The Backgrounds include textures with rough edges, newspaper cut-outs and smudges which all give them this aged feel. I want to make sure that my video doesn’t look to clean as it won’t reflect the style and content of my manifesto.

Inspired by constructivsm, this music video has various elements that are juxtposed in a way that will interact with the music. There are objects that reoccur constantly such as sonar waves, targets and machinery. All of which move in a way that I would like to replicate some how in my own animation.

Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out

Rodchenko was one of the founders of Constructivism, working as a painter and designer. “One has to take sev-eral different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again.”

The uneven and dynamic shapes are quite striking and is a style I intend to adopt in my Manifesto.

The poster for One-Sixth Part of the World was the basis for the cover of “Take Me Out”, also by Franz Ferdinand.

Left - Death Ray, 1925Below - Watches, 1923

Alexander Rodchenko

Gustav Klutsis

Klutsis worked in a variety of experimental media. He liked to use propaganda as a sign or revolutionary background image.

A lot of the work coming from the constructiv-ists was influenced majorly on political propa-ganda, being introduced shortly after the 1st world war.

This is reflected heavily in through the colours and the elements brought into the composi-tion. Here you can see a lot of red and blacks being used to effect with the strong imagery and photos that follow; Many of these original designs show large imagery of hands in differ-ent positions and/or leaders, giving a strong sense of power.

Dave Wharton Manifestodave wharton manifesto

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Dave Wharton Manifesto

Dave Wharton ManifestoDave Wharton ManifestoDAVE WHARTON MANIFESTO

DAVE WHARTON MANIFESTOHere are a few fonts I’ve been texturising in Illustrator. I’ve started to think about how these will interact with the different object I have in the frame.

El LissitzkyAnother important figure of the Russian Avant Garde.The use of strong shapes and black and reds is prom-inent once again and reflected the state of the Soviet Union at that time.

Beat the whites with the reds, 1919

A selection of the textures I’ve been working with over the type and illustration/vector

...More Inspiration

Some of the shapes I started to design and apply to my animation.