Monthly Archives: March 2013

Get to know the Bronte Sisters

Charlotte, Emily, and Anne make up the Bronte Sisters. Though three separate people, they all shared the same qualities, attributes, mindset, and life.

Three sisters in a family of seven during the early 1800s.  After their mother died of disease when the girls were still young, it was only down hill from there– these three would go on to endure existence’s that were tragic and short-lived. As their family members died off one by one to some disease or another, the sisters found solace in the moors and picked up the hobby of writing.  All three wrote novels and collections of poetry, both in collaboration with each other and on their own, and inadvertently their writing styles became indiscernible from one to the other. They used the alias’s Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell because the time period called for them to take on masculine names in order to be published. Today they are most well known for their novels, Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre.

Though all three Bronte sister’s were romantics and often wrote tales of tragic love, none of them had a love life of their own. Through their writing, they channeled the tragedy of their lives into beautiful and poetic works that live on today. The Bronte sisters were melancholy and eery but as portrayed through their work, always maintained a beautiful sense of hope and love.

And then they all died of tuberculosis.

and this is the only known photograph of them. ever. enjoy. three.sisters.ambrotype.x600

rhetoric gun posters

guns are bad.

in class speed posters

axial excersizes fannet mellier

define this.

rhetoric: a way of training effective communicators and understanding a theoretical and practical level on how people use language

metaphor: a figure of speech where there is a comparison between dissimilar things

pun: a play on the different meanings of a word or image, usually by using words that sound the same but have different definitions.

hyperbole: an extremely exaggerated statement displayed through words or imagery

irony: expression of one’s meaning by using language or image that usually means the opposite

antithesis: contrast or opposition between two things

personification: applying human characteristics to something that is not human, such as an animal or inanimate object

metonymy: substitution or simplification of a broader more complex idea

synecdoche: a figure of  speech or image in which a part is made to represent the whole or vise versa

parody: an imitation of a style with deliberate exaggeration in a manner that is used for comic effect

me, myself, and the course; a self-assessment

self-evaluation monkey

I feel like through the extent of this course I have learned to push myself and my work and to not be afraid to try new directions. Though I have been known to come down with spells of “The Brewer Disease” where I struggle with the conceptual side of things. For example with my train poster, my conceptual ideas and inspiration were very weak at first and not showing through in my design. But I feel as if I pushed myself to try many different directions and at times, step back and revaluate my thought process before diving back in. So, all in all I feel like I still have plenty to improve on, especially in my thought process and nailing down some solid concepts. Then there is keeping up with my process blog…which, I will admit right here and now, that is not my strong suit. But now we must arrive at my weakest link of all- participation in class crit. In any sort of formal conversation I get all blushy and flustered and nervous and really really close-mouthed. This is something that I have been trying to improve on my whole life and something that I will continue to put effort towards.

mock up

this is my first stab at conceptual mockup for my book covers. thinking about the environment or textures that my sports exist around. and trying to convey impact and residue of the actions. and as i said, they’re for book covers. so think of it in terms of back/spine/cover.

what is creativity?

here’s the answer. thank’s, einstein.

this is my motion piece that brings my window display to life. it’s not as long as it thinks it is. i’m going to fix that, i just haven’t quite figured out how yet. enjoy.