Create 3 images for each of the following metaphors or phenomenon.
- sensations in flux
- apple of my eye
- prismatic distortion
- seeing taste
- feeling color
- hearing music
- counting colors
- touching taste
- shifted sense(s)
- crossing experience(s)
Students are encouraged to come up with a substitute metaphor or phenomenon that relates to synesthesia, and use it in place of one (or more) of the 1-10 items above—provided it's appropriate for the magazine article's content and synesthesia.
The visuals you make for the 1-10 items, three for each at 30 total, should evoke the content of your article covering synesthesia. You must communicate the article content, but not be too literal.
Parameters:
- images must be taken of existing or arranged artifacts, scenarios, environments, textures, space, sketches, light/shadows, etc., in other words, make your own photograph or illustration
- sketches, drawings, paintings, and illustrations are acceptable
- so is collage
- found imagery may only be used if additional manipulation has been applied (for instance, you find an image through a Google Photos search, and then must use any number of filters to transform and manipulate the image(s) or you make something entirely new)
- if you use images of Marilyn Monroe, they can be her, but they need to be beyond a simple and straight photograph)
Textbook reading, Graphic Design Thinking 78-87 and 100-103
From the 30 images you make, one direction or directions will be used to develop a feature illustration, photograph, or other visualization for your synesthesia magazine article.
Evaluation: worth 30 points total
- 10 Professional Engagement: presentation of ideas, participation in class, meeting requirements
- 10 Research: variety of information collected, thoroughness of research content, going beyond the minimum requirements
- 10 Communication: use of metaphors, rhetoric, connotation, and denotation for visuals, and appropriateness and clarity of visualizations made
Goals
- to conduct visual research
- to learn about and create a visualization using graphic and/or illustrative means
- to work in 2D space and create
