Overview
Through the lens of technology as it relates to our media-driven culture, my approach is to helps students connect their digital arts and design education with the broader sense of what it means to exist within a society driven by technology. Among my goals for my students is to understand and articulate connections and develop better self-awareness. I am also focused on helping my students understand that visual communication is content based and synonymous with research—what drives them to knowledge and understanding, how they dissect information, and what systems and constructs they develop to communicate ideas.
Digital Culture Self Portrait
In this project, students are asked to create a self-portrait that communicates the impact of digital culture on personal identity using Adobe Photoshop. They explore the notion that how we use technology has a significant impact on shaping the way we interact, behave, think, and communicate and and consider how this can affect identity.
Text as Art
This project asks students to look at experimental typography and consider how it defies conventional thinking and traditional rules in terms of art and design then apply this to the development of a project using Adobe Photoshop. In developing their ideas, students are asked to look at the rate at which technology changes and its impact on our society and world, how we view ourselves and identify with each other, and how we interact with technology with each other. Questions they might choose to answer when developing the content of their work:
How you’re affected by an aspect of technology, either directly or indirectly.
Personal experiences where technology has played an integral role.
A relationship with technology that you’d like to dissect or deconstruct.
How you’re influenced by and through technology.
The way you choose to be seen, manipulation of who you are to others.
Propaganda Poster
This project asks students to develop an original propaganda poster using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Students focus specifically on impacting the way others think, act or react and to consider the relationships that exist between propaganda and visual culture within areas such as:
Cultural excesses and extremes
Group ideals and/or actions
Political issues and/or manipulation
Social awareness, change and/or irony
Sustainability
Visual Journal
In this project, students create a dynamic, visual compilation of work and ideas explored throughout a semester course and do so utilizing Adobe Spark Page. The Visual Journal showcase the progression of the work and paints a larger picture of the overall growth and research interests of the student.
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