Miss Me - Joe Purdy

"I'm not so good at taking my own advice, she said, but that doesn't mean i don't know what's right."
Brian Andreas

(image: cristin sloan)

Because sometimes Christmas break is long and you want to YouTube how things are made....



I find it hard to believe that they do not break more crayons in this process. I broke so many when trying to make this "book" below for class:



I could have used fancy machines and rad 80's music to get the job done.

stream of consciousness

Okay. Here is the first project that I am posting from school. The prompt was to daydream for 15 minutes in class, then write down the experience. We were told to use only the text from the daydream and only black and white and that's about it.

love.

Love this song. Sweet commercial.



M. Ward - Here Comes the Sun Again.

eat breathe design.

I want to update my blog...I really do. And I will but it will be school projects and cool things I find when I actually have a moment to get my head above water. I am scheduled for twice as many hours this week as the Bee as I will be in the coming weeks so hopefully that should be soon. Anyway, I wrote my first essay (below) and right now I am on my third, on Avant-Garde and Kitsch. Class started yesterday....anyway here it is.

What is graphic design?

Simply put, graphic design is creation. But creation, in and of itself, is nothing close to simple. Creation started with Earth on a titled axis, a large scale of environmental grandeur down to the small-scale individual workings of human souls. Graphic design, like creation, tells a story, speaks a language and understands the subconscious of humanity.

Every human, animal, object, place and company on the planet has a story. Sometimes it takes time and a little digging to find this story but often a story is written in the lines of an old man’s face or the laughing eyes of a school teacher as she watches kids act as superheroes on the playground. A story is mostly conveyed nonverbally, in picture and in action. This is true in the workings of everyday life as well as in the brand of a hardworking hardware company with a painted logo on the hanging sign over an entryway. It is a visual communication about a being’s history and identity.

Successful graphic design speaks a language of emotion, seen by the eye and interpreted by the head and deeply by the heart. It evokes feeling by grasping images in which the human mind and heart connect. In order to tell a story it must draw from images such as iconography, pictures from childhood or color schemes that communicate the intention of the image.

Much like in the recent film Inception, graphic design can reach a place in a person’s subconscious without the realization of the viewer, influencing their ideas. One could argue that hundreds of voters in the Obama campaign were won over partly by Gotham, a typeface that satisfied the senses of young people and silently urged them to support the progressive leader they represent. Graphic design is intuitive about the subconscious and conscious of the power of color, shapes and spacing on putting a mind at ease.

Graphic design is powerful; it has the power to move people to feel and then to do. Its beginnings start with the creation of the earth and the intricacies of the human mind. In order to be talented at visual communication, the designer behind a graphic image must be talented at personal communication and storytelling and understand human emotion and thought. If these are reached, the viewer will be reached and a story will be successfully told.