Briana Carter
11/4/14
Weekly Post

10/28- Today, we discussed what our next project is and how we are supposed to do it. It is going to be a political poster, but it is not really going to be about politics. Some questions that got me thinking was, "What makes you mad?" and "Have you lost friends over this?" My first thoughts went to my grandmother. She is a hoarder and it makes me so mad because it is effecting her mental and inner health. We have tried for many years to help her, but she will not let go of anything. We had to make a list of things that we felt are important to us and we feel like would be good topics. Here are a few of mine.
-hoarding
-inaccurate news
-split families
-dying ecosystem
-littering
-putting children in bad situations where they can not help but be in them
-abortion
-not paying attention to children's needs
Our project has to be a 18X24 poster, 200dpi. It has to be saved under JPEG, TIFF, or PDF. This poster has to incorporate words and visual and we will have to show it to people around campus. We probably will be setting up a space outside of Rowe to show them as a class. I am really scared about this project because I know nothing about computers and I do not know anything about graphic design. Hopefully, I can get some help from somebody in the class.

10/30- Today, we went over many examples of how this project could look or make the audience feel. We saw a couple pictures of Miton Glasers work which I think is amazing. I love all of the colors and designs he uses. It really catches peoples eye. I really want to catch peoples eye, but how can you do that without all of those crazy colors? We also watched a video about Helvetica Type. I do not know how I really feel yet about this video because I like simple. I am a simple, but to the point kind of person, but they do not like this kind of stuff. They want something that has many pieces to it. I hope that I can somehow meet them in the middle. Not to crazy, but simple at the same time. After we were done watching the videos of the two committed artist, one being Susan Coe, we got into our groups and discussed what we were thinking and what our ideas were for this project. I am committed to family and I am sticking with that. Coe showed me that if you are committed, then you can do anything and make your audience think whatever you want them to think.