Fascination: Graphic Irony

Fascination:

What is a fascination? For me understanding the fundamentals, dare I say the principles, in which a critical view on design requires. What is it that I appreciate in the natural and composed environments that surround me? What catches my eye at first sensational glance and what keeps me in-terested with sunstained story behind it. These elements make up my so called appropriated identity, not of my own creation but of an organized curation. The purely sublime manifestation of witty invention mixed with the cleverly altered classics. At first I am only drawn by the substanti-ated and intellectualized but the emotional and romantic come through in moments of self professed weakness. Its a melange but continuity exists with consideration for aesthetics, formal integrity, proportion, material, context, and message.

Graphic Irony:

What can be describe through the altered images, or images of altered situations? What do these intentional statements say about our culture and society. how do they bridge, break, the gap between high and low thought. The commodification of ideas isn’t always the graphic designer’s dilettante impression of the world based on fragments and one lines, their is more to the story that can clearly communicated. Combined notions are rep-resent through clearly understood images, who doesn’t need to be better understood? We are an increasingly visually stimulated society, exponentially our attention span decreases. Sometimes these images can be auto-critical, somewhere amidst the confu-sion of loud boisterous individualized egoism, modesty still holds strong. It could be it political or social commentary. IT could be an internal design joke only designers understand. How about the happenstance moment we capture that makes our continu-ous collective rhythm skip a few beats.

The following pages reveal images from my collection that fit the theme...