Presentations: social media

Target Observation

This is a massive sign that hangs up in the mens section of Target.  It shows a  man, wearing athletic clothes to symbolize the athletic clothes that the store is selling all around the sign.  This sign draws in consumerism because people looking for athletic clothes can see this sign from across the store and know exactly where to go look.

This is in the gaming section of Target.  Is features the brand new,  Xbox 1 and shows consumers what the dashboard looks like and all the neat features of the Xbox1.  This lets consumers see exactly what it is that they are about to buy before actually buying it. 

This is also in the gaming section of Target but it has a little different outlook on consumerism.  The main point of this display is that little kids can see is and then they will ask their parents to buy it for them.  This is directly geared towards the kids who play games like this and you can tell because it is so low to the ground so that the little kids can see and play with it before buying it.

This bug poster in the middle of the doll section at Target is geared towards little girls.  Little girls will walk by and then see this big poster of a disney princess and immediately go over and look around. This is tied into consumerism because the little girls will then ask their parents to buy it for them.  Also it ties into media because of Disney, and its ability to make little girls be able to recognize disney princesses all around the world.

This is also a big poster of Spider man in the middle of target.  This brings in the media aspect because spider man is just a well known super hero so the oversized poster of him will draw in a lot of consumers.  All around this spiderman are tones of super hero games and action figures that draw little kids in and influences them to buy some of the games.

design autobiography

Memorial Coliseum

This poster, found at the convention that took place at Memorial Coliseum over the weekend, is just part of the exhibit that drew people in from all over to see.  This one happens to be about The Functional Role of Residues of Cascade.  This one stands out from many of the other posters at the convention because the background is mainly black.  Majority of the other posters around it where nearly all white with things on them.  You can eve see this with the poster in the background, behind the main picture and to the left.  Also, this poster has a lot of colorful, and easy to see graphs and graphics.  The bar graphs are easy to read with many labels and the pictures of the cascade is clearly labeled so that the viewer can stand and read the poster without becoming confused.  The only downside to this particular poster, is that there is a lot of writing on the sides, and since there are big pictures in the middle, the writing on the sides is pretty small and hard to read if you are not right up next to it.  It also makes it look like there is too many words so some people may not even take the time to come up to it and read it all.

Final Project

Design 2.0

The house is built to withstand hurricanes but there is much more to the house that you realize when you just look at it.  Its all white, which stands out to the human eye.  This house is white because everything around this house is either blue (sky) or green (the grass and trees).  The white house contradicts all the colors around it so the house stands out and kinda "pops" out from its surroundings.  Also, the symmetry of the house stands out.  The house is perfectly symmetrical, which stand out because most houses around the country are not perfectly symmetrical.  Society has gotten so use to the non-symmetric ways of most buildings around America that not many building are perfectly symmetrical anymore.  The Symmetry comes from ancient Greece, just like all of the important buildings in Washington D.C.  Those reasons alone it stand out from the norm and it catches peoples eyes because of its beauty.

Culture and sub-culture

This is the image that I brought into class today.  To majority of the culture in America and the rest of the world, it just looks like a couple Greek letters.  Some people may not even know that they are green letters; they may just think that they are just some random symbols.  Even the people who know they are Greek letters, they just think about the stereotypical fraternity things like partying and usually think of all the negative connotations associated with the letters.  Probably 90 percent of the world has no idea what they letters even mean or stand for so they just don’t care about them

To my brothers and me however, the letters have so much more meaning behind them.  We know that what they stand for bother literally, Phi Delta Theta, and metaphorically.  To us they mean brotherhood.  They have meaning behind them and a sense of pride that no one else will understand except for the few that are members of the fraternity.  The rest of the Greek community may know what they stand for, but they will never know the strength of the brotherhood behind them and they will never know what our letters mean to us.  There is such a small sub-culture behind them that majority of the world will never see the letters as we do.