Our first storyboard we decided to focus on goal #8 which is Decent Work and Economic Growth, we decided that because of the pandemic Amanda had difficulty finding a job and decided to use an online job site like indeed to look for a job. After the interview she realizes the workplace ethics isn’t what she thought they were and doesn’t take the job.
Goal # 11 is Sustainable Cities and Communities, we wanted to include a story that focuses on Amandas field of study which is industrial design and have her create a product that is eco friendly and cost effective to. make housing more affordable.
As a group we decided that our last idea was our strongest, in this story Amanda designs an app to help educate those and ASl after she realizes there arent many resources at her school.
and this is my final story board for our third idea.
Paul Rand was an American art director and graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs. He was one of the first commercial artists to practice the Swiss Style of graphic design in America. His diverse portfolio of work is bright and eye catching, Rand doesn’t shy away from colour and uses shape and form to his advantage.
Advertisement for Jacqueline Cochran cosmetics designed by Paul Rand. Courtesy of Steven Heller
His work to me seems timeless, and I especially love his use of negative space in some of the pieces shown I’ve put in this blog post.
Coronet Brandy magazine advertisement, 1948
Paul Rand led the way for future creative directors and designers alike and will always be a memorable piece of design history.
Auguste Renoir was a french painter who was known as a leader in the impressionist movement. He was most commonly known for capturing the female subjects sensuality in his paintings. His work commonly reflects and is inspired by modern painters like Manet and Danish painter Camille Pissarro.
A Nymph by a Stream – 1869
Renior’s work was often well received from critics and mostly painted portraits in his early adulthood. He was able to effortlessly capture the human figure and the interactions between them and set a mood in his paintings with the exaggerated colours he uses. Renoir was a part of a group alongside Pissarro, Monet, Cézanne and Edgar Degas called the Impressions.
Dance in the City – 1883
They did their first gallery in 1874 in Paris but was not a success. Soon after the failed exhibition Renoir and other impressionist painters found patrons who did enjoy their work and would speed up the success of his career. In his lifetime Renoir created over two hundred pieces before dying at the age of 78.
Optometry and eyewear have been around since the roman times, is anybody else not surprised by this, the Romans were always ahead of their times. But it wasn’t until the 12th century that the Italians had started to create what looks like a modern pair of eyeglasses that we are familiar with today. Aside from euorpean optometry, both Asia and those in alaska and on the poles had their own versions of eyewear that weren’t used to correct vision, but to protect from the sun and harsh winter weather.
Anavik, age about 30 years, a Kilusiktogmiut man, close up of head, wearing bone sun goggles, Banks Peninsula, Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut.
Most of us believe the invention of contact lenses is a recent idea, but to my surprise and research it wasn’t. A man by the name Adolf Eugen Fick was a german physiologist and doctor who first started experimenting with the idea of a contact lens in 1886. He started by creating the lenses to fit the eyes of animals and rabbits before he started to experiment on himself.
Pastell von Anton Klamroth (* 29. April 1860 in Moskau; 11. Februar 1929 in Leipzig). K. war ein deutscher Porträtmaler, spezialisiert auf Pastell- und Aquarellmalerei.
For those who wear modern contact lenses and even those who don’t, the idea of having a thin layer of glass over your eye is a terrible thought that’s hard to shake. But thats exactly what Fick did. He created molds of his and many others eye forms before making a thin glass lens that fit the form of the eye. Unlike todays contact lenses the older lens would cover the whole of the eye rather than solely the pupil making it understandably uncomfortable. Most people could only wear the lenses for a few hours to avoid too much irritation. Unfortunatley Fick is not commonly credidted with this modern invention as the idea didn’t popularize until almost 30 years after his death and even then another German scientist got most of the main acknowledgement.
French Empire gilt scissors glasses (with one lens missing), c. 1805
* I would like to note that some of the images used on this blogpost were from sites that did not cite where their sources were from so I was unable to properly cite some images or the website was in full German and couldn’t tell where the citation was or if it was correct *
The Western Suburbs of Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada, c1888. Illustration from The Life and Times of Queen Victoria Vol II, by Robert Wilson, (c1888). (The Print Collector/Getty Images)
Smallpox is an infectious disease carried by the bacteria from the nose and throat and can be spread by bodily fluids, particles from the nasal area or in this case on infected particles in blankets and clothing. Patients can easily infect others at a rapid rate and can suffer from blindness, joint and bone infections, and other fatal symptoms all usually resulting in death. With no immunity to western diseases First Nations of Canada’s West Coast were wiped out in the masses with the white man’s discovery of Canada.
In the 1850s the colonial regime in British Columbia started carving out reserves and reducing the mobility of Aboriginal people like the St’at’imc of the Lillooet area
In 1862, Brother Jonathan, a steam boat from san francisco arrived with the port of Vancouver island. On board was over 300 colonizers with a goal to pan for gold and join the fur trade in hopes to get big in the new colony of Victoria. As well as its passengers Brother Jonathan also brought over food , supplies, goods to trade and western diseases like smallpox. In this case the spread of disease was unintentional and according to the Colonist, if the correct measures were taken “we fear that a serious evil will be entailed on the country.” After the lack of quarantine for the diseased subject there was soon a smallpox epidemic. Native camps were burned to the ground, canoes were destroyed while smallpox infected natives fled the land in hope for safety. Over 30,000 Canadian Native Americans died that year in cause of smallpox and the panicked settlers of victoria.
