Place post-crit Response
I believe I did okay on the Place Project. Although, now that I think about it, I think I could have made it a little bit more chaotic by spreading out the pieces of each image more than I did. Someone also mentioned maybe using more physical materials for this project. I think that could have helped, but at the same time, I am unsure about that. For some projects, using physical materials may help, but not for all of them. I actually prefer using digital materials and Adobe apps, especially since my concentration is in graphic design. I have tried using physical materials on other projects, but it didn’t really work as well as doing things digitally. Some people were unsure about how this relates to the place theme. This relates to the theme because it shows the shape of the United States map and mostly things that specifically happened this year within our country. Other countries were going through a pandemic as well, but from what I can tell, it is more crazy in the US than anywhere else, especially with all of this other stuff going on. The background, which is a television screen that shows that there is no signal, definitely adds some sort of effect. It would have you thinking, “what is going on?” However, some people at least may tend to focus on that more than the images in front of it. We constantly see these things on television, in the media, and out in society, and it is very hard to escape it. It is hard to watch TV or go on social media without hearing about these things. Many people have different opinions on these subjects, so it is very hard for people to get along these days. The part about having chaos in this project was meant to represent this and how everyone is so divided these days. I was trying to step away from just having literal depictions of these things or having something that looks like what we might see in a news article. I have also been told that with the way I did this, it looks like if, for example, someone took a mirror and they dropped and smashed it. This was kind of the effect that I was thinking about when I was fixing what I needed to.