Newsletter

PARTS 1:
My audience: Transferring college students
What is my message: Things to know as a high schoolar about being a transfer students if you go to a community college.

PART 2:
Important Fact from each video
1) Learning to Go to control panel and clicking center content. and then object> fitting> Then center object


2) Understanding how to wrap text is extremely helpful! I didn't know how I could have images but also artwork flow at the same time!


3) Being able to fit an Image properly in a page frame

4) Learning about master-ages and found it helpful as it allowed me to make all my pages consistent

PART 3: Videos I chose and why they were helpful.

1) https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/how-to/margins-and-columns.html?playlist=/services/playlist.helpx/products:SG_INDESIGN_1_1/learn-path:key-techniques/playlist:topic/set-header:page-layout/en_us.json&ref=helpx.adobe.com
Aligning content with guides: Wanted to separate grade, artist statement, and other information

2) https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/how-to/indesign-add-text-to-frames.html?playlist=/services/playlist.helpx/products:SG_INDESIGN_1_1/learn-path:get-started/set-header:ccx-designer/playlist:orientation/en_us.json&ref=helpx.adobe.com
Learning that there is a difference between frames, one is a framed and one can be shapes to have shapes inserted

3) https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/how-to/creative-resume-design.html?playlist=/services/playlist.helpx/products:SG_INDESIGN_1_1/learn-path:get-started/set-header:ccx-designer/playlist:basictraining/en_us.json&ref=helpx.adobe.com
This helped make my whole booklet seem more professional: But also showing me how I could make a SUPER COOL resume in the future

infographic

1. What site did you select to create your Infographic? Why did you select this site? What are the pros/cons of the site?

I choose easily because looking at the previews of all of the programs, This one stood out as the most helpful and organized for working with clip art rather thang graphs. As my idea was a more graphic and organized approach with less information is seemed like the most visual flexibility. Also looking into the program more they have many templates that would already take your average poster to the next step

2. What is the topic of your infographic and why did you select it? Which L.A.T.C.H. method did you use and why?

My info is a warning posture that you would normally see in a nurses office about germs and boogers but its about the crumpled up piece of paper and your ideas coming from the paper! So the concept is warning you that great ideas exist within your mistakes.

3. Compare the infographic you created for this project to the poster you created using InDesign. Which tool do you prefer using, the Adobe tools or the online tools and why?

Adobe 100% as I understand a lot more about illustrator overall. I was frustrated because I ended up having to use photoshop anyways to get the colors and images in that I wanted.

4. Included Image here:

5. From the video " The Beauty of Data Visualization", answer the following:

The colors 1. They way an image is demonstrated and the way we cut out and leave out and leave in information can make something false. Perspective can easily be changed. What he means by this is depending on what we show and how we show it changes the context, and intern our perceptions.
2. Information can easily become disorganized and too much to process. Just as colors and organizing with images can be deceiving, it also can be very helpful in understanding and keeping it all easily understandable that way there is not questions now what the information provided is meant to tell us.
3. How we demonstrate visuals matters, how we visually tell you a story matters. Shows how important artists are to bring understanding to an abundance of information in smaller and more easily understandable steps.
4. I found the balloon reface interesting! never have I seen information that was taken about information. This was a visual demonstrating how much research was done on a particular health benefit or something that you should eat because so many of these tests says so. Really took a lot of the confusing issues I didn't understand in nutrients apparent. Showing how easily artists can take complicated information and breaks it down.

• What do you think of the quote from Hans Rosling "Let the dataset change your mindset."?( 12:18) Do you think data is powerful enough to change ones behavior?
• "Design is about solving visual problems with elegant solutions and information design is about solving information problems" What are your thoughts about how this can help communication with issue with trust and reliabilty?(16:43)
• How does this "data visualization" talk tie into what we have been learning about visual culture and media?
• Of all the dataset examples in the video, which one do you feel had the most visual impact and why?

The Art of Failure

Article: https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/nea_arts/NEA%20Arts_2014_no4_web.pdf
1. They all struggle with power. At what point do you give the power to your students and just let them go for it. The difference is how they approach agency within their classroom and how they nurture their children individual creativity and artistic direction.

2. I struggle to make mistakes. I often cannot separate mistake with exploration as I personally see a visual and expect it to look like that.

3. It is extremely important but its even more important to teach acceptance not just taking risks. Because you can take risks but you will have students like me who don't understand the reward of risk when you hope to have the beauty of completion.

