Tone & Voice / Integration Healing

Tone & Voice

These buildings were demolished for soulless surface parking spaces

“No matter what the reason is for
demolition, it's still a shame to see a classic cream city brick building replaced with the personality of a parking lot. It removes the three-dimensional history and replaces it with a flat surface that can
​only hold two states: empty or littered” (OnMilwaukee.com). 

A feeling of importance and severity. The feeling of disgust can be distinguished
from the author’s tone of voice. 

“Historic buildings are razed for any number of reasons, some more honorable than others, such as forces of nature, or simply being in the way of a new, exciting project, or — most unfortunately — poor stewardship and decay” (OnMilwaukee.com). 


The diction feels old yet wise. At the
same time, how McDowell uses words, I get
the overall feeling of “grave importance”.
A sense of pure disappointment is based in his tone. “...It’s still a shame to see…”
An interesting design choice for the article specifically is that it’s written on a very dark color background, arguably signifying severity and importance. After reading the article as a whole and the voice of the author, I would argue that he wants us
to be mindful of how we affect our city
spaces. If an idea is good enough to
warrant replacing a building then well,
but if not then leave the structure for others to enjoy.

Integration Healing

Integration Healing addresses mental health through art

The first image pertains to the point of the article. The multiple videos though have no relation to anything in particular. Why are they there? The only connection they have to the article is that they are about Milwaukee. Even that isn’t a connection. 

The second art piece in the article feels more like an analogy to the theme of the article. Painting, a form of self-expression, allows us to delve into our emotions. The necklace in the third image is another great example of self-expression as each piece on the necklace is directly tied to the person who it’s for. 

Looking further down the article we do come to an advertisement that takes up an entire section. The article continues below. Why is this advertisement drawing all the attention away from the article until you scroll past it? This feels like a poor choice of design.

Overall the article does an ok job
getting its message across. However,
some of the media present makes no sense
at all. Either because it has no relation
tothe article or because the media is obstructing the article itself.