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5^thMARCH (TUESDAY AFTER COP SUBMISSION)

-      Blog of sb1

-      Design boards àresearch, write about your work analyze design principles you’ve used within it, layouts, grids, typography 

6 weeks till submission 

Design principle Brief2 

-      3 posters 

-      Each will have a theme to look at 

Just image

Just text

Text and image

All exploring the same theme but you decided 

Smaller A3s

2 A2s

Cannot be offensive 

Cannot be problematic

Theme is all about uncomfortable images

If it bleeds it leads 

For diff purposes n use: journalism, propaganda, as snapshots 

Need to decide on a theme today (based on images that you start to collect, find)

Edit the images, process them, put them into diff combinations 

Conceptual research:

-      Susan Sontag – Regarding the pain of others (chp6,7)

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-      Malcolm Barnard – graphic design as communication 

àinfo: impart knowledge 

àpersuasion: convince or affect a change in thought or behavior 

àdecoration: aesthetic function, enjoyment and pleasure, intended to please the spectator 

àmagic: how graphic design make things different from what it truly is (branding: buy sth that isn’t really there) 

-      Ways of seeing (last episode)

Non only image themselves, but their purpose, use, what are they for, how they’ve been used

IG: toofprints, Oripeau

Design work that is typographic 

Own dialect is encouraged

Black and white only (might use coloured paper)

-      Blog

-      Design boards

-      Final posters 

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Themes to consider:

-      Find things that you think uncomfortable 

-      The idea, the description can be uncomfortable (how images react to them) (extreme images)

-      How images are used in media 

Themes suggested:

-      Impact of social media

-      Memes

-      Body politics 

-      Yellow vests 

-      Nationalism

-      Trolls

-      Neo-cons and snowflakes 

-      Triggered, gaslighting, no platforming 

-      Gentrification

-      Austerity

-      Gender identity 

-      Brexit

-      Housing crisis 

-      Immigration (how the images persuade people that immigration is a problem)

-      Student debt 

-      Censorship

Themes that I would like to work on:

-      Natural hazards 

-      Housing problem 

-      Hunger

-      Identity

-      Suicides among students 

-      Wealth gap

What is it that makes you feel uncomfortable?

What is their purpose?

How can they being used?

*Find out rules behind taking the images

Take pictures your own following those rules 

After Ben showed us the slides on if it bleeds it leads, I was a bit of a struggle as the vocabularies in the slides are quite hard and that I had to read it all over again at home with the dictionary on. However, after knowing all the meanings of the vocabularies, I found that the brief is actually quite interesting to work on. This brief is quite different from those we did before, as it is kind of taking a philosophic approach which is worth to discuss on. 

1 fact and visualise it in 15 different ways
not 15 different facts