Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Journal #10: Icons, Logos, Symbols, Photographs, and Other Images


Blog won't allow me to upload photos at this time.  I will bring a physical paper copy to class for grading use.

1. Type only logo
Facebook.
2. Symbol only logo
Recycle
3. Type plus symbol logo
Coca –cola
4. Textual Identity or Identifying phrase
“Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs”  I’ve never heard anyone say this cereal without quoting this phrase.
5. Religious Icon
The Virigin Mary
6. Non-religious icon with symbolic or cultural significance
Playboy bunny logo
7. Cropping of photograph to add emphasis or interest
London: Westminster Bridge, Big Ben/Parliament and double decker.
8. Documentary photograph

Dorothea Lange  Migrant Mother 1936

 

9.  Collage or photo essay

Here are two of a collection of pictures that make up the picture essay: “Mean Streets”  Working thesis, “Thousands of rural children struggle to make a living on the tough streets of Vietnam. This is their Story.”

 

10. Photo or image using stereotypes

Gender stereotype on youth in Disney.

 

11. Political cartoon

 

12.  Educational or instructional cartoon

 

Schoolhouse Rock: “I’m just a bill, yes I’m only a bill, and I’m sitting here on Capitol Hill.”  This cartoon from Saturday morning is how I know what a bill is. 

 

13. Text or image showing intertextuality

The Simpsons play with intertextuality frequently.  Here are two examples of intertextuality of famous artwork.  The Persistence of Memory by Dali, and Scream by Van Gough.

 

14. Color to attract attention or create an atmosphere

 

Research has proven that the colors “red” and “yellow” attract customers and actually make them more hungry for the product.

 

15.  Color to develop associations or aid retention

 

Justin Bieber has taken over the world and also the color purple.  It has become so wildly associated with him that purple has become an association of Biebermania.

Purple can also be associated with homosexuality… as are rainbows.

(In no way do I mean for Biebermania and homosexuality to be linked.)

 

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