Using Graphics Software to create a Collage

Unit: Using Graphics Software to create a Collage

Unit Question: How has technology influenced the way we see the world around us?

Areas of Interaction/significant concept:

Environments:  Natural Environments and the impact of the Digital one

Investigation

A synonym for the word collage is assemblage. To assemble or an assemblage is a gathering of something (usually people).  Therefore, a collage is a gathering of pictures of an event or to raise awareness of something. Anything can be stuck or placed together to create a collage; pictures, artworks, materials, different colours, paper textures, etc. A collage can also be e.g. many different pictures put together in a certain way that it creates another shape. Pictures can be placed next to each other or they can be placed so they overlap. Collages can be used for many different purposed/reasons. An example of a reason is that collages can be used for advertisement purposes, raising awareness for environmental issues or they can simply be used for leisure purposes. A collage can also exist of different textures and colours and therefore create another picture. Collages usually look colourful. If they don’t look colourful then there is usually a certain colour theme used. A collage can be useful for bringing a message or idea across creatively (in the form of art). 

 The themes environmental and social are very wide-ranged and include many different sub-topics or options. The topics that are options 

• Starvation
• Lack of nutrition and water
• Energy problems
• Children not having a home/children living having to search for useful materials to sell from a garbage mountain
• Animals being affected by pollution
• Animals living on the street thanks to their owners discarding them
• Children rights

Design Brief

What?

I have decided to complete a collage that is going to include pictures of the issues that children might experience world-wide. I am talking about children not having a home (being homeless), children starving (to death), children having no water or children being discarded by their parents or family simply because the family cannot take care of them. This issue is applied to different countries, not just one.

 https://e.edim.co/1825569/investigate_criterion2.pdf?


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Bibliography:
"Smashing Magazine." 

Bibliography:

"Smashing Magazine." Smashing Magazine. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 May 2014. <http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/12/13/get-creative-with-collage-trends-and-inspiration/>.

"Art Fashionista." Art Fashionista. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 May 2014. <http://artfashionista.com/painting/what-is-a-collage>.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzdtdFqjV5Q

The only sources that I used to try and find information are these sources. The information is either from these websites or my brain.