Design Project #2

Our next design project dealt with the collaborating the idea of juxtaposition and social issues as a whole. My three issues were body image portrayed to us through the media, global warming and immigrant rights.

With the issue of body image, I created a "cookie cutter" idea of the ideal image, humorously modeled by the gingerbread men. I placed the cookie tray in to a kitchen scene I created to make it look pretty realistic. Then placed a model from a recent spread in Glamour magazine, campaigning the beauty of all shapes and sizes for women.

For global warming, my idea sparked in class

when my teacher began talking about the poor

polar bears and how their homes were practically

melting. So I thought, well where the heck would

they go if their homes really did become obsolete?..

they could end up in our own backyards! Using

humor once again, I placed this cute, over sized polar

bear in to a tiny baby pool. I really enjoyed the effect

of this juxtaposition. The little girl hosing the bear

down is comical, as well as the dog sitting in his plastic

igloo house.

I found a great picture in an old photography book on the culture of America. I thought how effective it would be if the billboard over the workers showed the first couple pages of the Constitution. So that's what I did! I roughed up the pages a bit to correlate with the texture of the photography, but it was pretty simple idea that the greater impact I wanted in the outcome.