COLE'S CONNOTATIVE/DENOTATIVE

Emma's Idea Mechanics

The main tie that I see within all six topics is perception. Each deals with how we perceive reality, how we wish to see the future, and how we understand the past. 

Art Piece: Cristiana Couceiro-Freedom Fighters

Film: Donnie Darko

Food: Chipotle burrito bowl

Song: Magic Spells by Crystal Castles

Book/text: Diary by Chuck Palahniuk (selected quotes)

Person: my seester Lily

Signifier | Signified

 Connotative Meaning Building—by Anna Olinova

Yongmin Park-The Sectionalized Keychain

A food dish-Rice
A person-My mother
A film-Borat
A song-Star Guitar
A book-Things I have learned in my life so far
An art piece-AIGA DETROIT

mary smudde. nonsense

Tastless Complacency (brennah/Idea Mechanics)

Art : The Ocean is the Underlying Basis of Every Wave by Derick Melander

Movie: Marnie By Alfred Hitchock

Food: Grilled and Seasoned Artichocks

Song: "Never going back to ok." By The Afters

Book: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo By Steig Larson

Person: OJ Simpson

Final Proposal: 

A public peice that chaged over time due how much people got involved, it 

would be a poster or maybe even a walk way of posters that started off with lots of small simple pictures and as people pulled them off it would reveal the 

truth of the picture or individual in the picture. It would go six layers deep on some images and would get very disturbing. At the end it would show the crime scene photos of weomen who got seriously abused. 

Paul's Blueprint

conflux cubix // amy fortunato

Conflux Cubix is a project proposal whose influences include:

- "La Trahison des Images" by Rene Magritte

- "Oh Bondage, Up Yours!" by the X-Ray Spex

- "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett

- "2046" by Wong Kar-wai

- créme brulee

- an anarchist

COLE'S BLUEPRINT

FLUXUS=FLOW

Art Piece: Joseph Beuys "Capri Batterie"

Film: Wong Kar Wai "Fallen Angeles"

Food: Shabu Shabu

Song: Rolling Stones "Paint it Black"

Text: Tom Wolfe "From Bauhaus to Our House"

Person: John Lennon


I love you--- Julian

Lindsey: Layered Pieces

The thing I realized about all of my interests is that they are all complex and layered with meaning. I wanted my poster to show the intersections where my interests meet.

SONG: Samskeyti - Sigur Ros
FOOD: Candied Apples
FILM: Baraka
ART: Mental Map: Evasion V - Franz Ackermann
BOOK: Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
PERSON: Mom

-Lindsey

Queering Myself: Nigel's Project Proposals

Who Says Pleasure is Not Productive?

by Anna Olinova

Salvation Mountain (Art Piece)

Whip It (Film)

Truffle Mac n' Cheese (Food)

With Arms Outstretched (Song)

Death of a Salesman (Literature)

My Grampa (Person)

In distilling these 6 things and the impact they have on me and why, I realized that they all related to the Jeff Keedy essay "Style is Not a Four Letter Word." They all essentially tie into principles about how enjoyable life experiences serve an important function in our lives, about travel and about rebelling against social expectations that suck the life out of life.  American culture seems to have placed a stigma on enjoyment and happiness (in that it is viewed as frivolous and encroaches on the corporate regime) and all of the proposals intend to alleviate that. After all, as long as you are a productive human, why not take pleasure in what you spend your life doing?


Printed Blueprint

ji's idea mechanic poster

 

art piece: Paper cut art

film: P.S. I love you (Japanese one)

food: sushi

song: Summer Road

book: IDEA Magazine

person: Father

Ji

From the Future: A Blueprint

Robyn Baker: The following is a poster that combines all of my interests/inspirations into projects that deal with the formulation of past, present, and future prediction through mixing elements from each period and scientific/mathematic methodologies.

