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BRAZIL’S SPIX MACAW ABOUT:
ANCESTOR of the family
SPECIES Cyanopsitta spixii,
Psittacidae is the parrot
also known as “Little Blue Macaw”
LIFESPAN 20-40 years
DIET seeds and nuts CONSERVATION STATUS Critically
HABITAT stunted trees, palms and shrubs
endangered and considered extinct from the wild in the years 2000 and once again in 2018
PLACE OF ORIGIN Northeast Brazil,
Destruction of their habitat due to human
but mostly in Rio Sao Francisco Valley in
influence ILLEGAL TRAFFICKING have caused these species from going extinct in the wild.
the states of Bahia and Minas Gerais The Amazon Rainforest
2001 Fires August 2019 Fires
2010 Fires
According to the ACTP, there are about 160 REMAINING Spix macaws held in captivity
Coverts
around the world.
Wrist Radius Coracoid Metarcarpus
Primaries
Phalanx Secondaries
CHRISTOPHER MATTHEWS OTHER FACTS:
Ulna Wingtip
PERSONALITY energetic, noisy and playful but can get agressive
SIMILAR SPECIES grey parrots, true macaws, afrotropical parrots, etc.
The GROWTHSPAN of an adult can go
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WAR PROPAGANDA 11
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THE BEGINNING OF TIMES 5
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ABOUT
CONTENTS
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GLOBAL POVERTY 25
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ABOUT ME
Christopher Matthews was born and raised in San Pedro Sula, in the Department of CortÊs, Honduras. Due to political and economic crisis, Christopher and his family moved to Houston, Texas in July of 2016. He started high school as an English-as-second-language student at Cypress Falls High School and graduated with honors at the age of 18. Christopher started college at Texas Tech University that same year, where he found a passion in structural architecture and sustainability. Christopher is currently an undergraduate student at Texas Tech University. He is an active student within the College of Architecture at Texas Tech with organization such as Mentor Tech Student Mentoring and the National Organization of Minority Architects. Today, Christopher is graduating magna cum laude with a Bachelor’s of Science in Architecture in December 14th 2019.
Christopher Matthews Student Assistant / Arch 2311 Texas Tech University NOMAS Secretary / Lubbock Chapter Mentor Tech PAC
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ABOUT
ABOUT THE BOOK
At the beginning of each chapter unit, we are introduced to the chapter with a full bleed landing page, designed specifically to introduce a series of drawings grouped based on a similar concept or idea. The organization and grouping of content for the drawings were based under two main principles. First and foremost, the content of the drawings are thematically-driven. For instance, the first two drawings look at prehistoric drawings of animals and humans, both drawn within a timeline. Similarly, the last three drawings also flow according to the theme of delivering data through infographics. The second principle for organization were to organize the drawings by the same or very similar color scheme after following the first principle. For example, the “Culture and Religion” section was organized in the same chapter unit because it first follows a similar theme but the drawings also follow a similar color palette. Both countries’ flags, Israel’s and Honduras’s, match the same color scheme with a dark, ocean blue background. Hence, the choice to group “Culture and Religion” in the same category.
TIMES OF WAR WORLD WAR II THE AXIS POWERS COLD WAR THE ALLIED POWERS
ABOUT
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THE BEGINNING
THE BEGINNING OF TIMES
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The first drawing depicts a timeline drawing from the Early Paleozoic Era, where my partner and I drew the first three periods of this era: Cambrian Period, Ordovician Period, and Silurian, accordingly. 541 to 485 million years ago, the drawing depicts the oxygen level changes and the relationship it had with the rising sea levels. Furthemore, the species that existed are also drawn, and by followings their lines in both x and y directions, one can notice the time around scientists predict their extinction. The second drawing also follows this same timeline theme, but in a more three-dimensional world. The drawing focuses on the Upper Paleolithic Period, about 40,000 to 20,000 years ago, which is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age. In this era, some of the first humans, the Neandarthals and Homosapiens had conflicts within each other. In the drawing, my partner focused on the background content of the drawing, such as the environment, the sky, the mountains and the ocean while I focused on the foreground such as the cliff, the humans, the earth strata and the cave. After having things set together, we combined the drawings and postproduced them together to make the color scheme match better. THE BEGINNING
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Pikaia Gracilens Chordates/Vertebrates
Anomalocaris Anthropods
Orthrozanclus Arachnids
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THE BEGINNING
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WAR PROPAGANDA
WAR PROPAGANDA
THE AXIS PO WERS THE ALLIED POWERS
3 As part of the mid-term drawing, this series of drawings took multiple steps of going back and forth to obtain the desired results, such as obtaining the license of some of these models online, while others were modeled in Rhino 3D. Linework was also added on top of the renders. Once the models were set in place and experimented with different views, I rendered them in VRay and postproduced them in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. The individual, colored propaganda posters were designed in Rhino 3D and postproduced in Adobe Illustrator. These were added to the rendered cities during war times in a comic-style theme to display propaganda of events happening in major Erupean and American cities from the 1940s to 1960s . I focused on the Allied Powers, while my partner focused on the Axis Powers (a different series of drawings not in this booklet). WAR PROPAGANDA
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CULTURE & RELIGION
CULTURE & RELIGION
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The first drawing focuses on religion: Judaism. For this drawing, we were asked to draw and produce our own vectors of a religion of our choice. I chose Judaism because I wanted to research more about one of the three Abrahamic religions where I have the least knowledge about. Christianity and Islam being the other two. I wanted to divide the drawing by symbols, people and places. Judaism, it turns out, has different branches such as orthodox and conservative, and each region in the world seems to have a slightly different way to express this religion through cultural customs.
