Journals

I went to the library and looked at the art journals. In particular I was looking at "Computer Arts". The two artists below particularly interested me, because of the collage technique they use.

Courtney James

Jim Gkikas

I like the textures in this piece, i think for my poster i will try and create different textures that will make it more interesting.

Hans Georg Gerasch

I got the book Graphis poster out of the library, and seen this poster by Hans Georg Gerasch. Its a nice wee technique. I think it would be nice if i done it on A4 paper and then crumpled it and scanned it, i've found that when you scan crumpled paper the shadows become very harsh.

Inspiration

I really like this technique. I could stencil some words related to equality and then have "Equality" in a gender neutral colour.

Equals

Symbols

Female and Male symbols

 The male and female symbols adopted to represent the sexes in biological sciences can be traced back to the prehistoric rock engravings of the Mediterranean region representing human sexual parts.

Hermaphrodite symbol

Transgender symbol

Gender equality symbol

Definition of woman and man

A woman is a female human. The term woman is usually reserved for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent. However, the term woman is also sometimes used to identify a female human, regardless of age, as in phrases such as "Women's rights". Unlike men, women are typically capable of giving birth.


Man refers to an adult human male (the term boy is the usual term for a human male child or adolescent). Sometimes it is also used as an adjective to identify a set of male humans, regardless of age, as in phrases such as "men's rights". 


Etymology

The Old English wifman meant "female human" (werman meant "male human". Man or mann had a gender neutral meaning of "human", corresponding to Modern English "one" or "someone". However in around 1000AD "man" started to be used more to refer to "male human", and in the late 1200s began to inevitably displace and eradicate the original word "werman").The medial labial consonants coalesced to create the modern form "woman"; the initial element, which meant "female," underwent semantic narrowing to the sense of a married woman ("wife").

The symbol for the planet Venus is the sign also used in biology for the female sex. It is a stylized representation of the goddess Venus's hand mirror or an abstract symbol for the goddess: a circle with a small equilateral cross underneath. The Venus symbol also represented femininity, and in ancient alchemy stood for copper. Alchemists constructed the symbol from a circle (representing spirit) above an equilateral cross (representing matter).A very common Indo-European root for woman, is the source of English queen (Old English cwēn primarily meantwoman, highborn or not; this is still the case in Danish, with the modern spelling kvinde, as well as in Swedish kvinna), as well as gynaecology (from Greek γυνή gynē), banshee fairy woman (from Irish bean woman, sí fairy).

Prezi Presentation

This is my presentation on how i'm getting on with my projects so far. This was also my first time using Prezi. I really like the software and think it looks a lot more artistic and professional than a power point.