Death
Table of Contents Bitmap Tiff Depth & Motion Custom Typeface Conceptual Pattern Typographic Grid Logo Design Information Design Cut Paper Environmental Graphic Website
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— Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
Assignment 1 | Bitmap Tiff
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace.”
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“If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them.
People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.” — Kanye West, Big Brother
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In the first ten minutes of death, pupils begin to dilate, unresponsive to direct light, and “cloud� over. The cloudy appearance of the pupils results from potassium in the red blood cells breaking down. This process can take longer (approximately 3 hours) but, because many people die with their eyes open, the process often occurs in this time frame. Some forensic scientists believe this clouding of the eye can be a better indication of the time of death than rigor mortis and livor mortis. The eyeballs flatten due to loss of blood pressure.
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“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
— Charles Bukowsky
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Assignment 2 | Depth & Motion
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Besides the basic burial, there exists many alternatives. Different cultures bury their dead in different ways, and with technological advances, there are increasingly new techniques and means of burying the dead. Tree burial is when bodies are concealed within a coffin and tied up on the branches of a tree to protect the dead from animals. Cryonics is used when an individual may not be necessarily dead such as people who are diagnosed brain dead. This is done in hopes that the person may be revived in the future when technology advances. Another way to dispose of a deceased body is to launch remains into space using a rocket. This may seem a little out of this world, but famous astronomers and even the creator of Star Trek have selected this form of burial.
Assignment 2 | Depth & Motion
Burial Practices
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Assignment 3 | Custom Typeface
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“Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?” — Epicurus
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“There are far, far better things ahead than any we have left behind.”
— C.S. Lewis
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Assignment 4 | Conceptual Pattern
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Assignment 5 | Typographic Grid
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Assignment 6 | Logo Design
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Assignment 6 | Information Design
Annual Number of Deaths Caused by Cancer
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Mexico, abundant in sugar production and too poor to buy fancy impor ted European church decorations, learned quickly from the friars how to make sugar ar t for their religious festivals. Clay molded sugar figures of angels, sheep and sugar skulls go back to the Colonial Period 18th century. Sugar skulls represented a depar ted soul, had the name written on the forehead and was placed on the home ofrenda or gravestone to honor the return of a par ticular spirit. Sugar skull ar t reflects the folk ar t style of big happy smiles, colorful icing and sparkly tin and glittery adornments.
Assignment 6 | Cut Paper
Sugar Skulls
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— Mark Twain
Assignment 6 | Environmental Design
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
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Assignment 6 | Website
Academy of Art University School of Graphic Design San Francisco, California 94105 Spring 2017 Designer: Rolando Etorma II, etormaroe@gmail.com Chair of Graphic Design: Mary Scott Class: Graphic Design 1 Instructor: Julia Brown Title: Death Fonts: Bodoni 72, Gill Sans Software: Adobe Indesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop Printer & Bindery: Digital Copy 2124 Sonoma Blvd. Vallejo, CA 94590 707.554.2679 digitalcopyprinting.com