Why? Hold and Release Scott Campbell

Scott Campbell's Hold and Release (below) on it's own when framed, to me, feels like more of a piece of art than when used in his Why? poster. When this same piece of graphic art is used in the poster, to me, feels like it is serving the purpose of promoting something instead of just "being"...being a piece of art.
I'm aware that part of the purpose for this exhibit is to make people aware and to see that graphic design is art. Also, some people have trouble seeing it as art if it is serving a purpose because a graphic designer is creating it for his/her job and not just for the sake of creating art for art's sake. I feel that even though a designer has created a piece for a job, it is still art and that they created it with the same abilities and creativeness that they would have used if they were just creating the same thing for art's sake. Where Hold and Release "feel" more like a work of art because it lacks the promotional copy, the same amount, in fact the exact same creativeness was use in the promotional poster Why?.

Hidey Ho Albert Exergian!

It was very difficult to pick one of Albert Exergian's poster that I would want to talk about. I found the posters, that I actually knew at least a bit about the TV shows that he was representing, very clever. Even though they were very minimal, they spoke volumes. I did not find a bunch of information about him. On the guardian.co.uk website, I found out that he is Austrian and they referred to this series as "a series of modernist images inspired by TV shows that echo recent online reinterpretations of Saul Bass and Pelican Books." On thing that I liked about his Home Improvement poster is that even though the main thing that the show was centered around, Tim Allen's character having a home improvement show and how he would usually mess up a project instead of fix it, he used an iconic prop from the show the was used at the end of every show. Most of the time Tim, but sometimes his wife, would discuss whatever problem that they were having in that episode with their neighbor who, no matter what, you would never see any part of him except for the top part of his head above that white privacy fence.

Final Abstract

Inspiring Infographics

When creating my info-graphic of showing how to say "I love you" without saying a word, I am thinking of showing the amount that it would mean to someone by using some shape, maybe geometric, and having some color change. I could actually show the difference and degrees by either creating something similar to either this first info-graphic or the second one. I could either have a mother and father in the bottom center where the earth is above or have a large heart in the torso of each body and have different examples inside. Of course, the bodies would have to be a bit bigger.

With this third one, I like the way the difference in amounts are represented by size. I can't decide whether or not to show degrees of difference by the darkness of a certain color or by the size of the object used to represent "love", probably a heart.

All three of these info-graphics have been useful in a way to the development of my own info-graphic. Before finding these, I wasn't really sure how to go about showing the information without putting it into a boring graph. Now, the hard part is going to be to decide how I'm going to blend these ideas to make an interesting info-graphic of my own

Infographic

First, I plan on making a list of everything that I feel that a spouse and children can do to show their spouse or mother that they love them without saying a word. Second, I plan on seeing if I can find other people's opinions on this subject on the Internet. I want to display the results in a visually interesting way, but I haven't totally figured that part out yet. I'm still pondering.

*** Going to change to "How to Say 'I Love You' Without Saying a Word" so that it won't be gender specific.

Abstract Poster 2nd Attempt