The Laws of Visual Perception: Unit, Weight, Balance and Movement
Inspiration sources
A course by Pepe Gimeno , Designer, Typographer, and Visual Artist
About the video: Inspiration sources
Overview
“In this lesson I am going to talk about my inspiration notebooks where I have collected everything that interested me at no time and I am also going to talk about the artists that have aroused my interest in some way.”
In this video lesson Pepe Gimeno addresses the topic: Inspiration sources, which is part of the Domestika online course: The Laws of Visual Perception: Unit, Weight, Balance and Movement. Learn to compose, balance, and create motion in a piece to achieve full expressivity.
Partial transcription of the video
“Sources of inspiration We talked about two important points of the work method. One is learning how to look, learning to see. And, also, applying some of the principles of perception that I am going to tell you about. To begin with, I'm going to give you a series of models. I'm going to talk to you a bit later about some examples of how artists have applied them and I'll show you my inspiration notebooks. I have collected these over time and they are of particular visual interest to me. These notebooks are from 2000, 2002, 2003. At that time, I looked at images that interested me, and I kep...”
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Course summary for: The Laws of Visual Perception: Unit, Weight, Balance and Movement
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Architecture, Art Direction, Creative Consulting, Editorial Design, Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Set Design

Pepe Gimeno
A course by Pepe Gimeno
Throughout his professional career, Pepe Gimeno has carried out projects in the fields of graphic design, typography, and visual arts.
He has earned numerous honors and awards for his work, including six TDC Communication Design Awards from the Type Directors Club of New York, three certificates from the ISTD of the United Kingdom, and the Golden and Platinum Award from Graphis Poster.
His work has been featured in numerous international publications and in exhibitions that have toured Europe, Japan, the United States, China, and South America.
Pepe has collaborated with the Spanish Prime Minister's Office, Roca Sanitario, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
In his hometown of Valencia, he has designed some of his most emblematic logos such as Les Corts Valencianes, the Valencia Metro, EMT Valencia, and the Palmera de la Comunitat Valenciana.
In addition to his professional work, he has been developing and expanding his discourse with new formal proposals on scrap materials since 2002. His work has been included in projects like Diario de un Náufrago, The green bag, and Grafía Callada, put on display at the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM) in 2004 and at the Type Directors Club headquarters in New York in 2015.
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