Imaging
07- Historizin
We had to pick a moment in history and create a collage to represent that event. I chose the Titanic, and more specifically, the Glory Days of the Titanic. I wanted to stay away from the actual sinking of the titanic, because thats all anyone talks about or thinks about the titanic. Also, I thought the irony would be strong because everyone knows what happened to the titanic, its not like you really need to spell it out. Our collages had to have many different layers.
The first was the Basis, which was basically just a background and a few basis images.
The second was the Minority report (the photos and keys in the upper right hand corner). This layer had to show aspects of the event that arent normally recorded in the history books. So I chose the third class passengers because they didnt really get to see most of the glory of the titanic, they were sort of pushed to the background and forgotten about (and also died).
Third was the Causal layer which had to represent the cause of the event. In my collage this is the illustration of the pocket watch (that i drew in illustrator), and it represents how time goes on, everything has to get bigger and better to keep up, and that is the whole reason the titanic was built.
Fourth was the Effect layer which had to show the effect of our event. The effect of the glory days was that people started to become a little promiscuous on the ship because it was seen as a new world (being on sea) and many moral/cultural rules did not apply. This is represented by the prostitute and the illustrated hand.
Fifth was Mnemonic (no one knows why it was called that because it has nothing to do with what a mnemonic really is), it was supposed to be type somehow represented as a spatial element. We werent allowed to just type in words with the type tool, we had to print the type out, then photograph it, then cut out the letters in photoshop, and then place it onto our document. So i printed mine out and folded it over my desk to create a 3-d illusion and to highlight the word "strength".
Sixth and finally, was the Subtext, which honestly, I dont remember what it was... but my teacher said mine was perfect (the iceberg).
As our final project (It lives!) we had to animate our collage in photoshop, but the blog wont let me post it because its a quicktime movie. Its cool, I wish I could post it.
Type08- Type Sequence in Space
We were each assigned another students essay they wrote for their Smithsonian posters in studio, and we had to pick a 300 word excerpt and create a typographic book on it. I got the object credit card, and the excerpt I chose was about the invention of the ATM.
I tried to create a sort of contrast between paper money and plastic money with the colors, type, and other aspects. (The green color are off on some of these pictures, the real color is the one in the fourth image.
Studio
05- Experience Book
My last project with my beloved corn, we had to write a short story (aprx. 300 words) about an experience we have had with our object. I chose to write on my experience of moving from Kernersville to Waxhaw, and my first impression of waxhaw (full of corn.) We also had to do it in a maximum of 12 pages, and that was very hard for me to fit it in there, but finally it did fit.
I dont know what to do with my time now...
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