Design Theory S17-Madeline

Assignment 5 Final Class Objective

choose a song and music artist for our next project – a music CD package using visual logic.
Please post a link to the song, as well as the lyrics (words) to your blog before class

One idea:
The Simpons Movie Soundtrack, created by Adrenaline Music Group, puts a new spin on packaging by turning the soundtrack into on of Homer's favorite treats, i.e., putting a new spin on the usual stale way of cd packaging.
music link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uht2C9oKLEI

Another choice of mine was by the band Julian Casablancas + The Voidz for their Full Album Tyranny in 2014. Two songs of theirs from the album are below:
music link: song: human sadness : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuXlZ5PHK9I

Here are the lyrics for human sadness at least:

Lyrics

Put money in my hand
And I will do the things you want me to.

Vanity, overriding wisdom,
Usually common sense.

Should I delete it,
You said you'd read it
You promised you would never ruin it with sequels,

I wake for you, on and on

Beyond all ideas of right and wrong there is a field,
I will be meeting you there.

The moon's a skull, I think it's grinning
The room is full of people now I think it's spinning

Wanted you, didn't ask for nothing.
Wait for you, on and on

And I don't need your tie, I don't need to, tired of saying it.
We don't need more talk, don't empty out your canteen on the desert floor.
Ahhh, it's all my fault

Never wanna spell it out,
I just want to say that it is all my fault,
I could never spit it out,
I don't wanna fix your tie.

Never want to say we're sad,
Thankful that we got some chance,
I know you won't get back your time,
I wish that you could take it back.

Beyond all ideas of right and wrong there is a field,
I will be meeting you there.

He wanted it more than me, I suppose
I was in a rush to wait in a line.
Now I hear echoes of my old self,
This is not the way to be.
All at once,
I lost my way.

Is it not true, the things that we did?
Come here at once and look what they did
Come here shut down and tune in tonight,
Learn the words that they teach you without you realizing it
Come here sit down and watch some TV

Mine all mine, wait your turn,
Cross my cross, slice his hand,
Not your son, not your friend, not your enemy.

I rely on the little things to get me by,
Conscience says, "I'm okay",
You don't hear what they say.
"He's not my son, search his home"
Off to war,
It's time to go hide inside.

Soft skin,
Weak chin,
Just walk me thru it, tell me what to do I'll do

Hurry hurry, that's my baby
Ohh, do what you can.

All the time he waits for me.
And now we talk from time to time,

Hits you on the head when nobody's there,
Then he says, "come here could you fix my tie?"

It's never gonna be,
To be is not the way to be.

Show me where to go, don't get angry so quickly,
Fuck depression.

Beyond all ideas of right and wrong there is a field,
I will be meeting you there

Understanding is more important than love,
If not money will always trump justice

All is lost,
I'll find my way.
So I say,
To be is not to be.
To be is not the way to be.

Here is their music package: It utilizes a lighter that doubles as a flash drive to play there music. It's a clever idea considering some people never leave the house without one.

Here are 40 photos related to the human sadness song lyrics:
The first 20 are web searches.
The next 10 are printed magazine sources.
The next five are from home.
And the last five are my own.

3 Collaged Images:

Album Cover Front to Back. Front is the right side, back is the right side.

Analytical:

Symbolic:

Reading #6

Shamanism

In Siberia,Shamans would often go into a trance, frenzied or passive, to heal the sick, change weather, fortell the future, and converse with spirits.

In South/Central America, Catholic priests met people who consumed intoxicated drinks to have spiritual experiences.

In South Africa, missionaries saw people who often dance till nostrils poured from their nose, they were dancing for the Kaggen, which translated means Mantis, one of his manifestations, but white settlers translated it to “the Devil."

The irony in all this is europeans seeing this as primitive, but in Judeo-Christain tradition, estatic revelations and visions are also common.

Altered States of Consciousness:

Shamanism relies on induction, control, and exploitation of altered states of consciousness. These days neuropsychological research can know a lot on Upper Paleolithic people in altered states. There is the alert consciousness, and there is also the deep trance that many explorers observed. In alert consciousness there is the “light” altered states, an inward state like daydreaming, There is also dreaming, and lucid dreaming where you are aware that you are dreaming. Then there are deep states, seeing things that aren’t there, like hallucinations, which is a trance state. Medical problems can cause hallucinations, like epilepsy, migraines, or schizophrenia, but there are also psychotropic drugs like LSD, or sensory deprivation, prolonged isolation, pain, dancing, rhymes sound, drumming and chanting.

