whole new pair of shoe that should be recognized. So, I decided to do the chief executive officer of "Off White", Virgil Abloh. A popular urban brand that has been going around for a long time. Off White and Nike had many collaborations, so I decided to make cards based on those collaborations. At first, I wanted to create the cards on paper and the back of the card, I wanted to add a layer of transparent paper. Soon I thought what would it look it look like if I work on the computer and print it on the transparent paper. At the end, it didn't work out. So, instead, I wanted to test my skills on doing my art digitally.
I started looking up on digital shoe illustration and found an artist who creates them. But soon enough, I changed my mind and did "Off White".
Virgil Abloh is the CEO and Founder of “Off White”. He is also a music producer and a DJ. He has collabed with rapper artists like Kanye Went and Jay-Z. He had worked in Gucci men’s clothing collection. Using his creations, I can create shoes that be easy for people to collect and review about the shoes instead checking out the website and reading the long summary review.
1b) Describe multiple connections you made? /3
The influence of shoes got into me because of my uncle. My uncle has been collecting shoes for a long time and has a goal to save them for the future to sell them 4 times the amount it originally cost. He is the first sneakerhead I knew which influenced me to study more on shoes and take interest in them. There were many memoires I had with him that includes shoes. I’ve known the brand for a while and it’s been very trendy in the society. Off White is a brand that is similar to other brands like Supreme, and Bape and etc. Off White does create many connections by doing collaborations with other brands like Nike. Off White shoes are either detailed or detailed a little but are sold for a very high price. They are like other expensive brands like Gucci and popular like Gucci.
2) Describe how you addressed each of Media Arts four organizing principles.
See the assignment handout for more information. /4
See the assignment handout for more information. /4
a) POINT OF VIEW-how the art is viewed
The point of view I wanted to create was an easy looking and modern collectable cards. I didn’t use much colours due to the fact that “Off White” are mainly black and white. Off White has a certain font that they use to claim ownership and also uses quotations marks.
b) HYBRID-how to combine different art style
Of course I combined my knowledge and improvements on digital art over the years and applied it to my culminating work. Off White brand had a certain font and the quotation marks that was difficult to find. So using the web, there has been existing fonts that are super similar to Off White font. I found out that two different existing fonts are required to look the same as the Off White font.
c) INTERACTIVE-how to make your art appealing to ur audience, how to engage them.
The point of view I wanted to create was an easy looking and modern collectable cards. I didn’t use much colours due to the fact that “Off White” are mainly black and white. Off White has a certain font that they use to claim ownership and also uses quotations marks.
b) HYBRID-how to combine different art style
Of course I combined my knowledge and improvements on digital art over the years and applied it to my culminating work. Off White brand had a certain font and the quotation marks that was difficult to find. So using the web, there has been existing fonts that are super similar to Off White font. I found out that two different existing fonts are required to look the same as the Off White font.
c) INTERACTIVE-how to make your art appealing to ur audience, how to engage them.
How I made my art appealing and engaging, I tried to make the background black and white and make the shoe pop out more because the shoes had colours which can be eye catching. Knowing that the cards are about the trending shoes , people would be already interested in looking at the cards.
d) DURATION-time related
The cards shoes process of Virgil work over time. Each pair of shoes takes lots of time to process and finish.
3) Reflect on your research / creative process and illustrate the development of your project on a single page:
This is the process work when I decided to make the cards physically
These are the my findings of the fonts and templates of my cards digitally
