Piet Zwart, part zwei

iWhat intrigues me about Zwart is his use of the bold. The colors, shapes, and images in his work assert visual dominance, no doubt about it. I am currently learning new techniques in screen printing; this will be the format I will use for my posters. Using various techniques, beyond typical liquid screen filler, such as photo-emulsion and intricate ways of “filling” the screen via photo paper and wax, I hope to portray the sense of clean yet raspy qualities, similar to Zwart’s work. His bases are most commonly white or black, upon this surface he flips through the primary colors in order to develop his second layer, and so on. Although generally it is a challenge enough for me to produce a superbly clean image on white paper, I plan to attain the courage to layer multiple times what will be a solid background to play with negative spaces before filling in letters on my screens. As soon as I can wrap my mind around the various ways I would like to start my layers, I will share further sketches, hopefully within a week or so, allowing Carl shares his experience.
Furthermore, these posters will be complimented by a short film. Initially, I wanted the film to be a sort of “headliner” of the presentation, instead now I would like it to simply introduce the posters. After much thought, I will merely be the hands working in the video, accompanied by some parts sped-through to avoid lulls in interest. However, instead of providing captions with the video, I will incorporate a voice-over, presumably by someone other than myself. Beyond this, in terms of other sounds, I am excited about using this project to put to use my newly developed Adobe Audition skills, allowing for art to no longer simply be visual…and to allow for some fancy mixed background music. I feel like this project will be the final wrap-up of the skills I have learned at Maryville, incorporating design, hands-on studio, as well as, video and sound editing.