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February 16, 2017

This assignment will be a scavenger hunt.

6x6

There is a great tradition of foraging amongst designers. Mining visual inspirations is a form of research, the resulting collection becomes a catalog of available languages in use out there in the world. A specimen in the collection might represent a category of beauty, elegance, ugliness, goofiness, etc.; an historical or a cultural moment; a personal sentiment or an in-joke. Graphic Design is intimately connected with collecting – it often requires the selective arrangement of existing materials – typefaces, photographs, symbols, formats, images. In many ways, Design is a process of hunting, gathering and ordering of parts.

Collect 6 photographs of each of the 6 categories listed below. 

Select strong photographs with good contrast work best. Don’t over-intellectualize your selections, the range of representation is more important than the actual items, but choose images you like – you will be using them for a few weeks.

Categories:

01 Living Things

  • animals, insects, fish, birds
  • objects smaller than a breadbox
  • food
  • body part or person doing something
  • building
  • etc.

02 People

  • Babies
  • Nudity
  • Hair
  • Hands
  • authority figure
  • Eyes
  • Full Person
  • Face
  • Teeth
  • etc.

03 Objects

  • Tools
  • Clothes
  • Houses
  • Religious Symbol
  • Radios, TV, or Computers
  • Vehicles
  • etc.

04 Natural

  • Fire
  • Moon
  • Clouds
  • Forest
  • Water
  • etc.

05 Places

  • Roads
  • Schools
  • Walls
  • Bathroom
  • etc.

06 Themes

  • Death
  • machines
  • Food
  • Demons
  • Marriage
  • Flight
  • Business
  • Places
  • Mountains
  • etc.

Photographs only

Choose only pure, unedited photographs. Do not select images that have been photoshopped already, illustrations, 3D rendered scenes, or other artwork. It is important that you are the one doing the artistry. You may also shoot or use your own photography for this assignment.

Name your images as follows:

  • gendron_people_01.jpg
  • gendron_people_02.jpg
  • gendron_people_03.jpg
  • gendron_people_04.jpg
  • gendron_people_05.jpg
  • gendron_people_06.jpg
  • gendron_natural_01.jpg
  • gendron_natural_02.jpg
  • etc.

Place 36 images in a folder called “6×6” in your “05_Montage” folder on DropBox

Due Tuesday, February 21st

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Matthew Rakowski

Disoriented, Caffeine, Bubbling, Gumfiate February 16, 2017

Disoriented-

To turn from the east; to cause to ‘lose one’s bearings’; to put out, disconcert, embarrass.

This French word has to do with direction, or a lack there of. While I did not know that it was French, I knew that it had to do with not knowing where you were or the direction you were facing.

Caffeine-

  A vegetable alkaloid crystallizing in white silky needles, found in the leaves and seeds of the coffee and tea plants, the leaves of guarana, maté, etc.

Because I am not an avid coffee drinker, I knew near nothing about the word caffeine other than it is what most people rely on to get their day going.

Bubbling-

The action of the verb bubble v.; the process of forming bubbles, rising in bubbles, etc.

Almost everyone can image what it looks like when you pour a soda into an ice-filled cup. It is a satisfying, eye-pleasing sight that should be fun to show through illustrator.

Gumfiate-

To cause to swell; to puff up

This word comes from a Scottish decent, and means to swell or puff up. To display this word I will have to involve some sort of swelling or puffing.

 

 

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