I chose to collage Honduran culture mainly because I am Honduran myself, and I think most people do not know about Central American culture and the beauties that lie within this region of the Americas. Among the various ethnic groups within the different regions in Honduras, I wanted to focus on historic architecture in the nation, major heroes and symbols of independence such as Indio Lempira, Francisco Morazรกn, and the recent activist and environmentalist, Berta Cรกceres, who was killed on March of 2016 by government military after months of threats due to her movements for the environment and the corruption against major habitats in the country. CULTURE & RELIGION
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SYMBOLS ISRAEL FLAG 1
TORAH 1
TORAH 2
SYMBOLS
ISRAEL FLAG 2
TEN COMMANDMENTS
DAVID’S STAR
HANUKKAH GELT
DEC 23RD NINE BRANCH MENORAH
SEVEN BRANCH MENORAH
HANNUKAH
CELTIC CROSS
LATIN CROSS
ICHTHYS
OLIVES
SYMBOLS
CANDLES
HAMSA
OIL PITCHER
OLIVE OIL
GOBLET
SHOFAR
CHAI SYMBOL
SUFGANIYOT
PEOPLE
HAMESH
MODERN ORTHODOX JEW
RABBI JEW
ORTHODOX JEW
ORTHODOX JEW
MODERN ORTHODOX JEW
ORTHODOX JEWISH GIRL
PLACES
HASSIDIC JEW
SYNAGOGUE 1
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CULTURE & RELIGION
SYNAGOGUE 2
SYNAGOGUE 3
SYNAGOGUE 4
SYNAGOGUE 5
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2018: FIRES & EXTINCTION
2018: FIRES & EXTINCTION
5 It is highly notable that 2018 was driven by a violent mother nature or under the influence of man’s greed, and, in this chapter, we focus purely on fires and the effects that these have in nature. The first and second drawings map the 2018 California wildfires and the most devastating wildfires in American history. The third drawing, is an infographics designed to conduct an analysis of Brazil’s endangered Spix Macaw. The last sighting of this macaw in the wild was in 2000 and back again in 2016. Additionally, this drawing also tracks the increase of men-induced fires in Brazil in recent times, especifically in 2001, 2010 and the recent 2019 Amazonian fires. These were tracked by using sources such as Rainforests Mongabay, Telegraph UK, USA Today, National Geographic and Global Forest Watch. These sources were used to trace the areas mapped in the sources and reproduced in Rhino 3D to re-display. The fourth and last drawing is also an infographics of the 2018 Guatemala Volcanic Eruption, which focuses in the statistics of the colossal damage done by Fuego’s eruption. 2018: FIRES & EXTINCTION
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Major Forests
California Fires
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Peshtigo Fire 1871 (1.2 mil acres) miles
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deadliest & most destructive in the state’s history
(1.9 mil acres) Woolsey (96,949 acres)
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general electric hq
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general motors
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(est 1908)
campfire (153,336 acres)
Metric Tons (Millions)
standard oil co.
Ford Motors (hq) (est 1903)
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(est 1892)
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(est 1863)
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Washburn & moen north works
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ExxonMobil (hq) (est 1999)
chevron(hq) (est 1879)
Worst Single American Fires
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BRAZIL’S SPIX MACAW ABOUT:
ANCESTOR of the family
SPECIES Cyanopsitta spixii,
Psittacidae is the parrot
also known as “Little Blue Macaw”
LIFESPAN 20-40 years
DIET seeds and nuts CONSERVATION STATUS Critically
HABITAT stunted trees, palms and shrubs
endangered and considered extinct from the wild in the years 2000 and once again in 2018
PLACE OF ORIGIN Northeast Brazil,
Destruction of their habitat due to human
but mostly in Rio Sao Francisco Valley in
influence ILLEGAL TRAFFICKING have caused these species from going extinct in the wild.
the states of Bahia and Minas Gerais The Amazon Rainforest
2001 Fires August 2019 Fires
2010 Fires
According to the ACTP, there are about 160 REMAINING Spix macaws held in captivity
Coverts
around the world.
Wrist Radius Coracoid Metarcarpus
Primaries
Phalanx Secondaries
OTHER FACTS:
Ulna Wingtip
PERSONALITY energetic, noisy and playful but can get agressive
SIMILAR SPECIES grey parrots, true macaws, afrotropical parrots, etc.
POP CULTURE popularly known for its appearance in the film Rio
The GROWTHSPAN of an adult can go up to 22 inches full body length; 10-15 inches tail length and up to 12 inches of wing length.
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WORLD POVERTY
WORLD POVERTY
6 This infographics about poverty used sources from worldbank.org, finca.org, results.org and oxfamamerica.org. The design for this poster took inspiration from a photo of a slums settlement adjacent to the rich district in Manila. This division between the rich and the poor inspired me to draw the earth globe with the rich skyscrapers on one side of the globe, and the upside down of the globe we see the poor dwellings. This idea of the upside down of the poor and the upper top for the rich was significant inspiration to reflect on how society has always operated. WORLD POVERTY
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DESIGN INSPIRATION
Settlement in Manila, Philippines. Noel Celis. AFP. Getty Images. Retrieved from foreignpolicy.com
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WORLD POVERTY
World Poverty What-a-Fact!
The Rich The Poor
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extreme poverty rate: 10.7% globally
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extreme poverty rate: 10.1% globally
extreme poverty rate: 11% globally
What-a-Fact! The Great Depression 1929-1939
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Today Arab Oil Crisis 1973-1974
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