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So after a long awaited third project, we finally got to design a magazine spread. We were suppose to go on the Aiga Voice site and pick an article out to design a layout for. I looked and looked and decided on Beneath the surface: Iran's Graphic Design Evolution. I saw it best fits right now because of the situation going on between Iran and us, and its cool to see their art and design because we normally do not get those sort of things here. I dipped into some websites and found pretty neat site about not only irans design, but all around the world. The first one, the Graphic Imperative is posters about social justice and peace. These ones are awesome! I highly suggest. The second site I posted is a little site for some of the top designers in Iran, and they are all high res images which is excellent.

The graphic imperative www.thegraphicimperative.org

http://www.ville-chaumont.fr/cri-persan/index.html

P.s. once I figure out this damn Html I'll get them linked.

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For our second assignment, Joellyn asked us to design posters for the upcoming theater season at UMD, 2006/2007. I was given the play, Life is a dream. After researching quite a bit, this is what I found: The setting is set way back in the 16, 17th century Poland, where the king at the time banishes his son away to a prison tower far away from anything because he was told by the stars that his son would be a tyrant ruler, which turned out to be true. So the prince is sent away and brought back every now and then and sent away again. Every time he comes back he tells his story of being in the prison tower chained up and surrounded by guards. Everyone who hears of this story is told to tell him that it is just a dream. He soons finds out why he is imprisoned and is set to change his way and become a good ruler.

My whole concept of this poster is to show the dark somber feeling of the plays main body. The title is intertwinded of dark blue and white to represent the in and out of prison and reality. It is a simple piece and could be more poetic, but I just got stuck on what else to do with it. All suggestions are welcome.

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This is just an image that Topher kindly took a picture of for us. It is really cool to see what the series as a whole looks like.

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