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Review of Bauhaus Art

This is an example of a piece of art of the Bauhaus style. For some reason this piece of art reminds me of the Nazis. Maybe its the certain color of red and the main character in the foreground raising his arm in a triumph-like manner. None the less, I enjoy it. I believe it works because of a few reasons. The way the picture is enclosed by a tan "frame" gives us the feeling of looking into the artwork. The "frame" is also an abstract form which adds character. The font is also different. Colors from the font are pulled from the picture. Not only is it a unique font but it also adapts to the curves of the "frame". This adaption with the font and the "frame" helps to tie the whole picture together. Inside, the picture is shot from a very interesting perspective. This shot persuades the viewer to look further into the picture to find out what is going on. The red color jumps out at us. While we expect a blue sky, the sky is red. This difference is a strong uniqueness to the style and this art piece. Lastly, the characters are not defined. Usually this would dull the picture, but the artist reverses this action by showing the forms performing very broad gesture movements.

Peculiar Paralellism

Moods A Many

This is an assignment done for visual communications class. We randomly selected an emotion and had to use three images to portray the emotion without using people. My emotion was tenacious. From the Webster dictionary, tenacious is defined as, "persistent in maintaining, adhering to, or seeking something valued or desired". I wanted to show the action of persistently seeking something desired. Without using people, I chose three abstract images online. I used a vibriant green background to bring a sense of envy, a type of aspect of desire. The red star-like glow is what is being desired, while the twisting dark form tries to make its way toward the glow unrelentingly.

College of an Immigrant

Today I interviewed Kavita Gosai, a native of India. Kavita traveled to the United States to be with her husband from an arranged marriage. She said that you can do anything in India if you move to America, the "land of opportunity". Because she is married, becoming a United States citizen for her was easier than for most other immigrants. While adjusting to this country she has faced two major challenges, being a vegetarian and speaking English. Being Hindu, it is against Kavita's religion to eat meat. She has found that many restaurants do not have a large selection of vegetarian choices and usually her order will contain meat products even if she specifically requested none. Before moving to the states, Kavita learned English but it was nothing compared to using it all day, everyday. While she knows she may mispronounce words or phrases, Kavita insists for everyone to correct her each time and insists everyone who she has come across has been very helpful and supportive. Two of her favorite pastimes here are shopping and bowling. She stated that shopping malls in India are just now becoming what the malls are like here. Kavita also enjoys the western style of clothing such as jeans and tank tops where as in India these items are looked down upon. Like clothing, she prefers to wear a wedding band instead of embracing the bindi, a small painted red dot in between the eyes of a married Indian woman. Kavita admits that certain habits have changed since moving here but because they have become so much a part of her everyday life she could not identify them. Kavita is continuing to study business as she did in India. After graduation from UNCG she hopes to obtain a MBA but is still deciding what to do after.

Photoshop Cut & Paste

This is the collage of an apple that I constructed with Photoshop by piecing together different parts of a photo of the Hannover Re Investor Relations Building. This is the first exercise that I have performed with Photoshop and for the first time using the program I am pleased.

Welcome Mat Notes

Computing in Today's World of Design

The role of computers has greatly expanded and stretched the possibilities of design. With the use of computers, designers are capable of creating more diverse designs faster and more acurate than ever before. With new design programs on computers, human error is greatly decreased. Angles, formulas, and models are constructed at almost no effort allowing us concentrate more on the actual design, not taking the time lingering over how to show what is being constructed.
Not only does the computer help with the design process but it also greatly helps showing the process and the final product to others. With computers we are able to send entire documents across the globe in minutes or less. Before computers these documents would need to be hand delivered taking days to weeks and using more time, materials, and money.
The future of the design world will only gain more momentum as we continue to embrace the role of the computer in the design process. Computers will continue to become faster and more updated design programs will continue to be released ensuring that the designers of the future will have the fastest and the most reliable tools at hand. Using these tools will not only guarantee us faster and more dynamic end results but an overall safer end design as well, thus making the future of design very attractive and engaging.