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Oct. 6th, 2006 03:02 amThis semester's class is Advanced Graphic Design, so the projects are bigger and...more advanced than in previous classes.
Here is the brief for the first project:
We got this assignment around the time of the 9/11 anniversary, and was reminded of the days right after the attacks, when the whole world mourned with us (with a few exceptions in places like Palestine). And it wasn't just sympathy over the loss of "our" people, but also direct mourning for "their" people. Because people from all over the world worked in the World Trade Center. We really are part of a global community, whether the buttheds in Washington or Texas like it or not.
So that's how I approached the assignment, as a reminder of the connections we share with every other country of the world - connections that go in both directions, with Americans living abroad, as well as foreigners living here. The project is ostensibly for the foreign audience, but I think it works just as well for the domestic audience.
( posters and discussion behind the cut )
The next project is to interpret a piece of music.
Here is the brief for the first project:
As we have all become aware by recent world events, the United States is not the most popular country in the world. One of the things it needs if it is to restore its international prestige is a major PR campaign. You have been commissioned to design/illustrate a series of three 17"x22" vertical posters as part of the effort. They should be executed in English with the knowledge that they may eventually be translated into a number of other languages.
We got this assignment around the time of the 9/11 anniversary, and was reminded of the days right after the attacks, when the whole world mourned with us (with a few exceptions in places like Palestine). And it wasn't just sympathy over the loss of "our" people, but also direct mourning for "their" people. Because people from all over the world worked in the World Trade Center. We really are part of a global community, whether the buttheds in Washington or Texas like it or not.
So that's how I approached the assignment, as a reminder of the connections we share with every other country of the world - connections that go in both directions, with Americans living abroad, as well as foreigners living here. The project is ostensibly for the foreign audience, but I think it works just as well for the domestic audience.
( posters and discussion behind the cut )
The next project is to interpret a piece of music.
