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p o r t f o l i o

G e o r g e A l e x a n d e r S a m p a g i a n D i p l a s

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s t a t i ng

ob j e c t i ve

H o w y o u y o u m a n a g e t o a c h i e v e y o u r d r e a m s i s

a l u x o u r i o u s o b l i g a t i o n . . .

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T h e n e e d f o r p e r s o n a l i d e n t i t y, wa s t h e m o t i va t i o n a l p owe r

f o r t h i s p ro j e c t . I t i s a n e m o t i o n a l b r i e f t h a t o f f e r e d t h e m i n i m u m

i n t e r m s o f l o g o d e s i g n , b u t t h e m a x i m u m t owa rd s my u n d e r s t a n d i n g

o f b r a n d i n g . I t i s a l m o s t l i k e a r u l e d c h a o s .

T h e n e e d f o r p e r s o n a l i d e n t i t y, wa s t h e m o t i va t i o n a l p owe r

f o r t h i s p ro j e c t . I t i s a n e m o t i o n a l b r i e f t h a t o f f e r e d t h e m i n i m u m

i n t e r m s o f l o g o d e s i g n , b u t t h e m a x i m u m t owa rd s my u n d e r s t a n d i n g

o f b r a n d i n g . I t i s a l m o s t l i k e a r u l e d c h a o s .

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b rand newI c r e a t e d t h re e e xe cu t i ons t o answe r t he b r i e f . A b o t t l e , a g raph i c p o s t e r, and t he v i d e o b e l ow :

Scan

The b r i e f r e qu i red a l i ne ex t ens i on fo r a b rand

o f my cho i c e. I c ho s e to c re a t e a new r um

p roduc t , fo r C ap t a i n Mo rg an . I c a l l e d i t

C ap t a i n Mo rg an l i b re, a f t e r t he r um co ck t a i l C uba L i b re. I fo cus ed

mo re on the v i s u a l a p e a l ne s s and amode rn , a lmo s t ,

c o r po ra t e de s i gn .

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Summer... in the bottle

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re fo rm inga b rand

Th i s p ro j e c t i s f o c u s ed ,on how b rand s e x pand

Th i s i s a g roup pro jec t fo r a potent iona l b rand extens ion of

durace l l . We were requ i red as a g roup to come up wi th ideas

that su i t the durace l l b rand va lues and gu ide l ines.

Ind iv idua l ly, I was the des igner of the g roup and I had to

resea rch about the fonts of the b rand va lues, co lo rs, des ign

the logo accord ing to the gu ide l ines, and c reate a p iece

of b randbook fo r the extens ion .

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des i gn ing f o r mus i c

Th i s p ro j e c t i s a se r i e s of pos te rs, t - sh i r t s and f lag

I c ho s e to wo rk w i th MUSE c aus e I am no t a f an o f t he b and , s o I

c ou ld h ave a f r e sh app ro ach on the i r mus i c v i s u a l i z a t i ons .

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packag ing f o r mus i c

C re a t i ng a l u xu r i ou s mus i c s l e e ve d e s i gn

Fo r t h i s b r i e f I go t i ns p i re d by s ound wave s ,

and I s p ent t ime i n t he s t ud i o , t r y i ng to c ap tu re

n a tu ra l v i s u a l i z a t i ons o f mus i c and s ound

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an imat ingmy cha ra c t e r

I had to create a character from scratch and animate i t

For this part icular br ief we worked as a team, to create characters, develop a narrative story and connect come

up with two animations. One with tradit ional stop motion technique and

another one editted in after effects

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No i r s t o r i e so f m i s s l e ad sou l s

I h ad to c re a t e a c om i c b ook b a s ed on a cha rac t e r

I c re a t ed fo r my an ima t i on . I c ho s e to c re a t e a no i r

s t y le c om i c b ook , w i th s o f t ph i lo s oph i c a l touche s

WILL PRAY

WILL YOU SAVE YOUR SOUL?

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HEY! WILL PRAY!LONG TIME NO SEE. HOW YOU’ VE BEEN?

STOP CHIT-CHATING.TELL ME WHERE TO FIND HIM!

ARE YOU SURE? YOU KNOW WHAT COULDHAPPEN? WHAT ARE YOU WILLED TO DO? I’ D SELL MY

SOUL TO THE

DEVIL!

