Curious Blog 6 Chapters 20-24

An image that has called my name since I was very little is none other than the famous MTV (Music Television) logo. Although I am not an 80’s child and was not around for it’s big debut in 1981, I do remember all the fun variations the network did with this iconic graphic in the

Curious Blog 5 Chapters 18-19

The International Typographic Style, also known as the Swiss Style, is a graphic design style that emerged in Russia, the Netherlands and Germany in the 1920s. It was made famous as it was developed by designers in Switzerland during the 1950s. The International Typographic Style has had a significant influence on graphic design as a

Curious Blog 4 Chapters 14-17

After the fourteen years the Bauhaus school of design in Germany was open and where much of our modern-art movement was achieved, it was realized that these achievements were really only intercepted by a small portion of the world. That is where designer Jan Tschichold comes in. In 1923 he had actually attended the first

Curious Blog 3 Chapters 9-13

During the late nineteenth century all things Japanese began making their way into Western culture. This event coined the term “Japonisme”. This was a time where objects such as books, scrolls, and other forms of art traveled to the West and absolutely captivated Europeans. European artists became inspired by the way the Japanese depicted images.

Curious Blog 2 Chapters 5-8

In the early 1400’s printing using relief carvings from woodblocks as a form of printing made its way from China into Europe as well as the substrate of paper. One of the earliest items we see that began gaining momentum in production because of this technology was playing cards. There was a so-called underground block-printing

Curious Blog 1 Chapters 1-4

The earliest forms of Egyptian writing began around 3100 BC in the forms of pictographs. Pictographs are simply a pictorial symbol for the word or phrase trying to be described. The pictographs were the thing that made up the Egyptian language known as Hieroglyphics. Many of the imagery used in their writing system were there

Vis Com Blog 9

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear positive and negative? Likely something along the lines of good and bad right? Well you’re not totally wrong. However, in the art world positive and negative are just one of many ways two subjects in a piece relate to one another. Negative and positive

Constructed Images

A blend of photography and collage on 8.5 x 11 inch paper. None of the images were permanently adhered to the backdrop and instead simply lived in that space for a brief moment to be captured on camera.

Projects 1-3

Visual Communications 1 Over the course of this class we were assigned three different projects that all correlate back to one overarching theme: our culture. After doing some reminiscing, I began to realize that my culture heavily lies in the realm of quality time with one another through various forms of entertainment. I find myself

Vis Com Blog 8

Take a second and stop what you are doing. Look around you. What is your relation to the objects and people in your current place? Perhaps you are sitting very closely to some cute person in a coffee shop reading this. Perhaps you are far away from a larger grouping or people. Or perhaps you