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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
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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
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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
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Collagraphy
Inspired by the 1989 print Silence Equals Death by Keith Haring I chose to print a single triangle as a motif
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Nov 18, 20244 min read
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Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997)
Lichtenstein's screen printing aesthetic inspires my printing more than any other artist.
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Nov 18, 20242 min read
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International Klein Blue (IKB)
IKB has a hex colour code of #002fa7 which refers to an RGB colour value
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Nov 18, 20242 min read
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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
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Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
It is Warhol’s best-known work, and process, that encouraged the choice of medium for my gendered triangle prints
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Nov 17, 20242 min read
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Photographing Triangles
"a bizarre medium, a new form of hallucination: false on the level of perception, true on the level of time" (Roland Barthes)
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Nov 17, 20242 min read
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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
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Yves Klein (1928-1964)
Yves Klein's use of blue paint began in 1957 which he described as his “Époque bleue’”
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Nov 16, 20242 min read
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Halftone Printing
I experimented with two halftone modes: Bitmap and Colour Halftone Filter
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Nov 10, 20243 min read
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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
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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
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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
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Stop Motion (Triangle Tree)
For this experiment, I took inspiration from the Pythagorean Tree, a mathematical design based on recurring geometric shapes.
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Nov 3, 20242 min read
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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
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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
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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
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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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