Class today was a little more laid back. We pushed all the desks towards the back of the class and sat around a circle in the front. I like this environment because its more personal. Your able to see everyone in the classes face and it's a lot easier to hear what my peers had to say. I like this set up because its makes people want to share more, we feel as though we are in a safe close knit environment. Jimmy (Professor) showed us a couple design magazines and I can't recall their names at the moment. One of the magazines is made up entirely of student work and the other is a mixture of both professional and student work.
We looked at a couple adds from the magazines. The first add we looked at was an add from Art Center which was created to make potential students become interested in attending Art Center. The add was very confusing to most of the class including Jimmy. We all felt as though the add was too confusing and therefore didn't effectively fulfill it's purpose. In the add, there was a baby inside of an antique/vintage carriage holding a chainsaw. The add was very attention grabbing but was unclear in what they were trying to convey.
Throughout the remainder of class we looked a a few more adds, analyzed them, and critiqued them. After looking through both magazines we all shared the images we chose for our homework and read the headlines we chose to go along with the pictures. Many of the photos were interesting but the headlines weren't quite what Jimmy had in mind. He wanted us to be more creative and to state less obvious things. A lot of us took the literal approach and were very safe with the phrases we chose to describe our images. So, for the homework for Wednesday we are to do the same assignment but this time be a lot more creative in choosing the headlines.
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