Permission Slip
Prompt: create a permission slip allowing yourself to be creative! You may use any medium except the computer!! Be creative!
I really loved this prompt and immediately knew how I was going to visually convey my permission both to the professor and to myself. I am usually a very structured creative, I like working within certain parameters and my art therapist has helped me realize that collage-ing is the form I feel most comfortable creating fine art in. So, here on display for my class if not the whole world is my unabashed permission to be creative.
What feeling are they trying to "sell"
Prompt: Find two ads that use analogies and emotions to sell the product. The ad should be selling a feeling instead of the actual product.Tell us what emotion they are trying to “sell.”
I always found this advertisement, an original approach to road safety advertising from the Sussex Safer Roads Partnership, haunting, but emotive. It was forwarded to me by a choir teacher in college, still no idea why. Maybe it was right before break when many students drove home to see their families. Either way I believe it perfectly illustrates how design utilizing an analogy can instill the feeling of both fear and love in a viewer to sell the use of seat belts when driving.
This UNICEF ad titled "Every Share Hurts," is very emotive in utilizing the analogy of physical bullying to convey that cyber-bullying is just as hurtful, the emotion here being, hurt. The desired emotional outcome, of course, is then compassion. Digital citizenship is something I feel very strongly about and few images get that message across as well as this campaign by UNICEF.