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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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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 Screens were originally made of silk.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.
Holli Kalina
Nov 3, 20242 min read
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Rounwah Adly Riyadh Bseiso: Revolutionary Art or “Revolutionising Art”? Making Art on the Streets of Cairo
Rounwah Adly Riyadh Bseiso is an educator and researcher who holds a PhD from SOAS, University of London, UK.
Holli Kalina
Oct 30, 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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Review of Bell Hooks: Reel to Real: Race, Sex and Class at the Movies
Bell Hooks was the pen name of Gloria Jean Watkins (1952 -2021). Hooks, a black American scholar and activist who published over 30 books.
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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Digital Media Project Proposal
This project seeks to follow the hypothetical path required of the pre-iPhone generation photographers in adapting to the age of video media
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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Experimenting with Sound
Skillful use of music can create atmosphere, drama, relationships, a sense of space and time, social/cultural references and more
Holli Kalina
Oct 22, 20243 min read
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The Infographic
The infographic is usually a combination of data visualizations, illustrations, text, and images merged into a single format
Holli Kalina
Oct 21, 20243 min read
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A Brief History of the Hashtag #
The # symbol, also known as the hashtag, is a well-known feature of social media usage, however, the # has been used in electronic communica
Holli Kalina
Oct 19, 20242 min read
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Organised Activism: Eko (formerly SumOfUs)
Eko describes itself as a global community of ordinary people who want to make a difference in the world in which they live.
Holli Kalina
Oct 19, 20242 min read
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Twitter and Tear Gas: the power and fragility of networked protest (Introduction)
“The author is also insightful on how governments and politicians are moving from censorship... to attention-grabbing and misinformation"
Holli Kalina
Oct 18, 20243 min read
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Experimenting with Instagram Video
Studio Day is a short video that I created with the intention of cross-posting to my Instagram and Facebook Page social media feeds.
Holli Kalina
Oct 16, 20244 min read
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Burton Nitta
Burton Nitta is an Anglo-Japanese, transdisciplinary art and design studio based in London, created by Michael Burton & Michiko Nitta.
Holli Kalina
Oct 15, 20242 min read
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Charlotte Prodger: BRIDGIT
Charlotte Prodger is a queer British artist who works within a range of media, including video, photography, creative writing and sculpture.
Holli Kalina
Oct 15, 20242 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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The Quick Response (QR) Code
The QR code is a 2D machine-readable code, capable of storing strings of information. It was developed by Denso Wave Inc. Japan, in 2002
Holli Kalina
Oct 7, 20243 min read
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Creating a Triangle inspired Zine
With the triangle as my inspiration, I turned to creatives that use geometric paper folding techniques as inspiration for my zine
Holli Kalina
Oct 7, 20242 min read
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