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Isabel Bieri: Identity Critique

For this project, I wanted to draw on the tension I feel from not feeling sure about my identity. I've changed a lot since I've started college, and especially in the past year. And just in general I've always kind of felt a state of confusion, even in terms of race because I'm Mexican-American.

This is nothing really like I want it to look like yet... the picture of me is going to be hand drawn and possibly filled in with color and paint, it's just not quite "presentable" yet so the picture is standing in for the drawing for now.

I want the drawing to have an unfinished, kind of messy look to evoke my feelings of not feeling "complete." I will use a drawn image of myself because in recent times one of the things I have figured out is that I really enjoy making art, and I want to use the process of improving and making a finished art piece as a metaphor for figuring myself out. 

Also, this specific text is tentative. I think it's pretty cheesy right now.

Sally McBratney Identity 2

I am going to be doing a series of 8 places that hold importance in my life.   The end product will be a picture inside of the confines of the outline of each city/state/country of importance.  There will also be the date that the picture was taken at the bottom right corner of each page.  There is still a lot to be done, but this gives the general idea.

McGilberryMark Idenity 2C

Christian Solorzano Critique Identity

My identity project is centered around what a teacher in elementary school thought me. During the class we had to do a report on the different types of ways to be a "healthy" person. I never gave this much thought until about junior high and high school. All the people who looked like their had most of their life under control and who appeared to be the most happy, ended up going on a decline. The people who seemed to have it all, ended up going to jail and getting pregnant and making bad choices. Eventually, I remembered what my teacher taught me and I made it a point to look this up more.

So for this project, I'm focusing on what my teacher taught me. I don't like being too literal in this project, I want the project to be open to interpretation but I still want to get my message across. Initially I had planned to make a silhouette of a person from head to toe and use colors and gradients to emphasize different departments of life.

Then eventually I got an idea to go into the extreme and trace a photo of St.Peter and use his image as the center of my project. I'm still working on this so this is still in rough draft mode. I chose to make one large poster instead of a series but I was also thinking of possibly branching this idea into several individual pieces.

I didn't want to give my person in my design an identity because I felt like if you do that, you're in a way taking a male or female approach so instead I just went with a neutral figure while still making it clear that it is a "Saint".

I included the words, spiritual, physical, emotional, mental and environmental  because these are my centered topics. I placed the words along the image to highlight what I'm referring too.

My plans for this are to, give the project more detail and maybe, make several posters instead of one.

Leah Einarsen Identity

Alexis Brooks_2nd Critique

Bunker Lauren Identity Critique 2

Randall McNair Critique 2

Death

Sun

2nd Project - 1st Crit

     Okay so far I have one almost completely done, another is in the development stage, and another is really just taking its time...
     The first one represents art and how its eternal. I think art comes and goes but there are great pieces that last forever, and I don't mean art as in one medium I mean it in many mediums like ideas(caves of Lascaux and the invention of the wheel), so I will expand on that more and add more objects such as light bulbs for the "ideas".
     The second piece is the idea of positivity outweighing the negative, which to me is important and one of my guidelines for living peacefully. There is black void which is negative because nothing good comes from negativity, and overlapping that is a face painting I did a couple months ago, having more than one medium(photography, paint, body art etc.) obviously more mediums come from a more positive state of mind.
     My third piece is the preservation of nature. I hold much more concern and respect for nature than I do for humans. Yes, humans are nature, but we have also made a major impact on the planet in terms of preserving it. We abuse out resources for greedy purposes and it disgusts me. If I could I would move all the forests and everything untouched by man to some where far away. So this piece is me bottling up beauty which is nature.
     My fourth piece is still in the making, so far what I'm going to do is make it all just quotes that I have found inspirational over the years and put them on to one piece. Or possibly something to do with Karma, because to me it is very real.
THINGS I NEED HELP WITH:
1. The font- which one should I use?
2. What else should I add to each poster?
3. What my fourth one should be?