Stages of Trance:

One: seeing geometric forms like dots, zigzags, grids, circles,etc.

Two: subjects try to take geometric shapes and associating them with religious or emotional significance.

Three: Subjects hallucinate what they expect to hallucinate. subjects feel drawn to by a tunnel. When you emerge from the tunnel it’s a world of monsters, people, and settings, where the subjects interact more, feeling like they can fly or change into animals.

Diversity and Unity of Shamanism.

Shamans can be strikingly different all around the world, however, it is the similarities despite their differences in culture/customs/time periods that is even more striking, which may be because of the way the human nervous system behaves in altered states.

Chapter 5: The Shamanic World

There are four elements that have resulted in the creation of the complex caves done by the Upper Paleolithic people throughout the wide spaces of time.

One: the topography of the cave/passges/chambers on helping or hindering shamanism aspects.

Two: the universal functioning of the human nervous system and how it functions in altered states

Three: Customs of the people throughout time, social conditions, cosmologies, religious beliefs.

Four: How people exploited all these for their purposes and advantages.

Embellished Chambers: it seems large chambers in caves were the primary spots for multiple people to gather and work on cave imagery. But because these chambers are isolated physically from eh world,it suggests social separation, and an important stage in a shamanic journey. Embellished chambers maybe also have ties to power in the communities in the area. That, for example, the better decorated caves may show a group’s better access to the knowledge of the underworld.

Passages:

These would lead to the embellished chambers. Claviform’s are used in special places where imagery commences, as transitions, at the ends of caves, and entrances, like in the Niaux cave. There are also passages with nothing in them, but perhaps that was part of the shamanic journey to experience nothing before reaching spaces with images and actives.

Small Chambers and Recesses:

In extremely cramped conditions big enough for only two art was still made. There were also cuts/lines in the rocks, but perhaps they were done to allow supernatural powers/animals to escape and help establish some sort of relationship with the maker and the underworld. Perhaps even, in these small sensory deprived space psychotropic drugs were used to induce hallucinations, and animal hallucinations that they would then draw on the walls.

Reading #5

Chapter 1:

1.2: Mapping/Modeling

Dubberly Design Office:

The team uses: concept maps, present research often as posters, working models for user goals/tasks, technology systems, business process, task-flow maps (for software, processes, services, illustrative proposals). "‘If we wish to improve our products, we must improve our processes; we must continually redesign not just our products but also the way we design.’

Such works they’ve made are:

A Model of Brand: (mapping can expand awareness of seemingly familiar concepts, the poster reveals interrelationships of branding).

The idea was to make it a reference tool of all the key ideas of branding.

Java Technology Concept Map: process involved lots of interviews, and getting all the terms, color coding them up with sticky notes on panels to begin to break it down and reconstruct for easier use later for the designers of Java.The final took a year to complete with 235 terms, 425 links relationships, and 110 descriptions.

Dubberly: his parents were engineers, and he always liked color-coding. He got a bf in graphic design and then an MFA in graphic design at Yale. He did some teaching for a while, and eventually started his own place DDO in 2000.

Chapter 2:

2.3: Skolos, Wedell on Collage

Nancy Skolos, Thomas Wedell:

Collaging-purposely threw out deliberate process. Paste-ups were more interesting then the projects being ‘designed.’ which lead to an open-mindedness in type, image, form, and concept.

Form is primary concern. Collaging lets them explore form/compositional moves while also toying with concept.

2010 Lyceum Traveling Fellowship Poster: they used a collage process to make a symbolic image from cultural influences like Nigeria. They then tied the architecture theme with an African mask at the center of the poster by making small scale paper models with geometric elements, and collaging on photoshop to experiment with unexpected juxtapositions and “mistakes.”

With a paper model finalized, they then used Illustrator, and also laser-cut, painted, and used textured paper, as well as a foam board.

After assembling the whole thing, they then photographed it using spotlights for added effect for the final image. Of course they was digital post work as well with photoshop for text, but ultimately yeah, it was a well constructed collage that made a final product.

Skolos: her mother a music teacher, her father a commercial artist. She grew up in Ohio.

Wedell: both parents elementary teachers where his father introduced him to film, photography, and story-telling.

They both met at Cranbrook Academy of Art, made a studio in the 1980s. They really like to make graphic design from collaged disciplines like photography, painting, technology, and architecture.