Pictogram

i revised my pictogram this weekend and wanted to show it

Brochure - Ben Avny - exterior

Hey sorry forgot to post this too. Does the black behind "Paul" and "Renner" help it legibility wise? Is this what you meant by black boxes? thanks.

Brochure - Ben Avny - center circle

Anyone Like this one for the center circle?

Brochure - Ben Avny

Hello

So this my brochure featuring Paul Renner. He was primarily known for creating the typeface Futura.

Since the first time I showed this in class, I spoke with Olga and she told me to make the following changes:
On the interior protion of the brochure, to fix the kerning on all informational text blocks, which I did but you guys tell me if they're ok. Also, to think about the center cirlce with Renner's face and the composition of the title on it (Paul Renner, A Bridge Between Traditional and Modern Design). The one I have in the image of the interior of the brochure now is the original. Olga didn't want his face in red because it made him appear negatively.

On the exterior, I didn't upload what I initially had because right now I'm on my pc at home and I don't have the font I used for the exterior, but simply, I used the Gothic typeface to create a pattern effect to display the contrast between the old Gothic look of German design and the newer futura-esque design. I uploaded 3 options for the exterior of the brochure based on what I talked about with Olga. Let me know what you guys think.

Also, these images are of my brochure as it would be fully opened flat. IT ma be difficult to explain if you haven't seen it already or don't remember, but it opens ups like an armoire? Such that the exterior when closed, would read "Paul" and "Renner" on their flaps from left to right. Hope that helps. Thanks!

The Myth of Sysiphus

The myth I chose for my pictogram is The Myth of Sysiphus, which is essentially about Sysiphus, and how he has been condemned to an eternity of performing a futile task, which is to push/roll as tone to the top of a mountain, only for it to roll right back to the bottom, over and over again by the gods. This was because the gods seemed to think that performing such a futile task repeatedly was one of the most dreadful of punishments. However, Sysiphus acknowledges, and ends up embracing his fate, when he realizes that his fate is his, and his alone. He embraces the absurdity of his fate, realizes that the rock is merely just a 'thing', and becomes joyous over the idea.

My main idea to depit this was the idea of an infinity symbol of sorts, but instead I utilized somewhat of a recycle symbol that you can find on all the bottles of water, soda, or food packaging you may buy each day.

-David Castillo

Trisha Rae Wong

Hola, this is for the brochure, I have Jan Tschichold the German Swiss born famous typographer. As Olga said, "he is the reason why we design the way we do today."
This is the inside to one of my flaps.

oop pandoras box is me (cat) of course i forgot to write my name...

pandoras box

the myth i chose was pandora's box, so basically the story is of a box forbidden to be opened but out of curiosity, a girl named pandora opens it and releases all the evils of the world. By closing the box after she saw all of what was released from it, she shuts it close the only thing unable to escape was hope. what i took from this story was that the most essential object HOPE was not let out of the box with the other evils of the world.  

pictogram(persephone)- Brian Cundari

These are my pictograms for my greek mythology story.  My story is Persephone and it symbolizes how she ends up being forced to live in the underworld for 4 months and in olympus for the rest. Which is why we have 4 seasons.  The wings symbolizes how she has 2 different identities olympus/underworld,heavan/hell,angel/demon.

brochure

This is Seul Ki and the designer of my brochure is Neville Brody.

The second line is the inside, and I tried to make it
like the contents page from The FACE magazine, which
Brody got famous of..The third line is the cover of the brochure,
then I thought of how it would be if I made the cover also like
The Face magazine with Brody's face in it.. so I did the first line.

Now I'm just thinking of combining all three together..

Orion

hey guys, this is Seul Ki and my Greek myth is about Orion.

ORION
 A son of Hyrieus, of Hyria, a very handsome
giant and hunter, was beloved by Artemis.
And Apollo, jealousy and indignant at his sister's
affection for him, asserted that she was unable
to hit with her bow a distant point which he
showed to her in the sea. She thereupon took aim,
and hit it, but the point was the head of Orion, who
had been swimming in the sea. In anguish over the
loss of her love, Artemis requested the gods that she be
permitted to immortalized him among stars. Her wish
granted, she placed him in the midlatitude skies.

CONCEPT
jealousy leads to one's downfall
- the overall story is about how the constellation is made
  so i am going to put my pictograms inside the circles of
  the constellation. The sun is Apollo, and i tried to describe
  the jealousy, using the thermometer showing the temperature
  going up. 

 I am still working on it! It is not finished..

