Narritive

For my narritive top I have chose to compose a piece about Busking - Street performance or busking is the practice of performing in public places for money. People engaging in this practice are called street performers, buskers, street musicians, minstrels, or troubadours. (Wiki Defined). I've seen many different aspects of this culture through the events put on in different cities, and would like to explore what this part of our society is about. My first reaction was to create a brand identity, and was a little unclear as to what I would be branding. Whether is was busking as a group or an individual street performer. The audience would be more captivated if it were about busking as a culture instead of the individual, so my focus will be on the group. Through my research I discovered that Kansas City Missouri was trying to put a ban on busking, and greatly reduce the time and location that buskers could preform. This happened around 2007, and would made a great information narrative, but due to the time frame I have chose something a little more current.

I have decided to stick with my initial decision of creating a brand identity narrative, and have decided to focus on the Lawrence busker festival held annual in downtown Lawrence. This festival is just completed its third year, and is still fairly new giving me a good opportunity to create a brand narrative for the event.

Here is the site I will be using as a reference point for my remaining research Lawrence Busker Festival There is great photography here, and insight as to what my target audience is going to be.

Final Review (thoughts)

I’d like to discuss the endless search for form over functionalism and how design becomes more engaging with a goal to appreciate both. I love the layers of design and how mastering the process of a problem becomes the solution to the problem. Design transcends the solution entirely and relies solely on the conceptual notion that how we approach a problem will solve the problem. I’ve learned over the year that layers of design apply conceptual essence through shape, and text. Connotations and Denotations will be discussed also including anchoring the meaning or relaying it into a new meaning. The first layer of design then would be the composition or shape, layout of elements. The gird has proven to be an extremely useful tool for composing graphic elements on a page. The second would be the use of typography onto the page with great relation and respect to the underlying composition. The third would be the meaning of the image and the message trying to communicate (sometimes if not often this is discovered in preliminary idea searching stage). At last we come to the four layer of design and that is with style. Style of the color, tone of an image, the background, texture, the extras that leave out no meaning and are not arbitrary to the overall composition. With all these layers singled out and studied somewhat independently they become more visually understood. I’ve learned that great design uses these layers to bring new and useful as well as exciting information to the piece, but they work independently then when combine communicate a greater message of clarity and great cohesiveness. In conclusion my future goals of education at the art institute will be to fully develop these design skill to Clean up a dirty design world as Massimo Vingelli would say.(insert quote) CONTRACT whole cow how could I almost forget about this one. Contrast is the biggest most important part when determining the relationship graphic elements share with each other when composed together. Contrast in size of text, tone of image, and proximity in space. Contrast is the glue of the design, to much can make a mess of the whole thing not enough it will all fall apart. With the perfect amount however the simple nature of a well-constructed message could be the candidate for a timeless design.

Poster image ideas

Took three photographs and complied them into a panorama, and then used photoshop and layers to make this HDR effect.

Update: I'm starting to really appreciate digital photography manipulation, and photoshop is surprising me more and more. These next version I created the panorama myself and clipped it into separate rectangles. I was just goofing with the colors, and developed an interesting series. Might try to incorporate this idea into my final poster design if it fits, but definitely breaking the image apart I feel it gives the image a more dynamic quality.

Exhibit Titles

I did some mind mapping to explore possible titles Ideas for my project. The direction I attempted first was from a more moral or ethic conflict on our world today. Some of the compositions I had for monday started revealing this kind of theme and I decide to explore it a little more. The second set of titles is for an organized crime theme. I feel like my icons and composition can fit in well to this idea with minor alterations. This theme also relates more to my initial ideas of the project, and can be a more visible museum exhibit to me.

Titles A:

Inhumane Affect

Culturural Apathy

Inhumane Conflict

What harms us all

Interminable Conflicts

Eternal Conflict

Amoral World

World Morality Explored

Morality

Evil has no shadow

Human Moral Conflict

Immoral on Earth

Title B:

Organized Crime World

Crime World

Criminal Enterprise

Cultural Villains

Amoral Villains

Amoral Criminals

Criminal Morality

I like Criminal Enterprise, and Amoral Criminals something with crime history and organized crime is what I will approach as a final decision.

