Tasks Due Today from Week 9
- Post your Research Project Presentation Outline
- Add comment to Reading/Discussion #5: Write your own Manifesto
- Create your Midterm Assessment post
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In the remaining weeks, we will explore the evolution of contemporary design through the lens of a few key ideas. As author Helen Armstrong notes in Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field, [design] is a discipline that continually moves between extremes—anonymity and … Continue Reading “Assignment: Designer’s Cookbook”
A manifesto is a declaration of intent — often the intent to bring radical change to the world. Throughout history, many art movements have written manifestos, and it’s always a sign that things have gotten real.
OBELISK – Art Manifestos Defining new realities
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Tasks Due Today from Week 8
- Review Research Project Guidelines
- Completed Research Project Presentation Outline in Writing Portfolio
- Provided feedback and inline comments on classmate’s Essay
This Week’s Topics
… Continue Reading “Week 09 Agenda”Overview
The Research Project & Presentation assignment is designed to facilitate independent research in contemporary design and design theory. Your goal will be to consider the ideas, cultures, and theories we discuss in this course and the contexts in which they emerged. Then compare those … Continue Reading “Research Project & Presentation”
Tasks Due Today from Week 7
- Review The Medium is the Message / Social Media is the Message
- Post your Research Essay – Stereotype in Advertising
This Week’s Topics
… Continue Reading “Week 08 Agenda”Tasks Due Today from Week 6
- Review Context and Representation concepts and vocabulary
- Complete first draft of Research Essay – Stereotype in Advertising
This Week’s Topics
… Continue Reading “Week 07 Agenda”
Overview: Stereotype in Media
… Continue Reading “Assignment: Research Essay – Stereotype in Advertising”Stereotypes: are widely circulated oversimplifications of people and groups; a preconceived idea of what a person is like, based on a range of different factors. These factors can involve culture, religion, race, sexual orientation, age, gender, appearance.
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Stuart Hall was a Jamaican-born British sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist. He looked at the power of mainstream media (advertising, TV, film, etc) to understand the representation of race, gender, class, ethnicity, and religion. We will read an excerpt from Chapter 1 “… Continue Reading “Assignment: Reading Response 4 -Stuart Hall”
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