Idea (project 3)

Brainstorming for cyclical nature

For idea #2:
-Bipolar Disorder is something believed to be partially genetic, handed down from a parent.
-I want to use pieces of a mirror to really pull the viewer into the final piece. *This will be my one framed piece of the semester.* With the mirror bits, I'm going to photo transfer old photos to make it look like relatives, and place the mirrors in places where viewers can look into them and BE the piece.
-Photo transfer to mirror: http://nonphotography.com/blog/photo-craft-projects/image-transfer/photo-transfer-to-a-mirror/
-*OR maybe my final for this assignment is ON a mirror (with the frame of the mirror being the frame of the piece) and I'll leave white spaces/gaps where I want the viewer to look through at themselves.
-Another disorder that can be passed genetically is schizophrenia. Not sure how to do this... I always think of the Captain Sparrow scene in the third Pirates movie when twenty of him are there on the ship.

For idea #1:

-On an entirely different track, the other idea was a circle of life type thing. Everything can connect to the tree in some way. (Human = umbilical cord, etc)

(an image I found)

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Project 3 | Cyclical Nature of Things (tree photos)

So far I have two ideas for this project. Bear with me, they're hard to explain and they make me sound crazy.

1. I am a vegetarian. I'm fascinated by the whole "circle of life" with survival via food/consumption. So I thought about the idea that plants are eaten by animals, animals by other animals, animals by humans, etc. Then humans die, get buried (go back into the earth) and relate to the idea that plants grow from the earth.

2. I also wanted to play with the idea of an endless psychological problem cycle. I.e., if your mother has depression you will be more likely to have depression, and your mother's mother may have possibly had depression. (Or other issues that might be easier to illustrate with a tree.)

Thumbnails below!

Final Project 2 | Fantasy Appliance

Ta-da! The blue 99 at the top ties into the woman's blue dress at the bottom, and that was the last thing that needed fixed before it was done. Enjoy.

More in work

Added a yellow color in front of the sun so it's more recognizable. Don't know if this is completed, I feel like I need one more thing. I can't decide if I like the way the plug is.

Oh and here's a close up of the toaster oven.

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Digging the change of font along the top.

Added a banner in the space... not loving it at all.

Liking 'in Store' added to it, fits the space more.

Poster design

So I've been working on only one design this time around (compared to Project 1... wow). I've got the idea of the retro poster and the 'product' that's being sold. Here it is so far...

And then with added copy at the bottom 'advertising' the toaster oven/global warming machine...

Ta-da! I think I'm very close to finalizing this project. I might change the sun to a stereotypical image of the sun so it's more easily translated by people.

Project 2 Ad-style

I want to create a retro-looking ad for my fantasy appliance for a background. These are examples I'm looking at.

Project 2 | Fantasy Appliance

So, I took a photo of something that I use pretty much every day: a toaster oven. I'm trying to use it in a political cartoon/photo way but that may not end up happening.

Below are two (VERY) rough starts, just trying to brainstorm.

I want the house wife image in it to make it playful when it's really a dangerous topic.

Especially here with the bear. And a fish fry in the toaster bear.

Eventually for the image I'm going to make it into an old/retro advertisement for the appliance - need to look up some retro posters.