4. CONSTANTLY, all the time. negatively!

5. Cultivating a classroom that promotes active reflection and promotion of process.

Two Part Blog Posting

Key Concepts for this week:
Video: CARTA: Neurobiology Neurology and Art and Aesthetics

• Human aesthetics and perceptions have evolved over time
• Perceptions can be altered based off of cultural or emotional factors
• Different parts of the brain are making connections constantly while in the process of making it, that there is more than simply seeing and redistributing information

Article: CNN- What the Brain Draws From: Art and neuroscience

• How the brain processes different functions of art such as light and contrast
• Ways in which artists stimulate a viewers brain
• The brain naturally has picked up certain visual cues over the ages

What do you think about Changeux and Ramachandran’s scientific view of aesthetics and art? What was the most interesting fact you discovered from each speakers lecture?
I loved Ramachandran’s talk the most as he looks at the laws of aesthetics as a way to unravel the possibility of there being a science behind the arts. It built upon Changeux’s lecture that aesthetics are a by-product of evolution. But Ramachandran’s ideas dabbles beyond the human aesthetic and looks at other species such as butterflies that evolved in their aesthetic. One fact that I found to be the most interesting was that “...there are thirty visual areas in the human brain that are concerned primarily with visual processing...” It reinforces that there is more to making artwork than simply seeing an image and copying it. Evolution enables us to perceive, distort, and reconstruct ideas into making new artwork.

Interesting Fact:
Changeux’s talk was insightful as he took a strong stance about how our aesthetic choices are a by product of evolution. I never thought about there being art before cave paintings. So I found it fascinating that humans started making tools 2.5 million years ago, and took so long to evolve to where humans developed the ability to make cave paintings (demonstrate artistic composition) only 100,000 years ago.

Relating it all back to visual culture:
They all speak about how aesthetics are natural within our society. We as humans overtime have gained this knowledge and built up what we find to be visually appealing. Never did I realize this potentially came from an evolutionary standpoint. We all process information different and there are different ways we process things based off of light and contrast.
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PART2:
Most interesting discovery made while watching the video:
That some of the most early forms of art discovered are of women. I thought it was cave animals.

What do you think of Vilayanur's Ramachandran's theory with the chicks?
Weird thing with beaks and that color being more attractive being a natural evolution becoming a desired thing.

Connections between images of females today as opposed to modern day portrayals?
The main difference is that in the past we looked to fertilityand being naturally more curvy as the desired look. This having to do with a bigger women was most likely a more well off and wealthy women being from a better background they could eat more and this was then desired for looking more natural and having better fertility. The modern day look is to over exadurate certain features without notice whether that be a more curvy woman to be seen as more curvy without notice as well as a skinny girl editing to make her look more skinny for the desired look of the company. Deliberate over exaggeration of the past versus modern hidden exaduration.

In Design Videos

Interesting fact from each video:
1. I thought all of this stuff about designing logos on placing them on multiple projects in a professional way was done on photoshop not indesign.
2. In design opens the same way illustrator does.
3. REMEMBER FILL WITH PLACE HOLDER TEXT. If you want the image to be click and dragged you can redefine the size of the frame.
4. Editing Text in In design: based on the amount of text you click selects more and more text for you rather than having to click and drag.
5. When choosing character styles go to type and then character styles
6. "If you import styles into linked content, new styles are added to the In Design document when the content is updated, and any style with a name conflict is overridden by the InDesign style with the same name."

Drawn Illustrator Self Portrait

Image of inspiration #1
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/obey-shepard-fairey-obama-portrait-obey-shepard-fairey/RwERadz8ZnfhGw?hl=en
I was fascinated by the way the artist had defined shapes for shading, light, and color.

Image of Inspiration #2
https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/henri-matisse/m0gct_?hl=en
I wanted to look to matisse and his collage work to make my elongated shapes.

This project ended up being very much figure out by accident due to one of the main idea that I had lead me to making a mistake in the essentials area, leading to the image that you now See

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How. I went about the image
Pasted image: Changed RGB color to be
Ussing essentials tool I changed up the colors and realigned where the actors made making the crazy image you see before you
Selecting tool to elect the whole piece
Using the gradient tool to create color
Grouped and ungrouped shapes to move pieces around.


I ENJOYED THESE TWO PROJECTS!!!!! I felt that typography one was very tedious! However, it helped me so much with making the painting self portrait to make shaded and colored geometric shapes.