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Ethics Response: AIGA and Shepard Fairey
After reading the AIGA Design and Business Ethics Handbook, I have realized that business ethics and integrity are the primary keys to success. Business ethics is not just a concept or theme that should be limited to the boundaries of a company. Besides, it is based on the spirit of respect for clients, designers, audiences, and even surrounding.Â
In the chapter of the client guide to design, which emphasizes that seekers need to understand the situation with the company if they want to join before hiring in order to provide the best design to the company. Before I applied for the job in one of the offices for Institutional Effectiveness at Brooklyn College, I did research and got the information on their website to understand their culture and branding. I think that might be a comfort zone for me because of a position that is related to the creative field. While I join their team, I have learned the officeâs design direction, the designs they may like, and culture which helps me to struggle out more ideas for this company. In this process, we need to be informed of the clientâs demands that are conducive to gain recognition from clients. In addition, the guide also mentions that the design brief plays an important role for designers because of the clarity it provides designers to understand more about the client’s goals and objectives for the project. During the work, my supervisor will clearly explain the demands of clients which improve the efficiency of collaboration between the two parties.
Copyrightable is an important part of intellectual property, and it is an indispensable legal system in the development of modern society. Anyone who infringes upon that right must be legally responsible for this behavior. As a designer, if you are representing a corporation or institution, this behavior which the corporation involved suffers to its reputation. As I am working at Brooklyn College, I will search for other designerâs work which explores my brainstorm to develop my work instead of stealing other designerâs design ideas because this is the most common respect for the designers and their works. The AIGA Design and Business Ethics Handbook that makes me learn a lot after I read.
Barack Obama was officially announced as the new president of the United States on January 20, 2009. The most impressive poster at that time was the work “HOPE” by street artist Shepard Fairey. He reinterpreted the portrait of Obama in Pop style, with the word “hope” written below. He used Photoshop and Illustrator to make significant revisions of this photography, and finally created the hope poster. This work became the most important propaganda tool in this election. However, commentators began to speculate on the source of photos used by Fairey as a reference. In fact, the source of the photographs was taken by Garcia at the Darfur event and he transmitted to âThe Associated Pressâ (AP). Later, the AP contacted Fairey âs office and demanded. After reading this article, I have learned that copyrightable strengthens the protection of the owner and clarifies the relationship between the designer and the user. In particular, copyrightable is to protect the legal rights of copyright owners when these works are infringed. As I am working at Brooklyn College, the awareness of copyright has gradually increased. When we participate in a design project, our work, and ethics do not allow us to steal other people’s designs, which is illegal and influences careers in the future.
Twelfth Journal: Mentor
My supervisor Isana Leshchinskaya is my mentor and she helps me and other interns complete each project as much as possible. Every project we completed, she carefully checked it and told us where it should be fixed and gave her suggestions. After we fixed, she still checked it to make sure everything was perfect, and then sent it to our director. We all have to stay at home to continue our internship, she emails the assignments on time every Monday and Thursday amidst COVID-19 that make sure we keep the pathway of the intern. We text Isana when we have some questions about the project, and she responds to us as soon as possible. Almost at the end of the semester, she requires us to do the PowerPoint and present at the meeting which helps us practice for presentation and have time to prepare. I am very happy to meet her and become my mentor in the internship.
Eleventh Journal: Self Evaluate
As I am working at IE Office Brooklyn College which is a nice experience for me and I am thankful for this opportunity. Since I started working here on the first day, every project and challenge that taught me a lot. In addition, I am aware that communicating with team members is the most important part because we can share ideas and thoughts with each other that makes me find the path where I am.Â
Personally, I felt I have done all my best in each project. Also, I found that this experience has changed me in many ways because some skills in adobe illustrator I never used before like a splash ink tool, and I tried to view different videos and learned how to achieve this effect that develop my project. When I see the clients feel happy with the designs that push me hard working. In addition, working with others makes me find my way and improves my conversation skills as well as. I have benefited a lot from this opportunity and thankful that I have a chance to join their team.
Tenth Journal: Collaborative Project
We had a short meeting last Tuesday, and know that next week we start working with Angelica. At the meeting, Isana asked us what version we have for Indesign because Anglice doesnât have the latest version. Therefore, Fengyi borrowed her Adobe account to Angelica that downloaded the latest version of Indesign. For this project, we should recreate the survey handbook. Angelica has to rewrite the contents of the handbook. FengYi and I did the little figures and icons last week. For now, we are working on developing all of the other figures in the handbook like charts, graphs, and questionnaires. In addition, Isana is going offline today after 12 pm for the rest of the week, thus, we should keep in touch with Angelica by self. After, Angelica emails us Brooklyn College have their own guideline of what their Brand publications entail, and mentions that she doesnât have anyone of those for Brooklyn College fonts and she tried to find either a fitting replacement or any of these actual fonts and download it. I sent a link to her and let her know how to find those fonts and activities, so she doesn’t need to spend much time finding those fonts.Â
On Thursday, we keep working with a survey book, Fengyi and I are trying to make the same layout they did before for the book because Isana told us that the layout was mostly the same. The original file we received was a pdf file that cannot be converted into an InDesign file, therefore the text cannot edit. So we should step by step to recreate each text box that can be edited. Finally, we completed the first draft of a survey book. From this project, I have learned that teamwork would be the best solution when we struggle out with something.
Blue Exhibition at Nassau County Museum of Art
The painting below from the Nassau Museum of Art’s Virtual Exhibit “Blue” caught my attention was HanQin’s work which is called “Ethereal Evolution 1”. I think that would be a nice work because she uses cyanotype enough in a fascinating way. As you can see, the outline of the hands and silky hair is sharply described, while the shape of the body seems like snow was melting. Also, the hand in the middle, which is mostly highlighted with cyanotype that is in sharp contrast with the other hands in the painting. I think that this is the key to the work’s attraction and which makes me feel like I am one of the people dancing in this painting.
Another piece of artwork also from Exhibit âBuleâ, the style of painting was totally different. Roy Lichtenstein is one of the foremost pop artists and he brings his works to display in the Nassau County Museum of Art. This piece of painting is part of the “Roy Lichtenstein: Between Sea and Sky”, it captures the shade of sky and sea and mainly uses blue color as a primary color. The shade of the surface of the sea rippled gently which seems like the feeling in your heart. And the soul of this painting was the wave in front of the moon, and he uses the dots as elements that stand out in his style of painting. See the image below.
The Huxley Guida to Switzerland, which was created by Christopher Winter, I think that would be a nice piece too. The artist uses different colors of blue that make the image a nice match. The position of the two persons with close eyes facing down the mountain, it looks like they have the sense to feel they are really standing there. Also, two persons with a short hair cut that looks like the same person, and the person with a pink dress which is another aspect of the mind of the person on the left side. After that, I have researched the artworks related to this artist display in another gallery, called “Edelman Arts”. And I have found that other pieces are also attractive.
