Point Grey Artwork!: 2018

Monday, December 17, 2018

ART 8 - Warped Portraits

A fun little drawing assignment that explores mark-making, colour theory and value development. I love how these turned out!

Alice Chen

Cindy Guo

Sammi Deighton

Sarah Dan

PHOTO 12 - Exercises in Abstraction

Some gorgeous photography from our Senior crew:

Kasha Malinowski

Jonah Glover-Cook

Kayli Koonar

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

GRAPHICS 12 - LOGOS

Our first intensive project of the year from the terrific Graphics 12 class. Design a logo for your own design firm.

Angela Aguilar

Kayli Koonar

Phoenix Mei

Bubble - Kayli Koonar

A hilarious narrative sequence from the talented Ms. Koonar

GRAPHICS 9 - Pro-Models

A fun project in which our junior design students explore colour theory, craftsmanship and Photoshop skills.

Hana Kuri

Joyce Sanders

Hana Kuri

PHOTO 12 -- FILM PORTRAIT with PROP

Our first project with the senior Photo students: a 35 mm film portrait with a prop that both dynamically informs the composition and also is also revealing of the subject's personality. Wer want to immediately re-introduce our students to the darkroom, careful, technical photography and composition while introducing concept into their planning process.

Kayli Koonar

Kasha Malinowski

Victor Le

GRAPHICS 10 - PATTERN AND REPETITION

A project that begins with a simple symmetrical paper collage with geometric shapes of various sizes and versions of a colour. We scan our collages, clean them up in photoshop and then explore techniques of copying, pasting, repetition, resizing, and eliminating to create complex and dynamic patterns. I love projects like this, that start with an elementary exploration of colour and develop into something truly beautiful while hitting on so many design lessons and teach practical Photoshop application methods.

Lucas Garnett

Fred Chang

Lucas Garnett

Graphics 11: Lyrical Layouts

Lyrical Layouts is a poster design project that asks students to work with grid-based compositions and work with Visual Hierarchy to create a graphic interpretation of their favourite song. They used Indesign to compose their layouts. I love this assignment. It allows for a ton of creative freedom but touches on a bunch of design points that we have covered in other assignments.

Angela Aguilar

Phoenix Mei

Kayli Koonar

Graphics 11: Paper Words

This a really quick easy assignment, asking students to explore paper as a material and different construction methods. I always tell students, when given a problem, to solve it the most creative way they can; find a solution that is surprising and original and different from anyone else's. I think this is generally a good way to approach any design problem.

Phoenix Mei

Alexa Gogoescu

Rhys Andrews

Photo12: Oliver New

Photo 12: Wild 'n' Romantic

CUT AND PASTE (Photo 12)

I was thrilled to accept an invitation, on behalf of my senior photography class, to participate in the inaugural BC edition of the Flash Forward Incubator program - a collaborative presentation of the Magenta Foundation and The Capture Photography Festival. That's a mouthful but what it really means is that we got to partner with some really amazing people to produce photographic work in collaboration with a wonderful arts-based education organization with an exhibition taking place between April 23rd and April 29th 2018 at the Roundhouse Community Arts Center. A wonderful opportunity for students to get feedback from industry professionals and have their work professionally printed, framed and presented in an exhibition. I couldn't be more proud of them. Some really wonderful work was created around the theme of Cut and Paste.

Phoebe Wong

Alex Bolzner

Julian Lee

Graphics 11: Lego Alphabet

Recently brought in a bunch of Lego and have had a ton of fun incorporating it into various courses. Here, a senior design class uses it to design and construct assigned letterforms. The challenge here was to construct a free standing 3-dimensional letterform that contained a specific colour scheme and used the construction method as creatively as possible. I love these, although some of the photography is whack - my fault...

Portraits of NYC 2018

Recently returned from our bi-annual Art and Photography trip to NYC. 32 students and 3 chaperones making our way around that amazing city, taking in the sites, sounds and inclimate weather, and having a blast the entire time. Graffiti tours of Brooklyn, Culinary tours of Greenwich, the Met, Guggenhiem, MOMA, Neue, ICP and Museum of Moving Images were but a few of the highlights of a rambunctious week. Ms. Dodge took photos of (I think) all of our amazing students along the way.

Graphics 11: "SEEING RED" Social Justice Posters

Inspired by the amazing See Red Women's Workshop our design 11 students explored issues of gender representation, objectification and other assumptions and messages perpetuated by our culture. Students were asked What ticks you off? What do you see everyday that makes you so angry? that makes you see red. They worked with intentionally analogue, DIY imagery and production methods and were asked to come up with a catch phrase, slogan or question for the audience that would make them question imagery that they take for granted.