I have mentioned before that I have been in Italy, for a summer program: Visual Designs. I know, it is no more summer, but for those who want to go for summer programs aboard, I want to share with you, what we have done, during 2 weeks, in Italy, Milano, in NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti).
We worked a lot with our hands and actually we did not use computer. We used movable fonts (types) for the typographic parts and used pressing machines. We made collages, and then photocopied them to make our works monochromatic and also to make 'mass production'.
It was interesting because, nowadays it is not easy to learn the old way of making visual designs, so we had the chance to learn the old techniques. Besides, it was enabled us to think more creatively.
Here are the photographs that I took during the courses in NABA:
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| NABA's garden |
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| Our teacher showed us her students work, that I really like. |
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| The first class! We cut shapes out of colourful cartoons and formed faces. |
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| We made sketches before doing our posters for a movie. |
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| We learned there a lot about pop-up books. |
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| We even learned how to make the simple ones. |
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| While I was working my poster for 'Moulin Rouge'. |
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| The result after I rolled paint on the mould that I cut out with stencil. |
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| I painted the typographic parts with a little sponge. |
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| Moulds and the result. |
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| This is how we rolled the paint, which was a special paint. |
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| They took us to a wonderful book shop in Milan, called 123. |
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| Different works of our teacher's other students. |
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| My pop-up card inspired by Duomo of Milan. The first one before ' mass production' |
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| My collage work. I copied it with the photocopy machine. |
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| The engraving machines. |
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| Movable types, that we used for the typographic parts. |
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| Books that inspired us. |
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| Selin, while working. |
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| Our teacher Claude's and her students' works |
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| The machine that we worked with. It wasn't easy! |
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| I choose brown and orange. |
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| Mass production, although they all have different details. |
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| I wanted to make all of their cover in different colours, which are bright, in contrast with the inside. |
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| You can see one of the moulds that I used. |
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| Selin Sargut's work: Milan's people. Aren't they look adorable? |
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| She have took all of the people's photographs from the class to make her work. |
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| Anne, had done a really good job, too. |
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| Bigg and his brilliant poster work for Milan. |
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| We had fun:) |
