Visual Experiments


Today I will note the importance of accepting an idea and a movement. Most designers are striving to create original pieces of art that evoke emotion and response. You can then take it a step further and discuss the rationalism of selling your ideas to collectors, or to companies to promote advertisement.

Stumbling through the art library at my university campus, I spotted the magazine entitled, Novum. All the text was written in german, and then came the articles. Which fortunately for me were written in both english and german. The art of Reza Abedini caught my eye . He was using typography and static images of people to create visual speeches of (since I cannot read Farsi) human struggle and why you do not have to feel that way. The author of the article was stating that Reza was an up and coming designer out of Iran who took it upon himself to alter and thus create his own calligraphic style of farsi.

These posters were made of silk screen prints and the image was very strong with little no background besides a color tone. The foreground was emotion driven with words written over the people, sometimes forming the appendages and middle sections. My mind started to wander and relate the importance of digital media in spreading the ideas of people from all over the world together and how that could not have been accomplished as easily before the invention of the all great and ever knowing internet.

Strangely, over the two page spread of this article, I began to respect the power and freedom the internet can give people of all nationalities and class distinctions.