Each year you have the opportunity to evaluate our job. The evaluations for ARH 346 are up. Don't forget to leave your opinion. Thank you.
See you next week.
Friday, April 27, 2012
P.L.E.A.S.E. don't forget the student evaluations!
Each year you have the opportunity to evaluate our job. The evaluations for ARH 346 are up. Don't forget to leave your opinion. Thank you.
See you next week.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
The child consumer
Are children under excessive commercial pressure to be seen buying and wearing fashionable brands?
YES. The average American child watches an estimate between 25,000 to 40,000 television commercials per year. In the UK, it is about 10,000 $15-17 billion is spent by companies advertising to children in the US. Over $4 billion was spent in 2009 by the fast food industry alone. The marketing seems to be worth it. For example, Teens in the US spend around $160 billion a year Children (up to 11) spend around $18 billion a year “Tweens” (8-12 year olds) “heavily influence” more than $30 billion in other spending by parents, and “80 percent of all global brands now deploy a ‘tween strategy.’” Children (under 12) and teens influence parental purchases totaling over $130-670 billion a year.
The Journal of the American Medical Association has said that children between the ages of two and seventeen watch an annual average of 15,000 to 18,000 hours of television, compared with 12,000 hours spent per year in school. Children are also major targets for TV advertising, whose impact is greater than usual because there is an apparent lessening of influence by parents and others in the older generation.… According to the [Committee on Communications of the American Academy of Pediatrics], children under the age of two should not watch television at all because at that age, brain development depends heavily on real human interactions.
A nice website here.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
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Design is History
A very good website for graphic design history here. You get a time table on the left hand side and a scroll down menu of schools & figures. A nice bio with clear images informs the artist or school. It's a work in progress!
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Namaiki (Tokyo)
Those familiar with Namaiki’s insanely colourful objects and installations, mad graphics and psychedelic videos might be surprised to hear that they are now mainly working in the garden watching their plants grow. Oh, really? Indeed, the Tokyo-based foreign design duo, consisting of graphic designer David Duval Smith (NZ) and architect Michael Frank (UK), are not only celebrating their 10th Namaiki (naughty) anniversary this year: Still fulfilling the connoisseur’s high expectations in terms of silliness, madness and genius, they added another level to their recent fun and light-hearted installations by switching literally to more natural grounds. PingMag transcribed the essence of an afternoon in David’s garden introducing some of Namaiki’s inspiring thoughts as to why ending up working with living things is just the most interesting thing to do… (taken from Ping Mag)
Friday, April 13, 2012
Your turn #10
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| Filip Dujardin, courtesy DGV |
What's on your mind?
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Hurricane Projects: poster as a political medium
Jeff Boyes Pitt Meadows, Canada
A.. Vastagh, Nashville, Tennessee
Jason Thompson, Brooklyn, New York
Allen Boe, Lincoln, Nebraska
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Julie Joliat
Julie Joliat pursues her career between the two key graphic centers of The Netherlands and Switzerland. Recently based in Zurich after spending 4 years in Amsterdam and the Hague, she works in the field of graphic design and illustration mainly in artistic and cultural medium for: books, magazines, logos, corporate identities, brochures, posters, flyers, web design, and self initiated projects...
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