Senior Seminar tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2009:/medel/f07snrseminar//6608 2007-11-14T17:42:12Z Movable Type 4.25 Visual Storytelling tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2007:/medel/f07snrseminar//6608.98135 2007-11-14T16:10:22Z 2007-11-14T17:42:12Z How is storytelling used in graphic design (specifically print) today?... Miranda Edel How is storytelling used in graphic design (specifically print) today?

]]> Political Propaganda tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2007:/medel/f07snrseminar//6608.98120 2007-11-07T16:08:08Z 2007-11-14T16:10:03Z Describe how deign has historically been used as propaganda. How does this relate to how design is used for propaganda today?... Miranda Edel Describe how deign has historically been used as propaganda. How does this relate to how design is used for propaganda today?

]]> Cult of the Body Beautiful tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2007:/medel/f07snrseminar//6608.95582 2007-10-29T16:47:16Z 2007-10-29T16:53:28Z Compare the Venus of Willendorf and the Greek distortion of the perfected male body to the contemporary view of beauty. How does our society and values of our society determine how we depict the human body? Why do designers... Miranda Edel


  1. Compare the Venus of Willendorf and the Greek distortion of the perfected male body to the contemporary view of beauty.

  2. How does our society and values of our society determine how we depict the human body?

  3. Why do designers modify the body as seen above?

]]> Cool Hunting tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2007:/medel/f07snrseminar//6608.94792 2007-10-24T17:42:54Z 2007-10-24T17:48:30Z The Frontline video mentions that teen rebellion is now just a product that is digested by popular culture and sold back to them at the mall. It is mentioned that there is a feedback loop of finding cool, selling it,... Miranda Edel The Frontline video mentions that teen rebellion is now just a product that is digested by popular culture and sold back to them at the mall. It is mentioned that there is a feedback loop of finding cool, selling it, and finding the new cool (rebelling against the old cool).

1 - Is there room for teens to create a culture of their own?
2 - What is cool hunting?
3 - How do you respond to this as graphic designers?

]]> Corporations tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2007:/medel/f07snrseminar//6608.91364 2007-10-04T18:19:39Z 2007-10-04T19:35:21Z In the movie, "The Corporation", Naomi Klein mentioned that all life and relationships are now commercialized and that branding is a new form of imperialism. What is your response?... Miranda Edel In the movie, "The Corporation", Naomi Klein mentioned that all life and relationships are now commercialized and that branding is a new form of imperialism. What is your response?

]]> Cultural Colonization tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2007:/medel/f07snrseminar//6608.89840 2007-09-26T14:45:51Z 2007-09-26T14:57:07Z The chapter "Branding: A Uniquely American Phenomenon" states that European kids are anxious to see this new form of cultural colonization. Drawing upon your understanding of History (and Art History), explain colonization. Then go on to intrepret the statement (above).... Miranda Edel The chapter "Branding: A Uniquely American Phenomenon" states that European kids are anxious to see this new form of cultural colonization.

Drawing upon your understanding of History (and Art History), explain colonization. Then go on to intrepret the statement (above). What do you think is meant by cultural colonization? What impacts do you think it can have on the culture?

due by the next class period

]]> Emotional Brand Loyalty tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2007:/medel/f07snrseminar//6608.89465 2007-09-24T17:52:43Z 2007-09-24T18:07:50Z "Brand loyalty is largely emotional, it's also inscrutable and fickle, and easily bored. But it's universal that, by and large, loyalists want their heros to be consistently decent human beings." How has a celebrity affected your view of a product?... Miranda Edel "Brand loyalty is largely emotional, it's also inscrutable and fickle, and easily bored. But it's universal that, by and large, loyalists want their heros to be consistently decent human beings."

How has a celebrity affected your view of a product? Have you been influenced by the use if a celebrity in an ad? How and why does it work?

Please respond to these questions and the comments left by classmates.

]]> Opposition tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2007:/medel/f07snrseminar//6608.88136 2007-09-17T16:02:31Z 2007-09-17T16:24:25Z Three questions to answer from Senior Seminar (chapter on opposition): 1) To what sustained uses, other than its familiar and largely unquestioned commercial uses, might graphic design be applied? 2) How and where should designers who wish to engage in... Miranda Edel Three questions to answer from Senior Seminar (chapter on opposition):

1) To what sustained uses, other than its familiar and largely unquestioned commercial uses, might graphic design be applied?

2) How and where should designers who wish to engage in a rule-breaking post modernism of resistance position themselves?

3) What forms, in terms of style, might an oppositional graphic design assume at this point?

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