Graphic violence

focus on the Graphic Designer career for the ISearch paper, because it is a job that I would possibly like to pursue, and it is something I am interested in. Graphic design is a mixture of elements like creativity and technology to make graphics, advertisements, and many other types of media. A graphic designer’s job is to communicate with clients and develop visuals based on their needs. They work with text and images, determining the exact color, font, size, and look of the graphic. Graphic…

Advertisement is a technique that targets audiences of diverse products. Nearly all products sell because of their advertisements on web ads, TV, radio, and billboards. Both advertisements use unusual marketing promotions method to aim the attention and succeed over their intended audience. Browsing to different magazines I came to two advertisements that caught my attention. The Lacoste spray advertisement is more efficient than the Tommy Hilfiger fragrance ad since the emotions, authority, and…

Paying For It by Chester Brown is a graphic novel about Brown becoming a “john.” The story begins in 1996, Browns’ girlfriend breaks up with him and he spends the next three years celibate. Over that period of time his ex brings other men to live with them since Brown never moved out, after watching their arguments he decides to never be in another relationship but that decision conflicts with his desire to have sex, versus the desire to not have a girlfriend. He finally decides to hire a…

The Media: Your New Mirror In advertising and social media, body image has now made women more self-conscious of their bodies. Women feel the need to look pretty for the opinion and compliments of society as a whole, not just a few people or a loved one. Advertisements use Photoshop and airbrushing to make a model look perfect. Over time the way society perceives women as beautiful has changed drastically. The most popular looks through the years have been corsets for a tiny waist, womanly…

When advertising, the best information to have is to know who the audience is. Without knowing who to sell the product to, one does not have a proper basis for advertising. Once one knows who they are advertising to, they must know how to approach said audience. An advertisement for little girls would not feature old men golfing and chatting about their rheumatoid arthritis, just as an advertisement against smoking would not involve people happily smoking. Such aspects are counter productive…

Communication, a seemingly very simple word, however, when put into action can be a lot more complex than what we envision it to be. There are classes, books, and websites dedicated to teaching individuals, the proper way to communicate, in correlation to their relationships to each other. Communication in specific areas like business or the health professions are important to make sure things are done correctly so that we do not have to worry about small misunderstandings that could lead to…

Beyond School Books: Podcast #83, Girls Who Code In anticipation of the International Day of the Girl Child, UNICEF podcast moderator Alex Goldmark interviews Rashma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code. The Girls Who Code organization seeks challenge many of the culturally reinforced perception and constructs believed as contributing to the low and declining representation of women within the computer sciences industries of North America. The organization provides confidence enriching…

Background The Cheesecake Factory is an upscale casual dining concept that offers over 200 menu items including appetizers, pizza, seafood, steaks, chicken, burgers, pasta, specialty items, salads, sandwiches, omelets and desserts, including approximately 50 varieties of cheesecake and other baked desserts. Grand Lux Cafe and RockSugar Pan Asian Kitchen are also upscale casual dining concepts offering approximately 200 and 75 menu items, respectively. The mission statement of the company is…

Technology Paragraph Technology has both a positive and a negative impact on the graphic design business. It gives the designer the ability to work for a business without actually meeting the client. Causing a lack of motivation for the designer. A designer can use shortcuts and the client will not know because they haven’t met in person. This change in designer-client relationship is brought on by advancing technology. As technology advances, customer’s expectations also grow. “As viewers…

In life a person plays several roles. In mine I am a mother, wife, daughter, sister, and much more. Having good communication skills within these roles is crucial. Sometimes It 's hard to verbalize my feelings without seeming like I am ignoring or being critical, of those I am talking to. I value the relationships I have built over the course of my life, but have come to a turning point where I realize that some of those relationships do not play as big of a factor in my life, as I once thought.…