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(Afghan Girl, by Steve McCurry)

Afghan Girl is a famous photographic portrait of a refugee girl during the Soviet-Afghan War in 1984. The photograph, taken by the photojournalist Steve McCurry, appeared on National Geographic and uses a beautiful combination of complementary colors: red and green.

In my perspective is such a powerful portrait. The girl is looking directly to the camera expressing a mix of fear but also confidence. Even compared to the Leonardo da Vinci's Monalisa, the picture was named "the most recognized photograph" in the magazine's history.

References:

McCurry, Steve (10 April 2001). "National Geographic: Afghan Girl, A Life Revealed". The Washington Post. OCLC 56914684. Archived from the original on 1 June 2013. Retrieved 2012-01-14.

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(Exercise combining basic elements: circle/point, circle/texture, circle/shape and circle/line)

Our first Visual Communication LAB task requested us to combine basic design elements (such as point, line, shape and/or colour) to create 4 images. It was a great opportunity to go back to the basics and explore the fundamental elements.

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(Tyfanni activity kit, made by Timothy Goodman)

This is one of the pieces created by Timothy Goodman for Tyfanni & Co luxury jewelry brand as part of a kit.

From this piece we can notice that, even though the designer uses quite a lot of graphic elements and decides to leave not much blank spaces in the piece, he is still capable of creating an harmonic composition by giving the elements a regular disposition.

The major use of black and white creates a great contrast. And by using the famous bluely green color associated to the brand, Timothy catches our attention to specific points of the piece (the heart and stars), which is interesting.

Timothy is a well known graphic designer and muralist, famous for his street style that uses mainly typography. In my view, it was curious how his graphic style was able to match such a luxury and sophisticated brand so well.