11. Book Initial Ideas

In class


Today we started working on our books and had some initial ideas. Here is what I came up with:



Some other ideas I want to incorporate are the inclusion of stickers so people can interact with the book, just like the internet and make it really their own.

10. Poster Critique Continued

In class


In class the poster critique continued with brief guest critique by Willem Henri Lucas. The talk with my new poster (below) had much to do with the idea of it being a series and that would make or break the posters. They weren't strong enough to be single pieces so I have to work on the other pieces in the series very carefully. Also, the bleeding of the text into my hair makes it practically impossible to read. Prof. Mendez also gave the great point that the the image creates a very strong cross and that placing the small text on my forehead makes draws the viewer closer to the text so I have to move it to the bottom.


Out of class


some of the poster photographs:

9. Poster Critique

In class


The critque mainly focused on the singularity of using Andy Goldsworthy. During the critique the conclusion was made that while visually stimulating his artwork doesn't exactly capture the plurality of the concept of the internet. He only uses one kind of an object at a time and as a result it's too uniform which is not what I'm trying to say the internet is. As a result, I'm on the move to make a different poster design. Here's something to help with inspiration:

the new poster



In the public eye.


Out of class


So after talking with Prof. Mendez in office hours we came to the decision of PLURALITY. I would do this through the survey that I've been asking so many of you kind people to fill out. Here is preliminary in a line of posters dealing more with the additive singularity of perspectives within the internet.



clicking will bar an even larger pdf so that you can read the text which is just a quote from Howard Rheingold's essay on optimism. In the Box with the x there will be a little card. Pictures to come soon.

8. Preliminary Poster Design

In class


Lecture on contemporary photographers. My favorite certainly being Teun Hocks. Incredibly interesting photographer and perfoming artist.



I had never heard of him before and his work is incredibly compelling by the way he shoots his self-portraits. There is definitely a feeling of restrained kinteic energy in his pieces.


Out of class


First set of posters. They fit together. Still working some things out:





The horizontal piece is twice as long as the two vertical ones and they can be put together as the two vertical next to each other and the horizontal on top or below. As said before, still working things out. Each image can be clicked for larger versions. Highest quality (600 dpi) photographs found in actual prints, not on blog. This is because each file is around 100 megs. Sorry...

7. Synthesis Boards

In class


Today we got our mood boards critiqued. For mine, I opted to use Andy Goldsworthy imagery because I feel it relates to my subject incredibly well. He uses nature, found art and creates something profound, something so much more than just the sum of its' parts. This is much how I feel the internet works. It is everyday and is there for anyone to take advantage of. With that said here are the synthesis boards:




I think for the posters I'd be interested in making 3 iterations that somehow come together to make a much bigger poster. In 3 parts (nets)!


Out of class


Looking up poster designs. Here are some of my favorites:

Anna-Om-Line


We Work for Them


The Small Stakes


idN


Dress Code Does Design


Lysergid

6. Mood Boards

In class


Mood Boards were presented to the class. Hanging was at 9am, critique lasted roughly 3 1/2 hours. Below are my mood boards.






Out of class


What I took away from the critique were very interesting comments. First the idea that the internet as this huge open space or some amorphous technological string is a bit played out. The Internet Revolution is over and the internet is here and now. It's in coffee shops and it is everyday. But more importantly more than creating the illusion that the internet is some crazy huge 2nd world it's really condensing spatial relations. For instance I can be in a coffee shop and also watching the latest sports game on ESPN, or the current events in Japan, halfway around the world. I can be in these places all at once because of the internet. So, with that said, I am going to focus on finding a contemporary photographer that illicits these same ideas.

Some other contemporary artists' work I am considering:

Tjasa Owen


Pilimo



Andy Goldsworthy

5. Survey

In class


The internet is your ______ .

Please comment your response