Contrast WEEK 11

Here is a graphic image using completely contrasting images. A gun is seen as a violent weapon, intimidating, wrong, masculine. A Japanese style fan is seen as delicate, tranquil, calming, cool, feminine. This juxtaposition shows a gun shooting out a fan with a small cartoon skull and crossbones with hearts as the joints of the bones. The character has a slight smile possibly winking with one red heart eye and the other white. This does express the action a gun would actually make. Though, the fan is opened in a similar fashion that the gun would explode a bullet with gun powder shoot out in all directions. The limitation of contrasting colors are powerful. They really state a message a black weapon shooting out a white fan with a red character that could represent an injury that a gun would cause. The image is balanced with lost of motion created by the shooting gun with similar motion created by the open fan. An wrongful action with a message of hope. The fan takes the pressure off of the shooting gun. These two images together makes the viewer think differently about the three images in context.

This album cover uses contrasting tones of black and white. The artist is displayed in a familiar set up using clean white attire, all dolled up for a photo shoot with full make-up and hair. She stands in front of a vandalized wall dripping with thick black paint. This contrast could be successful but due to the juxtaposition of the artist and background are too absolute. The artist is standing too close to the contrasting image. The paint seems to have been thrown at the direction of the beautiful woman. This angle could be interpreted as the paint being thrown at the woman in disgust. Her body language verbalizes this idea even more standing with her face backing away from the thrown paint. I would think this is a disrespectful representation of someone who is obviously trying to show off her talent. These polarities should reflect a artist being able to coincide with both concepts street grunge with classic vocals maybe. This is clearly two different ideas haphazardly juxtaposed together. There is a possibility that the artist and the background was taken at different times. This is no seen a whole concept merging together to represent this woman.

Motion in Graphic Design WEEK 10

This poster shows movement in graphic design even through flat images. The images seem to be cut out and placed on top of a background. This overlapping feature creates depth to the picture. The background creates tension between the spiraling spheres creating a continual movement to the background. The trapeze characters are set into relative motion by implied motion. The characters are set into motion by the strings that hold their seemingly moving swings. The biological motion created by the bodies about to swing across the page. The strings create overlapping lines that create more depth. These lines follow across the page moving the the viewers eyes across the page. Directional motion.
Motion is created in this graphic by an implied motion of applied movement. The figure is repeated in a consistent form as a walking character. The figure walks and leaves an impression of its past movements. A continuous shadow is formed and blurred to indicate motion blur. The character usually used for drawing purposed to show form and function of human is set into walking motion with biological motion as a real person in space. Each body part is is moved according to actual motion. The arms seem to have been waving as the character moved forward.