Psyche and Eros (sohyun park)

 Hi this is SoHyun Park

The myth I chose is Psyche and Eros.

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Psyche, was the youngest daughter of a king. She was so beautiful that she appeared goddess like. The people of her country began to worship her instead of Aphrodite. Aphrodite annoyed that and she decided to punish Psyche.

Aphrodite sent her son Eros to use his power to make Psyche fall in love with the ugliest thing on Earth. But, Eros saw Psyche's beauty for himself and fell in love with her. He arranged for Psyche to be brought to desolate area and was told that she was to marry an evil being.

Eros came to Psyche when she had gone to bed every night. She was never to see him or know his identity. She became lonely and homesick. She begged to see her 2 sisters. Although Eros was wary, he could not deny his beautiful bride her wish,

Her sister came to visit after being invited. They were immediately jealous of Psyche's good fortune and together, they convinced her that her husband was a dangerous monster and that she must leave him at once.Psyche, being young and naive, believed her sisters.

The next night, She lit the lamp when she was sure that her husband was asleep next to her. When Psyche finally gazed upon Eros, she was shocked to see his perfection and beauty. out of surprise, she dropped some oil from the lamp on Eros. This awoke him and once he realized Psyche saw him, he swiftly departed, abandoning her.

Psyche was filled with grief and dispair. finally Psyche went to Aphrodite herself. Aphrodite She made Psyche her slave and asked of her impossible tasks.  Her final task was to deliver a golden box, which Aphrodite told her she was forrbiden to open. Naturally, Psyche did open it and fell into a deep sleep of death.

Eros in the mean time was also miserable without Psyche. He approached Zeus with his dilema and Zeus decided to let Eros desire to be with Psyche be. Aphrodite gave up her vendeta against Psyche and welcomed her into the family.

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My concept is that the love of Psyche and Eros is patience. 

There are obstacles(jealous, doubt,,) take place to them but they get over these difficult situations.

I brought the idea of stone tower(make a wish). and it can be collapse by surroundings.

this is my sketch. I'm still working on it :-)   
Thank you :-)

Achilles

Hi. It is Jae Wook Lee.

My Greek myth is Achilles.

Achilles was a Greek hero of the Trojan War.

He was invulnerable except for the part of his heel.

He had produced a remarkable accomplishment in the Trojan War.

However, he died in the war 

due to a poisonous arrow shot into his heel.

My concept is 

A great hero who has only one weakness.

myth

hi! it's amie. 


the myth i chose is medusa.


briefly, medusa was the most beautiful girl and aphrodite was jealous of her beauty so she cursed her w/ a snake head and whoever looked at medusa would turn to stone. eventually medusa looked at her refection in a shield and died.


concept= how jealousy can ruin a person


1- cheerleader (medusa) gets taken down by nerd (aphrodite) and nerd becomes cheerleader 
2- butterfly is taken down by ladybug and the butterflies process is reversed and it becomes an ugly caterpillar again

Wassup It's Andrew.
My Greek Myth
is Minotaur.
Here is a
little bit
of the story.
I don't know how
to make this good. If
you got opinions, lemme
know. Anything can be
appreciated. Holla~
-Aye

Greed makes problems. If you put your problems aside, it becomes bigger.

    Minos wanted to be the king of Crete. He prayed to Poseidon to send him a sign as a confirm and Minos was suppose to sacrafice the bull that was sent by Poseidon. However, Minos valued the animal too much and did not sacrafice the bull. As punishment, Poseidon made Pasiphae, Minos’s wife, to fall in love with the bull.
    With the help of the legendary inventor and craftsman Daedalus, she had an affair with the bull. She then brought forth the birth of a monster, half man and half bull. His is known as Minotaur, or the bull of Minos. King Minos then tried to hide this horrible creature in a vast and convoluted maze - the labyrinth. As the Minotaur lives in the labyrinth, and every nine years, seven maidens and seven young men from Athens were offered to Minotaur as food. Theseus volunteered to go in place of one of the seven youths and defeated the Minotaur and got out of the Labyrinth with the help of princess Ariadne.

Myth_Narcissus

Hi :) I'm Soomin.

My Myth is about Narcissus.

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Once upon a time, there was a beautiful boy called Narcissus.

A nymph was in love with him but he was very unkind to her and told her to go away.

The goddess was angry about it, and punished Narcissus to fall in love with himself.

One day, he was walking by a lake and saw his face in the water.

He thought it was another boy, and he fell in love with him.

He didn't want to leave the boy in the lake, so he stayed there.

Finally, he died there.

