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This post will explain the content license agreement with a stock library ( here istockphoto.com ) about the terms and conditions involved about the copyrights on copyrighted images, and will explain how to source images from a stock library, which you can use or purchase images, ( how to get them and how much they cost.) Example will be taken on http://www.istockphoto.com/

Like every net stock libraries, there are terms and conditions, and license agreements of their own. For istockphoto details are given below. However contents linked to copyrights only will be shown.

CONTENT LICENSE AGREEMENT

This Agreement governs the terms by which members and clients of iStockphoto® obtain the right to use istockphoto's stock products. ( here images )

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HOW TO SELL OR BUY STOCKS

How to sell ?

You must be an iStock member before you can begin to contribute. ( Membership is free ), need a mail address and sign up.

Then go to the sell stock page http://www.istockphoto.com/sell-stock-photos.php Click the "Apply" button for the file type you want to contribute and start reading the manual. Once you've learned the ropes, you just have to take a quick quiz.

After you pass the quiz, you will be asked to submit three original samples of art. Keep that manual bookmarked - we want to see your very best work.

My Team Logo - Further development and Rationale.

The brief :

Student were asked to design a new logo for a choosen club/national team, etc... in a sport of their own choice. However, the logo must be related to the choosen Greek God choosen and given to him/her since the begining of the semester. The choosen Greek Mythological God here will be Athena the Goddess of War.

The concept : 

As shown previously, ( scroll down ), 3 concepts were designed/drawn from the related Mythological Greek God, Athena. The sport choosen is Baseball.

The team is a young and dinamic team. As every Baseball team, there will be two different types of logo. A main one, and an alternate one, ( normally the alternate logos are used on the playground's banners, T-shirts, caps or baseball helmets, where the main logo is too large to fit to the designated area, and will lose its definition and details if minimised.

Athena reflects strength and respect, as she is the Goddess of War, therefore the appearence of the logo should be strong, feared and respected one. Similarly to Basketballs teams, members of the Baseballs teams are very loyal and are proud of their belongings to their actual teams as they wore very proudly their team colours and team logos.

The logos : 

All the logos underneath are linked to whether the sport choosen ( Baseball ), or something linked to the Greek Mythology. The colours used are very typical in the discipline, Red, Black  together with Grey, or Blue, Red together with White. One of the concept is also in Violet,Red  and white. However the final choosen one is in Red, Black and has a shadow of Prussian Blue.

Concept one : 

Captain Shiner is the font used with the letter "A" for Athenians, and the word "Warriors", from the same typeface, to describe the ferocity and fighting spirit of the team, drawn on a Baseball ball on its background. This logo straight at the first sight describe th

e sport the team  is specialised in.

The colours used is white, as the ball is white generally, Red or the ball's strings, and Blue for the team colour. Together the three coulour will be the choosen coulurs of the team.

Concept two : 

Concept two is drawn also with the Captain Shiner font, but this 

time is coloured in violet, outlined by black. A ba

ckground image representing is a fallen/broken anciant Greek pole/pillar, forms part of the design. White is finally the background colour. All together the three coulours will be the final choosen colours for this concept.

Concept three : 

The third concept is derived from a combinason of the font Lucida Blackletter, with a section/ lower part of a broken Greek pillar/pole. Eccentric Std font also is added at th

e bottom of the designed logo, with the word "Athenians" to describe the name of the team. The colours used here is Red, Black and Grey.

 

Concept four: 

Concept four is the final choosen one among the four design concepts. However a fifth one ( underneath it ) will be the alternate logo for the team. The "A" derived from the third concept will influence the designer to incorporate it within the final smaller/alternate one. However the whole letter " ATHENIANS" will be removed as only the sight of the letter "A" is enough to understand the meaning. Both final concepts are reworked on illustrator. The colours used are, Red, Black, and Grey on White background.

My Team Logo

3 design concepts were to be drawn and designed to finally choose a final one. The Greek God designated for this brief was Athena the Goddess of War. 

Concept one

Concept two 

Concept three 

However after working on the concepts, a 4th one was drawn and resulted like as shown down. Still related to the Greek God choosen for the topic, Athena.

AGIDEAS

Art is so vast to describe. From music, ( singer or musician ), movies, drawings, food, architectures, etc... the list is so long. Same for Graphics and Drawings arts. Graphic Design is each year evoluating, and each year is changing and is adapting to the world, and from all these influences Trends tends to appear.Some examples just to name them are : street art, craft, collage, art deco, interior designs ... However the artist must be carefull not to over trend too much his art work so that it 

dont fall into abstract too much so that the viewer dont understand or distinguish the drawing.

