Visual Communication Design

Excersices + explorations in critical thought, theory, & innovation.

[otakorner]

Swimming Semes

[makoharuu]

My lovely Haru-chan.

[aboutitalykira]

The invitations for my senior show are ready! If any of you live in the area, feel free to show up!

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Hey guys, if you don't already know about my cosplay blog, I'd like to share my love fore making costumes and props, as well as fun pictures from conventions and inspiration from professional cosplays :3

You can find my blog here

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How The Face Changes With Shifting A Light Source

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why lighting is so effin important!!!

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Art is the Weapon

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I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST CRAYONS BUT THEN IT WASN’T

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IT’S A WEAPON OF MASS CREATION

[niknak79]

 Dirty Car Art

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Thilo Frank - The Phoenix is Closer than it Appears (2010) - Mixed media with mirrors

[katzmatt]

thats not art

that shits the matrix 

[butterflysnowflake]

so cool

[r0sebuddy]

[the-absolute-funniest-posts]

moistviolinpigs:

Oh god yes, gimmie.

I would cry every time I washed my hands. I would invent characters I’ve murdered and I would cry over them. “Oh God, Jimmy. I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry. I never meant to— Oh God.” 

this is

just

can I HAVE one of these?

i want to use this soap and come out of the bathroom screaming

and just kinda run away

casually reblogging after looking through my tags…. don’t mind me….

This would be awesome. 

want. want want want want want. waaant.

i would be all furtive about it and like leave my pocketknife out on the counter covered in bloodsoap and just mutter to myself shooting dirty looks at anyone who came in

I would put this in an ordinary soap dispenser at home. Then I would accidentally walk in on my confused guest washing their hands in the bathroom and scream “WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO SARAH!?”

I’m going to get this and that shower curtain and bath mat that turn blood red when wet and I will have thE GREATEST BATHROOM EVER

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On hort.org I found this particular wall of art pieces all dedicated to the ZUNE MP3. this one is oh so interesting because there is so much going on and the cow one for example has like nothing going on but his milk utters wrapping all around the poor guy probably choking the shit out of him. just kidding. but seriously. These posters or whatever they are are very colorful and I like colorful and kind of fun and straight to the point about these zune players. They are 30 GB. they play music, they are $199 , they include wireless sharing, its an MP3 player, and just its handy size is comfortable to hold. 

pieces like this need to be made more because today everything is trying to communicate something that has no sense at all. all any commercial is about is random stuff just trying to make you remember their company when really, if they put things straight to the point and exactly what information we need to know on the ads they are printing or making or shooting or whatever, it will be remembered MORE easily than putting random all over their stuff.

Now since zune has already figured this trick out if only everyone else could.the most colorful picture with all the twirly stuff on it is the hardest to read but it is still legible because it makes you want to look for stuff in the mess and you will find details about the zune hidden in the colorful mess that the ad/poster has made. 

The most interesting one to me is the 30GB all in black and white because the patterns are so just random and hypnotizing and when you listen to music it makes sense that it hypnotizes you while youre just sitting there with earbuds in and dancing to the music flowing in and out of your ears and brain.

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We have a variety of social media at our fingertips. Utilizing these technologies in 2013, to connect with different publics, is like magic at our fingertips.

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I love these photos so much because they are very raw and have no set up and yet they look so nice and fun and so in the moment. Seeing these nomads go around catching trains going around the world or wherever they are going is so exciting! They just live in the moment and look out for each other on this wild train ride life on top in the whizzing wind and world looking over everything that passes by. The dirt that they catch from doing this, the memories they make, the fun they might have, the trouble they could get into, the danger they put themselves through, the carefulness they have to keep, the exhillaration they must feel, the wind they must breathe, everything plays a factor.

I could go on and on about these pictures and all the things they must feel just by looking at these photos that Mike Brodie, the photographer took of these people while traveling around with them for a while. Brodie captures all the moments of life that these people live and it's so exhillarating and crazy! I feel like I'm watching an old western movie but these photos are not sets and plays that actors make up. this is real which is why these photos are so beautiful. 

Mike Brodie, interestingly enough, only took one photoshoot of these people while on the ride with them following them around on this journey they have been on for a good chunk of their lives. Brodie stopped his photography business and now works as a mobil diesel mechanic. why? I don't know. Maybe being on this journey and seeing that they live like this made him realize that being a photographer is nothing compared to what these people see everyday in their lives through their eyes, while he (brodie) only sees what he can through his camera lens which isn't the same as seeing the real thing through their eyes.

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The term "sequestration" has double meanings.

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This image represents the word "Market." We must use critical thinking skills to "market" products for a variety of audiences.

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These Christmas cards done by Hort.org.uk were very entertaining. Chewbacca was the first design to catch my eye so I was instantly drawn to the post (of course). When I clicked into the link I found that they had used other various pop culture icons such as Batman and Zorro to grace the front of their Christmas cards. There were 10 different card designs, each depicting a black and white halftone character with a solid-colored drawn/rendered christmas tree on top of it. The trees, in a way, looked like they were trying to match the movement or essence of the character whether it be scrawled in a child’s hand or vector drawn on the computer. The simplicity is enough to grab your attention and draw you in. I cannot say that they seem very well thought out design-wise, but they were entertaining nonetheless. The cards were all screen printed so that was a plus. I very much enjoy screen printed work and this was another type of design that I could store in my personal archives. Not much more information was given on the cards like the designer/artist or other personal statements. It was most likely just a product advertisement. It was priced at ~30 euros for the set of 10 so I thought that that was a pretty decent price for the fun cards. If I saw them in a store I would probably think about buying them because they’re kitschy (<did I spell that right?) and definitely different from your usual Christmas cards.

Looking through the archive at Hort, I sometimes have a bit of difficulty finding the artistic merit and draw of their designs. It is obvious that they have worked for very high profile clients, but I am personally not very drawn to their work. It is very understandable because art is very subjective, but to have them working with such big names with this type of work is interesting. Their works could definitely fall into the critical design category, but some pieces I feel I could just as easily recreate in under an hour. The images and “brush strokes”, and shapes that they use seem very random and I can’t understand their significance. Wouldn’t that be a problem if you are trying to design something for an audience? Isn’t the point of advertising design to portray a message and have that message easily communicated and understood. There were some that were more clear than others, but overall I was just a little confused with their design choices. I am in no way trying to discount their work or artistic practices, I am just merely giving my own opinion of what I have seen while scrolling through their gallery. Besides this one Christmas card post, I was actually having some difficulty finding something that I wanted to look into and write about. I guess I would just have to say that this type of design is not my cup of tea.

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We've been working on some football t-shirts for the European Championship, asking ourselves why the fan-shirt has to look like the team jersey? This is how we would wear them.

As a major fan of European Football, I really like these shirts. He says it perfectly, not all the of the shirts should like the the teams jeresys. It cool to have a shirt that you can wear around everywhere, not just the game. Some of them look like black and white versions of the jerseys while, others look like cool t-shirts. This means that you can just wear them around town and not look like a dork with a jersey on while your not at a sporting event.

It seems that the nike in europe is a lot different then it is in the states. In europe it is more exotic, then here were it more bland. The lettering is crazier and isnt just plan jane lettering.