Week 1.1 + 1.2

Week 0.1

Daily Poster:

HOMEWORK / INDEPENDENT STUDY

Select three works and repeat the process of analysing the ihi & wehi that you did in the class exercise. Ensure that you save bookmarks of any on-line sources and bring them to your next lab.
Read Max Rashbrooke's book The Inequality Debate: An introduction. There is a link below that will take you to the Massey library's E-reader version.
Explore inequality in New Zealand, a range of links can be found on the Lectures and resources page to get you started.
Find other articles and readings.

Trump's 4th July

http://paulsahre.com/trumps-july-4th

Pual Sahre

Ihi and Wehi:

Ihi: Multiple heads of Donald Trump have been placed on different people in an old painting. This photo tells me that Trump speaks for everyone, he is the only speaker with the right thing to say. He feels dominant and above everyone else. This poster shows dark humour which usually lingers with Donald Trump being the main subject. Donald Trump has shown astronomical amounts of inequality in his time.

Wehi: This makes me feel angry, confused, furious, sad, and fiction.

James Victor 'Racism' 1993

Ihi and Wehi:

Ihi: Victor has created a piece that shouts one of the louest inequality issues the world faces.

This poster tends to 'eat you up', it depicts how violent, scary, and vicious it is for victims who suffer from racism. Its smudged typography comes off careless and harsh. The red 'C' and mouth of claws draws your eye straight to the centre of the page and it supported by the negative space. This piece is symbolisng racism to show what it would look like if it were an object.

Wehi: Staright away I feel violated, scared, grotty, and hurt. I also feel a sense of saddness as this isn't even snippet of how victims feel when they suffer from racism.

I feel a sense of thriller and horror from the bold lines.

Phil Risbeck

https://posterswithoutborders.com/Phil-Risbeck-1

Ihi annd Wehi:

Ihi: This poster elaborates the fact that the issue is inequality of voting. Black men and women, women of all colour, and races. The centre focus is a large hand filled by other hands being held up creating an army agaisnt these laws. The colour pallet is limited to USA representitive colours which means this is based towards US government/presedential decisions. The hands are symbolic as a cry for help almost.

Wehi: This poster immediately makes me want to join in this army of people who sufferage from these laws. I feel saddnened, mistreated, and confused as to why we should still be fighting for this right.

Class 0.2

Look at Paula Scher

Rhetoric

Juxtaposition

- the painting of two or more elemnts to create a contrasting or new message

Subversion

- Taking existing work and defacing it, adding to it, alternating the meaning by working over it

Homage

- using a style in a manner that clearly acknowledges the original

Parody

- Recognise the original

Satire

- Use of irony, humour, exaggeration or sarcasm to expose an issue

Pastiche

- An artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period

- Depends of detail

Dynamsin

- Using diagonal lines, texture, patter, flow etc for infer movement

Brainstorming Inequal Issues in class:

Drawings/Plannings from todays class exercise:

HOMEWORK / INDEPENDENT STUDY:

Investigate both sides of the topic before selecting one standpoint.
Continue to find articles. Draw out keywords and themes from and keep building mind maps and word lists
Collect existing VCD precedents on topic. Analyse what rhetorical devices have they used? How have they used fundamental design principles? What are the themes / content / tensions. Print out and bring to the next class. Don't glue into workbooks yet.

Complete daily exercise.
Complete ideation techniques from today's class – remember a minimum of 10 concepts per word
Create mind maps and wordlists for your topic, explore rhetorical devices in a literal sense and then investigate how these could be developed as visual solutions.