Posters

Another round of posters

projected skin

Some of the photo's I took this weekend, projecting slides onto skin.

Posters from the shoot

Ad exploration

I did some direct plugs of my logo's into their respective companies existing advertisements. My next step is to make my own advertisements in their style, and switch up the tag lines.

Exhibition Shots

Post-Break Update

Over break I finished reading the dictionary and am moving on to testing display techniques, I acquired a stack of hardcover books of a similar size to try these with.

I considered the stickers I wanted to do for the show, and came up with some drafts. Brought the company re-branding back into play.

I also wanted to find a way to tie the words and skin together, as well as pull in the thesaurus word loops that I worked on last semester. This was one I found particularly interesting, and set up as a wall piece.

update

I'm home sick this morning but wanted to put up some of what I've been working on.

I'm half way through the dictionary, still on course to be finished in time.

I've been taking more flesh pictures and making strips, these are the height of the person by 3 inches wide:

more, color corrected:

moving forward

I've been working farther through the dictionary, going to be passing the third marker today. 

Over the past week I've been setting up a make-shift studio in my room and collecting a larger body of flesh photos.

Here's my first run at making long strips, these are scaled to 30% of what I want the final to be (which is 6" x 10'

Posters, new ventures

Here are the posters I brought in last week, I was experimenting with tag lines. I'm now considering other ways to work the logo in without the pieces looking so much like advertisements.

My first dictionary arrived and I began the cutting process. Its going to be a long process but I've been doing some every day to break it up.

I've been working on t-shirt designs and coordinating lessons/assistance with screen printing for production of them, I will post those designs later this week.

Dictionaries, identities, cigarettes

I found a two volume set of dictionaries this weekend from 1936 with gorgeous leather covers and linotype body copy. At first I was ready to sit right down and cut them up immediately but as the weekend went on I couldn't bring myself to actually start. So I went back to my searches online, and found dictionaries that are 50 years apart (1958, 2008) and placed an order for them.

I was thinking about a discussion I've had with John multiple times regarding advertising and how lifestyles become "normalized" once they are readily depicted through media and advertising. That brought me around to making some alternate corporate logo's. I am considering using these in mock marketing photographs.

 I've been working on a project as a retort to derogatory language. I've been experimenting with how to create these thus far. I'm letterpress printing on cigarettes in the place of their brand name "this is a fag." I've also been collecting content to go on the case for the pack.
This photo isn't very good quality, but I have some of my trials with me.

Updated proposal // Current process

Proposal

January 2012

I spent the first semester gathering and experimenting with information, thoughts, ideas, trying to find the one topic within my projects overarching theme that I want to focus on. Throughout my work in high school I focused on implementing programs that were designed to encourage acceptance of others by moving beyond differences.  Now I've been considering why this even necessary in the first place. What caused a societal "norm" that people are expected to adhere to and why is it still plaguing America? How did the societal "norms" transfer into stereotypes that have been used to degrade persons with specific affiliations. I want to start this semester by questioning these trends.

I've been exploring the relation between words, as well as their relationship to flesh. How does labeling flesh affect the way we see it, despite never really knowing the person within? I've been experimenting with the way vellum and transparencies affect the work I create, visually as well as intellectually. 

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Current process

I've been considering stereotypes, where they stem from and the methods in which they grow and become ingrained in society. I think a large contributor to that is our language, specifically hate speech. I'm looking for a group of 4 dictionaries to explore the visual weight of derogatory or hateful words in our language - one I will black out every definition that falls under derogatory or hateful, the next I will cut the blocks out. With the other two dictionaries I will follow the same process but with words for acceptance and love. I'm looking to display these in a way that the weight of these words in our language becomes apparent and a comparison can be made.

I've repeatedly seen the statistic of 1 in 10 persons do not identify as heterosexual. Therefore logically speaking, everyone would know someone who is queer, or even in their family. I've been thinking of ways to bring about this realization as a way to create cognitive dissonance and push a reconsideration of beliefs. I have a concept involving mirrors that I will explain further in class.