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Visual Stories VESA SAMMALISTO

Vesa is a Finnish illustrator and graphic designer based in Berlin, Germany. Vesa graduated from University of Art and Design Helsinki in graphic design. Vesa studied architecture in Tampere University of Technology. Vesa was honoured with ADC Young Guns award in 2011.

One in a series of urban survey posters for the cities of Helsinki, London, and New York, The posters and accompanying small prints were exhibited for the first time at Kaapeli (Cable Factory) Helsinki during the Factory Superstars group exhibition in October 2010. 

 I really like VESA's art work, i think he is a creativity story teller by use his visual language. Every city have the own style and people live in different city also have different life styles. Drawing is a pretty way to tell stories, Vesa's illustrations give me a lot of inspirations

A visual storyteller -- Antoine Corbineau

Antoine Corbineau is one of my one of favored designer , he graduated from camberwell college of art and design in UAL. I like his hand-drawing style and color, the more importance is his creatives. The following texts are come from the book of VISUAL STORYTELLING . 

What are the major issues facing visual storytelling today?

Time! Visual storytelling entails a huge amount of work (which also means a higher cost) but the deadlines are often very short, and briefs often arrive very late, so it is not always possible to have enough time to experiment and to create a proper and well-thought piece of visual storytelling.

A GRANGE SCHOOL

SPRINGTIME IN PARIS

SNOWFLAKE CHARITY BALL 2013

How do you describe your illustration style?

It's a colorful and dense combination of logically interconnected hand-drawn elements, typography and textures-but that sound a bit cold ! I just draw how i can, and my colorful, hand-drawn style in not only inviting but also an interesting may to communicate more comples subjects. 

Southbank Centre

Festival of the World 2012

 http://world.southbankcentre.co.uk/

Your colors are always very distinctive and joyful.

How do you choose each one?

I'm a painter as well as an illustrator, and i used  to use color spontaneously, without limit or preselection, but i am now trying to restrict myself to a limited and specific range of color that i wouldn't select that way. Color choice is very important, especially in my work. It gives the first overall mood and vibration, the ones that makes the viewer want to come look closer.

A cycle life of a honeybee

A honey bee's life

In an interesting installation in the national and history museum, showing a short but busy life of a honeybee, the use of a rotating disk, about the six stages of the bee life, the circle seems to be a reincarnation bees repeated from generation to generation live with the same lifestyle.

Day 1, Frist, she cleans the hive
Day 6, Then she feeds the young
Day 12, Then she makes wax cells
Day 19, Then she helps guard the hive
Day 26, Then she collects pollen and nectar
Finally, at the age of 5or6 weeks, she dies...

 

 

A graphic designer design for happiness

Stefan Sagmeister is an Austrian Born typographer and graphic designer, I know him in the TED talks and I watched his lectures about happiness design (Happiness by design; 7 rules for making more happiness). His design works combined with typography, installations and moving imagines and most of them are encouraging and relax.

So far, I think he is a helpful designer for my project, even though I have not seen his own book, but I have to book Amazon, and I hope it will be useful.

Stefan Sagmeister’s design in New York City

7 rules for making more happiness from Stefan Sagmeister

1, Thinking about ideas and content freely-with the deadline far away

2, Traveling to new places.

3, Using a wide variety of tools and techniques.

4, Working on projects that matter to me.

5, Having things come back from the printer done well.

6, Getting feedback from people who see our work. 7, Designing a project that feels partly brand new and partly familliar

A book talks about a way can make people feel comfortable

"The Fragrant Mind -- Aromatherapy for Personality Mind, Mood and Emotion, I bought this book because i am sure fragrant thing has big relationship of our mind. But how fragrant influence our mind? this flowers in the book tells us answers. 

 "Pathway to the mind
The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have the sense of mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as all serious endeavour in art and science."

by ALBERT EINSTEIN

A happiness survey

A happiness survey in the UK in 2012 illustrated that people living in built-up or former industrial areas, such as South Wales, the West Midlands or London, tended to be less happy, while rural areas, such as Orkney and Shetland, and Rutland, in the East Midlands, were the happiest. This report made me feel curious of what reasons makes people less happiness and what can a designer do to help people feel more happiness.

Recently, I did a questionnaire survey of 20 people live in London in different ages, different jobs and different race.  The result surprised me that there are 10 people said their satisfaction of life only 40%-60%.

                            

Everyone has their standerd of happy life and how many people make sure they are living in a happy life? and how can we live in a happy way?

I am thinking about maybe as a graphic designer can do something to improve people's view of happiness. 

My project:My Flower map of London

I love drawing, i love flower and i love drawing flower, so why not to draw a map with flower. So i began to drawing my flower map for my living city--London.

Flower map London is my personal view of London and it also can be my experience in London, because when the beginning of coming here, i really feel lost, London it's a city where is running quite fast, busy, fashion and massive information every day. i feel excited of studying here but i feel worry too. i want organized well my life but at most times i do not know what i need to learn, what it is good one to visit in this vary exhibitions city. 

I know i need to work hard and i need to do my best to absorb  energy. One day, i have a idea is i seem like a honey who is harding working and who love flower... So, at that time i decide to draw a flower map.

Mapping design research 3

Hand-- Drawn Maps of London: Super-- detailed City

1, Abi Daker

2, David Ryan Robinson " Personal street view"

3, Matthew Picton

                                        

Mapping design research 2

Mapping Muswell: An Inricate Paper Collage By Anya Beaumont

A 3D Collage map designed by Anya Beaumont. She spent months crafting this exquisite collage of Muswell Hill. It’s pieced together from dozens of sheets of paper, donated from various sectors of the local community, then intricately cut by Anya and assembled into a projection map of the area.This incredible piece is currently on show at Muswell Hill Library on indefinite loan.

In my opinion, mapping is a good narrative way and it can be designed by vary forms. Different people have they own feeling and responds of a place, so they have their own mental maps.

 Mapping Muswell is the first collage map i have saw untile now. Of course, i like this details and interesting map as it is different from the ordinary graphic mappings. It can be seeing different from different angles so its kind of a real 3D city map which we are living. I think this is real challenge and it really give the audiences fun and inspirations, like me, it gives me some ideas which i can design my flower map of London in a 3D form. 

Mapping design research 1

An exquisite details mapping designer --- Stephen Walter

I am fascinated in details drawing and designs and i was really exciting when i saw Stephen Walter's hand drawing maps.

The flowing three maps are the parts of Stephen Walter's Liverpool map. I like it because the map designed by words and sentences and very details and clear even it massive. People can recognize the place by the words direction. So, it is not only a useful map but is special and art work.

And this map is created by the Logos in the uk , i don't whether the logos represent the  

place in the real direction. but i like this idea. 

"Stephen Walter’s maps and Landscapes set out to challenge our first impressions, exploring the ideas about beauty and desire within the politics of space and the micro and macro cossoms in which we live. Under the guise of traditional techniques, his work reveals a myriad of words and symbols. The fantastical additions, references to history, trivia, personal experiences and local knowledge merge older notions of Romanticism with a fascination in the intricacies and the contradictions of our world.

He continues to use a range of media including drawing, photography, digital, screen-printing, collage and painting, and recently the applying of these onto objects.

Born 1975. Currently Lives and Works in Berlin & London"