For project 4 Synthesis I worked with a group and the way we use synthesis is gathering our ideas from research and combining those ideas into a magazine and that shows synthesis because we took our information of research making it our individual own and then combining them into a magazine.
The focus is on Japans subculture I focused on Japans fashion Harajuku styles. My group members were Taylor and Monnet. Taylor focuses on Japans anime and Monnet focuses on Japans Urban legends
First step I did was doing lots of research on Harajuku style that symoolizes youth and culture in japan somethings that exaggerates, fun, colorful and had a cartoonish effect its is known as Harajuku fashion.
Once I got all my research done on Harajuku fashion and the subcultures within them such as Kawaii, cosplay, and Lolita styles I gather the information into paragraphs and typed them into a magazine the first page of the magazine talk about the dark side of fashion second page talks on the beginning of Harajuku and then the third page of my magazine talks about the different styles talked on the subcultures.
below is the cover of the magazine I created this page my group members and I decided to come up with the title society because its like a group of teens and its culture.
For art I synthesis the ideas of Kawaii which is suppose to be fun style that involves a lot of accessories and then Yami kawaii is more of a dark style that focuses on mental ilness thats made to look cute. Theres also gothic Lolita which is a punk gothic style I tried combining the gothic Lolita and the yam kawaii style together below are the pictures of the style I did with my clothes I could find.
Below is the Decora I happened to find the stuff animal in my closest and then since I didn't have kawaii accessories that are colorful I just went and added stickers of like a bow. this style could actually be mixed with Yamii kawaii with the bandaids and then its also shows a cute side.
Below is a darker style focusing on Yami kawaii with the mask that could be associated with an ilness more specifically mental health illness this could also be gothic Lolita since there's not much bright colors and yamii kawaii shows bright colors to detract the word or the accessories making it look cute.