Collage

Collage, meaning to cut, paste, and layer, is a popular contemporary art and design technique. Collage techniques can achieve a highly personal, richly textured and layered, and, often, unusual graphic vision.

Design Basics: Multimedia Edition with CD-Rom by David A. Lauer & Stephen Pentak

p. 46

Paul Rand, famous in graphic design:

http://www.commarts.com/CA/feapion/rand/

Romare Bearden, artist famous for collage:

http://www.nga.gov/feature/bearden/img-list.shtm

Ivan Chermayeff, prolific designer, illustrator, and artist:

http://www.findlay.com/pages/Chermayeff.htm

http://www.lars-mueller-publishers.com/d/katalog/ausgaben_detail/015/015_chermayeff.php

http://americanart.si.edu/museum_info/onlineshop/books/books.cfml?ID=328

Robert Bowen
Principal, Robert Bowen Studio. Formerly, director, RGA Print, RGA Digital Studios
Education: BA, St. Lawrence University; MFA, Pratt Institute
Clients include: Adobe, Disney, Intel, Kodak, AT&T, American Express, Coca-Cola, Silicon Graphics, Bacardi
Publications include: Cabinet, Camerawork, Afterimage, Pinhole Journal
Exhibitions include: MF Adams Gallery; Haim Chanin Fine Arts; SIGGRAPH; Vanderbuilt University; 55 Mercer; Collective for Living Cinema; Paulo Salvador Gallery; Boston Museum of Science
Collections include: Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum
Awards include: Best Computer Graphics, Best Digital Photography, Best in Show, Kodak VIP Image Search; Gold Award, special effects, Advertising Photographers of America; Gold Award, International Film and Television Institute

http://www.bowenstudio.com/index.html (look at Fine Art - text images)

http://www.bowenstudio.com/portfolio.html

Alice Buelow:

http://www.aliciabuelow.com/index.shtml

Kirt Montgomery:

http://www.kirkmontgomery.com/photocollages/index.htm



In Photoshop, blending diverse visual elements into one composition can be called compositing or image blending. With your imagination and good collage tecniques, you can perform creative agility.

For Creative Exercise Three - develop a composite of digital imagery using Photoshop collage techniques. There are multiple techniques in Photoshop to create image blending. Our exercise will focus on Layer Masks (creating a layer mask, gradient applied to a layer mask, filter applied to a layer mask, image paste into a mask). Source imagery for this exercise is available from the instructor.

File specifics:
format delivery: .psd (layered file with layer masks on layers)
image size: between 700 and 800 pixels - height or width