AGIDEAS

Trends and Designers
A common trend noticed through out the 2012 Melbourne AGIdeas Convention was collaboration. Collaboration with other designers, other fields of expertise such as photographer, modelling, illustrating and installation/mechanics.
Speakers such as Paul Marcus who advocates play, share and explore. Through out his presentation he spoke of trust and respect when working with others. Learn from collaboration, explore. Skills and knowledge can be gained in new places created new ways of working.
Linda Jukic is a project director. She deals with different individuals working together and collaborates with them to create something spectacular that on their owns could't possibly achieve.
Some collaborations do not always turn out to plan and for some wild ideas the possibility of that idea  may be extinguished. However through effort, experimenting and simple trying, many grand designs can be done on a large variety of scales and mediums.


Concept Evaluation
Ree Treweek is an quirky illustrator from South Africa and a member of 'The Blackheart Gang'. She creates illustrations of dark, twisted little characters that appear regular but have an abnormality to them.
One of her popular works is the 'Tale of How' short animation and now book, she along with other members produce illustrations to go along with a fairy tale story.

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/archives/taleofhow.jpg

This illustration is a shot from the short film of 'The Tale of How' and portrays dodo birds that live in a tree on top of an octopus reffered to the terror of the indian ocean, Otto the Monster. This illustration has gone through many processes from hand sketches to computer rendering and to animation.

The illustration portrays the piranha dodo birds out in the ocean with tentacles immersing from the ocean waves. The piranha  dodo birds also have weird attachments to themselves such as a foot or a crane on top of their head. This relates to the bizarre illustration style Treweek is known for. The overall feel of the illustration is dark & dull colours, the mood is quite dismal as the dodo birds are generally eaten by the octopus until their escape. Besides the characters there are fine details everywhere. In the waves and clouds are numerous of lines and the greenery is illustrated in fine floral and leaf designs. everything has a texture to it, a very detailed texture that brings the illustration to life. This illustration is the start of the short film created using these illustrations, which the effect of the short film is very illustrative and almost pop up book/paper puppetry.

Here is a link to the short film behind the illustration: The Tale of How

Bibliography:

Notes taken during the AGIdeas Convention

http://theblackheartgang.com/the-household/the-tale-of-how/

Copy Right Issues

Copy right Issues for Fonts
Fonts can be found and used from a variety of internet sites. Some are free other require you to pay for a licence. In a job a licence is always required by law. You pay for the use of that font lending you the copyright for that font for that one job. Repeated use requires repeat payments.

Identifont- Indentifont is a font website that allows you to search through fonts by appearance, name, similarity, picture, designer and publisher. This site supplies free fonts but also fonts that you can buy but it refers to another site to do so.


Font Shop - Has over 150,000 fonts in every style and category. You can search the fonts through type, style or structure of the font you desire. 


Font Font - FontShop International and its FontFont label was founded by Neville Brody and Erik Spiekermann in 1990 in Berlin and is now one of the largest manufacturers of digital typefaces in the world. The world’s largest library of original contemporary typefaces. There are about 743 font families.


Terms & Conditions - 
Identifont website has a link dedicated to Terms of use which is the same for most font sites. There is conditions on personal use, privacy policy, copyright, links and disclaimers. Their copyright statement for the fonts and typefaces on the website states  that the components of the Web site, including the text and graphics, are copyright materials and may not be copied or used for any other purpose without the prior written permission of the copyright holder. Typeface names featured on this Web site are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders.


Copy Right Issues for Images
Images off the internet are copyrighted unless purchased. Using images in work found on the internet and websites such as Google are illegal because you don't not have permission from the owner to use his/her work. You can how ever purchase images from off certain websites. 'stock images'.


iStock - iStockphoto is a website source for royalty-free stock images, media and design elements. All iStock files are royalty-free which means you only have to pay once to use the file multiple times as long as its used within the terms of the license agreement will not infringe on any copyright, moral right, trademark or other intellectual property right, or violate any right of privacy or publicity.


Shutter Stock - Shutterstock is one of the largest subscription-based stock photo agency. Consists of 18,999,510 royalty-free stock photos, illustrations, and vectors.