Flowers grew where Narcissus died.

They are called "Narcissus"

And now, people who love themselves too much are called "Narcissists."

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My concept is that too much self-love is dangerous. Self-love can cause self-destruction.

He fell in love with himself(reflection of him) and died because of too much love. 

My first work represents it. I made 3 versions with same idea. 

And...

I made a simple movie to develop and test this idea.

I really need you guys' help :]

Thank you and good luck!

1st

2nd

3rd

Myth Poster

This is Marie Graboso.

My myth is the story of Persephone's abduction:

This story is about Persephone’s abduction into the Underworld. Growing up, she was so beautiful that every God wanted her especially Hades. He took her away from her mother Demeter, goddess of bountiful harvest, who was so sad she didn’t make anything grow (establishing the cold winters.) Though, she wanted to spend time with her mom, ate the seeds of the pomegranate while living with Hades. So in the end, she divided her world as Queen of the Underworld and daughter of both Demeter and Zeus in Olympus. As a naïve child from childhood began to be consciously aware of her choices and decisions growing up and being away from her parents.

So above, is the first draft of my idea. What I did was I used the story of the Little Mermaid and how she was torn between two worlds. The pomegranate is a symbol to be with her mother (had six seeds that represent the 6 months with her) and the crown represents her choice of becoming Queen in the underworld (which has 6 pearls to represent the 6 months with Hades.)

I'm still working on it, but I'll be open to ideas and such. c:

Myth poster ideas

Hey this is Caryn

My myth is the story of Medusa.
~ Once there was a young woman, more beautiful than any other in the land.  She was able to attract any male she chose merely by looking at them.  Men from all areas of Greece would flock just to spend one moment by her side.  This girl’s name was Medusa.

                One day, a male from a local village complimented her, claiming that she was more beautiful than the goddess Aphrodite.  Instead of rejecting the compliment and asking forgiveness, Medusa bathed in the “power” of the compliment.  While sitting on Olympus, Aphrodite hears this compliment.  Her anger rising, the goddess comes down to earth and presents herself to Medusa, ordering her to apologize for the insult against her.  Medusa merely laughed and claimed the Goddess to be petty and jealous.  In response to Medusa’s insolence, Aphrodite turned the young woman into a horrible monster and cursing her eyes with the power to turn only men to stone.

                Ashamed and scared of her new “power”, Medusa fled her village and went as far away from humans as possible.  As time passed, loneliness and hatred filled her mind; turning the once kind and beautiful woman into an even uglier monster then Aphrodite had first produced.  Eventually nothing remained of Medusa’s human counterpart and had started attacking any male that came within miles of her new home, hoping to ease her loneliness.

                This changed one day when word of Medusa’s terror reached the ears of a young hero named Perseus.   Gifted with tools from the gods, he had used Medusa’s own gaze against her and destroyed the monster, freeing the country of Greece from her wicked terror.~

I'm goin' for the idea that Aphrodite was wronged by Medusa and that Medusa is punished for her ideas and talkin' back to her.

 

1st idea is that Medusa is a firefly that lost her light to the bug zapper

 

2nd idea is that Medusa is a butterfly and Aphrodite is the bug spray and sprays her into a Moth

 

3rd idea is when I thought of the story of Snow White. So I twisted the story so that the Evil Queen (Medusa) and that she wronged the beauty of Snow White (Aphrodite). So Snow White turns her into the old hag.

pictogram

This is my pictogram assignment.  I have full intentions to revise it and start it all over to show much improvement

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visual music(Brian Cundari)

Here is my visual music, I must say I am proud of myself for the hard work and improvement i made with it.  If there is anything else that should be done to progress it, please inform me

Myth Project Rough Sketches

This is Omar, and my Myth is the tale of Icarus.

The general plot was about Icarus and his father Daedalus's attempt to escape the army of the king Minos, after his father was accused of betraying the king. Daedalus had built wings for him and his son to use to fly because the king couldn't catch them in the sky. Before flying, Daedalus told Icarus that he couldn't fly too close to the sun because the wings Daedalus invented were only made of wax and feathers. As they flew Icarus became overwhelmed with the sensation of flight so he continued to fly higher and higher until eventual he was close to the sun and just as his father warned him, his wings melted and he fell out the sky, plummeting to his death.

The main idea I'm seeing is that Icarus was tempted by the idea of flight, so I've decided to go try and give a visual representation of temptation. Keep in mind these are sketches, feedback.

Moth to a light bulb.
A chest of treasures protected by barbed wire and dynamite, and a rat to a mouse trap.