Wednesday 2nd December 2016
In this seminar, we were run through how one should look at style, and what people see style as. The main and underlying premise that seemed to come back into the topic every so often in this seminar was that no style is original - that all styles are recycled and re-used from some other form. This thought process is used because people are influenced by many things in the world and the majority of the work styles will come from a recycled version of something else.
For example, we were introduced to Cornel West, and West then came around to talk about the topic of clothing and style. The way he dresses himself is a way in which has been created through several different styles or looks. It was said in the seminar that his dress sense was not something that was based around his job posting or anything of the like, but was much rather that of his way of life - that is in fact what his lifestyle is based around.
Truman Capote claimed in an interview that style is the "Mirror of an artist's sensibility - more so than the content of his work" (1958).
Style and Content are two completely different things. Yet this premise raised the question of whether content can be around without style. A secondary way of looking at style, as covered in the seminar, is to see it as a box - and in this box there are several things. Inside this box are phenomena that represent how someone comes around to finding their styles. For example, the phenomena in the box would be things such as; how you talk, how you walk, products that you buy, particular colours included in your design, principles of interaction and character animation styles.