Sourced Stock Images


Image 1

Lighting Bolt- Could be used within the logo or to support the logo in the background or behind the text or shield.














http://www.shutterstock.com/


Image 2

Shield - Used in the logo with 'T' on top.Help create depth or a 3D effect.














http://www.shutterstock.com/


Image 3

Football & Hands- Used in advertisement for the team or recruitment. Logo in between the arms up the top or one of the bottom corners.















http://www.istockphoto.com/

Developed Thumbnails

Culture In Design

Indigo Talking Stick- Happiness for Daily Life by Sali Sasaki

http://www.indigodesignnetwork.org/?p=4653&cpage=1#comment-424

Its inspiring to see designers and artist out in the world that still inspire so many. Creating the dull into a vibrant and interesting environment that can be enjoyed by all. The colour scheme really helps send the message of happiness and would love to see more of these cafes around in other cities/countries. 
It is also interesting to see so many different professions working together with the community :)

Aboriginal Motifs

Functions and Philosophies


Principles and Protocols:


1. Respect: "The rights of Indigenous people to own and control their heritage, including Indigenous images, designs, stories and other cultural expressions, should be respected."
http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/32368/Visual_arts_protocol_guide.pdf

When organising an event, exhibition or festival of local, state or national significant it is respectful to invite representatives of the traditional owners of that land to attend and give a welcome address. It is also respectful of other official speakers/attendees to acknowledge the land and its traditional owners. This would refer to any use of motifs, symbols and methods from or relating to the Indigenous Australians culture. References to their dream time, elders or their land (i.e Uluru) needs to be treated with utmost respect.

2. Recognition and protection
The Indigenous Australians visual artists own copyright in his or her artwork. This means that he or she can control the reproduction and termination of the artwork. Such rights apply to all artists and are granted under the national copyright law. This protects any interpretation or alterations to traditional or recent indigenous artwork. Respect also goes hand in hand with understanding boundaries and rights.

Moral Rights and Issues

The Moral Rights Amendments to the Copyright Act was introduced in December 2000. It provided some new ways to challenge any inappropriate treatment of Indigenous artworks. 

The new law provides the following rights to artists; The right to be attributed as the artist (Artist can require their names to be clearly and prominently produced alongside with all and any reproductions of the artists work), the right not to have work falsely attributed to another artist (Artist can take action against parties who falsely attribute others as the artists of their work), the right of integrity (Artist can take action against parties who subject their works to inappropriate treatment i.e anything the results to material distortion, destruction of the work, public harm to the artist reputation, reproducing in poor quality. The artist always has moral rights to his or hers artwork.

Bibliography:
http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/32368/Visual_arts_protocol_guide.pdf

Native American Motifs

SPOKANE INDIANS

Minor League Baseball

Spokane, Washington, United States.

FORMER LOGO – CURRENT LOGO – SECONDARY LOGO

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/Spokane_Indians_former.PNG

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/81/SpokaneIndiansLogo.PNG

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Spokane_Indians%2C_Amerindian.PNG

The Spokane Indians former logo was re-designed in 2006. They're intention was to avoid using traditional native american/indian imagery. The new and current logo is supported by the Spokane Nation and respectfully portray certain Native American elements that have been given permission by the Spokane Nation to use. They honour this privilege with making a secondary logo in the Spokane traditional language, Salish.

The current logo design follows the shape of a baseball- circle. Its circular shape makes the logo unified and stable/fixed in position. Your eye is drawn directly to the centre of the logo with large 'S' then follow the edges around to read the words. The direction is helped by the position and orientation of the feathers.

The feathers are in relation to the native americans culture. Feathers relate to nature and they would use them in ceremonies, rituals and to differentiate from other tribes and ranks/leadership. To the Spokane Nation the eagle feather is a most revered symbol. 
The circle too can be related to Native Americans the sun, moon and earth. Circle is a very universal symbol and relates to alt of spiritual connections.

The logo colours are red, navy blue, light blue and beige. These are all colours of or based off the primary colours. And the beige and the blue contrast slightly but not too garish which gives the red the chance to be the dominant colour in the logo.
The team is believed to be the first professional sports team to work in conjunction with a local Native American Nation/Tribe to create a sports identity.


I believe the current logo has down a successful job in keeping a respectful and cultured logo but also aesthetically pleasing. Its unified and strong. Can be used on various applications (uniforms, labels etc). It also still portrays its main reason which is a baseball team and that is evident with the use of the baseball within the logo.

Bibliography:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spokane_Indians

http://www.whats-your-sign.com/circle-symbol-meaning.html
http://www.khq.com/Global/story.asp?S=6415306

Greek Sport Logo Thumbnails (Titans)