Professional Article Review: Creative Anarchy at Its Very Best

This article was about what it takes to embrace creative anarchy.  It explains that rules are meant to be broken but you have to know them first.  Also, that there are many problems that occur in design but the thing is that there are even more solutions to them.  Finally, the article explains that it's okay to take risks and divert from the conformism of others. In this article, the author Denise Bosler tries to explain that it's okay, and many times needed, to break the rules.

Design has many different components that make it as creative as possible.  One of these being rules which are needed in order for us to be able to do what we need to.  While they are very important to help us stay on track, it also is important to break them at some points.  They provide guidelines and basic information to make creative pieces but also can block us from being truly creative in our own ways.  Design is something that needs to be pushed and so does our own creativity.

This is especially true when there are problems with the pieces you're trying to create.  "Every design problem has multiple solutions," as said by Denise Bosler.  Even problems need to happen in order to succeed.  Design does not have shortcuts; it's either do it fully or not at all.  No matter what happens, we will always be learning new things whether they be new ideas we come up with, new solutions to a problem, new techniques, or new rules.  There is no way to escape rules, but there are many ways to break them.  The key is to break them but in  a way that it will benefit you instead of hurting you.

Denise did a great job about supporting her key ideas with a lot of detailed evidence.  She also used good examples in order to further her opinion about what she believes is needed to be a successful designer.  She could've worked on using less words but just as much detail to explain her main point so that it wasn't as confusing as she made it seem.

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This past Thursday in Roseburg, Oregon a gunman opened fire which killed at least nine and wounded at least seven at Umpqua Community College.  One student was live tweeting about the travesty while it was occurring.  Kayla Marie tweeted "Omg there's someone shooting on campus," at 12:41.  This caused many reporters and TV producers to attempt to get into contact with Kayla to get as much information on the shooting as possible.  While reporters were trying to interview her, some journalists considered the consequences of their actions and one even thought of them as "Absolute human vultures."

The author of this article is trying to say that journalists can be rude when attempting to interview others.  They show this by including quotes, pictures, and videos of the president, bystanders, and people who were affected by the event.  The author is very good at explaining the travesty and quotes that are included.  They aren't very good at getting to the point as much as explaining it however. Their conclusions are that reporters and journalists can be evil when it comes to interviewing and getting information on important news.

This article explains the points the author is trying to convey very well by using exact tweets by Kayla Marie and Emmanuelle Saliba, quotes by other reporters from various news stations, and also pictures taken at the scene.  The evidence convinced me that reporters can be conniving and rude when trying to interview others.  The applications are the photographs taken and the speech recorded Barck Obama gave to the college.  Overall, this article was put together very well to get the point across about reporters.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/vultures-or-reporters-after-shooting-witnesses-hit-with-media-requests/2015/10/01/c7c53a86-6871-11e5-9ef3-fde182507eac_story.html