Showing posts with label Rhetorical Tropes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rhetorical Tropes. Show all posts

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Rhetorical Tropes Round Three Iterations

Branching off of different ideas, I have created 15 compostions that are a little more narrow in my decision and direction towards my final poster. The compositions highlighted in black will be the dies that I plan on following up with iterations.
NOTES FROM CRIT
  • The metronome with 4 arms is gold; cut shapes would work well with that.
  • Metronome broke and glasses is too much.
  • Dance steps echoes the wrong music (jitterbug)?
  • Keyboard prints work (with the finger prints).
  • Just finger print isn't enough, not enough jazz into it. Thumb print is a nice idea though.
  • Beethoven off track (and creepy).
  • Mediums; cut paper and piano with collage. Not watercolor.

Rhetorical Tropes Round Two


1. Metonymy; I took the idea of a dance diagram and switched the sign of dance shoes with the fingerprint. This represents his fingers dancing around the keys and the rhythm behind his compositions.
3. Hyperbole; The size of the foot crushing the metronome is of larger scale than normal scale.
4. Personification; The metronome is taking on human traits of Brubeck by playing the piano, as Brubeck does.
5. Parody; Roland has a piano brand called "Super Natural Piano" so I took that brand and created it to read Super Natural Piano Player using the same logo as Roland's Super Natural Piano brand.
6. Antithesis; Each speaker from the stereo is playing contrasting airwaves. One speaker is smooth and the other is jagged. These are the sounds that contradict one another to create west coast jazz.
7. Antithesis; Each hand is playing the piano and the left and right had are admitting a different feeling. One hand is smooth and the other is jagged. These are the sounds that contradict one another to create west coast jazz.
8. Pun;
9. Synecdoche; The glasses represent Dave Brubeck as a whole. They define him as a whole person.
10. Synecdoche; The glasses represent Dave Brubeck as a whole. They define him as a whole person. So simplified the head to be a mannequin head because a mannequin head holds no identity, like Brubeck's glasses does.
11. Metonymy; the metronome replicates the shape of the "A" in Dave's name (which is a simpler version of the shape).
12. Metaphor; Using a pitchfork in a haystack, that takes on the prongs as piano keys, I am demonstrating the truth that Brubeck though of being a rancher but actually becoming a musician.

Saturday, August 28, 2010

F+S Rhetorical Tropes

This is a find and share associating rhetorical tropes in design. The designs that I viewed as having the most impact were ads that were for, or against, something.

Personification; the man to the left and right take on the trait of standing in for both the mac and the personal computer. Their clothes and stature in dialogue also supports this idea.
An advertisement speaking towards the Mac vs. PC.

Hyperbole; the image of a butt is alarming but put at this scale, relates to the amount of pollution and the disgust factor involved with both, using the restroom and the results of pollution.
An advertisement speaking to environmental pollution.

Apple advertisement found on http://www.onmoneymaking.com/who-is-the-guy-in-your-apple-commercial.html.
GFEP advertisment found via http://adtention.wordpress.com/page/24/.