Project 1 : FINAL

It's done! Well at least for my presentation and final critique with my peers and faculty. For my final I chose to focus on one collection of 14 images I titled it "Observing Relationships". These images capture different relationships and emotions, intending to give the viewers different ways of looking at their own images and stories. I took all the content from online, the titles, descriptions, comments, who made it a favorite, etc. I then brought a system back into it, when viewing it horizontal you get the story copy (title, description, comments) then when you rotate it this type drops away to make the photo be the focus along with the additional information copy. I wanted to create a piece that involves the viewer and giving them something to look more than once.

Critiqued with Denise, class and faculty
FEEDBACK/COMMENTS that I took from the critique:
• This is a response to the online community that already exists, encourages people to participate online (Gretchen)
• Bring interpretative process to the foreground for example, in this, you selected print format with a sequence. look at pacing of book to see what the reading of image is ex: shelley evanson & and "deskilling" project could apply. this could be something that TEACHES people how to read images (Meredith)
• Blogosphere is a surface relationship—that is one of the issues that is tough to address; meaning and reading images deeper (Denise)
• Look into new typographic studies, last 20 year history, help inform your visual—now your intervention is very designerly; how does this figure into your journey from hands off to hands on throughout the process of this project (Denise)
• what is the relationship between new artifact and magazine? (Amber)
(bring recognition to photographers)
• Nice work. came along way from where you were (Kelly MK)
• Have to be able to position your piece within the system. It started there, with the conventions of magazine (Santiago)
• Interesting relationship between magazines and their web site (Amber)

SIDE NOTE: I am happy with my process in this first project, I feel I learned about my design values, where I have been the last 8 years and where I want to go. It's great to look back at my investigations here in this format and already have the thoughts of "what was I thinking" and know I wasn't thinking, I was a "producing machine" as I have conditioned myself to be.

NEXT STEPS (if there is a chance): How can it grow to have more diverse collections, add more transitions and sequence, work with type expressions.







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Project 1 : Final Presentation