Textural Designs

Ali Vazirian ( IRAN )

After being graduated in painting from the College of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran, Ali Vazirian designed a great variety of graphical works, from posters, books, magazines to logos. He uses textures from buildings and Mosques from his natal country Iran, to paste and trends them in a certain way to repeat the shapes and design different drawings which he later used in his posters. He then later added the calligraphic letters of the Arabian alphabets in drawing the shapes to finally accomplish his art work, representing his religion who is Islam.

WEBUYYOURKIDS ( sonny day & biddy maroney ) - Sydney Australia 

Sonny Day and Biddy Maron began their partnership in 2005. Both designers were specialised in screen-printing and posters productions. They created webuyyourkids, based actually in Syndney. Among their clients, EMI, Mushroom Music, Fosters, MTV, Skateboarding Australia.

They have created a large body of work from posters emcompassing, album packagings, logos, websites, t-shirts and animations.

In 2008 Webuyyourkids were nominated for a Sydney Music, Art and Culture ( SMAC ) Award, for Best Visual Artist.

Street Art

In modern times, spray paint, normal paint and markers have become the most commonly used materials. In most countries, defacing property with graffiti without the property owner's consent is considered vandalism, which is punishable by law. Sometimes graffiti is employed to communicate social and political messages. To some, it is an art form worthy of display in galleries and exhibitions; to others it is merely vandalism.

Ghostpatrol - Matthew Lunn ( Melbourne - Australia )

"Ghostpatrol will always surprise", says Street Artist  Matthew Lunn. He works with whatever media he can find or afford to purchase, including but not limited to spray cans, paper, pens, markers, wood, clay and so on. 

Residing in Melbourne Australia, this Street Artist dont draw only on walls, he is also a Graphic Designer and created his company specialised in fine ink drawings, street arts, commissioned murals and soft sculptures.

Ces53 ( Netherlands )

Ces53 is the name of an anonymous street artist from the Netherlands. Ces53 is active since 1985 and is the maker of many international street art/graffiti paintings, predominantly in European cities but also worldwide like inMexico, the USA and Burma.

Thy started drawing on trains then on desrted walls on deserted sites and lateron under deserted outer train tunnels. Most of their work are considered vandalism as they are not recognised officially by their country and always bad seen from others, whereas in the Graphic world are considered as confirmed Graphics from their awesome art/street works.

Bibliography :

http://www.agideas.net/index.php?nodeId=60&speakerId=41&eventId=1

http://www.agideas.net/index.php?nodeId=60&speakerId=40&eventId=1

http://www.agideas.net/index.php?nodeId=60&speakerId=21&eventId=1

http://www.agideas.net/index.php?nodeId=60&speakerId=21&eventId=1

Aboriginal motifs

Functions and Philosophies

Australian Principles and Protocols exist in Australia when is applying to the Aboriginal or Indegenous culture in whatsoever related characteristics, as for example their cultural materials related to Arts, Designs, Music, etc.These Principles are set up to protect and respect and at the same time recognise and control the Austarlian Indegenous society.Two main characteristics of this protocol are : Respect and Secrecy and Confidentiality.

Respect

The respect to the rights of indigenous people to own and control their own heritage, such as indigenous images, designs, stories and other cultural expressions or Art materials is very important to the Indegenous society, as some of these expressions or representations are sacred and are sometimes related to spiritual beleives.

The protocol is also aware of different Indegenous communities spread throughout the country.Each Indegenous society is different and has its own beleifs and cultural references.Each society are unique and each tradition holds diverse cultural roots.

The protocol also makes sure that they point out to artists that Aboriginal Cultures are not historical entity, it is progressing, evolving and adaptingon the culture worldwidely spoken and seen.

Secrecy and Confidentiality

Trademarks for products ( ™ ) or Copyrights for art works ( © ) are a way of protecting someone's work or product. Similarly to Indegenous arts, Indegenous peaple's Artworks should automatically be treated or consulted in the same way. However due to Indegenous beliefs some laws or rights had been amended. For example, the rights and art ownwership of a deceased Aboriginal artist cannot be spoken, shown or sell for a certain amount of time, due to the tribe's descision, as beliefs and superstition must be seeked among his Aboriginal community before, as also some of the aboriginal art are also sacred and important for rituals.

Moral Rights and Issues

While working in relation to ( Australian ) Indegenous Art works, One should follow some of these rules written below just so that their moral rights are not violated.

Be sure that :

- Does the art work taken respect the overall value and integrity of the Indegenous society or artwork ?

- Does the art work taken reveals the Indegenous confidentiality ?

- Does the art work taken must re-inforce positive stereotypes.

- Does the art work is using or re-producing an existing Indegenous imagery or use of style ?

- Does the art work taken does respect of the use of the Indegenous bibliography.