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WILL PRAY

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Dead end . . . un l e s sA t i t le sequence created, using video capture, after effects, and sound editt ing techniques

Life is short. Al l we leave behind us is traces, our choices. Make your choices matter. Otherwise is just a dead end.

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Befo re the tw i s tA video to created to develop my

understanding and imitat ion ski l ls of di f ferent eras of sty le in f i lm

A woman preparing to go out and have fun. It ’s the f irst decade that

woman start not only to have r ights,but also fun.

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The purpose of the brief is to make me think analytical and critical. I had to deconstruct two images that other people, who did not know anything about my assignment and my brief, chose for me. The purpose of doing that is to have an objective selection of images to start working with. Later, I had to create a narrative between the two images and ask from other people to create their own narra-tive for the two pictures. After that, I had to comment about the common or not, points of our narratives. And then create a second nar-rative, considering the stories I got back from others.

Image deconstruction 1 The first random image I got back, dis-plays a woman, probably in the late 20s of her life (perhaps early 30s), in a middle half body shot, standing on the top of paperwork. The paperwork is matched to the color of the background, but with more whitish and yellow tints. She wears black long sleeved blouse cre-ating a dynamic contrast with the cream white gradient background. Her sleeves are folded far up to the elbow. Her hair is long, not too long, just below her neck. From the way she is dressed we could say that the picture is con-temporary. Her facial expression could be con-sidered as tired or bored and those expressions are corroborated by her body position (body language). Boredom is the lack of motivation. When you work for ten and you get back one (capitalistic system) then obviously you would become bored. According to Dr. Ralph Linton, Capitalism is observed as a system that in the next couple of centuries will be regarded as a premitive experiment [1]. he paperwork is also matched to the colour of the background, but with more whitish and yellow tints. I can recognise three layers in the image. In the front layer there is the paperwork, in the mid-dle there is the woman and in the back the cream wall/background. She must be doing an office based work, if she is actually working at the time that the picture was taken. From the paperstacks we can understand that her firm or company or office she is working at, uses the Bureaucratic administration system, best described by Max Webber [2]. Usually when we work in a public administration service or a big company you have to go through a lot of paperwork in order to avoid function prob-lems, money loses etc. That is the key of suc-cess of bureaucracy. They control with much paperwork that is used to avoid mistakes.

Image deconstruction 2 The second image I’ve been given, dis-plays again a woman, around the age of 30,

in a full body shot, balancing on the top of a hard to define concrete or metal fence. She wears a striped black and white top, along-side with a black ¾ length trousers. She also wears red shoes and a white hat, probably a beret. We could say that her clothes remind, quite a lot the clothes of a mime [3]. We can tell that the picture is contemporary, by the clothing of the woman and by the quality of the image. The time must be somewhere around Spring since she is not wearing any heavy clothes, but she doesn’t seem to be so hot or cold, either. From her facial expres-sions and her body language we can assume that she is happy or/and excited, while she is having fun, probably with at least another person who possibly took the picture for her. From the background we can tell that the place she is located, is Eiffel tower in Paris. The Eiffel tower is one of the most icon-ic monuments around the world. The Eiffel tower is placed in Paris, France and it is 324 meters (1.063 ft) height and it was con-structed back in 1889, by engineer Gustave Eiffel. The paradox is that French govern-ment wanted to demolish the building and the only reason they kept it, intact was that during the second world war it was used as a radio transmitter [4]. Paris is populated by 2.125.246, with density of 20,240 p/sqm. [5] We can identify two layers in the pic-ture, one with the woman and the fence, and one with the background and the Eiffel tower.

Narrative 1 The narrative story I came up with, is about a woman who is bored to death in her work and she decides to go on a trip for vacation. She couldn’t choose where she wanted to go, so she decided to spin a globe and use her finger, to point where she would go. Unexpectedly when the globe stopped spinning her finger was above the area of Paris. She didn’t really want to go to Paris, because she had been there so many times, but she respected the choice of ‘’Luck ‘’, and decided to go. Sometimes we make choices that we do not fully understand on a con-scious level but our subconscious part of the brain does.[6] It turned out to be her best vacation ever, as she didn’t really care to go on sightseeing, she didn’t ‘’have’’ to take many pictures because she had plenty from the previous trips to Paris. So, free from the boundaries of social acceptable behaviours she enjoyed herself more than any time in her life. The picture in front of the Eiffel tower, is the only memory left from the most amazing experience she ever had.

