Prof. Jenna Spevack | COMD3504_D061 | Fall 2022
80s Design is Alive, Well, and Living in 2019
This album cover by Prince is heavily photography-based. In his form of art, Prince chose to only use natural elements, as there is very little to no editing done here. One element that stands out is … Read More
In this essay, I dissected a 1951 Van Heusen advertisement. The focus of this was to highlight how gender roles have changed overtime in the advertising world and its affect on people of each era.
Roland Barthes’ “Rhetoric of the Image“ essay from Image – Music – Text, Translated by Stephen Heath. Hill and Wang, 1977. (excerpt)
In this excerpt, we get an understanding of the difference between denotation and connotation in the advertising language. We also get an understanding of the … Read More
Celebrating the African-American Practitioners Absent From Way Too Many Classroom Lectures by Madeleine Morley, Eye on Design, 2018, Typography as a Radical Act in an Industry Ever-dominated by White Men by Silas Munro, Eye on Design, 2019 Design Gets More Diverse by Alice Rawsthorn, NYTimes, 2011… Read More
Paul Rand “Good Design Is Good Will” 1987 from Graphic Design Theory: Readings From the Field page 64-69 and Steven Heller “Underground Mainstream” in Design Observer 2008.
Paul Rand is right in the sense that there is meant to be … Read More
My research topic is about how interactive design affects society in their everyday lives. Will interactive interfaces in the near future still be a necessity, or become an accessory?
Armstrong, Helen. Graphic Design Theory: Readings From the Field pgs 19-31, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009.
Mass communication has vastly influenced society in ambiguous ways. One way in which we see this is propaganda. We witness this in both positive and negative fashion, particularly during … Read More
De Saussure, Ferdinand. Course in General Linguistics pgs 65-70, Trans. Wade Baskin, New York, Philosophical Library, 1959
In simplistic terms, Saussure’s writings reveals that the linguistic sign always has meaning. But in ambiguous terms, there are multiple components of what makes a sign what it is; … Read More
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