Book cover Process

The books I chose to design covers for and incoperate in a series are:

The Art of the Steal- Frank W. Abagnale

Concealed Carry- Massad Ayoob

Appearances; The Art of Class- G Keith Evans

Museum of the Missing - Simon Houpt

I chose these books for a series, because I felt it would make a nice set to play off the perspective of a thief. These books would provide insight into how the best cons, and thefts would work, which gun is best for the job, how to dress nice to fit the part, and the history of the crime. Not sure why I went in these direction it feels a little off balance since I'm seeking a career in the art profession. The synapses are pulled from Amazon, and are as follows;

artAppearances: The Art Of Class (Paperback)

~ G. Keith Evans (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Class- that familiar measure of sophistication- exists not as a gauge of wealth and achievement but as a byproduct of subtle refinement. Minute details, commonly overlooked by even the most well-heeled, can distinctly set an individual apart from the faceless persona of the middle-class. Appearances addresses these subtle nuances, analyzing finespun details ranging from the common consideration of etiquette to the societal impact of world travel.

The Art of the Steal: How to Protect Yourself and Your Business from Fraud, America's #1 Crime (Paperback)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Author Frank W. Abagnale knows something about fraud--he once committed it for a living. "Through my various hustles, I passed something like $2.5 million worth of checks, a blizzard of paper that I scattered in earnest throughout all fifty states and twenty-six countries, all before I was legally allowed to drink," he writes. "I was proficient enough at cashing fraudulent checks that I earned the distinction of becoming one of the most hunted criminals by the FBI." Abagnale was ultimately caught, and he served prison sentences in France, Sweden, and the United States. In the 25 years since his release, Abagnale (who also wrote Catch Me If You Can) has become a leading consultant on fraud prevention.

"I'm still a con artist. I'm just putting down a positive con these days, as opposed to the negative con I used in the past," he explains. "I've applied the same relentless attention to working on stopping fraud that I once applied to perpetrating fraud." His expertise comes in handy: businesses lose an estimated $400 billion each year to fraud. The stories Abagnale tells in The Art of the Steal provide fascinating glimpses of a criminal underworld. He describes "shoulder surfers" who rip off bank customers at ATMs by videotaping their fingers as they enter PIN numbers, retrieving receipts from wastebaskets, and then creating fake credit cards--all rather inexpensively. Whole sections of the book almost read like a how-to manual for aspiring thieves, though Abagnale has other motives. Throughout, he offers sensible advice on how to foil the con artists. Much of this is common sense (cut up credit cards when they expire), but some of his suggestions aren't so obvious. He warns readers not to write checks to the "IRS," for instance: "Envelopes to the IRS are common targets because of where they're going." Instead, checks should be made out to the "Internal Revenue Service," because criminals can turn the "I" of "IRS" into an "M," and turn a tax payment into a gift for "MRS." Smith. The chapter on the emerging problem of identity theft--with its tips on how to keep Social Security numbers private--is especially helpful. In all, The Art of the Steal is captivating and useful. --John Miller --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The Gun Digest Book Of Concealed Carry (Paperback)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

In addition to tactical aspects of self-defense, practical information like choosing the right firearm and ammunition, used gun purchases, and all legal aspects of self-defense with a gun are also extensively covered in this complete and authoritative look at concealed carry.

About the Author

Massad Ayoob is one of the pre-eminent fighting handgun trainers in the world. He operates the Lethal Force Institute, which trains both U.S. and international clients. His methods of reflexive, high speed yet accurate shooting has been adopted by the U.S. army as part of its standard pistol-training course. Massad has written many books for Krause Publications, including Combat Handgunnery, The Gun Digest Book of Sig-Sauer, and The Gun Digest Book of Beretta Pistols.