Comparing with other people narratives

The truth is that I was expecting the stories I collected to be close with mine, but I did not expect to be that close. It is only understandable though, as most of the peo-ple I asked to give me a narrative come from the same background. Even with people that are older or younger, or that we don’t come from the same geographical area and cul-tural background, nowadays, because of the globalization, we are having more or less the same habits in food, clothing, language, en-tertainment and many more smaller and big-ger things that together creating our culture and way we understand the world [7a, b]. According to Clinical psychiatrist Carl Rog-ers [8a, b] personality traits can be heavily influenced by culture (Carl Rogers, Triandis, 2002). So I decided to stick with my own narrative, and enrich it with more details I collected for other people that imagined as a possible narrative for my two pictures, in addition to my 3rd image that will give more details in my narrative.

Image deconstruction 3 The third picture I chose to blend with my narrative is an image from a railway sta-tion in Istanbul. It is no irrelevant the choice of this picture, as Istanbul is a huge city with cultural roots that go back to my an-cestors. Greek people who used to live in Is-tanbul (Constantinople, also in Greek culture “Πόλη”, translation “The City”) had to leave the city due to the population exchange. When I think of escape I think of trains. The trains that according to the stories and the songs I used to listen since I was a child are describing the forced evacuation of the houses of Greek people [9]. And when I think of trains I feel nostalgic. In 2010 I went to Istanbul by train. It is still today exactly the same train line that gets you to the City. Istanbul is the second largest city around the world, with an official population meas-urement of 13.483.052 people in 2011 [10]. Is-tanbul or Constantinople during the Christian period, was named after Emperor Constantine when he made the city the capital of east ro-man empire. The city before that was a colony called Byzas (Byzantium)[12]. The time of the year must be Spring or Summer because the small trees on the left side have leaves. We can also specify that the exact time of the day is 7.35 pm, from the clock on the wall. I found it really hard to identify the lay-ers because of the strong perspective of the image. Although if I had to, I would say that I can identify two layers. The first starts from the position that the picture was taken until the clock on the wall, and the second one is from the clock till the end of the corridor.

Final NarrativeWhen I am staring at my three pictures, I can imagine a story about a woman, middle aged around twenty seven or twenty eight years old, who works in the Greek embassy of Istanbul. She is so depressed and bored and tired, because she is new at the job and she has to do more work than the others in order to prove herself and establish her posi-tion in the office. Although, she is a woman who has big dreams about her future career and perhaps she would like to be an am-bassador if she could. She doesn’t stay in a protected environment as other people who pursue highly ranked career and positions. So one day she was getting ready to leave the office and the head of department asks her to stay late and work over-shift. Obvi-ously she didn’t refuse. But this day was dif-ferent, she couldn’t take it anymore, she had to leave, to escape. She said to herself:’’That was it! I’m going on vacation”. She remem-bered that the head of the department had a globe in his office. She carefully sneaked in and took the globe. She decided to spin the globe and use her finger, to stop it and to point a place that she would visit by train. Unexpectedly when the globe stopped spinning her finger was above the area of Paris. She didn’t really want to go to Paris, because it was far to go by train and she had been there many times. But, she is stubborn and respected the choice of fate, so she went. Sometimes, we make choices that we do not fully understand on a conscious level but our subconscious part of the brain does [6]. It turned out to be her best vacation ever. She spent two weeks on the journey, meeting amazing people, who every single one of them had a different story to tell. When she finally arrived in Paris she didn’t really care to go on sightseeing, she didn’t ‘’have’’ to take many pictures because she had plenty from the pre-vious trips to Paris. Free from the boundaries of social acceptable behaviours she enjoyed herself more than any time in her life. The picture in front of the Eiffel tower, is the only memory left from the most amazing ex-perience she ever had.

ConclusionMy whole approach to the narratives was to show, that even if you are in a situation you can’t stand there is always an exit an escape. I don’t know why the narratives I got back they all had a need of escaping. But appar-ently nobody is fine with his social life and his job. I feel like we are all in a boat which is sinking and we insult others to feel we are still floating. My advice: Go and travel, you don’t need money.You just need to under-stand how limited and miserable, your life is at the moment.

