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6 x 6

This assignment will be a scavenger hunt.

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