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Point, Line, Plane, and Balance – Joshua Coleman

When looking through the various examples of typography I was immediately drawn to this poster from thinkingwithtype.com. The the students from the Maryland Institute College of Arts are experimenting with different aspects to typography. In my opinion, each corner of … Continue reading

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Student Broadside Critique – Kelsey Johnson

Lisa’s broadside displays an excerpt from Sir Arthur Conon Doyle’s The Sign of the Four, a Sherlock Holmes novel.  The mood of this text is meditative and aloof and has the feel of classic literature because of the use of old-fashioned … Continue reading

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Student Broadside Critique – Evan Matthews

  The text of the broadside is about someone listing the many reasons why they do not want a kitten. The author goes on to say how they would much rather take other animals that could not even be pets … Continue reading

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Image as Text – Becka Prater

  I chose the poem, “We Are Our Sins” by Emily Page. The three images above are pictures that I plan to use because it sums up what the whole poem is about pretty well. These images also create a narrative … Continue reading

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Image As Text – Colin Weickmann

For my broadside, I chose three images that related to the poem Sking, written by Jesse Purvis. In the poem, Jesse talks about this notion of sking as an adjective to describe people who float away into the sky, or … Continue reading

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Image as Text – Jesse Pearson

For my poem, I was thinking that I could use one of these three pictures as the background of the broadside. Ideally, I would use these images alone, but I was thinking that I would combine them with layering and … Continue reading

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Student Broadside Critique – Melissa Tsitsis

The mood of the text seems hopeful because there’s many different genres of music that suit different tastes, personalities, and moods. It starts off as a simile: “Human lives are composed like music.” This is the first line of the … Continue reading

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Student Broadside Critique – Katie Tufts

This is a broadside made by Jack of a piece by Edgar Allen Poe called A Dream Within A Dream. This poem is about the difference between a dream and reality and not being able to tell which state you’re … Continue reading

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Student Broadside Critique- Marci Hohner

I am critiquing Jacob Oster’s broadside entitled “Paying Homage to two Skiing Legends”. The text is about two skiiers whom passed away in a skiing accident. It reads slightly like an obituary, paying their condolences to the lost, but with … Continue reading

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Student Broadside Critique–Jacob Oster

1) What is the text about and what mood is being conveyed? 2) How do you understand the visual hierarchy presented by the broadside? Does the broadside attract your attention from a distance? Why or why not? Does the broadside keep … Continue reading

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