Creative Anarchy Article Review

   

Today in graphic design the class read an article named "Creative Anarchy at Its Very Best." The article is broken down to 4 sections. First is the introduction and then why the design rules matter, reasons why people should embrace anarchy, and how to incite anarchy. 

The first part is the introduction. The introduction is short but it talks mostly bout how design makes life beautiful, productive, and profitable. Design is all around us and design makes the image concert and tangible. In order to create the best design you have to work and brainstorm through the idea. The job of a designer is to translate a company's abstract concepts into something everyone can understand. The design has to have meaning in it and it has to be understandable.

The next section was about the rules in design. Rules in design are exactly like normal rules set u up in society. With the rules you know how design functions. It can't all just be random designs. Though some rules are flexible and some are firm. The key is to know which rules you can ignore, which you can't ignore, and rules you can bend. To know which rules you can bend you have to know the rules first. When you're bending the rules you also have to have the condolences of the client. You have to try to convince them to add more of your ideas into their big idea. Even if it's just a little bit of details.

The next section of the article was about to think outside the box. It tells designers not to play it safe and do what every other designer is doing. It's encouraging other designers to do something differently than to go along with the group just because "everyone's doing it." When you do something differently it's unique and it gets more attention of the audience.

Pattern and Motif

In thins project we had to do our patterns with a motif. We then had to change the colors collar 5 or 635C Blue. It was a long process but I got it done right on time. The motif was not a repeat pattern. The motif was hard to draw. We had to adjust it to the right size. Line up all the shapes. We then had to change it to the required colors.


My pattern was difficult to think of because I had many ideas. I kept changing and changing my pattern until I finally got what pleased me the most. Here is my pattern and motif!!!

Vultures or Not?

In this project we read an article about the shooting that took place in Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. The question in overall was to see if the reporters were being rude by asking questions at the wrong time.

The authors tries to figure out whether the reporters were being rude by asking the victims overwhelming questions at the scene of the crime instead of considering their condition before asking. The reporters started asking questions through twitter trying to get a story, but what happened next was a tremendous ruckus.

One of the author's strengths was the fact that he put evidence of how the reporters were defending themselves. He put the part that the reporters needed witnesses in order for the news to break. Weaknesses the author made was the fact that he didn't put enough commentary on the people who thought it was wrong of the reporters to ask questions at such an inappropriate time. Another weakness was that he didn't make it quite clear if it was wrong or wasn't right for the reporters to bring back the tragedy to the victims by asking questions.

The general conclusion that the author made wasn't clear at all. At the end of the article he put a quote of one of the victims confirming her safety. Even through all the commotion of what happened the general conclusion would be that the reporters could ask questions but in a light toned way.

I think that the author uses good enough evidence to where you can see both sides of the arguments but he doesn't put his thoughts and emotions into the writing. The evidence he uses persuades and people are able to see perspectives of the argument.  The only thing I don't understand is which side the author is on. He doesn't make it clear on which side he agrees with.