My inspirations:

Film-Fantastic Planet

Book-Brave New World

Song-"Walkabout" by Atlas Sound & Noah Lennox

Person-Albert Einstein

Artwork-Collage by Agnes Montgomery

Food-Mongolian BBQ

Idealist Ideation

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IDEA MECHANICS: STEPHANIE TREINEN

 

ARTIST: Tadanori Yokoo

MOVIE: Logan's Run

BOOK/POEM: Oh, the places you'll go

SONG: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots pt 1

FOOD DISH: enchiladas

person: my great aunt Satoko

"Feminism is a noun"

Blue Print/ Fabiola Nava

My inspiration was create a poster about feminism, by selecting my favorite artistic women, so I added a triangle that symbolizes several meanings to the poster. The concept of feminism was to show the creative identity, and how important a “women” can be, as an artist, politician, writer, and a legend icon. I also wanted to express how women could benefit power. I also believe that today young women contribute positively to any task force.

Fabiola Nava

• Artist: Barbara Kruger
• Movie: Frida Khalo
• Art Piece “The Dinner Table” by Judy Chicago
• Music: A Spanish song called the “La llorana”
• Food: TV Dinner

You've been had... (Tiimo)

"A Art" by Tiimo Schulze

Project Proposal: A sculpture comissioned by artist Banksy.

Large sphere covered with minute sculptural details that reveal clever/satirical/witty commentaries on the state of the world today. The piece will be a beauty to look at up close and carry the aesthetic of minimalist design from afar (large matte black sphere). The overarching concept isn’t a simple commen- tarie on the world, (as per the rest of Banksy’s portfolio) but a commentary on the art world, the viewer’s attention span, aesthetics vs concept, and design trends. It should fit in aesthetically on ffffound.com, but the meaning behind it will be esoteric; a critic/prank on the viewer who believes he/she is criticing the entire world and fitting in. Hints will be dropped in the form of trollface.

The influences:

• Art-piece: N/A


• Film: Orange County


• Food Dish: Pulled Pork Sangwich


• Song: Sweatshirt by Earl


• Text: Death of the Author


• Person: Anonymous (NSFW)

The Blueprint:

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LifeSaver's

Fabiola Nava 

I transformed the "LifeSavers" candy into something that maintains to be

sweet, enjoyable, and  productive from those STD's. I used the same image

and created a box, and poster.

Sean's Blue Print

Under construction. Revisions/Edits to come.
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So far // If "____" was not created, this would be it.
/// Map; timeline / Cause: effect / Butterfly Effect / Alternate rift in time
--
By Sean Batac

Sean's Self Portrait

A representation of myself using a xerox as my medium.
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I took a picture depicting a particular moment of my life. In this moment, during this time, I knew nothing but pleasure. Through time this innocence became diluted due to technology and society.
--
By Sean Batac
 

22 FLOZ (Twenty-Two Flows)

Once a packaging for Craft's Miracle Whip, now a box cover for an autotune software called "22 FLOZ".
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"22 FLOZ, helping you autotune anything to everything."
"22 FLOZ, cure for the common autotune."
"22 FLOZ, it's what T-Pain uses"
--
By Sean Batac

vintage = same olde shite, the remix

I'm not a huge fan of overly sugary cereals, but I was digging this retro throwback that Cap'n Crunch was sporting. I confess I'm a sucker for that kind of thing, but I also recognize that everything in this post-postmodern world is a pastiche of what was. So essentially...what was this? Nothing but the same old shit. Oh, but vintage -- so same olde shite.


So what would the front of a box look like that packaged this notion? A little like this...


-amy fortunato

Sandy's Blue Print

Most of my inspirations relate to veganism, my project proposal is to create a vegan poster to raise awareness about animal cruelty.

Ay Ay Cap'n!

I took this neo-retro throwback box of Captain Crunch (my personal favorite cereal) and turned it into packaging for when big brother takes over our lives and tells us what to eat nd when to eat it. Really utalitartian, modernist, systematic packaging, and very different from the expressive box I started with.
-Robyn

Good & Plenty

Original Carton

Hormone Pills 1

Hormone Pills 2

Soft contacts for kids 1

Soft contacts for kids 2

I made two new versions of my Good & Plenty candy box: Hormone Pills and packaging for Soft contacts for kids.

-Lindsey

Parliament..Yongmin Park

I made a sign for the rest room using the cigarette package.

This is the original package.

This is the sign for the rest room.