Sol Green
Sol Green is taking a foundation course in Visual Communication and Design at Ravensbourne University London. He excels in using software to transform his imagination onto a canvas or website. He is driven and hard working, exploring deep themes such as conflict, protest, and rights movements within the current political climate. This allows his audience to have a more sentimental and personal experience with his work, as they may be able to relate to it.
Green primarily uses Adobe Photoshop however, he also knows how to develop his ideas from a scrap piece of paper into many other mediums. His work appears to be influenced by the media he consumes online, transforming it into cultural pop art. Green hopes to take the skills he has learned and develop them further throughout his degree studies.
Musical Tarrot Cards – These Tarrot cards are based of muscicians and their albums relating too the bands cultural identity aswell as there tarrot identity. The background of each Tarrot matches the cards identity helping create less contrast making the mock-up flow through the page.
Final Major Project, Photoshop Developments Of Conflict – Both pieces can be seen in different ways, the top piece could be viewed as talking about the burqa and how it limits women of Islamic states however it could additionally be seen as an empowering statement for people under corrupt goverments. The bottom image is a statement using the famous catchphrase ‘love is war’ depicting two people dancing with a hydrogen bomb going off in the background. The high contrast and grainy texture of the image makes it pop.
I-D magazine covers (fashion week) – Here are a few varied outcomes edited on photoshop from a shoot, recreating I-D magazine covers allows room to explore on softwares such as photoshop. Different techniques such as inverting colours and adding high contrast too images really brings a lot of attention too specific parts of the images such as the scarf and the eye within the middle image. The middle image really speaks to the audience with warm tones of pink bleeding from the top of the page into the darker greens and blacks at the bottom of the image.
Cultural Graphic Concept/Project – These pieces were inspired by Andy Warhol and his iconic pop art style. Sol Green used a variety of tools and techniques to create the works. The project held personal significance for Green, as he was editing images featuring multiple groups of friends, giving the pieces a sentimental quality.