Prof. Jenna Spevack | COMD3504_D061 | Fall 2022
In this project, I wanted to examine how Fashion brands use this power of design to appeal to the audience’s concerns about sustainability. Fast fashion brands try to make advertising that makes people feel like they need their clothes to keep … Read More
In this project, I’m talking about the problem with greenwashing and how design has the power to encourage people to view things in a certain way even if that is not how they truly are. Fashion brands use this power to appeal to the audience’s … Read More
80s Design is Alive, Well, and Living in 2019” by Nadja Sayej, published in PRINT, March 6, 2019
This album cover from the 80s shows some of the elements that are discussed in the … Read More
The Harlot: Latina Representation in Hollywood
In this essay, I want to analyze the movie poster “The girl from Mexico” by Lupe Velez and how it heavily portrays the Harlot stereotype. Also, the way the stereotype has changed but still remains in … Read More
Roland Barthes’ “Rhetoric of the Image“ essay from Image – Music – Text, Translated by Stephen Heath. Hill and Wang, 1977. (excerpt)
In the reading the author breaks down an image from Panzani from the elements that make this image to convey the … Read More
Read and annotate Paul Rand’s “Good Design Is Good Will” in Graphic Design Theory: Readings From the Field page 64-69 and Steven Heller’s “Underground Mainstream” in Design Observer
Paul Rand’s ideas of client and designer relationship are something I … Read More
Celebrating the African-American Practitioners Absent From Way Too Many Classroom Lectures by Madeleine Morley, Eye on Design, 2018, and 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, … Read More
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Armstrong, Helen. Graphic Design Theory: Readings From the Field, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009. Pages 9-15
According to the reading “Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field by Helen Armstrong, design plays many … Read More
For my research project outline I explore the topic of graphic design regarding the green washing of fast fashion brands and their advertisement. I want to explore the ethics of this advertisement and how green washing has change over time.
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