Isn't It Ironic?

For my semester project, I have been struggling with a concept that makes sense and portrays something meaningful and creates awareness. I have decided that I want to work with fears. In the book, "The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid Of The Wrong Things" by Barry Glassner, he discusses our misconceptions of fears and where fears come from. Another resource I found was an article about fearing the right things. David Myers makes valid points of why we fear certain things over others. For instance, why would a smoker fear riding in a plane? Or why you would fear flying over riding a bike? Where did these fears come from and what makes them "fears"?

http://www.davidmyers.org/Brix?pageID=65

I want to, in some way, show how we fear things that are miniscule to bigger problems and known fatalities causers. Maybe a series of handouts or postcard type elements. I really want to make people think about the everyday things that are more dangerous and life-threatening than the ones that they would expect.

Girl Talk: Kim Rugg

Kim Rugg

With surgical blades and a meticulous hand, Kim Rugg (Canada, b. 1963) dissects and reassembles newspapers, stamps, comic books, cereal boxes, and postage stamps in order to render them conventionally illegible. The front page of the LA Times becomes neatly alphabetized jargon, debunking the illusion of its producers' authority as much as the message itself. Through her re-appropriation of medium and meaning, she effectively highlights the innately slanted nature of the distribution of information as well as its messengers. Rugg has also created hand-drawn works alongside wallpaper installations, both of which toy with authenticity and falsehood through subtle trompe l'oeil.

Rugg received her MFA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art (London). Her work can be seen in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art (DC) and the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation (CA), the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (CA), and the Norton Museum (FL) among others. She has been included in exhibitions at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (CA), Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NY), Galerie Schmidt Maczollek (Cologne), and Nettie Horn Gallery (Manchester), and was the recipient of the Thames and Hudson Prize from the Royal College of Art Society in 2004. She lives and works in London (UK).

Girl Talk Poster

After visiting CAM in Raleigh, I chose to do my next project on 'Girl Talk' featured artist, Kim Rugg. She meticulously cuts up newspapers, stamps, comic books and cereal boxes and puts them back together in a different way. For my poster, I KNOW I want to use my Exacto knife skills! I want to create everything uses tiny cut-out colored letters for her biography and name. I want my poster to look like a piece of her work. I'm leaning more towards the envelope look.

"Text"

For this project, we were asked to read a section out of Ellen Lupton's Thinking With Type and write a short reflection on it. Using that write-up, we had two different parts. Part 1, the first 3, were using alignment, tracking, kerning, leading and point size. Part 2, the last 3, were using the same as before, but incorporating titles, drop caps, paragraph breaks, directional text and pull quotes.