Essay experiment

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“When I think of escape, I think of trains...”References: [1]Linton, The Tree of Culture (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959), pp.47-8.

[2 ](Bureaucracy according to Max Webber   Kontosthathi. S. 2010, Public administration and bureaucracy Heracleon, Grey Bibliography).

[3] Mime Costume, accessed on 21 December 2012, <http://www.halloweencostumes.com/mime-costume.html>[4] The major events, accessed on 21 December 2012, <http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/en/everything-about-the-tower/the-major-events.html>

[5]Ville de Paris: Population & Density from 1600, Accessed on 21 December 2012, <http://www.demographia.com/dm-par90.htm>

[6] “Unconscious Determinants of Free Decisions in the Human Brain.”, (13 April 2008), Chun Siong Soon, Marcel Brass, Hans-Jochen Heinze & John-Dylan Haynes, Nature Neuroscience

[7a] O’Connell, Agnes N. (Year not specified). Correlates of Life Style: Personality, Role Concept, Attitudes, Influences, and Choices. Department of Psychology, Montclair State College, Up-per Montclair, New Jersey 07043. <http://hum.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/33/8/589>

[7b] Edward Burnett Tylor, (1871).Encyclopaedia Britannica, online ed., s.v. “Cultural anthropology [8a] Pescitelli, Dagmar. (Year not specified). An Analy-sis of Carl Rogers’ Theory of Personality. Retrieved from http://pandc.ca/?cat=carl_rogers&page=rogerian_theory [8b]Triandis, Harry C. (2002). Cultural Influences On Personali-ty. Annual Review of Psychology. <http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-83789643/cultural-influences-personality.html> [9] Nikolaos Andriotis (2008). Chapter The refugees question in Greece (1821-1930), in “Θέματα Νεοελληνικής Ιστορίας”, ΟΕΔΒ (“Topics from Modern Greek History”). 8th edition

[10] TÜRKİYE İSTATİSTİK KURUMU (Turkish statistic ser-vice), (2011), accessed on 21 December 2012, <http://rapor.tuik.gov.tr/reports/rwservlet?adnksdb2&ENVID=adnksdb2Env&report=wa_buyukbelediye.RDF&p_kod=1&p_yil=2011&p_dil=1&desformat=html>

[11] Room, Adrian (2006). Placenames of the World: Origins and Meanings of the Names for 6,600 Countries, Cities, Territo-ries, Natural Features, and Historic Sites (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company. pp. 177

AppendixIvan 27, Bulgaria:

Ellen was lying on her pile of law books reliving the summer of 2011 when she enjoying her careless life in Paris. She could al-most feel the smell of the crisp and fresh morning air.

Lukas 28, Poland:

Some student of philosophy, absolutely bored with going through all the theory sh almost need to know word by word, decided to take a break and go to France, to have some rest and may be to find her own philosophy, and method to survival in this sick space and time. She try to forget about the exciting life. She want just now and here. She is on her way, walking on the thin line surrounded by air and far noise of the city. We can see she really enjoy it, she is exited about not knowing what is at the end of the line, as it is something completely different from what she does till now.

Stella 21, Cyprus:

So… it was that girl that it seems that she was ‘’drawing’’ in student projects and she is struggling to keep up. Her mood it is not at her best, she is quite disappointed, I would say mostly tired of not having time for herself. She wants to have fun as a student. Thus, she decides to go on a vacation trip to Paris with her girlfriends, to get revitalized. She had a lot of fun in France. She spent time with her friends, she laughed, she went out and she went crazy. One of things that will remind her exactly how much fun she had, will be that picture in front of the Eifel tower, balancing in a balcony. The end :D’’

George 21, Greece: The girl might be the same, she is a secretary. She lives in par-is. She has loads of paperwork to do almost every day, but she doesn’t care, cause every day when she finishes her job she runs in front of Eifel tower and she is having fun, balancing on the fence.

Eddie 22, Ecuador: This girl is does not enjoy studying, she enjoys traveling and ex-ploring culture and having fun with the architecture capturing herself through photography, she hates exams and that kind of environment, she prefers to a hands on approach.

