Thread: Graphic Design Department

This forum is for DV's Picasso's. Your job is to make sure the writer's needs for pictures for their pages are taken care of. Originality is the name of the game. The writer must explain in-depth what s/he is trying to relay in the picture that the writer is wanting the designer to create. Writers, be as specific as possible. You may also take the initiative to start creating "original" pictures that you think will be useful for the writer's and organizer's to add to the book. You will also be in charge of designing a cover for the book

Department Leader: Department leader's are supervisors of a certain department. They make sure work is being done and they have the authority to tweak, organize, call meetings etc. Staff may consult their department leader and department leader's may consult the Project Leader. Department leader's can hire additional staff members for their department at their discretion. Department leader's, if a staff member is not staying on task or doing what you are asking him/her for the benefit of the department (and ultimately the project) you can recommend them for termination to the Project Leader. Once again, I encourage Department leader's to hire more staff for their departments. To personally hire a new staff member, have them fill out an application and within that application in the additional comments section, have they say that you personally hired them.


The author of this post wrote this cognizant of the fact that staff members work in more than one department.


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Graphic Design Department Staff

Department Leader: adrift

mrdeano, Sugarglider11, Jabrol2001, doktorj

UPDATE:- Finished the points



Look what I did
Since we can't use the other one because of copyright I made my own.
Any suggestions would be great.

Reality check.

You don't have to use these images by the way. I had nothing to do, so I thought it would be fun to make them.

Great mrdeano!! These will definitely be used in the book! Kudos to early initiative

I thought we could use this to help describe how dreams are built up.




Dream are built through perception and expectations.
Even though the image above is a set of random shapes, our expectations and perception tells us its a cat.

This is the same way dreams are built. For example, if in a dream you are stood in a hospital. Expectation tells you that there will be patients walking around. So now your stood in a hospital full of patients... ect

If you want me to make another image then I will be happy to. A cat was the first thing that came to mind.

EDIT - Ohh
Am I right in thinking that in order to perceive or expect something we need Schemas in place?

EDIT - ooh thanks Jeff

That's great deano . And the brief explanation regarding the pictures will help our writers alot as well.

hello, i need a task.
i'm best at digital abstract/surrealism...

see my website gallery for more examples of what i'm capable of.

peace,
doktor J
http://www.doktorj.ca

Since you are both talking about the theme of "expectations change your dreams, for better or for worse, but once you're aware of this you can have them be what you want" I think you ought to make up one of these:



Make it something scary, AND something beautiful. It's up to the reader to decide. Once they've overcome this initial obstacle they're forming the necessary mindframe to dominate their dreams. Once they've learned to switch back and forth, they realize it's all a matter of perception.

So much color, Doktor!

@__@

I like Shift's idea. Also, great work doktorj.

I'm sorry to say that I am going to have to resign from leader of the Graphics Department of the book. My real life is becoming way too hectic (what with my first year of college coming up and such) for me to put some real effort into the book. I am making Adrift leader of the Graphics Department in hopes that he can do a better job that I can. I hope to remain part of the team and will become a part-time worker in the Graphic Arts department and am still open to suggestions and critics.

Good Luck,
DDK

I just had an idea as to what may be added to the book.

A sort of psychological test type of game alike "the odd one out"
A way to train analytical/critical awareness.

Imagine a series of 5 pictures, one of them being a Dream Scene.
Like this:
- A picture of a downtown street with cars and pedestrians.
- A picture of a public park with some trees floating in mid-air.
- A picture of a car parking lot next to a wallmart.
- A picture of a bear plundering a beeshive in the forrest.
- A picture of a submarine near the bottom of the ocean.

Obviously a public park in which trees are floating in mid-air is a dead giveaway for being a Dream Scene. But it's okay to start easy.
As the series of images progress, they could become more difficult to distinguish;
The absurdity of the DreamScene could be reduced and the Dreamsigns could become more and more subtile and hard to notice as the series of images progress.

That could lead to a series of images like this:
- A picture of a drunk homeless man with a bottle of whiskey sitting on the street.
- A picture of a ladybug on a bright yellow flowerpetal
- A picture of a man fishing from a boat in a lake
- A picture of a woman doing Yoga amidst a street full of busy, stressy people
- A picture of a Seagull chasing after an Eagle

The last one is still obviously the dreamscene. But dreamsigns could be infinitely more subtile.
Doing these tests regulairly might help you more easily recognise the Dream state.
Just my little contribution.

PS:
I'd love to draw illustrations and diagrams for this book so let me know if I can be of any graphical assistance to the book. I'd be glad to help.
LooseMinded on deviantART >> My drawings

I might create a cover too. Just posting this so that I get updates on this thread lol