Media Arts: July 2011

My final artwork for assignment 2

Name: Cham Yang Hui
ID: 1102701419
Title: Money for me has only one sound: liberty

Artist Statement: I use quotation to present my type of feeling by using just a symbol "$" which represent money to create my final artwork. I use cannon is because it used to shoot the boom and i take this idea to be my design as shoot the freedom out. People do feel the freedom and secure when they have money with them.

Artwork treatment: I choose to do digital image as my final artwork and i used Adobe Illustrator for this assignment 2.

Research + Development of Ideas

The definition of liberty is freedom.

From the quote of "Money for me has only one sound: liberty.", i feel that when i have money, i will feel secure; feel the freedom of i can buy what i want to buy; feel that i have choices to choose. From all these that i felt, i have an idea of using cannon to represent my artwork which like just BOOOM(!) out the freedom fly out high!

So i have do some research to get some picture of cannon:

sources: http://www.easyvectors.com/browse/other/9abe777790f680d444544d8d78812b36-cannon-clip-art, http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-28381957/stock-vector-vector-cartoon-illustration-of-an-old-cannon-with-cannon-balls-on-the-side.html, http://www.google.com.my/imgres?imgurl=http://www.binbin.net/photos/everythingplay/usb/usb-circus-cannon-take-aim-and-fire.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.binbin.net/compare/Circus-Canon-USB-Rocket-Launcher.htm&usg=__ZPmxauxuxqLlsxBcIZuKIU2-WnU=&h=374&w=500&sz=41&hl=en&start=114&zoom=1&tbnid=CN1t0bx86sIysM:&tbnh=128&tbnw=171&ei=JxoYTqLuLILUrQeBr8TPAQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dfire%2Bcanon%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1440%26bih%3D732%26tbm%3Disch&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=391&page=5&ndsp=28&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:114&tx=111&ty=45

Besides that, i have found some reference from the website, then i start doing my sketches.

source: http://aceinfowayindia.com/blog/2009/08/great-example-of-anti-violence-typographic-weapon-designs/

Here are my development of ideas:

Research for assignment 2

What i planned to do for my assignment 2 is find a quote and design it in the size of 10"x10".
This is what i have learned in my alpha year.

"Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it." by Russell H. Conwell

"Money isn't everything. It's just most everything." by Nica Clark

"Money for me has only one sound: liberty." by Gabriellle Chanel

"Lack of money is the root of all evil." by George Bernard Shaw

sources: http://www.limunltd.com/numismatica/trivia/money-quotes.html

These are the quotes that i found and i choose "Money for me has only one sound: liberty." by Gabriellle Chanel for my typography design.After i found some quotes which related to money, what kind of design we can use for typography?
- image as letter
- letter as image
- word as image
- word within word
- letter plus image
- word plus image
- text type as image

Here are some of the examples..