Athanasia 48, Greece: Γυναίκα: Aρκετα! Εχω και εγω δικαιωμα στη ζωη. Ναι ειμαι εργαζομενη συζυγος, μητερα, κορη, φιλη μα νομιζω πως ειναι η ωρα να κανω και σε μενα ενα δωρο. Ενα ταξιδι καπου λιγο πιο περα απο την καθημερινοτητα μου. Κατι μονο για μενα.

(translation) I have every right in life. I might be a working wife, mother, daughter, friend, but i think it is about time to make a gift to myself. I will go away for a while, away from my routine. Something only for me.

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We live in a society reflected by time, infor-mation and money. As we move forward to a new dawn of mankind, it is pretty clear that science, politics and arts are/or should be co-ordinated according to the needs of people. Every service and product that we use from government to internet and from transporta-tion to catering, is becoming increasingly au-tomated and accessible. For centuries we have struggled to advance our strength as nations, as individuals and as humans who are trying to impose themselves against their own nature of weakness [1]. Humans don't have strong claws, sharp teeth or heavy coats to protect themselves from natural events and other predatory species. In order to survive and pro-gress we have used our intelligence to master science. We have developed sophisticated so-cieties and we have pushed ourselves to imi-tate and reproduce any force that could make us more lethal. The quest for strength itself forced us to understand, reconsider and even rediscover the basic fundamentals of every day life. We thus begun paying attention to detail. We had come to realize that the furthest and nearest part of our universe greatly resembles the micro worlds that live amongst and with in us [2]. And this is perhaps the first time that we realized that science overlaps de-sign. Scientists gave us the tools, to observe our surroundings even better. A designer can produce more when the understanding of his environment is better. We learned to manipu-late image. Cameras became more sophisticated so we could see stuff that we never imagined before: 1. The earliest surviving photography back from 1826 by Nicéphore Niépce2. A contemporary example of detailed pho-tography

Global networks connected everyone, as well as designers. A scientific way of thinking started being embraced not only by scientists, but also from individuals in every profession. We came closer than ever to an evolution pro-gress rate, that in the past was unreachable or unimaginable. Traditionally, societies were becoming more efficient in achieving goals, through periods of national competition, war, or even the idea an upcoming “threat” or “terror” [3]. Socie-ties were producing the most during war peri-ods, but after the second industrial revolution war ended up to be an idea good but hard to become efficient, despite the fact that many designers and all other “big centers” of mass communication were advertising the event,

before, during and after it was happening:

3. Join the Royal Armoured Corps, by Abram Games, (1939), poster4. Uncle Sam, by J. M. Flagg (1917), poster

The problem that they had to come up with a solution for, was that knowing someone who was killed or was in a war field, was creating a big social impact in every level and area of human activity and social structure, such as sales, politics, ethics, morality, substances us-age, and many others. Also, the resources that were been using by military operatives, were enormous compared to any other national ac-tivity. It comes very easy to understand that a society needs at least a few decades, or more, to begin forget how hard and emotionally traumatising the event of war was. Scientists and other intellectual groups, were struggling to find a sufficient way of constant mind evo-lution without the need of war, despite the fact that some people were opposed to the particular model, which was suggested by people who followed the new order, suggest-ing a new way of how things should work and function. Especially after world war II, while peaceful movements were taking place in va-riety places around the world, designers were asked to re-brand peace, in a content that was helping corporations to make more profit.

5. A merchandise usage of the piece sign6. Prime minister winston churchill form the victory sign with his fingers

Fighting moved from fields to our living rooms through the press, motion pictures, radio, tel-evision, personal computers, portable devices and remote networks that started to be all around us. Designers were amongst the first people to visualize the idea of a new society model.[1] We cannot be sure, if it was money or the need of progress that turned designers to be seeking for lucrative ways of expressing their ideas or other people's ideas, but they were becoming more and more into the con-cept of a new united world, where people are free to think, but in many occasions limited to act. Nowadays, we have come even closer to the model of a united world or a global vil-lage and we support the venture with digi-tal governance. And we have achieved that, mostly through, information, data collection, internet surveillance, controlled communica-tions and the vision of someone or somebod-ies. Modern societies now work in a grid of digital networks, secure communications and

