Blog Assignment 19:

First of all I would like to thank you Charles for the hard work and the time you dedicated for this class. I learned a great deal from what you covered in class. I know it is not your field but personaly i think you did very well. To be frank i was expecting a disaster at the begining of the semester but your new rules kinda payed off and the new Charles won. As for my suggestions, they will be based on what the previous teacher Dr. Sofia Kocergin taught.

• she used to give assignments that actually required to analyze and critically evaluate print ads and commercials in an essay format. 
• she also taught them how to do customer research and how to write a creative brief and do a benchmarking which are useful for com students who are willing to work in a com agency. 
• This is just an idea but what you can do is to team up with the print and online production skills class. the assignment will be for the visual class students to come up with a product and try to advertise for it, create the creatif brief and then give the productions to the print and online to create. this exercise gives an insight on what happens in the real world. 

Blog Assignment 18:

Blog Assignment 17:

A Picture of Morocco-16:

I took this picture in 2009 in the south region of Morocco. I really like this picture because it is representative of the underdevelopment of the country. Tourists may not think of Morroco as such but actually people still live like this in rural areas; where means of transportation are donkeys and the main roads are dirt roads. 

Although this picture doesnt representa hundred percent the Kingdom we live in nowadays, therefore i decided to do some photoshop magic in order to show the contrast and the clash between rural and urban.

As you can see on the modified picture there is a girl who represents modernity (the way of clothing and the shopping bag instead of the traditional Q'ffa), the cab or the petit taxi as a mean of transportation, the mosque which is kinda hidden in the background stands for religion since Morocco's religion is Islam and the TWIN Centers which are found in the city of Casablanca. This picture is very representative of the Moroccan society it combines both the modern and traditional way of living. 

Signifier 2-15:

Almost all Moroccan have this beautiful carpert either  in their homes, cars or offices. This carpet represents prayer and the muslim faith. It is impolite and rude to step on it with your shoes.

Signifier 1-14

Rod of asclepius represents health and medicine. this sign is known worldwide. This symbol go back to the Greek mythology. It is associated with the greek God Asclepius who happens to be the god of medicine and healing. Apparently in the US people confuse it with the caduceus which is different because it has two snakes and a different meaning. also when i digged a little more i found out some stats that were gathered based on surveying 

American health organisations i found that 62% of professional associations used the rod of Asclepius, whereas in commercial organisations, 76% used the caduceus.

(Baam..!!! i bet you didnt know this Charles).

well now you must wonder why i picked this sign i picked it because every time you are looking for a drug store you look for this sign around the city which represents the  pharmacist. it means medication which will bring health. 

Branded-13:

Christian Louboutin is a French footwear designer whose footwear has incorporated shiny, red-lacquered soles that have become his signature. I love these shoes because they are comfortable and simply just gorgeous. So yes I have been branded :)