Project 2: Background Information

Ethnically I am an American but such is the American way to identify us from each other within this country by our ancestors. On my father’s side is German, from both sides of his family having come over 3-4 generations ago to America. On my mother’s side from her mother is Irish further separated coming from her grandmother from both sides of Ireland (United Kingdom and Ireland), on her father’s side is Polish. So going by that qualification I am 50% German, 25% Irish mix and 25% Polish. The only real connection I have to this lineage is through the German side with food, some self-taught German and culture. I don’t know what sect exactly my parents’ come from all I know is that I was baptized as a baby, and that we do not actively practice any religion in the household. My parents’ believe that if my brothers or me feel the need for spiritual guidance we can go for that on our own without them directing us. I personally practice a form of “Tibetan” Buddhism. Personally I don’t identify with one culture I have an unnatural thirst for knowledge and love to learn about how other people live and their culture, or their practices, if it was possible I would want to live my life roaming meeting people sharing experiences and enlightening myself to the ways and reasoning’s of others. This only becomes an issue when I run into people who are not as open minded about learning and respecting other’s cultures and practices, but you can’t change others, you can only change yourself.

Identity critique 2

These are some ideas I had of my us vs. Them poster designs. I felt good, but the more I worked with them the more I realized I don’t feel right describing my religion and faith in such short words, I feel that doing this still doesn’t give the correct idea of what I believe in.

Instead, I will post a new idea. There will be a few spreads, all seemingly the same illustration of my face, but with different hair colors on each poster. It will show a progression of the hair colors I’ve done. This is something that is personal to me. I have always seemed to dye my hair when I have a different attitude or change in my life. I’ve been doing this for over 6 years now, and I feel it will be stronger than this idea below.

THIS IS WHAT I'M STARTING NOW. NEED TO ADD TEXT, ABOUT THE DIFFERENT SHADES OF SHOSHANNA. I'M THE SAME PERSON THOUGH

Project 1: Essay Analysis

The project was a set of three posters in digital media based on deconstructive, integrative and geometric design ideas with the common theme of a personal job one has had. The materials I used for this was photographs and digital media. The project was completed on the seventeenth of October.

The method of the deconstructive and integrative parts of this project use photographic images that were then processed though Photoshop and brought i­nto Illustrator where text was added. The geometric part was done only using Illustrator. All of them were done to be presented in a digital media. The main subject of all three parts is a focus on a job at an industrial print shop. The deconstructive and integrative parts were done with a focus on contrasting my future work as a professional graphic designer and the back industry that I am learning though working at my current job. The geometric part of the set focuses on a phenomenon called “color fatigue” which is where your eyes see the same color but the color actually is different. The integrative part is integrative because it is comparing the shape of the tie with the shape of the hands. The geometric is geometric because of the patterning effect created by an organization of squares on a tilted grid. The deconstructive is deconstructive because of the layering of text elements and distortion of the photographic element.

This work relates to me because I dislike the notion of calling something my “worst job” there may be unpleasant experiences at a job but there is always something to be gained from all experiences. This job in particular means a lot to me not only because it was my first job but also because it is the job my dad has had for over thirty years now. This job is also the backend to what I am currently studying at DePaul. I have the unique opportunity to learn about practices and limitations of the graphic design trade that most designers never really get to see unless they actively search for it. I know the limitations and capabilities of each printing method and know which ones are more cost effective than others to use.

The effect I want this work to have is educational I want people to feel the urge to learn more about where their studies come from to become better at whatever it is they are striving to do, weather it is graphic design or otherwise. In particular though with the geometric piece I wanted to educate people about a little known occurrence called “color fatigue.” Color fatigue is when you are looking at one color and over time your rods in your eyes begin to fatigue, while your brain continues to say it is the same color to compensate from this the color is actually changing. This is why we have Pantone color codes and different meters to check the color of paper instead of going only on what we see.

I feel that for the most part this project came out pretty well, my integrative and deconstructive are a bit weaker than what I wanted then to be, then again they are both styles that I dislike doing. I’m very happy with how the geometric came out. Over all I could use more practice in styles that I am not use to.

Identity 2nd Critique (Hadiya)

Koosmann - Project 2 - Critique 2

Laudenslager identity critique 2

Nicolle Rezwin Identity Critique 2