Week 13

Visual Campaign Image Samples Project Potential Title: AD SPACE Project Description: Logos take up a significant amount of US image ecology. Sites of institutionalized surveillance, caging, and deportation of immigrants do not. Here, I explore where logos should go. Presentation: These images (and videos to come) will be accompanied by captions which detail financial […]

Week 12

Week 6 (collage w at least 12 layers in photoshop) re-do

Week 11

I had a sense of what I wanted to do pretty early on. A friend of mine designed these costumes, which we wore to the March for Our Lives. It’s such a striking visual, I thought it would make a great poster. I used the image trace option to make it shades of gray/black/white […]

Week 10

I attempted two different treatments of text in this assignment. In the first image, I appropriated a poem and treated the text like markings. The words have some resonance and meaning as text, but they are also an integrated component of the visual language. The poem title (Reasons for Admission Not Indexed in ICD-10) […]

Assignment 8

Appropriation images I utilized images from StreetEasy, where I searched for apartments in my neighborhood that I like but can’t afford. I selected my favorite images, adjusted them in Bridge, and then visually suggested other apartment-things I dream about having: living plants, an indoor washer-dryer, a dog. This is not my apartment. This is not […]

Assignment 7

^^my poster for HW. I found this week’s reading to be tricky. I think what he’s mapping out is the difference in the way we humans think about images vs. language. My summary/q’s follow: A long time ago, humans communicated in cave-painting-like ways, with murals loaded with symbolism, which viewers could […]

Assignment 6

PHOTO COLLAGES ^^Family-Friendly Ads by corporations that profit off the detention of immigrants in the U.S. ^^Selfie DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND HISTORY REFLECTED IN THE WORLD: BOB’S RED MILL I decided to go to a grocery store to see if I could find any references to historical design in food packaging/ads. Bob’s Red Mill immediately caught […]

Assignment 5

This week, I wanted to focus on the relationship between commonplace companies and the unethical detainment of non-citizens in the United States. I was made aware of these companies complicity — their financial ties to GEO Group and CoreCivic — by a flier distributed by New Sanctuary Coalition, a community fighting for basic human rights […]

Assignment 4

Three Images Pipeline This is an image of a jail near my apartment. I went here hoping to capture the jail and it’s immediate neighbor, an elementary school, in the same frame. I ended up taking lots of photos of the jail from the sidewalk before a security guard came out. He asked me to […]

Assignment(s) 2

Response to Steyerl’s How to not be Seen… Before getting into the concepts presented in Steyerl’s piece, I think it’s worth talking about my journey as a viewer over the course of watching. My perspective and appreciation of the aesthetic choices and conceptual argument changed rapidly and drastically throughout. I think a lot about how we are […]