Thursday, November 4, 2010

Magazine Cover & Spread

Initially I was to begin work on a mens quarterly, but after some deliberation, decided that I would prefer to work on something a bit more abstract. I decided upon a concept design for a magazine called Observer. It being a (meta-magazine) i.e. a magazine about magazines and typography, I felt gave me more room to experiment with more abstract ideas and forms. 


Note: that the magazine contains an essay that extrapolates on some of my own observations, and experiences gained as a result of undertaking this project. 

CMNS 473 - (Assignment 3) [Preliminary Research]

CMNS 473 - (Assignment 3) [Process]
CMNS 473 - (Assignment 3) [Production]




qrcode 


Business Card Design

Rara avis (rare bird)


CMNS 473 - (Assignment 2) [Preliminary Research]


CMNS 473 - (Assignment 2) [Process Work]


CMNS 473 - (Assignment 2) [Production]


Ad-Design (Western Living)


CMNS 473 - (Assignment 1) Preliminary Research

CMNS 473 - (Assignment 1) Process Work

CMNS 473 - (Assignment 1) Production

Monday, July 5, 2010

This is Ideas Space, This is Substance.

Khora

Khôra is a philosophical term described by Plato in Timaeus as a receptacle, a space, or an interval. It is neither being nor nonbeing but an interval between in which the “forms” were originally held. Khôra "gives space" and has maternal overtones (a womb, matrix).
Key authors addressing "khôra" include Heidegger who refers to a "clearing" in which being happens or takes place (El-Bizri, 2004). More recently, Jacques Derrida uses "khôra" to name a radical otherness that "gives place" for being. For Derrida, "khôra" defies attempts at naming or either/or logic which he attempts to "deconstruct" (seedeconstruction).
Following Derrida, John Caputo describes khôra as:
"neither present nor absent,active or passive, the good nor evil, living nor nonliving - but rather atheological and nonhuman - khôra is not even a receptacle. Khôra has no meaning or essence, no identity to fall back upon. She/it receives all without becoming anything, which is why she/it can become the subject of neither a philosopheme nor mytheme. In short, the khôra is tout autre [fully other], very”

Why KHORA?

In search of something great: And this is what I found: KHORA or Olympic 

Olympic
1610, "of or in ref. to Olympos, also Olympia (khora)," town or district in Elis in ancient Greece, where athletic contests in honor of Olympian Zeus were held 776 B.C.E. and every four years thereafter, from Gk. Olympikos, from Olympos, of unknown origin. The modern Olympic Games are a revival, begun in 1896. Not the same place as Mount Olympus, abode of the gods, which was in Thessaly. The name was given to several mountains, each seemingly the highest in its district.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper

Monday, May 10, 2010

Great insight from the Wonderful World of Wiki

For communication scientist and media economist Manfred Knoche at the University of Salzburg, Austria, advertising isn’t just simply a ‘necessary evil’ but a ‘necessary elixir of life’ for the media business, the economy and capitalism as a whole. Advertising and mass media economic interests create ideology. Knoche describes advertising for products and brands as ‘the producer’s weapons in the competition for customers’ and trade advertising, e. g. by the automotive industry, as a means to collectively represent their interests against other groups, such as the train companies. In his view editorial articles and programmes in the media, promoting consumption in general, provide a ‘cost free’ service to producers and sponsoring for a ‘much used means of payment’ in advertising.[30] Christopher Lasch argues that advertising leads to an overall increase in consumption in society; "Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life."[31]

Thursday, January 24, 2008

To Uncle Andrew

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