Post on 24-Jan-2018
Christopher C. WarnerAssociates Program – Craftsmen of Culture
CREATIVE EXERCISE
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The Visual World
We live in a visual world. Compelling images grant us just a moment of breath in our active lives, holding us for a fraction of a second when we aren’t busy plunging ourselves into a rigorous Angry Birds level or trying to cancel our Google+ account. We are wired in to our social networks, our mobile devices, and our Netflix. Yet every now and then, our eyes pass over the raw power of a compelling photo, or a beautiful banner, or a digital manipulation, and we stop ourselves to think. In an era of short-attention spans, rapid Tweets, and topic sentence readers, a moment that transports us to another place is valuable. Photographs and images can accomplish this in remarkable ways, more so than any other medium.
From drawing to digital art, photography to advertising, one powerful element guides my desire to create: to tell a meaningful story. The images I have selected, though various and seemingly unrelated, together form a greater narrative about movement and moment. Their story is the story of pausing between destinations, of slowing the journey to feel. Hopefully they also illustrate how I visualize successful advertising; a story can grab an audience’s attention like nothing else. Finally, I hope they share a bit about who I am and where I come from. And if I accomplish nothing else with these images, at least I pulled you away from that frustrating Angry Birds level for a while. Enjoy, and thanks for considering.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Client: Leena Culhane Music
Album Design: Paper Skies
DIGITAL SCULPTURE
Three-dimensional Rendering
COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY
B&W PHOTOGRAPHY
cwarner@u.northwestern.edu(415) 810-4078
All images created and owned by ©Christopher C. Warner