Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Indigo Design Network

I choose the article of Asian Products.

http://www.indigodesignnetwork.org/?p=4425&cpage=1#comment-433



Native American Motifs Blog

Golden State Warrlors
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The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team in Oakland, California. The team was first established in 1945, as the Philadelphia Warriors. In 1962, the franchise was relocated to San Francisco, California and became known as the San Francisco Warriors until 1971, when its name was changed to the current Golden State Warriors. Along with their inaugural championship win in the 1946-47 season, the warriors have won two others in the team's history, including another in Philadelphia after the 1955-56 season, and one as Golden State after the 1974-75 season, tying them for 5th in the NBA in number of championships.

This current logo design, the main is a warrior holding a lightning, the basic of the lightning is the name of the team, as the background with basketball. The entire logo just use the orange and blue colour, clear to show the meaning of the Golden State Warriors.
Warriors is the team of the Golden State Warriors's theme. The warriors showed the team's power, brave and unyielding. The lightning even stand for power no matter in the ancient or modern. The logo colour are orange and deep blue, orange shows the basketball and lightning, as the deep blue shows the warriors appearance.

I think this current logo is the successful design, it sufficient shows the meaning of the Golden State Warriors. From the progress of the logo, i can find its developing, it more strong with the appearance and the way use of colour. 










Aboriginal Motifs

Functions and Philosophies


Principle and protocols
1, Respect
Native people can control their heritage, like, indigenous images, designs, stories and other cultural expressions. We should respected them.
Respecting Indigenous rights to cultural heritage includes,
Acknowledgment of country, Public art - acknowledging land, Accepting diversity.


2, Communication, consultation and consent
The most important in Indigenous visual arts projects are communication and consultation.
Communication is the most effective if each group:
1, Different culture have the different ways to see an issue.
2, Try to understand the different cultural difference.
3, More patience to solve misunderstandings which arise out of cultural differences.
4, Find right partner within a community to consult.
Consent
1, Allow time for communication of a proposal.
2, Allow time for decision what should be made.
3, Prepared say 'no' for an answer, but remember don't take it personally.
4, Respect the views of all functions within a community.


Moral Rights and Issues


Moral rights means artists have the rights of integrity and attribution, and the right against false attribution. So before the artists to reproduction or publication their design, it's better to check design proofs of their work carefully prior. There is a example, 
Banduk Marika Djanda and the Sacred Waterhole, 1988 6 colour linocuts, ink on paper 53 cm x 29.5 cm Collection of the National Gallery of Australia License courtesy of the artist.
So when we use Indigenous images, designs or drawing from some artists and designers, that involved the moral rights we should get the community's permissive.









































Monday, March 5, 2012

Clash of the Titans

1. Who are the Titans?

Titans is race of the first generation of the god, in the first generation of Titans there are twelve members. They are ends of their children, Zeus, Poseidon and Hades.

2. Are the any interesting motifs you see frequently appearing (Eg. Lightning bolts)? How do you interpret their meaning? Can you name a modern version, of this motif, used today?



The lightening is always the most important weapon of Zeus. In this film it was appeared three times. The lightening usually used in the some games and movies.
3. Is your Greek charater in the movie? if so, does the film's interpretation match your research?3)
No.



5. Are any of the characters, in the movie, related (Eg. a mother or father, wife or husband, brother or sister) to your Greek myth? If so, how?
My greek character is Muse, there are nine members in the Muse, they are all of the Zeus's daughters.

6. Is their a constellation of stars named after your Greek charater?

Uranus.


7. How is Medusa killed? Does your Greek character have a weakness?
The strongest weapon of Medusa is her eyes, she can use her eyes to makes her enemy petrochemical. In this film Perseus used the shields have reflective surface, reflecting Medusa's location and cat her head.

8. Sketch at least 3 ideas for your logo and add them to this post.