any other of digital protocols we can think of. Even our monetary system is being operated digitally, providing virtual money for society so we can buy and sell goods. [4] Technology and science brought to “life” the end of bu-reaucracy, or more accurately the automation of bureaucracy. We are “one-click away” from every service, or any product, or any informa-tion we need. We started to be so depended in technology, that we had to institute rehabili-tation centers for people addicted to technol-ogy. As far, as it concerns graphic designers, traditionally, they are one of the groups who deliver the “messages” to the masses. Design-ers are not people who afraid to fail. Graphic design doesn't sound like one of the profes-sions, that is stable nor the most secure to follow, but today luckily more than ever, we, designers, are required to take action or even lead the communication campaigns to change completely the habits of the past and estab-lish this new world order. We are required by big companies to find the “right steps” for them in order to progress, without loosing their individuality and preserving their own characteristics. In simple terms we “brand” them. The problem that occurs is an ethical dilemma that is being created to every single one designer. [5] We are struggling to find a strategy, to produce our work and visual-ize our thoughts and concerns, in a liberate environment, balanced between profit and ethos. We come early in our studies, to a point that we need to choose which side we want to represent. We force our selves to express ideas in a certain way and we start debating our own choices and thoughts, in the quest of an “open” mind which normally leads to a constant inner fight. We start to care more about how people understand than how, we understand the world around us. This process might be dangerous, but is also very beneficial for our persona. Graphic design is trying to solve communi-cation problems, and communication had to change and it has been changing since the last century rapidly, in the sake of profit, mental evolution, political propaganda (from all par-ties and ideological groups) and in any other human occasion. We have to adopt multiple ways of thinking but we don't have to embrace them as well [6]. New types of design agencies started to form, which are not only concern design but also combine technology and inno-vation. Any innovative technique that is being used in motion pictures, advertising, branding and other areas of work, is usually celebrated by society and by commercial success. Comput-er graphic Interfaces (CGI) became easier to be used in the movies and later became a normal procedure even for weekly television shows. But simultaneously it creates the question, if

the design is focused on social improvement or appealing design without instant relation to an idea, and its more directed to financial insurance and advancement. Designers need to discover as individuals their own style of vis-ual language, but they don't need to confuse their own understanding of how things should happen, with the understanding they need sometimes to imitate in order to survive in this greedy and “free” new world. It is almost altruistic, that designers should be trying to help others find their identity but very often they loose their own, during the process. We need to have a solid understanding of how so-ciety works, what state means, and who we are and what we seek , in order not to get harmed by the social interaction we've been exposing ourselves, while trying to discover our similar to others, but yet, unique design mark in our society [7]. When we examine ancient Egyptian lan-guage, written in shapes, we use to believe it is premature, but we lately discover that visual language is stronger than the dif-ferent native spoken languages we speak. There is no certain answer about what is the role of a graphic designer in a society because there is not only one role for him. A designer can be identified by every single action and thought he produces. His every day life should be an example, to all the others around him, according to what he be-lieves is the best for his particular society. We all have to choose our path according to what we believe and ones the choice has been made we shouldn't stop seeking for the next step of our thoughts. An idea is never complete, it just happens and we add more thoughts on it as it is happening. And this is why we find it hard to understand it, be-cause everything we experience around us has a starting point and an ending point. We make our choices hard because we know that time cannot go back. Designers need to seize the society worries and calm down masses, but also they need to revolt them, according to the occasion. Concluding, it is indeed a majestic the age we live in, despite the fact that is scary and unstable. It is the first time in the established history that people are actually creating, metaphorically, a society similar to the bibli-cal city of Babel (The story of Babylon: Gen-esis 11:1-9). But only now, we are “building” a tower “made” of science and technology. And designers are required to make all those people who come from different races and different ethnicities understand each other. I believe that graphic design is an “organic” procedure almost like a “virus” that needs a host cell (society) to evolve and according to the purpose of which is being produced, to help or harm the state and the people.

Deconstructing images

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“Designers are required to make all those people who come from different races and different ethnicities blend”References: [1]: Dr. V. Bush, V. B., 1945. As we may think., July 1945, Atlantic Magazine

[2]: P. Kumar Raty, Msc P. K. R., 2012. Understanding The Micro World Of Atoms,Molecules,Elementary Particles And The Macro World Of Cosmos, [Online], Available at:http://blogs.siliconindia.com/Academics/Technology/Understand-ing-The-Micro-World-Of-AtomsMoleculesElementary-Particles--And-The-Macro-World-Of-Cosmos-bid-c51n23G016176841.html[Accessed 08 May 2013].

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