Massimo Vignelli’s The Vignelli Canon was a cool study. I really like the idea of semantics out into the context of art. I always thought of it in terms of language, but Vignelli is right in saying that art must have some sort of meaning; it cannot be arbitrary. Art …
Guess my song! I decided to do the “guess my song” assignment as my last assignment and have some fun with it. I uploaded a photo from my birthday to Photoshop. It was the perfect photo for what I had in mind because I was holding something. I …
After watching the scene with McNulty drunk driving and then drunk crashing, I thought it would be funny to do an ironic bumper sticker pertaining to McNulty for the bumper sticker assignment. I used canva.com to make this and it was pretty easy. Coming up with the tagline …
I am currently taking a Gothic Literature course and reading Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. When I saw the book cover assignment I was immediately thinking of this novel and how to come up with a cover for it. I have many different versions of the book that I have …
Lysander, Jimmy McNulty, Robert Mallory…Dominic West. They are all him! Though probably most well-known for his character in the Wire, Dominic West was first known to me as Lysander in the 1999 version of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” that my grandmother used to watch all the time. Then, as …
I was struck by the “Create A READ poster” assignment because of the attention spent on D’Angelo’s education, both book learning and life knowledge. When I looked at this poster I thought about the moment when D is in jail and reading The Great Gatsby and I decided …
The “Collage with Symbolism” assignment was both fun and meaningful for me. The idea was to make a collage of photos of me and someone I care about. Of late I have been spending a lot of time with my sister Emily, back in town from NYC, …
The assignment for a classic painting blended with something in the Wire, or the “Creative Mashup” was really interesting to me, and after watching the opening of episode 9 I figured out exactly what I wanted to do. Many are familiar with Edvard Munch’s painting “The Scream” and …
I really enjoyed the discussion with Tim Owens for “We Are All Artists.” It’s really nice to someone take a major that has such a stereotype for failure in this era and not only make a career out of it, but also inspire others to do the same. I am …
This week was visual week and packed full with visual assignments. Through working on those assignment I gained a more focused attention to how things look and are presented to me, both in shows, photos and other media. I definitely paid more attention to the visual aspect of the Wire, …
