These are the details:
Identify the most meaningful visual signfier(s) at work in the OAC (original album cover). Are they icons, indexes, or symbols? What do they signify? Formulate an understanding, and then replace that(those) signifier(s) with signifiers that reference the same signified but which function on a different order. If the OAC uses symbols, redesign the cover with icons. Or vice-versa.
My interpretation:
I found this one the most difficult to do. (Which is why I finished it last.) In the OAC there are a couple different visual signifiers, and they could be an icon or an index. For example, the kid, who represents the future generations of America, could be either, because he's only one kid and can't resemble what the entire future generation looks like, but he is a kid so in a way there is some resemblance there. (Because a child is the future generation for the family, and future generation=children.)
The more I tried to single out ALL the signs in the OAC and determine what exactly they were, the more overwhelmed and confused I felt…
So instead of worrying about all of that, I decided to replace the sign I thought was the most important thing: the off-screen TV monster that represents the current state of America. (This I think is the most meaningful signifier, even though it can't be seen on the front of the cover. You can see the cable, the kid is looking up at it, and it does create the glow.)
If there is no TV monster, the kid would be happy and the album cover will lose its meaning.
I found this one the most difficult to do. (Which is why I finished it last.) In the OAC there are a couple different visual signifiers, and they could be an icon or an index. For example, the kid, who represents the future generations of America, could be either, because he's only one kid and can't resemble what the entire future generation looks like, but he is a kid so in a way there is some resemblance there. (Because a child is the future generation for the family, and future generation=children.)
The more I tried to single out ALL the signs in the OAC and determine what exactly they were, the more overwhelmed and confused I felt…
So instead of worrying about all of that, I decided to replace the sign I thought was the most important thing: the off-screen TV monster that represents the current state of America. (This I think is the most meaningful signifier, even though it can't be seen on the front of the cover. You can see the cable, the kid is looking up at it, and it does create the glow.)
If there is no TV monster, the kid would be happy and the album cover will lose its meaning.
My redesign:
I replaced the TV monster with an adult, meant to signify the current state of America, with the kid being the future generations.
She is too busy texting to pay any notice to the kid, and there are wires coming out of her head, to show the technological advancement of current society.
These wires would be connecting her to all the other adults, the same way the TV monster wasn't shown in the OAC. (And each adult would have their own future generations behind them.)
We are technologically advanced, but our care for other people (face to face not over the internet!) has diminished.
You also can't see her eyes, which I did deliberately, because she isn't seeing the world and the way it's become, being too absorbed in her fancy gadgets.
When ever I think of icons, I think of images with flat shapes, so I tried to draw the cover in that way.
The TV monster I see as an index, with my woman more of an icon. (You could argue she's an index though, the same way with the kid.)
This one is also the one I am most worried about.
Did I do it correctly? Does the message get through?
I suppose time will tell.
She is too busy texting to pay any notice to the kid, and there are wires coming out of her head, to show the technological advancement of current society.
These wires would be connecting her to all the other adults, the same way the TV monster wasn't shown in the OAC. (And each adult would have their own future generations behind them.)
We are technologically advanced, but our care for other people (face to face not over the internet!) has diminished.
You also can't see her eyes, which I did deliberately, because she isn't seeing the world and the way it's become, being too absorbed in her fancy gadgets.
When ever I think of icons, I think of images with flat shapes, so I tried to draw the cover in that way.
The TV monster I see as an index, with my woman more of an icon. (You could argue she's an index though, the same way with the kid.)
This one is also the one I am most worried about.
Did I do it correctly? Does the message get through?
I suppose time will tell.
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