Design for Social Equity

Readings: Congressman John Lewis' Artistic Side https://craftsmanship.net/blog/congressman-john-lewis-artistic-side/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WINTER2021_06_Lewis Lewis had a long record on civil rights. Grew up in poverty and became a disciple of Martin Luther King Jr. Chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and an organizer of the 1960s most high profile marches fro voting rights and equality. Collected paintings and other artwork from black artists. Amongst his activism Lewis would take art appreciation classes with painter and educator Aaron Douglass. It changed his life. Lewis and Keith Washington had a friendship revolving around art. They would attend auctions and give each other art or attend an art appreciation class.  Atlanta creates the nation's largest free food forest with hopes of addressing food insecurity https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/22/us/atlanta-free-food-forest-trnd/index.html In Atlanta, farm land was re...

  Research Week: Why visual design has never been more important for educating the masses https://www.fastcompany.com/90526283/why-visual-design-has-never-been-more-important-for-educating-the-masses About Denishia Macon - What inspired you to go down that entrepreneurial path and start Macon Designs? Wanted to make more of an impact with my own work. Networked to see if anyone needed design work done. Vision for Macon designs was to take someone's ideas and make them reality. Goal to take creative identities inside people's minds and create them to work in the outside world - Important lessons Branding is about full scope of things (not one and done). Constant evolution that builds around an identity. Branding can grow into something big as long as it has a solid foundation that has a clear vision and mission. -Visual communications role in social issues Visual communication is the art of educating others. Design can become an easily sharable piece in order to educate others o...

Based off of feedback from my peers I was able to further my poster by adding highlights similar to the shadows and depth I have in the water and coral. I also added another piece of coral at the top to make the bottom more dramatic and seem more bare. The white coral is in transition to dying (bleached itself from being stressed) and the brown coral is already dead.    Feedback: Everyone gave positive feedback on my design. The only thing I could do to push the concept even further is have broken pieces of coral on the bottom half of the hourglass.

 Based on feedback, I decided to go with global warming and the effect it has on life below water. I wanted to go with the hourglass decision as it is unique and symbolized time running out.  Here is my in progress critique:

The first week consisted of reading and introductions. This week we have begun brainstorming for a global goals poster. All of the global goals were intriguing to me, especially life below water, climate action and life on land.  Pinterest board:  https://pin.it/58q3tY4 The Global Goals that interested me the most were Climate Action, Life below water and Life on land. I feel like these goals go hand and hand and are effected by one another. The three topics I have been brainstorming on the most (which you can see on my pinterest board) are deforestation, global warming and ocean pollution.  My Ideas: Deforestation - I am thinking of showing half of an image with lots of trees and vibrant colors, then the other half being stumps and dark, dull colors.  - I really want to portray the vast differences with this and how it effects our environment as well as the wildlife Global Warming -  There is so much that global warming effects so I wanted to try and come up wi...