Art and Design

To have art without design is almost impossible. Design is everywhere including composition, theme, pattern, ect. Obviously in a text class design is important; it helps the viewer to decide where to direct their eye. Design can determine if your work is comprehensive to others or a big ball of confusion. Other than a text artist I think Kehinde Wiley does a great job with design. He takes a person that he meets on the street and asks them if they want to be a model for his work. He then has them pose as a figure that they find in history books. He creates these contemporary images with an influence of period pieces. His work would not be as creative without his design. Luckily enough for the students in the text and publishing class Wiley is featured in the Toledo Museum of Art collection.

Deborah Bright: Artist Talk

Being able to hear such an accomplished artist speak about her work was a very pleasurable and great opportunity. Since Deborah Bright was giving two presentations at the University of Toledo she decided to share on Thursday more of her earlier work rather than the work in the CVA gallery. Her theme was landscape and reclamation. At first I didn't really know much about her work and how it could relate to our Text and Publishing class. Since she is a photographer you would think that unless there are words written on the photo there really is no relation to our class. As she presented her work and explained how it is displayed you realize that text is a large part of her pieces. She talked about how some of her photos were paired with the name of who first owned the land deed of the location she was shooting. She also spoke of her new work briefly and that it is presented with a paragraph or so explaining history behind it. In all her work was very interesting, I just wish we would have been able to see in more detail some of her later work.

OMG MAP

The base of this assignment was to make a word map using the technology of today to link together paths. I've noticed the past few years that social networking sites have started a new type of language mainly throughout the age group of teenagers. This is a shame to the English language, however interesting in the way that this language becomes a way for some to communicate together and feel more apart of something. If an outsider looks at these abbreviations they may have no clue what it's saying unless they ask someone.
The map I created links together these abbreviations, and becomes somewhat of a translator through its design.