Semiotic Still Life
Much of the practice of graphic design has to do with the making of meaning by manipulating signs and symbols, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication. Create a still life with 5 – 15 objects that symbolically represent your influences, inspirations and needs as a designer. Work by MICA seniors.
mountain dew: for artificiality and excess, also caffeine / flowers: for aesthetic beauty / fish: absurdity and discomfort / sculpture: influence of my peers and teachers / cross: influence of history & roots / pencil: for the importance of tactility / lemon: because work is hard / lime: for balance
spoon: for the culinary world / light bulb: for ideation / cotton pad: for cleanliness / tape: for something tactile / ruler: for proximity / paper towel holder: for form and function / binding coil: for production and printed matter / push pins: for embracing process and imperfection / glass: for being transparent / beads: for quantity over quality