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Welcome to my MA Visual Communication Blog! I will be posting all of the research and experimentation from my degree studies here. I hope you find it interesting, informative, even entertaining.
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Project Conclusion
Mid-project I believe that the penny finally dropped, I understood the reasoning behind this playful heterogeneous approach.
Holli Kalina
Dec 2, 20243 min read
Final Screen Print
The specific colour choice, International Klein Blue, reflects the controversial gender-based degradation applied by Klein in the 1950s
Holli Kalina
Nov 21, 20243 min read
Erwin Wurm inspired sculptures
This was just a fun little experiment, but it made me consider how the cutlery could interact to create shapes
Holli Kalina
Nov 19, 20242 min read
Collagraphy
Inspired by the 1989 print Silence Equals Death by Keith Haring I chose to print a single triangle as a motif
Holli Kalina
Nov 18, 20244 min read
Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997)
Lichtenstein's screen printing aesthetic inspires my printing more than any other artist.
Holli Kalina
Nov 18, 20242 min read
International Klein Blue (IKB)
IKB has a hex colour code of #002fa7 which refers to an RGB colour value
Holli Kalina
Nov 18, 20242 min read
Keith Haring (1958-1990)
Keith Haring was an American artist and activist. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1958
Holli Kalina
Nov 17, 20242 min read
Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
It is Warhol’s best-known work, and process, that encouraged the choice of medium for my gendered triangle prints
Holli Kalina
Nov 17, 20242 min read
Photographing Triangles
"a bizarre medium, a new form of hallucination: false on the level of perception, true on the level of time" (Roland Barthes)
Holli Kalina
Nov 17, 20242 min read
Helena Almeida (1934- 2018)
Helena Almeida was a Portuguese artist and photographer, born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1934.
Holli Kalina
Nov 16, 20243 min read
Yves Klein (1928-1964)
Yves Klein's use of blue paint began in 1957 which he described as his “Époque bleue’”
Holli Kalina
Nov 16, 20242 min read
Halftone Printing
I experimented with two halftone modes: Bitmap and Colour Halftone Filter
Holli Kalina
Nov 10, 20243 min read
TJ Cole: Take Photo Here
Teju Cole laments the lack of originality present in a contemporary world saturated with imagery.
Holli Kalina
Nov 3, 20242 min read
Will Gompertz: Think Like an Artist
Gompertz’s Think Like an Artist and Lead a Creative, Productive Life is an amazing little book.
Holli Kalina
Nov 3, 20242 min read
Screen Printing Workshop
Screen printing is a process where ink is forced through a fine mesh screen onto a surface. Screens were originally made of silk.
Holli Kalina
Nov 3, 20244 min read
Stop Motion (Triangle Tree)
For this experiment, I took inspiration from the Pythagorean Tree, a mathematical design based on recurring geometric shapes.
Holli Kalina
Nov 3, 20242 min read
Kazuo Ishiguro: My Twentieth Century Evening – and Other Small Breakthroughs’
My Twentieth Century Evening – and Other Small Breakthroughs’ is an extract from Kazuo Ishiguro’s speech following his 2017 Nobel Prize.
Holli Kalina
Oct 30, 20242 min read
Printing Triangle Centric Designs
The first printing technique explored in this experimental model is Collagraphy, which is the creation of a relief print using collage
Holli Kalina
Oct 29, 20243 min read
Three Dimensional Triangles
Inspired by my earlier paper-folding experiments, I have continued using Origami to create three-dimensional paper models.
Holli Kalina
Oct 27, 20244 min read
Exploring Triangles Using Mixed Media and Photography
This week I explored digital post-processing photography in various creative ways, using existing images to create digital collages.
Holli Kalina
Oct 15, 20242 min read
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