Prof. Jenna Spevack | COMD3504_D061 | Fall 2022
In my project, I will discuss how the videogame design of Elden Ring emulates the lessons of the modern day by analyzing how Fromsoftware’s latest massive success is rooted in the parallels of crude dystopian fantasy to our progressively challenging reality.
Video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bIQwUoKbndQWd-YHwOhOPKQcUA4RVv07/view?usp=sharing
Bibliography:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jq7upHbTXG5L1iKFhGBkLEayK0_5Q5iIL3FfeFsqlZQ/edit
Reading Response 9
80s Design is Alive, Well, and Living in 2019” by Nadja Sayej, published in PRINT, March 6, 2019
Questions/Prompts
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, and Design Gets More Diverse by Alice Rawsthorn, … Read More
Roland Barthes’ “Rhetoric of the Image“ essay from Image – Music – Text, Translated by Stephen Heath. Hill and Wang, 1977. (excerpt)
Questions/Prompts
How do images hold and convey meaning?
What are they trying to say?
How do they persuade and influence us?
In Roland … Read More
I chose the Netflix animated series Cyberpunk: Edgerunner’s opening sequence as my topic for my research paper because it demonstrates a radical discarding of the typical sci-fi dystopian visual language & directly integrates and builds upon 20th-century graphic design history.
I chose the Netflix animated series Cyberpunk: Edgerunner’s opening sequence as my topic for my research paper because it demonstrates a radical discarding of the typical sci-fi dystopian visual language & directly integrates and builds upon 20th-century graphic design history.
Madeleine Morley; Master LászlĂł Moholy-Nagy Saw Photoshop Coming, 90 Years Ahead of Time (2019), AIGA Eye on Design, LászlĂł Moholy-Nagy; Typophoto (1925): Graphic Design Theory: Readings From the Field by Helen Armstrong on pages 32-34, Jan Tschichold, “The Principles of the New Typography” 1928: Graphic … Read More
F.T. Marinetti, “Manifesto of Futurism”; Aleksandr Rodchenko, “Who We Are: Manifesto of the Constructivist Group”; and El Lissitzky, “Our Book” are found in our main text Graphic Design Theory: Readings From the Field by Helen Armstrong on pages 19-31.Â
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