Design Practice 2: Instagram

I looked into instagram for my first concept idea. I wanted to look into it's visual atheistic and use to understand how this could be applied to my exhibit identity and branding. Also to see how it could develop my concept to be more solid.

Instagram is an online photo-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures, apply digital filters to them, and share them on a variety of social networking services, such as media sites including Facebook or Twitter. A distinctive feature is that it confines photos to a square shape, similar to Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid images, in contrast to the 16:9 aspect ratio typically used by mobile device cameras.

Trends

Rich Kids of Instagram

The Rich Kids of Instagram is a blog on Tumblr that features photographs posted on Instagram displaying "various states of excess, undress and indulgence".Examples of the photographs featured on this blog are receipts of over $100,000, kids in private jets or yachts, expensive shoes, watches, jewelry, etc.

Weekend Hashtag Project

The 'Weekend Hashtag Project' is a series featuring designated themes and hashtags chosen by Instagram's Community Team. Followers receive the weekend's project every Friday, and each project encourages participants to post creative photographs according to the designated theme each weekend.

Logo:

I thought the hand written style was quite similar to the camera logo Leica:

 The atheistic of the logo takes characteristics from this polaroid camera.

I researched the typeface to see it's significance. I found the typeface that is closest to it called 'Bilabong' and it reveals it origins as hand lettered 40s and 50s script headings used particularly in signage.

I looked at what hashtags and filters were most popular and also which instagram users are most followed. This will enable me to understand my audience better.

http://web.stagram.com/hot/

Design Practice 2: What is Good? - Interesting use of Photography

I looked at the use of photography in some designs. I like the slicing up of the images into sections making a kind of collage montage of the same image. The circle cropping of the photo is also very eye catching and would work well as appearing through a lens of a camera.

Design Practice 2: Vintage Camera Exhibition

A vintage camera exhibition held in Brighton. This showcases photographers rather than actual cameras but people can get up close and personal with rare cameras in the launch. This is obviously promoting the photography but the opportunity to see the cameras is interesting, if this was interactive it would be a lot more interesting and fun.

Vintage camera exhibition

12 MARCH 2012

Collate Presents will host an exhibition showcasing images from five Brighton photographers who work with vintage and Lomography cameras in March and April.

The work of Tom Welland, Lomokev, Adam Bronkhorst, 25ThC and Captainbonobo will be on display to the public at the Artist Residence Gallery from 22 March – 27 April, 12pm-5pm.

A launch even on Wednesday 21 March, 6 – 9pm, will offer press and invited guests the chance to get up close and personal with a selection of rare vintage cameras as well as to win a Lomo Sardinia camera courtesy of Lomography.

Design Practice 2: Photographica

An annual current exhibition on collectable cameras which isn't exactly designed well. I was looking to see what kind of atheistic and what kind of exhibitions there was for analogue cameras and photography.

http://www.nanites.co.uk/pccgb/Photographica.htm

Photographica is the United Kingdom's largest photographic collectors fair and is organized by a separate sub-committee of the Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain. Having grown from small beginnings a typical Photographica will have around 135 tables offering everything from daguerreotypes and images, to brass and mahogany field cameras and Leica, through to old and new photographic books, collectible photographic accessories and supplies and tools for restoration. Photographica is international in its stallholders and attendees.

Design Practice 2: Digital to Analogue

I looked for analogue exhibitions and found this site.

http://analoguemasters.com

I found projecteo from this site:

Projecteo is a tiny Instagram projector. It uses wheels of 35mm slide film you make online and each one holds nine photos. Whether they're of your best friends, that holiday last summer or good old pictures of cats, just pop them into Projecteo, focus by twisting the lens barrel and sit back to enjoy your slideshow.

This is another transfer of digital back to analogue promoting the qualities and benefits of it. This could be a concept of an exhibition or just part of one transferring digital back to analogue. It also shows the massive online community for analogue photography as there are lots of online sites dedicated to archiving photos or cameras or fan sites.

Design Practice 2: Light Developing Ink

I looked for some ink that would develop in the sun for promotion or invite material to represent the development of photographs. I came across this:



http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/en-uk/blog/lumicos-inkodye-lets-you-print-with-the-sun

I went from here to the 'Lumi' website: http://lumi.co

They had a tutorial on how to make sepia toned prints which I thought would be appropriate for the photography exhibition.

http://snapguide.com/guides/mix-inkodye-to-create-sepia-like-prints/

I wondered if paper could be used rather than fabric as fabric isn't an appropriate stock to use. I found this on the FAQ:

In order to use this for an invite or promotion material I would need to print the ink in the shape I want more than likely through screen printing. I emailed them asking if the ink would be possible to screen print with incase it ruins the screen. 

Response:

Design Practice 2: Visual Inspiration

I really like the use of tracing paper within the publication because it's like the protective paper used in expensive photo albums.

I liked the minimal colour and design as well as the layout of the photography on this publication.

Information and way finding is key in exhibitions and I could consider how this could be adapted to reflect the exhibition content.

This has interesting layout of photography and type in a web form. A web based element could be considered for a deliverable in response to the brief.

I like the use of focus corners in this logo and the precise grid of its layout.

This a much more modern approach to film packaging. The use of cmyk dots on the brown stock works really well and is very visual.

This shows the range of products for an exhibition and how they can be united in design and colour scheme without just placing the same logo on everything. 

I like the clean and simple layout of this photography and type, especially the amount of white space.

Using the space of the exhibition to display information and communicate the concept would be interesting for the brief.

The use of different stocks in this collection of design is interesting. It wraps the photographs as if precious and fragile.

The exhibition space will have many different areas which could be designed such as the cafe space and toilets.

I liked the editing and cropping of the photography in this publication.

Again the translucent paper showing through behind it. The closer the object is behind the more clear it is almost like the focus of a camera.

I like how the different parts of information are gathered together in this publication by using slits in the paper.

I like the format of this publication, how a different colour paper is used to cover the publication and has a fold out at the back with a breakdown of the information.

These are various examples of space and way-finding that have been designed for an exhibition. This  could be a different area of graphics I could utilise on this project as exhibitions are all about the space being used.

Design Practice 2: Interesting Cameras

I looked at different cameras to standard cameras. This was to see what could be possible and how the camera could be adapted to different formats or materials like gingerbread. The paper net to build a pinhole camera could be used easily in interactive media with the audience for the exhibit. I really liked the nightshade made from negatives, I think it looks really effective and the same idea could used to display negatives in the exhibition.

The 3-in-1 Mini Micro Camera is the Size of an Inch

http://walyou.com/3-in-1-mini-micro-camera/

Pistol Camera

http://walyou.com/weird-camera-designs/

Two-in-One Digital Camera Binoculars

Pinhole Lego Camera

http://walyou.com/geeky-camera-designs/

A Camera that Needs To Be Thrown to Take Pictures

CR August issue: Make Your Own Pinhole Camera

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/july/make-your-own-pinolta-camera

http://www.starsforstreetlights.com/2012/05/how-to-make-lamp-from-vintage-cameras.html

http://www.socialphy.com/posts/do-it-yourself/7600/How-to-Make-Gingerbread-Cameras.html

http://blog.makezine.com/craft/flashback_build_a_toy_camera_f/

Incredible Cardboard Camera Designs

http://walyou.com/cardboard-camera-designs/