#Dziga Kaiser

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by Dziga Kaiser

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[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

hi do you know what the unseen westeros compilation is? ive heard a bit of a talk about it somewhere and id like to know what it is!

Unseen Westeros is a 150-page artbook created in 2015-8 by 40 artists, many who worked for Game of Thrones. They beautifully illustrated areas of Westeros and Essos, castles and cities and faraway lands throughout the world of ice and fire. For example, this is Stygai, a "corpse city" in the Shadow Lands northeast of Asshai, illustrated by Dziga Kaiser:

And here's the Lonely Light, by Sven Sauer:

You can see the Kickstarter here, though alas it's long since completed. The artists also had an exhibition in Germany, but I don't think it's going anymore. But you can still see many prints of the artworks in the book, though they can't be purchased anymore either. And there's another gallery on Behance. Also, you can search "unseen westeros" on Artstation to turn up artworks uploaded by the artists (though I think there's at least one artist tagging their ROTD art with that, ack). @beyondmistland also has some posts with links to the artworks. And if you want to spend the money, you can still find copies of the artbook on ebay. Enjoy!

[whateverbringsyouthroughthenight]

By Dziga Kaiser https://www.artstation.com/dziga  

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[thecollectibles]

Artworks for the "Unseen Westeros" exhibition displaying unseen locations from George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire".

Featured artists: Dziga Kaiser, Matt Conway, Marco Iozzi, Martin H. Matthes

Locations: Stygai, Port of Ibben, Asshai, Fivefords, Shadowlands Watchtower

[samwebsteruniblog]

Research For Type and Image.1

-Utopia

To start my research I decided to look into current world problems to see what I would want to base my illustrations and type on; Global public health, Education, Environment and corporate sustainability, Wildlife conservation, Marine Conservation and many more.

I couldn't however just pick an idea without researching artists for inspiration so I decided to look at some artists on the brief like, Chris Ashworth who's type work is often worn and textured. It gives for a much more exciting look into what the text is actually saying. His magazine work is very expressive and often collaged similar to other punk/rock magazines and artists of the time.

http://www.graphic-exchange.com/exellence/chris-ashworth.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Gun_(magazine)

Other artists I found when researching about utopian posters was Peter Chadwick. Chadwick uses a lot of brutalist architecture to create vibrant statements about the brutalist movement and how he believes it to be beautiful architecture amongst the faceless modern glass buildings we see today. I straight away was interested in Chadwick’s work as I have also done previous collages with brutalism as growing up in Southampton there was a lot of the ‘ugly’ tower buildings.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/mar/10/graphic-brutality-posters-of-italian-brutalist-architecture-in-pictures

I also watched scenes from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis as the old cinema portrayed such different predictions for what our world is now but for them would have been utopian. The scenes I watched reminded me of Kino eye who director  Dziga Verotv developed into his technique.It was also the name of the movement and group that was defined by this technique. Kino-Eye was Vertov's means of capturing what he believed to be "inaccessible to the human eye". Metropolis focuses a lot on the Machines and so did Vertov. I also know that alot of the posters and art around this time was very utopian. As a lot of the work was a social commentary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P2iUJucbk4 Metropolis scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzxrSX79oz4 A man with a movie camera.

These Four artists work is different but they all share similar aspects and it would be very interesting to adopt techniques and ideologies from each one when creating my own posters especially when it comes to composition and planning.

I also looked at Anja Kaiser as I loved her style which she describes as remixing corporate culture and visual. Her text was also so fascinating as it often flooded the whole page but never got in the way or blocked the over all feel of her visuals in prints, illustration and patters.

https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/anja-kaiser-150217

The next part of my research will be now to go back to finding a problem to base my work on and hopefully find a topic I become passionate with.