Bibliography

http:// www.australiacouncil.gov.au

Native American Motifs

GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS( Basket Ball - United States - N.B.A )

Debute

When Philadelphia became a member of the BAA - the Basketball Association of America, the forerunner of the N.B.A - the National Basketball Association ( 1946 ), the first task of the team was to rename the new club.After 17 sessons in Philadelphia, the warriors moved to San Francisco in 1962.The team made their new home in Oakland in 1971.In an attempt to get the whole state of California involved with the team, team officials renamed the club "the GoldenStates Warriors"

The evolution of the team's logo

1946 -1962

The Warriors were founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1946 as the Philadelphia warriors, a charter member of the Basketball AssociationOf America. They were owned by Peter Tyrrell, who also owned the Philadelphia Rocket of the American Hocquet Association.The logo is here is detailed by a Native Red Indian playing Basket Ball with the Warriors Innitials written on it.

1962 -1971

In 1962, the new owner of the team, Franklin Mieuli renamed the team, the San Francisco Warriors.The Warriors won the 1963–64 Western Division crown, losing the NBA championship series to the Boston Celtics, four games to one.The logo evoluated from a single Red Indian warrior to a Red Indian Chef hat, circled in yellow and white.

1971 -1977

For the 1971–72 season, the Warriors changed their name to the Golden State Warriors playing all their homes games in Oakland, none were played in San Francisco. After changing their name from the San Francisco Warriors, the Warriors became (and remain) the only NBA team that does not include the name of their state or their city in their team name.The logo again evoluate to appear in a yellow circle surrounded by the state ( Golden State ) and the team's name ( Warriors ) and also tagged by the State logo,followed by a Blue star showing the place of the team's address. All on white background.

Several changes will occur in the logo later on from 1972-73, from putting the accent on more on the Warriors rather than the Golden State around the Yellow circle.However the

 basic illustration of the log

o remains the yellow cicle with the state logo and

 the Blue star showing the club's emplacement.

In 1975-76, the club will ameliorate the logo by readding back the

 State's name on this time on an illustration of a Basket Ball instead of the Yellow circle, and re-adding the Wa

rrior's name underneath the logo.Hence coming back to the

 previous logo of 1971-72 with a Basket Ball instead of a Yellow circle.

1997-98 to Present

In 1997 the club will completely innovate with the new owner of the team, with a mixture of a special typeface lettering the warrior's name showing a guy holding a lighting, hence representing Zeus the God of the lighting on an illustration together with a basket Ball at the back.This time the team's colour will change from Yellow to dark Orange.The State name will be removed and the warriors name only will be kept as it forms part of the logo.

The alternate logo also will have several changes in the team's logo evaluation.From the "Guy " representing Zeus on the main logo to the lighting atached to the "W" of the typeface of the Warriors name, on a Basket Ball background.

Reference

Reference - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_State_Warriors -http://www.nba.com/warriors/history/team_history_index.html Regular Season Debut vs. Houston(10/28/2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEzSEYGR_q0&feature=related

Melbourne Sports Museum Critiques

Logo

The choosen logo is from a footy club of St Kilda, situated in Melbourne, Australia.

The original colours of the St Kilda Football Club are red, white and black. In the early years of the St Kilda Football Club, from 1873 to 1896, the Saints wore a thinly striped, red, white and black jumper which was also used in selected games during 2004 and 2005. It later changed to thicker red, white and black stripes. In 1915 St Kilda changed its colours to red, yellow and black. In 1923 the club returned to using the club's original colours of red, white & black. The club crest first appeared on the St Kilda Football Club jumper in approximately 1933. Le Saint logos have been developed for supporters of the wonderful St Kilda Football Club. They cost absolutely nothing to download and should be used to help promote the club. The 1873 and S73 logos were developed to highlight the foundation year of the club - something all supporters should feel very proud about. The Seagull Logo was the clubs logo in circa 1940.The C'arn the Saints logo is based on the 1961,universal symbol of love, loyalty and friendship - very much St Kilda.

In 1977 the VFL introduced official logos for the first time. Prior to 1977 logos were generally done by outside companies for sales of merchandise but were in no way official. All the club's logos were printed on shields and had navy blue top halves to represent the league. In 1980 the St Kilda logo had the border replaced with the club colour of red. In 1989 the logo changed to include the then AFL logo and the St Kilda crest sitting on the point posts.

The Olympic History of the Olympics.

The Olympic Games are a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in different competitions. The Games are currently held every two years for the winter Olympics, alternating also every four years for the summer games the first modern game were held in Olympia, Greece, Baron Pierre De Coubertin founded the 1st International Olympic Commitee (IOC) in 1894. The IOC has since become the governing body of the Olympic Movement.

The very first Olympics were organised by the Anciant Greek, who beleived that the sportman who won their respective races were considered to be Gods, hence where the Hercule's history came from, and the Legend of the 10 Herculian works.