This course will address the complex issues of graphic design and visual communications. Each project or problem, is carefully structured to create conditions conducive to discovering systems of design. These conditions encourage exploration or visual communication concepts and design principles, allowing students to develop more personally expressive ways
of solving communication problems.

Assignments / Student Work

Exercise 01 – Map of Journey to a Source of Food
Exercise 02 – Collaborative Google Map of Recommended Food Sources
Exercise 03 – Potluck / Food Exchange
Exercise 04 – Stencil Screen Printing Workshop/ Kazoo Studios

Project 01 – Quantitative Map
Project 02 – Qualitative Map
Project 03 – System / Key / Visual Guides for Interpretation
Project 04– Atlas of Map Making Processes and Maps

Reflective Documentation 01

Reflective Documentation 02

FOOD + SYSTEM

BiRite
Food Service Distributor
Headquartered in Brisbane, California


FUTURE of Food / Imagine the Year is 2062. You are 50 years older. How do you access food? What do you eat? Where is it from? What does it cost?
Writing Challenge: Describe the future of food in 2062.

Utopic view / Inhabitat
Terreform, Inc. Proposes Covering NYC With Vertical Gardens & Urban Farms to Become Self-Sufficient

Dystopic view / Science Fiction to Illustrate the “What if Scenario ....”



Soylent Green is a 1973 American science fiction film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Charlton Heston and, in his final film, Edward G. Robinson. The film overlays the police procedural and science fiction genres as it depicts the investigation into the murder of a wealthy businessman in a dystopian future suffering from pollution, overpopulation, depleted resources, poverty, dying oceans, and a hot climate due to the greenhouse effect. Much of the population survives on processed food rations, including ‘soylent green’.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green


Looking at the Past

✤Little Cases of Stuffed Cucumber (Hors d'oeuvres): Cucumber, Tomatoes, Anchovies, Butter, Parsley, Hard-Boiled Eggs, Cayenne, Parsley

Illustration for Salads - c. 1910 original antique cookbook illustration by the late-Victorian era artist, A.H. Sands. Victorian English food artists helped chefs for the Savoy Hotel & Buckingham Palace to see how beautiful their prepared food should look. Terrific vintage foodie art. Over 100 years old, these gourmet food prints are stunning when matted & framed in groups.

Over 100 years old, these gourmet food prints are stunning when matted & framed in groups,
http://www.etsy.com/shop/earlybirdsale/search?search_query=French+Food

 

Food Matters

Data Visualization / George Tekei’s Fan Page

Bargain Bites / SF Gate

Creative Book Design

Mapping the Billion Dollar Food Tech and Media Industry

 

Food + Tech Connect / Condé Nast






http://visual.ly/?view=explore

 

 

Stacy Asher
Office: FA519
stacyasher@gmail.com

Office + Advising Hours:
5:00-5:30 T + TH in
office hours location
Main DAI Office Rm. FA 121

ABOUT THE BACKGROUND IMAGE:
The graphic is from Hartman Salt's GREATER FOD CULTURE.
http://www.hartmansalt.com/food-culture-analyzed/greater-food-culture/228
“In the spirit of celebrating contemporary food culture, this subway-style map is intended to serve as a snapshot of the main actors, techniques, values and ideas representing today’s culinary zeitgeist. From chefs and the media, to packaged goods and food politics, these “stops” are suggestive of the people, places and things that have influenced the food world (some more directly than others), thereby becoming part of our Greater Food Culture. Take a ride on the Modern Line, stopping off at Thomas Keller and then maybe head onto the Global Line, paying a visit to David Chang. Wherever you go, you’re likely to learn a bit, be entertained and most certainly eat quite well.”