Binary Icon. Creative exploration of opposites (binary) relationships implying life death, shiny encrusted, loud quiet, black white, visible invisible, soft hard, readable unreadable, written spoken, yes no, male female, etc.
Artist Books. Using the book as a form create a portrait of someone you know personally and reveal some little known fact. You may incorporate text which illustrates,
compounds, or contradicts your images.
Basic Design Assignments. Texture illustration. The range of rendering possibly using Ovaltine, Paint, Pencils, Scissors, Glue, Oregano, and Photoshop. Four compositions showing Grid / Balance. Open and Closed form composition using found typography.
Exquisite Corpse Typography. You will be given a part of the body to illustrate using only typography--head, torso, or legs. Develop your section with considerable detail and combine your section with those of your teammates.
A series of five posters which subvert a prevailing concept or explore the topic using statistics. Possibilities include fantasy narratives, revisionist advertising, propaganda.
CWU Student Web Sites. An assortment of offerings including faux documentaries, public service announcements, flash animations, intertextual networks, and as always, the form tag.
Faux Documentaries. Construct a faux documentary or appropriate an official interface to convey subjective content. Official = Corporate, Military, Science, Government, Consumer Site
(Shopping), Mass Media venue, Museum, School, or other institution.
The Intertextual Network. Begin with a single word, short phrase, or image (a signifier). Examine the many possible meanings which this signifier could have and the varied economies in which it could exist.
The Hypertext Artwork. Free form text permutations, the random text, the database as an aesthetic object, ordering, disordering, indexing, textured interfaces.
The Future. This area is reserved for exploring the future. Projects here may address augmented reality, surveillence and security, privacy, the cyborg nature, future governments, cybernetics, identity or identification.
Interface Attractions. How can the html language be used to disrupt, contrast, or challenge the expected interface and interface design? The projects here explore the aesthetics of the html tag.
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