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Focusing
Do you ever have trouble focusing?
-Yes
When do you have trouble focusing?
-When I really need to get something done (laughs). When I need to sit down and do homework or work, I have trouble concentrating for a while
Why do you have trouble concentrating?
-It’s just hard. There’s time I randomly can focus forever but I get distracted easily
What distracts you?
-My phone is a big problem. I have a bad habit of doing like 10 minutes of work and then rewarding myself an hour on my phone. Also I have a lot of tabs open so when I’m working and I’m trying to find something for my work, I have to go through all my tabs and then get distracted by those tabs.
Why do you get distracted?
-It just happens. It’s more fun than what I’m suppose to be doing.Like I know my homework is important but sometimes I can’t find the motivation to make me focus. It takes a lot of work for me to focus.
Why do you think it takes a lot of work?
-I think I really have to buckle down and just do it. Like I want to close those tabs but I also want to look at them. I wish I knew how to just turn on the button that just puts me into focus like other times.
This was the starting point of the game. It was really interesting to see that even in prototype mode we had all the materials we needed. It made me think about how anyone can creat a game, we just added extra flare. I want to challenge that I think. I think we could’ve pushed this further but as a group we did well and communicated well.
Transplant Rejection
An info graphic that really resonated with me was Alex McGettrick’s.
I loved the illustrations she used and tried them very well into the graphic. They provide the style of a medical textbook and relates to the topic well. Good choice to go with a serif font as a secondary font. The color choices and the font the numbers are in give it more of a modern style.
I really loved the idea of using anatomical diagrams to help guide and relate to the statistics.
It’s easy to follow, simple but an active layout. I think adding something else to represent the quantity of people would help resonate with people more.
Some placement of wording was a little confusing but if touched up a bit I think the dynamic use of pushing the sentences to different areas could be interesting.
When I saw the info graph, obviously I felt bad for the patients and angry that doctors would do that. I felt a little bad also because I thought “What if this was me?”. I think there might be to be an edit on the call to action but I really thought the info graphic was nice in format and wasn’t over complicated with statistics or over run by illustrations. It simply stated the cause and informs you simply what’s happening.
Design Brief
Thesis Statement:
The representation of marginalized groups (people of color and those under the queer umbrella).
It’s a topic close to me but also representation is important. If you don’t see yourself, you may not even know that you’re being limited
Rough Sketch
Thinx is a brand of underwear for humans that menstruate. Those humans are not necessarily always going to be cisgendered women, as transgender men can, and do, menstruate. With its latest subway campaign, which took over New York’s Union Square station today, the brand has represented exactly that.
“Trans inclusion is something that has been on our radar since the iteration of our Boyshort, which was specifically designed with the trans male menstruating community in mind" Miki Agrawal
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Yelitza Castro and Willie Davis »https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fstorycorps.org%2Flisten%2Fyelitza-castro-and-willie-davis%2F&t=ODFkOTkwMDA3ZWEyMGFiMjk1MGE3MjRlOGRjYWQ1M2I4NDI5NjQ4MCw2SmZVQWd2OA%3D%3D&b=t%3AN129pPNITyBNh0f979pE0g&p=http%3A%2F%2Fordinary-standards.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F143825139929%2Fyelitza-castro-and-willie-davis&m=1
Who is speaking?
Yelitz Castro is a Latina, a single mother and an undocumented immigrant who works as a housekeeper in Charlotte North Carolina. Since 2010 she ahs also been cooking meals for homeless people in her community. The other speaker is Willie Davis is an African-American who has been the recipient of many of those meals
Why was/is the speech important to society?
It shows that you have more power than you think. You have the ability to be kind. It’s hard, but kindness isn’t easy. Being empathetic is important.
Why do
you feel in is important or interesting?
This is
a real story that shows it beauty just based on its content. Great speeches are
great for a lot of reasons just how they are prepared to be given to an
audience, and that’s amazing in its own way. But stories like Castro and Davis
are often forgotten. There are many more people who make up society that are
like Castro and Davis than people who have done amazing speeches. That isn’t to
say the common people of everyday aren’t amazing, but it’s more to say that it
is amazing. It’s a story of true kindness from people who are facing struggles.
The world isn’t kind to them but they were to each other.
What is the
emotion, mood, tone, personality, feeling of the speech?
Appreciation, comfortable, subtle happiness, hope, a moment of vulnerability
What is intonation, emphasis,
what is loud, stressed, or soft. Where are there pauses…
The pauses are natural too, planned out pauses aren’t bad, they are smart. But these are natural but it shows how this casual and not planned this story.
What do you FEEL should be loud or soft, long pause or rushed?
Any emotional words. There are some words that might be emphasized but just to make the layout a little more interesting to look at. But important words in the story are “Meal”, “Family”, “Self-Esteem”, “You”, their names, and any moment that you can hear their emotions on a certain word.
Is there a call to action? When listening to it what are key/emphasized words?
Not really, it’s more of a narrative of a very personal important moment between two not famous people. The site that published this story has the intention of showing the perspective of a single undocumented Latina mother who aids an African-American Man while he is homeless. It does raise awareness of many perspectives so it might be more of a call to emotion and thought.
How does it make you feel?
I get very sentimental. Their story relate to them being being people of color in real unfortunate situations. The closest I can relate is that my parents are immigrants and they knew how hard it was to be alone, even together in the United States. I feel a bit of pride for this but it really hits my emotions hard when Yelitza begins to speak.
How do imagine that the audience felt?
Similar to how I felt. They felt bad but amazed for their situation. They felt moved I imagined.
Could there be another interpretation of the speech?
Help others more. Or an evil plot to humanize people going through these situations.
Yelitza Castro (YC): Willie, you remember the first dinner together?
Willie Davis (WD): Yes, I do.
WD: The church van came and picked some of us guys up from the men’s shelter when I got out of the van, I smelled the cooking and then I saw you. I saw a smile on your face that made everybody feel welcome and comfortable.
WD: It’s just, you don’t make us feel homeless. You know us by names and faces. And we know you all care. Before I met you, Yelitza, I pretty much almost gave up. But that home-cooked meal, it just brought my self-esteem back up. And now I’ve got my own place and…
YC: It’s really amazing. And that gave me motivation because I’m here in the United States by myself with my kids. And I know that it’s hard. That Christmas dinner, it’s not just a meal; it’s try to make you guys feel like we are family.
Herbert Matter
-1907 –1984
-Swiss-born American photographer and graphic designer
-Use of photomontage in commercial art.
-Their innovative and experimental work helped influenced the design of the 20th century
-Close friends were the painters Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, fellow Swiss photographer Robert Frank and Alberto Giacometti.
-Devoted to bringing closer the idea between so-called fine and applied arts.
Joesf Miller Brockman
-1914 –1996
-Swiss graphic designer and teacher.
-Studied architecture, design and history of art at both the University and Kunstgewerbeschule in Zürich.
-Opened his Zurich studio specializing in graphic design, exhibition design and photography.
-1958 he became a founding editor of New Graphic Design along with R.P. Lohse, C. Vivarelli, and H. Neuburg.
-European design consultant to IBM. He is recognized for his simple designs and his clean use of typography shapes and colors which inspire many graphic designers in the 21st century.
