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This is a copy of the final poster iteration I created for graphic design. This poster is suppost to be a message about the addicting nature of social media use, I linked this to the habitual nature of cigarettes and combined the corporate image of Marlboro cigarette box design which pictured with the logo of three of the largest entities of social media speaks to the corporate greed and power the entities have on the general public. Or not. And just speaks to the habitual nature of the two. Both work.

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These are some bikes that I designed for a stamp series in graphic design. I compiled the bikes together from oldest to the most recent to make this show the transformation throughout the years of the bicycle.

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In light of this pretty monumental hearing and process to impeach president Trump I couldn’t not post about it. I cant help but feel both happy for my party to proceed and succeed with the impeachment although sitting in my car listening to all the commotion in numerous news outlets it’s almost as if nothing has happened in terms of action. It is easy in the process but looking back at the past impeachment’s of Mixon and Clinton it seems as action was taken earlier then their actual impeachment procecution. I’m not that learned with this process or politics in general but it seems as a this is a historical moment which should be brought up.

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This is a video part just came out by a newly started company, evil corporation. I thought I would share this as a example of how I would like my video self portrait video to come out. this video is a perfect cumulation of riding scooters, creating friendships, and sending tricks it in front of a camera. The filming was very well done and the editing wrapped everything up nicely with interplay’s and b-roll, the video represents the essence of scootering and the pure joy of persisting through falls and blocks to finally land a trick.

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This was an interesting article that overviewed an interview with Massimo Vignelli, a renown Graphic Designer. He designed the New York transit systems mapping and signage, he speaks about specifically chosing to use the type face Helvetica beacause it is ellegant, clean, and a readable typeface in his opinion. (as well as mine) Vignellis created loads of other iconic logos and has repeatedly said how limited his selescfion of type faces are, having only about 4 which he truly uses, he says that good design is about arangement and clarity. He prefers readable type over expressive camouflage which as he states does not even emit expression, but only a bad sense of design. I am a fan only Vignell, his design and taste as well as his knowledge of design is extensive, and the NewYork Transit Systems Design is one of my favorite designs.

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I’m designing a poster for my graphic design class at the moment and I needed to research poster design related to my topic (social media addiction) This article has a showcase of designs which portrait the addictions social media and technology are. I thought it was funny as I sat reading the article and viewing the designs, thinking about my own addictions to technology, if any at all. I think that this helped to direct my vision of how/what I wanted to depict as the subject of my poster. 🤘

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Someone was taking about this don’t one of my art history classes and they told me look it up as they said it was alright. The overall typeface is not bad, and hysterical that they created this font. However I can’t help but have a negative view of this font, however expressive or wavey and appealing it may be for some I can’t like it, subjectively. Although I think he could write a pretty good graffiti tag, but I might be overthinking.

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This all depends. In my opinion, yes. Kind of, at least for some art.

 But certainly not all graffiti, this is a very subjective topic since its hard to classify such a broadly styled, as well as placed medium. Objectively placement of graffiti can play a huge role in what graffiti is “protected” and what is not. However then their is content, whether the tag or character is deemed as “skillful” or as “high art” or “important”. It would be challenging to determine what is kept due to all the messages being created by artists, etc. Also, I feel as though if graffiti, all graffiti, was protected and deemed as “art” it essentially would no longer be graffiti; this would make graffiti street art. Also, the factor of the legality of the art-making would need to change so it would not be vandalous.

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One of the many Ten Hundred murals in Seattle.

The former graffiti artists turned “artist artist” mainly paints throughout Seattle, but also ventures out of the city. Ten Hundred creates his own unique, skillfully selected pallet of colorful and contradictory characters which he paints on walls throughout the North West. Mainly painting massive outdoor murals, inside corporate buildings, and completing commissions. He records most of his projects and uploads montages of his process to YouTube.

This piece is supposed to inspire kids to accept themselves, to be creative and to explore what they desire in order to have happiness, essentially.

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Activist Art Project. INDECLINE’s liberation. In response to the everyday person's trust in corporate propaganda, “this world will die because of the power it holds” INDECLINE is changing the focus on to topics of turmoil within the country and working to make people pay attention one billboard at a time.

The idea that corporations which advertise and market products to billboards etc. have a bigger agenda than just getting the consumer to buy. Corporations dismiss real problems within society and project false narrative of their greedy intention. The corporate entities play puppets with the everyday person by meticulously exploiting the nature of how humans think and simultaneously changing their perspective.