VISUAL ISSUES

by Matthew B. Lamont

I was thinking, planning, sketching and choosing colors, but did not feel comfortable with the outcome.  Breaking news was the terrorist attack in Mumbai India!  This struck a cord with me because I had to be evacuated from Saudi Arabia in May of 2003, because of a bombing in Riyadh.  I decided to go with terrorism as a topic. 

Here is a bubble chart:

I chose, Terrorism:  tension, shock, and devastation.

Tension:  is a feeling that terrorists struggle with, after all the sociological, psychological, political and religious problems that they lived with for years.  Many of their leaders were captured, many fighters were killed, many widows and orphans.  All this accumulated and forced them to find a solution.  So they planned and organized to relieve their anguish, looking for revenge and liberation of their leaders or money in exchange for the hostages. 

Shock:  is the feeling that all the people felt the moment the attack occurred. 

Devastation:  The attack produced anguish, pain, depression, suffering, destabilization, sadness, terror, loss, destruction and chaos.  The terrorists wanted to  make sure that the victims felt the same pain they had, so they might capture the attention of the world or maybe negotiate for some solution on their side. 

Here is a sketch about it:

I am planning to use these concepts to create a 2D series of three visual representations, using Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. 

This is my final idea and I kindly request approval, so I can start doing my final work. 

by: Matthew B. Lamont

I did research on World War II to see if I can get inspired, with a better concept that I can put it in a 2D form. I can say, that I refreshed a lot of history, so I arrived to a new concept.  This time it was “Nuclear Destruction” here is a bubble chart and the sketches (made in Adobe Illustrator).

This is only another idea, but it is not the final.