Post 1 Javier Morales Introduction to Class

 

Post 1 Javier Morales Introduction to Class

I'm Javier Morales I'm a junior in graphic design, most of my work is focused on create logos, posters, books and magazines designs and a little of illustration, some of my influences on my work is KAWS and Takashi Murakami.

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"Art history uncovers just how significant we understand and feel images to be now and trough history" this quote really got my attention since usually when we get the context of an art piece we start to give it more value to it and start to see it in a different way, of course we do give attention to an art piece since it looks interesting and that's the value that we give as spectators but once we get the know the story of it the point of view of it can change and we can get to know the actual message that the artist is trying to share with the public, like in art history getting to know the context of things that been happening through history it gives an impact to the society and that give us a greater understanding.

"Often (but not always) this context can speak to us personally (even across time and space) by touching something we have in common, such as the desire to connect with the divine, to be part of a community, or to reflect on what gives life meaning and how to confront death." This also caught my attention since when I make my own work I like to connect with the public that I'm showing my work and a good way to do it is touching topics that I think most of people would find identified like personal thinking of feelings and use it in a way to show my message and try to connect the public with my artwork.

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One of my inspirations since I was little was Kaws his style using the parody and bright colors and also using the illustration with his cartoony characters woke up my attention of the world of art and seeing what he could get with his creativity and share it to the world made me want to show everybody that I can create art like everyone can do so his work it is a big inspiration for me so that's one of the reasons why I like to explore the world of illustration and how can I use it with my work in graphic design.

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Mr. Boss with Jason (Parody of "Lady with an Ermine"/made with photoshop)

Headphones Description (Made with Indesign)

Typographic Poster Futura (Made with Illustrator)

Typographic Poster Invitation (Made with Illustrator)

Fast Food Cause Poster (Made with Indesign and Illustrator)

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Like I said at the beginning my two inspirations are Kaws and Takashi Murakami, since I was little I always had admiration in art and how its influence can have a big paper on the world on the way to share a message with a creative way from both of this artists i have a really big admiration on how they used their work to share their art and even how people use it this two artists even had a really big impact it music creating album covers for famous artists and even have their spot in the world of the fashion too, so looking at this people what they had achieve with their creativity it makes try to force myself to be better on my work since I like using colors most of them could be "dark" colors since that's one of the things that I like to work with and also using cartoony characters and basically using my creativity for my illustrations and merge with my work as a graphic designer is something that I actually feel passionate to work and sharing what do I want to say to the world.

So one of the message that I really like to focus my work every time I can and which is that "everybody can be an artist no matter what" and basically is a believe that I have that everybody can create art even if they are not professionals since everybody has their own creativity and use it to share their talent and message.