vislang. projecttwo. reading1.

style as message.

Meggs is saying that style is just as important in the creative process as everything else. Style cannot be ignored. It brings social, cultural, and emotional connotation to the image. The Bauhaus tried to get rid of all ornamentation and style from their work, thereby getting rid of all connotations to an image and making it as fundamentalist as possible. However, through doing this they created their own connotations to their bare-minimum style. This is showing that even when you try and get rid of ornamentation and style you will inevitably have it no matter what you do. And, what artists and designers do today embrace the past and use it to influence their work. By knowing what typefaces have what connections(blackletter to old germany), or image connections(dolphin and anchor meaning "Make Haste Slowly"), etc, you can use these to help expand your work and make it even more rich and expansive.

SOURCE: meggs, style as message, page 130.

vislang. jazz poster options.

 SNOW

SWIRLS

Here are the two other iterations that I created as options to go with instead of the original final poster(below). The top is a snowflake concept that, while it fits the season, does not fit Earl Klugh's music. The second idea is just a simple swirl concept that helps convey the idea of wind while being season neutral. I really like the swirl concept, it's much simple, and lets the guitar stand out much better. The first concept(the snow) just is too far from the subject matter, where as the swirls still get at possibly winter wind but also at a summer, or spring, or fall wind.

ORIGINAL

narrative. sound narrative.

MARS sound narrative by ianarthur

here ya go! here's the sound narrative I created for our fourth project!

(the narrative works better with your eyes closed. use your IMAAAAAAGINAAAAAAATION)

understanding comics.

Karen, Bethany, and I had story time in the library on friday. It was a wonderful experience. I will cherish it forever.

In Understanding Comics, they talked about the different types of transitions and how comic books work. It was quite interesting to study comic book structure to see how it works so successfully. The different transitions are moment to moment, action to action, subject to subject, scene to scene, and non-sequitor. The transitions are just that, what they sound like. Non-sequitor on the other hand is when the scene cuts from thing to a completely different place, idea, object, etc. Closure is everything to the reader, you see this in television even, the closure aspect. shape outline is enough to trigger it. closure is the agent of time and motion. COMICS ARE CLOSURE. viewers interaction with the image is important

understanding comics, scott mccloud

na project 3. detailed narrative.

It's interesting to figure out how to apply the communication channels to a project but still be able to have it relate to the overall fullness of the over-arching project. I decided to go in the route of clothing tags. This gave me a space to write about the company that has a direct influence on the customer while still being a part of the over-arching semester long theme that adds a new layer of collateral. It's hard, however, to be able to fit text onto such a small area.

Narrative can be in multiple ways. In this way I decided hierarchy and a knowledge of how people interact with the product. Cutting the triangle out in the center brings the viewer in to touch the tag, which people already touch. This is trying to get a piece that is already played with to be more deliberately interacted with so they will see the information on the back where information about the product usually lies.