Elena's 2D Design Blog

Last Wednesday, I attended Joyce Yu-Jean Lee's artist talk from 5-6 pm. I really enjoyed her story and I was interested to learn about her style of art, because it is one that I have never had that much previous exposure to. Growing up in a very traditional family, she shared with us that being an artist was not a responsible or practical thing to do. She was supposed to be a doctor, lawyer, or engineer. I really respected her honesty when telling us about her family because sometimes that can be a hard thing to open up about. In her case, everything that happened to her in her life and how she grew up affected and influenced her path to where she is today. I made a personal connection with something that she spoke about when figuring out what she wanted to do in her life. She discussed all of the jobs and internships she had in fashion, realizing that she hated them and loved shadowing the Japanese artist. She mentioned how knowing something that you don't like is just as im

I honestly had no idea what data visualization was until I watched this video. I realize that data visualization is everywhere, and just didn't know it was a thing . I had no idea that it had a name or that people make a career out of it. I didn't know that people came up with creative, beautiful, and artistic ways to convey information with an intended plan behind it. I am really glad that this new type of artistic talent was brought to my attention, because looking at the examples in the video was really fascinating because I realized the amount of effort and thought goes into these data visualizations. We live i n a world with so much complex data that we constantly have to process. I see now how visualization of data has become an crucial tool not only to convey ideas and content, but to help people make sense of it and as the video says: "to learn something, and not to confirm something". I liked how one man in the video talked about how a successf

The Jean Baudrillard quote that I began with to create my composition was: "It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are". The denotative components to the piece come from the different mixed media that were used to tie it all together. The photo shopped face of the woman combines different pictures to create her face. The thumbprint fills in the shape of her face and the prison bars make up her blank eyes and mouth. Photo shopped eyes were added on top of the bars; one has a reflection of prison bars within them, and one has a tear dripping down. The extension of her hair was first done by using the graphite pencil as well as paint. Then it continues to ink which goes from watered down to saturated ink. There are ink splatters as well covering the extension of the woman's hair. The focal point is the woman's face, and your eye path follows her hair down to the bottom of the piece. The composition is fairly symmetrical, however

I was left confused after reading both readings on Postmodernism. I had to re-read the Disneyland reading to get a better grasp of it, however there were still aspects of both readings that left me puzzled. My main confusion is what exactly postmodernists believe about reality. In the Postmodernist intro reading, it is stated that "postmodernist city-dwellers are alienated, living in a hallucination, an exhilarating blur, a reality evaporating into mere images, spectacles, strange new warps in time and space...". I took this to mean that postmodernists are always living in such a hallucinating and alienated way.  In the Disneyland example, it seems that he is saying that adults go to Disneyland so that they can hide behind the fact that they are childish in reality. Therefore, I took this to mean that when these people are only in Disney can they be their true, childish selves, and when they reenter the world they have to pretend again and hide who they really are. I feel lik

I really liked the statement that these men made in the beginning of the podcast, where they said: "a scientist can say that color has an objective reality. But the colors we see are tricks of the imagination. And there is no perfectly objective view of color". I thought this was an interesting way to start off their podcast because it made me think a little further about my perception of color versus other people's. I enjoyed learning about the differences in the rainbow that we see versus that of dogs. I always assumed that dogs did not see color and only saw the world in black and white. Turns out, their rainbow goes blue, green, and a tiny bit of yellow. Dogs do not have the red color, which is used to make hundred differences of colors, meaning that the significance of not having red is much more than we think. We can see this significance in our simple color wheels from class; had we only been able to use green and blue and a tiny bit of yellow, it would look very

Task 1: Take one white object and place it next to another white object. Compare the initial two colors With my desk lamp on, I placed my shoe and a tissue next to each other. At first glance, I thought they looked almost identical in color. The tissue was a true white in my opinion, and the shoes are fairly knew so I believed them to be very similar types of white. Task 2: Describe the difference in color after further examination After further examination, I could see how the white on my shoe was actually a little faded, and might resemble a more off white than true white. The laces and rim of the shoe where my foot goes started to seem less bright white and more cream or off white, however the rest of the shoe remained to look very similar to the white of the tissue. Task 3: Change the lighting and take note of how the colors change after that. After I turned the desk lamp off, I could tell how different the whites were with less lighting. The tissue remained a v