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Fourth Grade Expressionist Painting:
These Emotion Compositions are inspired by the work of the Expressionist Art Movement. Students brainstormed common elements in paintings that lead the viewer to feel particular emotions, including color, symbol, brush stroke style, size and movement. After choosing an emotion, fourth grade students made extensive lists and sketches of all the visual elements that would help express that feeling. Can you guess the emotion of each painting without looking at the title?
Ask yourself: How might you paint each emotion differently, yet still express the essence of the idea to your audience?
My poster design is based upon what I hope to do after graduation - go to graduate school for my doctorate in Hispanic Studies, hopefully at the University of Kentucky. The most challenging aspect of this project was deciding how to interpret this goal in a visual manner. To do this I started to think about what Spanish truly was, especially when related to graduate school. Don Quijote (or Quixote to the English major) quickly came to mind. This landmark text is represented in the poster very subtly in the background - it’s the barely visible text. This also highlights the textual nature of a doctorate in Hispanic Studies as it is a degree primarily based on literature. The second visual representation of Spanish is the outline of Central and South America, also in the background. I prefer to study Latin America over Spain, thus I chose to include the map as a cultural and geographic representation of what I hope to study.
The textual component of the poster best represents what I prefer in graphic design - simplicity. I chose to make the poster somewhat of an advertisement for the program I wish to enter. Helvetica was my first font choice as it is a “tried and true,” simple, clean font choice. In choosing to add text in different directions and sizes I create visual layers which draw the viewer in on multiple levels; at base it creates visual interest. The background choice also came about along with the font choice - Helvetica tends to look best on a plain background. Given this, I chose to use a dark grey background with a slight gradient. This, combined with the bright color choice for the text, makes the textual components “pop” off the page, it makes the viewer want to know more; it attracts attention.
As a whole, my poster represents clean, simple design - it’s the visual representation of my goal to obtain my doctorate in Hispanic Studies.
This is what one of my students drew for himself as he was trying to work out the details of insertion sort. Why he did it in Flash, I have no idea.
Lorenzo Cota, Dana Taormina, Priyanka Nakul Virvadekar
Project Name: Redefined
Project Type: Retail
Original Space: Uniqlo, 546 Broadway, NewYork, NY
The goal of this project was to create a sustainable retail environment that eludes a modern sensibility. It is a fusion of second hand merchandise, expert tailoring and luxury resale clothing. Through the mixture of texture and forced perspectives Redefined reinvents the concept of the retail experience.
Richard Masland, Sea, 2006, single-channel video, 4 minutes 42 seconds. FA 215 Intro to Digital Video (Instructor: Joel Tauber).
Lorenzo Cota, Dana Taormina, Priyanka Nakul Virvadekar
Project Name: Redefined
Project Type: Retail
Original Space: Uniqlo, 546 Broadway, NewYork, NY
The goal of this project was to create a sustainable retail environment that eludes a modern sensibility. It is a fusion of second hand merchandise, expert tailoring and luxury resale clothing. Through the mixture of texture and forced perspectives Redefined reinvents the concept of the retail experience.
Phil Taylor, Going So Fast I Can't Move, 2007, single-channel video, 5 minutes 27 seconds. FA 215 Intro to Digital Video (Instructor: Joel Tauber).
The metaphor of the diver is a powerful one. The diver represents mankind at his most intrepid, exploring the terrifying depths of the earth, risking life and limb in the pursuit of knowledge. He sinks deeper and deeper into the abyss, his only protection from the water’s crushing black death mere centimeters of rubber, metal, and glass. But what is most inspiring about the diver is the attitude with which he embarks on his journey. He goes not with a sense of dread or fear, but with a desire to go forth into the deep, a drive to further the aims of human knowledge. It is this unique sense of earnestness that makes the diver so powerful a metaphor applicable not only to the workplace but also to the realms of life, love, and spiritual growth.
This was submitted by a student in response to an assignment to create an example of showing/hiding an image via jQuery.
Lorenzo Cota, Dana Taormina, Priyanka Nakul Virvadekar
Project Name: Redefined
Project Type: Retail
Original Space: Uniqlo, 546 Broadway, NewYork, NY
The goal of this project was to create a sustainable retail environment that eludes a modern sensibility. It is a fusion of second hand merchandise, expert tailoring and luxury resale clothing. Through the mixture of texture and forced perspectives Redefined reinvents the concept of the retail experience.
This piece, my first completed watercolor, is a dedication to that which the majority of my happiness and sanity can be accredited to. Music turns all that goes on in my constantly buzzing mind into colorful swirls and I am able to find peace. The bright colors reflect my personality and the light hearted emotions I was feeling at the time. I drew the position of the character in this piece from a picture I found of myself slouched against a mirror in my room, listening to my CD player.
In this project the students were directed to the Nobel lecture speech by Harold Pinter where he criticized the U.S. for its foreign policies. They contrasted this with a parody "roast" that the comedian Stephen Colbert gave at the press core dinner in Washington DC. The results were odd, stunning, and let to interesting discussion in class.
This is the work of the Graphic Design 2 students at Taiyuan Normal University in Taiyuan City, Shanxi, China. Their work is impressive. They are excellent at package design, have an a mazing sense of color and clearly understand the language of visual metaphors. We are happy to be collaborating with them this semester.
This is the work of the Graphic Design 2 students at Taiyuan Normal University in Taiyuan City, Shanxi, China. Their work is impressive. They are excellent at package design, have an a mazing sense of color and clearly understand the language of visual metaphors. We are happy to be collaborating with them this semester.
My piece, which is composed of sixteen individual polariod images, was inspired by a few things. When I thought about the theme of fall, I wanted to simultaneously communicate the beauty of nature, change of season, and a thought of hopefullness and optimism. Autumn brings about some of the most aesthetically beautiful natural landscapes. For me, I find that the small span of time between the remnants of summer and the impending fall to be the most tender and vivid. I attempted to capture this in my piece. The warm wheat colored fields--a symbol of the harvest--and the strong, still green, line of trees, communicate the feeling of an "Indian summer." Secondly, I used the series of separate polariods in specific layers to imply transition. As the lines shift from the blue sky to the images of a human girl, I wanted to express a sentiment of fall and change. Lastly, I hoped signify a sense of hope and optimism with the seemingly endlessness expanse of a field and the freedom and openess it brings.