Campaigns

Banksy

Guerilla Advertising

Coffee Painting

Manifesto

Conditional Design

In this Seminar we participated in 2 activities from the Condition Design workbook by the graphic designers: Luna Maurer, Jonathan Puckey, Roel Wouters and the artist Edo Paulus. 
The 1st activity was called 'The Beach', this activity required 
- 4 players 
- each with different coloured markers
- taking turns and going into a clockwise direction 
- each placing a small dot in the most emptiest space on the page. 
We had to do this until we thought the beach was then becoming crowded.

This was what our groups final page looked like, we stopped it here thinking it was getting crowded as we felt as a group to give each dot some space. 

The second activity we then took part in was called the 'Perfect Circle'. The aim of the activity was to draw a perfect circle.
- requires 4 players
- 4 different markers
- each player has 30 seconds
- Draw a filled in circle
- take in turn and improve the edges and borders to improve the     circle
- stop when you think the circle is perfect   

This what out circle looked like. We started of colouring the circle dots in but as the circle started to become slightly larger in size the shading in of the colours ended up becoming circle outlines. 

After participating in these activities and having a look at the outcomes of the other groups we realised we all had a slightly different response to the instructions given to us. This therefore shows us that everyone has their own perspective in which they analyse and respond to in different ways. This i see as a positive factor as it shows that there is not only one right approach in doing something there can be many different possible outcomes. 
Another positive outcome from this is that it shows you that peer feedback can give you a different perspective which can help you open a new window in observing things.

Ideas

Character designs

Second session of the production and process module we was given the brief to design and create a cereal box. To do this we had a look at existing designs for inspiration looking at composition layout and context. Cereal boxes have a character with a image of the bowl of cereal on the front so we was;t doing anything different we had to create and draw our own character to be on the cover of my cereal box. From starting in drawing and producing a character for the cover to thinking about the composition layout of where my character the Octopus will be how will the bowls be placed playing around with the layout the positioning. Thinking of a name and incorporating that into the design.

Some brief and rough sketches I started of with as the main character for my cereal design.

Deciding on a octopus I then thought about the different appearances, e.g.  shape, glasses, hat or anything to make the Octopus distinct.

Having to include the cereal box into the design I tried to use the tentacles to incorporate the idea of the tentacles around the cereal bowl, also starting to think about the package idea.

After a few character design sketches I then folded the page to give me 8 different sections for the cover of the cereal box. However as the paper was creased it would have a impact on the design itself therefore I drew out my sketches again this time without folding the paper.

I started thinking of the idea of the Octopus juggling the bowls so i could use the space and do something different than just having own centre bowl.

Looking at position and layout I re-arranged the size and the position the type octopus and the cereal splash. 

Typography I am...

Using typography I was to communicate a message  beginning with I am and adding a word to communicate a message about myself. The typeface I created had to be inspired by the message I was to communicate.

Communicating the Idea of messy I decided to use a thick type front to which I then wrote the words scruffy and unorganised to show and communicate the word Messy. This type face i didn't really like as it was really untidy and very messy.

To show I am confused I used many abstract lines going in all directions to create a blocked letter. This shows that the lines to form the letters have no direction to follow and are confused which is why it's going in every direction.

Product and Market Orientation - Pete's Lecture

Summary of ‘The Poetics of Open Works’ - Umberto Eco

Open works is an incomplete work piece, a combination of the different elements art, performance and music. It encourages acts of conscious freedom for the production of work advising the authors/performers to ignore the influences of external sources. The artists engage the audience to understand their finished work giving out hidden messages through their works, some symbols to communicate their ideas across. However, the open works reinforces ‘openness’ as every individual views and interpretates these pieces in their own unique way allowing complete freedom to understand and create your own perspective of the work produced.

History of the Palestine War

For the Conversation Brief we was to research on a on going conversation, or a conversation of the future anything which can be a debate or a simple message to deliver a message in the medium we wanted. I chose the topic war as at the moment for me that is on ongoing conversation that is in the news today and has been for quite some time, also i feel it will be one ongoing conversation for the future as war is a never ending conflict. To give my brief a specific direction i decided to focus my brief on a particular war which was the on going conflict between Palestine and Israel. To do this I firstly had to research the origins of the conflict what caused it what it was over and is still over, Land.

A fight over land

In the 19th Century the Zionists (extreist minority of the Jewish population) had migrated to Palestine to ‘Claim’ their ancestrial homeland after considering areas in Africa and America they Settled on Palestine. With the increase of migrants the Zionists created their own community  with the goal of taking over the land for a jewish state.

UN Partition Plan:

In 1947 the UN Nations decided to interfere in this dispute and instead of following the principle of ‘self determination of people’s’ in which the population create their own system of goverment and state. However they decided to follow the ancient procedure where a outside state divided the land between the people. Under the Zionist pressure the UN Nations decided to give away 55% of the land to the jewish state, even though their total population was only 30% and they had control over only 7% of the land.

1947-1948 WAR:

War eventually took place involving 5 Arab armies, throughout this war the Zionists outnumbered both Arabs and Palestinians army put together. The Arab armies didn’t invade the Israel state but fought on the land that was considered to be the Palestinian state. The reason behind why the Arab armies were involved into the battle was due to the 33 massacre’s the Zionists had created altogether. This involved the grisly massacre of 100 men. women and children, which the future Israeli Prime Minister, also a leader of a jewish terrorist group, Menachem Begin described as ‘Splendid’. 

By the end of the war the Zionists had conquered 78% of Palestine over 3/4 of a million Palestinians were made refugees, 500 villages and towns were eradicated. The Palestinian state was then erased and replaced, as a new map was drawn giving the city a new appearance replacing the original state. Te-naming all the existing states to give them a new name in Hebrew. Isreal then became in-denial that a state called Palestine ever existing wiping out the memory of it’s existence. 

1966 War and USS Liberty:

In 1966 Israel was succesdful in conquering the 22% of the remaining land, during the ‘Six day war’ where the also landed a suprise attack on Egypt. West bank and the Gaza strip were eluded as acoording to the international law it isn’t acceptable to claim territory over a state by war. As these states do not belong to Israel but belong to Egypt and Syria as they are still under occupation. 

Furthermore during the ‘Six day War’ Israel also landed a attack on the Us Navy ship the USS Liberty.  This attack injured and killed over 200 of America’s servicemen. 

Current Conflict:

There are two main issues still continuing at the core of this conflict. The first being the inevitable affect of trying to maintain a stable ethinical state especially with their being the majority population of a foreign origin. The original population of the state is 96% being Muslim and Christian, yet these refugees are forbidden to return to their own homes.

The second major issue being that Israel  have continues their military occupation trying to invade and take over the private owned land of West Bank and Gaza. As the Palestinians have minimal control over their own lives most men women and children are held captive in Israeli prison with only a few of them having a legitimate legal trial. Physical abuse and torture is frequent men women and children are often strip searched. The Israeli’s are in control of the Palestine border, people are beaten women in labour are prevented from reaching appropriate medical attention. Food water medical aid clothes shelter are stopped from entering into Gaza. Israeli’s killing kidnapping torturing the inhabitants every single day creating a escalating humanitarian crisis. 

According to Oslo Peace accords 1993 it states that this land was supposed to becoma a recognised Palestinina state but due to the invasion by Isreal the palestinian population rebelled.

U.S Involvement:

Due to high interest in Lobbying U.S taxpayers pay £8 million to Israel every day have have gave most U.s funds to Israel than to any other nation.