Short Study 4 -

Personal ID (Logos/Pathos/Ethos) - (Due week 6, Feb 20/21)

After a survey of how identity is manipulated, created, stolen and re-presented in contemporary culture, create an original vector based id tag for your computer or journal that sets it apart from others and identifies it uniquely as yours. You may use text as well.

Use vector based graphics only for this study. You may also scan an image of yourself and use it as a template for tracing a self portrait.

 

Logos:

\Log"os\, n.the word or form which expresses a thought
Philosophy. In pre-Socratic philosophy, the principle governing the cosmos, the source of this principle, or human reasoning about the cosmos.
Among the Sophists, the topics of rational argument or the arguments themselves.
In Stoicism, the active, material, rational principle of the cosmos; nous. Identified with God, it is the source of all activity and generation and is the power of reason residing in the human soul.
Judaism.
In biblical Judaism, the word of God, which itself has creative power and is God's medium of communication with the human race.
In Hellenistic Judaism, a hypostasis associated with divine wisdom.
Christianity. In Saint John's Gospel, especially in the prologue (1:1-14), the creative word of God, which is itself God and incarnate in Jesus. Also called Word.

 

 

Pathos:

Pa"thos\, n. [L., from Gr. pa`qos a suffering, passion, fr. ?, ?, to suffer; cf. ? toil, L. pati to suffer, E. patient.] That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry.
A quality, as of an experience or a work of art, that arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow.
The feeling, as of sympathy or pity, so aroused.

 

 

Ethos:

\E"thos\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? character. See Ethic.] 1. The character, sentiment, or disposition of a community or people, considered as a natural endowment; the spirit which actuates manners and customs; also, the characteristic tone or genius of an institution or social organization.

([AE]sthetics) The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character -- character as influenced by the ethos (sense 1) of a people -- rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; -- opposed to pathos.

The disposition, character, or fundamental values peculiar to a specific person, people, culture, or movement:

 

 

See:

 

Takashi Murakami

http://www.assemblylanguage.com/images/Murakami.html

http://www.hiropon-factory.com/plofilenew/murakami/index-e.html

http://www.carnegieinternational.org/html/art/murakami.htm

 


http://www.kingpixel.com/
http://www.gmunk.com/
http://www.stevelawler.com/
http://www.evaq.com/vers2/index.html
http://www.designershock.com/
http://www.praystation.com/
http://www.trueistrue.com/
http://www.weworkforthem.com/
http://www.designgraphik.com/
http://www.typospace.com/


http://www.naoism.com/
http://www.skop.com/brucelee/index.htm
http://www.dstrukt.net/
http://www.destroyrockcity.com/
http://www.typographic.com/v03n01/index.html
http://microbo.com/

 

indexes
http://www.k10k.net/
http://www.threeoh.com
http://surfstation.lu

 

student work:

http://www.arts.rpi.edu/%7Eruiz/compart/id.html