History of my passion: Zeitgeist and utopia

Zeitgeist and Utopia

Question: Attempt to define the term zeitgeist and utopia using based on my on existing knowledge.

1.1.Zeitgeist, in the year 2009 I one watched a conspiracy film named zeitgeist. And it was basically exposing how the human population is being lied to by its leaders, for example the 9/11 that happened in the United State was said to have been organized by the US president. So in my existing knowledge I thought the term zeitgeist referred to being lied/ fooled by someone or it had something to do with conspiracies about illuminati.

1.2.Utopia, the bible has put an image in our heads that The Garden of Eden was the most perfect place a human being would have loved to live in. You didn’t have to work for what you eat food was provided, it was depicted as a paradise place.

Question: Define the term zeitgeist.

1. The term zeitgeist is a German word that refers to the spirit of the time; general trend of thought of feeling characteristics of a particular period of time. It also the general intellectual, moral and cultural climate of an era.

Question: Explain how it relates to graphic design?

I think it relates to Graphic Design because in that time of history there was a new trend that was going on that influenced the art and design industry in terms of the mood and the lookn and feel in their work.

Images relating to zeitgeist

Question: define the trerm Utopia.

Utopia is the term used to define an imagenary or real place that is said to be ideal or perfect. Also known as paradise.

Images relating to Utpoia.

Questions:

What information did you find?
How did you go abot selecting the relevent information?
How does the cotext help with distinguishing relevant from irrelavent information?
What images do you find linked to this term?
Which of these sites interest you?
What key words will help refine our source?

Anawers:

I found information that relates to the terms but some was unrelated for example you would fine art sites that relatethe zeitgeist.
i did not select any information from wekipedia.
The context helped me understand the term better, relavent information would then be refering to the past movement when seraerching for zeitgeist and all infomation realting to utopia was simmilar in context.
Zeitgeist i found images that would confuse you if you did not know or understant the word. Utopia images were quite similar in showing perfect dream-like places.
The site about zeitgeist movement.
zeitgeist, definition or utopia definition.