DESIGNcanCHANGEtheWORLD

El profesor Frank Reimer nos ha enviado una fotografía del equipo a su cargo.

The professor Frank Reimer has sent us a picture of his team.

Rachel Gropper
The concept of my postcards is based on the culture of D.I.Y. Learning to sew is not for your grandmother anymore. Many younger people are starting to make their own things. Besides just sewing, people make their own art and even cut their own hair. The obvious factor of saving money goes with D.I.Y. but, there is also the idea of authorship over your belongings, instead of buying something from a big box store, where the question of who actually made it remains. Many Americans now go to these stores and buy what is made for them, instead of D.I.Y. where there is an opportunity to create something that represents them.

Caitlin Martin
My concept is to create postcards based off of coloring books.  To create these images I  have gone back and looked at books and magazines that have influenced my life.  I have left the coloring  
postcards not colored in, because I want the viewer to revert back to their childhood and imagine the colors themselves.

(l.c. note: all of us — visual artists, designers — who chose a career in the visual arts absorb and maintain a hidden library of images. From the time we start to see and develop visual literacy we are exposed to media (advertising is so prominent in the U.S.) including magazines, newpapers, internet, videos, as well play and educational materials: books and toys. I am interested in how this student has pulled just a few of these images from her own “image memory bank” to share with us.

Grant Shuler
 As a graffiti enthusiast, I aim to take my research and knowledge of the subject to portray graffiti in the light that true graffiti artists wish it to be seen.  Basically all of the skill and time put into creating ‘good’ graffiti is undermined by the senseless scribbles of young teens, gangs and other individuals who do not respect graffiti as an art form and rather treat it as means for destruction or to create territorial boundaries.  There are a select few artists who create good graffiti.  These individuals have focused their time, money, and more importantly and good portion of their lives into making their graffiti truly remarkable.  It is my intention to voice the opinion that not all graffiti is created with ill intent.  Graffiti is a beautiful art form that uniquely meshes image and text.  I feel that it is long past time to see the brighter side of what graffiti has to offer.

William Lewis
These cards represent the role of the Orisha (deities of the Yoruba culture), in today’s modern society. I notice that many people in this world cannot or will not attempt to see past what is in front of their two eyes.  Learning about how different cultures relate to GOD has allowed me to see the divinity in myself and my everyday life. To be able to see the evidence of forces beyond ourselves playing an active role in our lives, in my opinion makes our lives richer. What would happen if we saw the divine in ourself? What would happen if we saw the divine in each other? What would happen if we saw the divine in our very breath? I believe that when we make the effort to see beyond what our eyes physically display,  and can acknowledge our relationship to each other, and the very world we live in, then the HUMAN race together can bring a utopia to the world, and literally bring heaven to Earth.

Jeff Lane
I’ll study different logo types and imagery types within different sub-genres of metal (music). The logo are often very expressive of the feel and sound of the band. So I’m really looking at designing logos that encompass the feel and sound of that sub-genre of metal. Given the various types of sounds and moods found in the different sub-genres. You see more psychedelic 60’s type writing with the Doom metal bands. Very clearly written and bold face logos found in Heavy Metal. With the Death Metal bands you see very sharp logos looking like some device covered in remains from a horror film. Given this, a lot of people in the metal culture often look at the logo to get an idea of what to expect of a band they have never heard before.  

Nathan Bentley
It is undeniable that violence permeates our cultures. Does the violence emerge from our nature, rooted in millions of years of evolution? Or is it a more recent phenomena? Furthermore how have our perceptions of violence changed over time? I’ve grown up with violence, as, undoubtedly millions of other youths across the world have. I have been fortunate enough that the violence I grew up with was only in the entertainment I was exposed to, from Contra, to GI Joes, to NERF weapons. I will explore how this nigh-constant exposure has effected me, and how it has changed in the decades I have been alive.

Sarah Knowlton
My culture is filled with a struggle between what I want to be about and what the culture and the people around me tell me I want.  But not in that cliche peer-pressure-getting-me-to-do-bad-things kind of way.  Its much less obvious, and much more well-meaning.  I don’t want the “American dream” that my mother wants for me.  I want a lot more..and a lot less. These post cards depict the idea that in order to force me into a “cookie cutter” cubicle work place with health insurance and fashionable clothes and a nice car, some part of me also gets forced out.  

Jennifer Valenzuela

The piercing community is a community I can identify myself with. I work for River City Tattoo in the Regency Mall location. I am not a piercer but I sell body jewelry for various piercings and I am a Henna artist. My job requires me to know about many different piercings. At the shop I see a lot of different kinds of piercings and all different types of people. Its a wonderful job that let me display my piercings. I take piercing seriously and consider it a part of me and my identify.
This is an exploration of this aspect of my identity. I considered who was getting pierced. What areas people are getting pierced. When during the week is it most popular for getting pierced and why? 

Eric Gilkey
For this project I am interested in expressing a part of myself that is influential to who I am. I have always been very interested in music, from playing percussion in the school band to being open and listening to many types of music. I feel as though it is an essential part of life and a special aspect that seems to tap into something higher. I love to play the drums, piano, and recently very interested in sequencing and experimental electronic music. What interests me is the dynamics in what sound can produce. From the very detailed clicks and flutters of noises to the more melodic, organic tones can provide a multitude of soundscapes, taking one through a sonic fantasy. I would like to take these qualities of sound and music (rhythm, pattern, sequence) and visually represent them.  There is something that is very therapeutic in music; that it has the ability to make you feel different and move you.