30537a - Progress challenge 03

30537a - Progress challenge 03

Researching trends By Colleen Sedgwick

This challenge will help you research and apply graphic design trends that are specific to your chosen industry.

1. Create a collaged inspiration board, by both hand and scanned-in or using Photoshop. The images and text you use should reflect the current local and global trends within your specific industry. You must source each image using at least two of both formal and informal research strategies and label each as such. You must communicate your labelling system – e.g. each image formally sourced will be marked with a red dot, and each image informally sourced will be marked with a green dot.
2. Find an example of an artist/designer that inspires you.
3. Create a timeline of how their work has evolved over the last 10 years with images. Write a short response about each design describing the current industry trends featured globally at the time of their design.
4. Using this same artist, find at least three designs of theirs that you can see have a connection or were influenced by other kinds of creative professionals. Include images and a short response for each image. For example: ‘I found an image of Victoria Beckham’s current collection, the motif of triangles was heavily featured throughout each piece in the collection.
5. This may be in response to indie musical artists such as Grimes who feature triangles in their album covers and within their fashion choices.’

TIP: Navigate to the student forum to engage in the discussion with your peers.

SELF-CHECK - Submission A

Now that you have completed the Progress challenge, you may submit your work for feedback and discussion.

Instructions

• Write 200 words and complete as a PDF.

• Navigate to the self-check page to submit.

TIP: If you choose to complete each progress challenge as you work through the module, the process of completing your assessment tasks will take a lot less time.

Answer

Part A

Inspiration Board – Symbols

I chose The All-Seeing Eye – the modern use of this symbol (The Eye of Providence) is most heavily associated with the Freemasons and the Illuminati.  However, David Percival (of the Conscious Reporter) states that the symbols’ origins date back even further[1]. (42 words).

My mood board showing the All Seeing Eye

Sources for the All Seeing Eye image (graphics I had made myself)

I made these symbols to show where this information came from:

The Conscious Reporter

The Illuminati

Wikipedia

Part B

Inspiration – an artist who uses this symbol (Nickelodeon)

They have used the all-seeing eye in their cartoons[2]. (10 words) In particular, there is a depiction of the All-seeing Eye in SpongeBob Square-pants[3].  The name of this episode is the Toy Store of Doom[4]. The original creator of SpongeBob Square-pants was Stephen Hillenberg – an artist and marine biologist (this probably explains his love of sea life)[5]. (48 words).

A Mood Board showing all these images by Stephen Hillenberg

Part C

Connection – The Freemasons and the Illuminati

I chose the people who designed the US $1 bill[6], which features the Eye of Providence. (17 words).

The people involved in its design were Benjamin Franklin, J Adams and Thomas Jefferson assisted by the artist Pierre Eugène Du Simitière[7].  Du Simitière was an accomplished portrait painter and had designed the state seals for Delaware and Virginia.   The symbolism not only pays homage to Freemasonry but to Judaism as well - if you look closely at the Treasury Seal (on the right hand side of the US $1 bill), you will find a Star of David directly above the Eagle.  This represents Haym Salomon, who helped financed the American side of the War of Independence (against Britain). (100 words).

Here is what they had to say about the pyramid (10 words):

(Not included)

Another connection - Disney

Another artist working for Nickelodeon, Jeff ‘Swampy’ Marsh also worked for Disney[8] and for Fox studios[9]. (17 words).

(Total = 244 words [Sorry, it is a bit over, I know]). J

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[1] Percival, D (2014): The All-Seeing Eye: Sacred Origins of a Hijacked Symbol, in The Conscious Reporter  http://consciousreporter.com/conspiracy-against-consciousness/corruption-sacred-symbols-all-seeing-eye/[8/01/2017 12:06:32 AM]

[2] Illuminati Symbols (2017): Nickelodeon All-Seeing Eye Pyramid http://illuminatisymbols.info/nickelodeon-all-seeing-eye/

[3] Illuminati Symbols (2017): SpongeBob Square Pants All Seeing Eye on Pyramid, http://illuminatisymbols.info/spongebob-squarepants-all-seeing-eye-on-pyramid/

[4] Fandom (2017): Toy Store of Doom | Encyclopaedia SpongeBobia | Fandom powered by Wikia http://spongebob.wikia.com/wiki/Toy_Store_of_Doom[8/03/2017 6:22:14 AM]

[5] Wikipedia (2017): Stephen Hillenberg, in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hillenburg

[6] Barrett, D (2017): THE "MASONIC" ONE DOLLAR: Fact or Fiction? In Pietre-Stones Review of Freemasonry, http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/masonic_dollar.html[8/03/2017 4:43:05 AM]

[7] Wikipedia (2017) The Eye of Providence, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Providence?oldid=757926811

[8] From what I heard, Disney was also a Freemason. See Karg, B, and Young, JK (2009): 101 Secrets of the Freemasons, in Amazon.com, https://www.amazon.com/dp/1440503788/ref=rdr_ext_tmb; for more information.  Whatever the case is, it is still an amazing coincidence that Disney also made a film called ‘101 Dalmatians’?  Need I say more?

[9] Wikipedia (2017): Jeff ‘Swampy’ Marsh, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_%2522Swampy%2522_Marsh?oldid=758842033