In Graphics Incognito, Mark Owens argues that certain modernist tactics were adopted by
early 1980’s underground music like punk culture. He mentioned two main punk rock
groups’ covers and logos that are Germs(GI) and Black Flag. The surprising thing is that
visual language of underground music is influenced by modern design.
The Germs (GI) is a legendary punk band from Los Angeles that originally active from
1977 to 1980. The Germs’ album cover has a big cyan blue circle positioned at lower right
corner with a black background. The cover also includes GERMS (GI) written by small
caps Helvetica. Typography, colour and abstract shapes are components of graphic
abstraction that belongs to Bauhaus movement. In addition, GI album lack of a
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Mark Owens also mentioned about Black Flag that is hardcore punk band originally formed
in 1977 in California. Black Flag’s logo was shaped in bars which represents a waving
black flag. The logo is impressed by Bauhaus movement. Owens pointed out that the four
black rectangles were spray-painted by the band throughout LA and reproduced on
countless flyers, t-shirts, records and more. The important thing is that bars were easy to
reproduce even with homemade techniques like stencils. In the early 1980s, a hand- scrawled t-shirt bearing the Black Flag bars could serve as a passport to an entire
underground subculture. It is very impressive in my opinion. In addition, there is a big
similarity between Muriel Cooper’s MIT Press logo and Black Flag’s logo. Both are formed
in bars. Muriel Cooper created MIT Press logo in 1963 whereas Black Flag bars were
created in 1978. This situation simply clarifies that Black Flag was taken from MIT after 15
years.
According to Owens, Jeffrey Keedy mentions ‘’Zombie Modernism’’ in a 1995 essay.
Zombie modernism means that reanimated in the future. In my opinion, Black Flag’s
...ent ground. the background is bright red and has large graphic circles of yellows, pinks, and blues. They seem to mimic the idea of a musical notes. It is composed of flat figural forms cut from vibrant paper. This was not the only album cover that Romare Bearden ever created. He also did another album cover for Wynton Marsalis called J Mood.
during the '20's in Chicago. It got its start in the mining areas of the
On top of the two black arms are two beautiful American women, one wearing a Native American headdress sitting next to a noose that is wrapped around the arm and the other women is holding up a backwards American flag, while supporting herself on the head of the beast, which is a Ku Klux Klan hood. There are also wings of a United States military airplane on the back of the monster. The two women each have a sash, one saying “Miss America” and the other “Miss Victory”. This symbolizes the nature of American sexuality and how nonchalant our society was compared to Nazi Germany. This was seen negatively from a European standpoint during World War II.
Who is Elizabeth Loftus? Some might say a dreamer; others might say the greatest psychological theorist ever, while some might say a great person. According to the information complied by Colleen Born, Elizabeth Loftus was born on October 16, 1944 in the state of California. She grew up with her family here and got her high school diploma. With a love of math growing up she wanted to study it further as a life career, she also wanted to teach but became very interested in the human mind, questioning basic things and focusing on memories especially long term. What happens to them over time? Do they keep the same amount of truth they first originally had or not? Why? She couldn’t make her mind up on what she exactly wanted to do so she ended up getting both a bachelors of arts in psychology and math at Stanford University in 1966. Four years later she got her PHD in 1970. Throughout the 1970’s she started her research in false memories. Here is where according to Amy Wilson the controversy started and continued until the end of the 1980’s (Wilson, 2002). To this day she has written 22 books (see appendix A) and over 200 articles (Born, 1997). She sparked many peoples interest in memories and understanding how they differ with time.
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The current design of Florida’s state flag was adopted in 1900. That year Florida voters ratified a constitutional amendment based on an 1899 joint resolution of the state legislature to add diagonal red bars, in the form of a St. Andrew’s cross, to the flag. Between 1868 and 1900 Florida’s state flag consisted of a white field with the state seal in the center.
The Flag was first carried in battle at the Brandywine, September 11, 1777. It first flew over foreign territory January 28, 1778, at Nassau, Bahama Islands; Fort Nassau having been captured by the American in the course of the war for independence.
The very first flag for the United States to have was the Grand Union Flag, in the years 1775-1777. The design of this flag was thirteen red and white stripes, with the red cross of St. Georgia, England along with the white cross of St. Andrew, Scotland in a blue field. The final split between the between the colonies and Great Britain brought the removal of the British Union from our flag. Shortly after came the stars on a blue field. By June 14, 1777 the Flag Resolution was passed, which is now known as Flag Day. Which basically said that the United States flag had to have thirteen stripes being red and white; that the union have 13 stars that are white with a blue field. Then, came Francis Hopkinsons design of the United States Flag. Which was thirteen, six pointed stars arranged in rows with the thirteen red and white stripes. But, we can not forget the so called Betsy Ross version of our flag. Which was thirteen, five pointed stars arranged in a circle with the thirteen red and white stripes.
Everyone has ambitions, whether they are as small as walking a block each day or as big as becoming president, everyone has them. In the movie Hidden Figures based in 1961, one of the biggest problems is racism, people fighting in the streets or people getting angry at work because of this inequality, for Dorothy, Mary and Katherine, it is at work. Work for Dorothy is having the job of a supervisor and she does not get paid the same as a supervisor. Dorothy’s self interest does not stop her from doing what she wants. Dorothy’s self interest influences her choices by making her take risks for equality and for her survival at NASA like when she steals the book from the library. Or when Dorothy sneaks into the IBM room so she can make it work
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The colors are adopted from the U.N.I.A or Black Nationalist Flag. The Universal Negro Improvement Association constitution defines red, black, and green as the Pan-African colors. "Red representing the noble blood that unites all people of African ancestry, the color black for the people, Green for the rich land of Africa” . Alternatively, it was reported that Marcus Garvey projected the colors for the following reasons: Garvey said, “Red because of sympathy for Native Americans, the Green is sympathy for the Irish in their fight for freedom, and the Black for the color of the Negro” . The impulse to put forth a flag became even more urgent because of the white supremacist song that became extremely popular in the early 20th century, “Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon.”. The Red, Black and Green were officially confirmed as the Flag for African people at the 1920 Universal Negro Improvement Association Convention. After that occurred, it led Marcus Garvey to declare, “Show me the race or the nation without a flag, and I will show you a race of people without any pride. Aye! In song and mimicry they have said, ‘Every race has a flag but the coon.’ How true! Aye! But that was said of us four years ago. They can’t say it now.” . In the end, the Universal Negro Improvement Association flag became a symbol of Black liberation and unity in the United
The Spanish flag features three horizontal bands of red at the top, yellow at the centre and red at the bottom. The yellow colour on the flag is a symbol of generosity while red is the symbol of bravery, strength and valour. The coat of arms on the Spanish flag includes the royal seal framed by the Pillars of Hercules that represent Ceuta and Gibraltar on either side of the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar.