This is a rough sketch of the Info Graphic that is designed at bottom on "The War on Marriage."
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Product Illustration
This product illustration of Goobers was done completely in Adobe Illustrator cs6.
Monday, December 10, 2012
The Painted Ballerina explanation
This piece was done in the style of John Steuart Curry. I
liked the exaggerated movement and color in his paintings. I chose this
painting because of the depths of colors in his wind around the legs of his
subjects. I chose a portrait of a ballerina to accurately display the “girl to
woman to wife/czar” feeling that is portrayed in the poem “I am wife” by Emily
Dickinson. Dickinson was commenting on how society puts labels on women, and
they get stuck somewhere in between their own nature and society’s rules.
I took a photograph as part of a documentary on The
Festival Ballet troupe, depicting the struggles and triumphs of a ballet
company. I used it as a reference for this illustration. This woman’s face can be interpreted in so many ways, but her thoughts
will always be mysterious. Her androgynous pose, angular face, deep-seated in
shadow convey the thoughtfully sad emotion in Dickinson’s poem.
Emily Dickinson, “I’m Wife”
I'm "wife" -- I've finished that --
That other state --
I'm Czar -- I'm "Woman" now --
It's safer so --
How odd the Girl's life looks
Behind this soft Eclipse --
I think that Earth feels so
To folks in Heaven -- now --
This being comfort -- then
That other kind -- was pain --
But why compare?
I'm
"Wife"! Stop there!
Info Graphic Explanation
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December 11th 2012
Info Graphic on “The War on Marriage”
I chose to do this topic because I am passionate about the
institution of marriage and how is affects the American society as a whole,
socially, economically, and emotionally. I feel that people do not know the
facts about marriage and divorce or what exactly in causing divorce in today’s
society.
In my info graphic I chose to make a broken “ring” as the
main graphic, to show a ‘broken vow’ in a way. I also chose to just put my
data (percentages/taglines) in the circle, and have them connected to the
information around the ring through colored lines. I did my infographic this
way to give the information a “chaotic-cycle” feel. I chose to put Mark 10:9 in the center, as that verse in
central to the biblical marriage covenant, although these facts are not
strictly biblical, nor from biblical sources.
My information on divorce, (40% increase of therapists, 50%
of 24-30 year olds, etc.) came from the national marriage project. This
organization publishes a book every year about the “state of the union” of
marriage represented strictly in facts that are current, that year. The facts
are abundant on the downloadable .pdfs, and I had a lot of narrowing down to get
it right.
My information on marriage and dating came from mostly op-ed
pieces (long term research written in newspaper article form.) from these news
sources: CNN, TIME, ABC, Shape Magazine,
Good Women, and the Dr. Phil website. Each was a calculated statistic that was compared thoroughly
to other statistics. Dates of information were considered in picking out
different information to use, since some information is not current.
I enjoyed doing the project, and I am hoping that other
people will see the urgency in the War on Marriage after reading through my
info graphic.
-Kaitlyn Becker Breidenbach
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