We've been told from media what is beautiful and what's not, a very simple example, when we watch news on Aljazeera or Al Arabiay all the girls who are presenting look the same, white skin, big lips, skinny, and straight hair!!
Monday, February 1, 2010
Beautility
What's wrong wit plaigarism
taking someones' work or ideas happens a lot in graphic Design and filmmaking, no can can create something new that hasn't been done at all. It's a human nature to steel other ideas, concepts and work.
I think it is considered plagiarism when you steel the same concept without altering it, however, if I'm copying someone's else's' work then where is the creativity.
A life of Luxury
everyone sees luxury from his social statue, one can see buying coffee with 10 riyal is luxury, another may think buying coffee for 25 is luxury, it depends,
Imam Ali said, " whoever gets rich, is from poor man's money"
this may not make sense but when you think about it, everyone has specific money for his own life, I'm responsible for every riyal I spend, when I know that some people are dying from hunger, who could I go and buy a coffee for 15 riyals when I can get it for 2 riyals, I'll be asked for these 13 riyals.
it means the extra money I have I'm spending it to achieve my physical pleasure is luxury and God will ask me about it, because it is not my money, God gave it to me, one day I'll be asked for each Riyal I spent.
We've become very materialistic, luxury has become very important in our lives, how come a holiday can be a holiday if it doesn't have luxury, doing something other people can't. otherwise it won't be luxury.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SUhmupiiYw&feature=related
Friday, January 29, 2010
Comparison between the two documentaries
In my opinion, I think manufactured landscaped is more interesting and grabbing, because it has a strong concept behind it, even the execution was really excellent, I think it was an artistic, I love the way he pictured the industrial manufactured and let the picture speak, it opened my eyes to how manufactured are destroying this planet, I think it has changed my perception towards industry and made me look at it in a more sophisticated way.
Whereas, Running fence, was very boring, I got bored while watching it, I think the concept behind it wasn't very strong, it was a more art concept and not something global like the manufactured landscape, Also, I think the execution for the Running fence documentary was not very strong, it was boring, it didn't grab me to continue the movie.
Running Fence
Running Fence is an installation done by Christo and Jeanne Clade, the idea is to build a fence 24.5 miles long, and 18 foot high, extending across the hills of Sonoma and Marin counties in northern California. The documentary shows the struggle of building this fence from government and from people who lives there, and how they wanted to prevent the fence from being erected, the fence which was from white fabric, costed 3 million dollars, and was taken down after two weeks,
It look really a piece of art, It was a paradigm shift when you see people criticizing it and thinks that it's not an art,
Friday, January 22, 2010
The Weaving Design of Community
Isn't it so disgusting and immoral showing naked women posing for the real beauty for Dove, showing their bodies, this is not showing the real beauty in different sizes this is showing us how women have became a product in the ads, this is not respecting women, we don't need to see naked women we don't really need to see their bodies so we can see they are different sizes, and by the way these women don't have that ugly body, their bodies are beautiful they don't have scars or pregnancy effect they are smooth and beautiful, but it is still not respecting the women,
why do we have to show to all the world our naked bodies displayed in a busty street in, don't u feel it's humiliating women, especially respected and modest women who don't get naked in front of anyone, I really feel ashamed in front of all males when watching this ad. because in this ad you are talking about a good thing which is real beauty and then you pose a naked women witch is ambivalent, people will start see this as normal, because you associate it with something good, you are brainwashing people this is exactly like socially responsible advertising, in fact it is worst, because in this ad you are emphasizing that women should be naked and we should see their bodies,
Dove campaign for real beauty is another example of making full of use of the real beauty to advertise Dove,
http://adland.tv/content/doves-new-pro-age-campaign-real-beauty-banned-because-nudity
Ethical Design Education
it's crucial for us a Graphic Designers to to care about this planet God created it to us, However, I think this issue is very exaggerated, it is overemphasize in all awareness posters, it has became a trend, everyone is wearing "Save the environment" T-shirt, but do they really know what it means. do they really understand the problem behind global warming. what difference does it make when "Design" magazine used recycle paper in the latest issue, seriously think about it, it doesn't make sense when i have a magazine filled with direct and indirect advertising and then all of a sudden I care about environment because that's what what they do in Japan, if she really cares about environment then make your issue talk about it, make an interview with people who are contributing to save this planet, but just making a whole issue by recycle paper isn't gonna solve the problem, and whether your issue is a recycle or a gold paper your target audience doesn't care because they don't realize the difference.
I know it is important to know about this issue but there is so many things that are high important to graphic designers to take into consideration other than this issue, Graphic Designers are spending their time and energy god gave it to them to make human being materialistic and to spend their money on buying and buying.
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