The Design of Discourse
Project Brief: Design a poster with global, critical socio-political content that stimulates emotion, provokes dialogue and rouse an audience to support/engage in an issue or event, cause or mission.
In other words: Take a stand and make other people give a shit too.
Then, design an exhibition which not only displays our final outcome, but also communicates your process.
Part 1: Inspiration/Research
After trying to figure out what political argument I would stand for, I finally decided to talk about racism.
Below are these notes as they are presented in the exhibition.
Part 2: Define
Once these thoughts had been put together, I sat down and went over every connection that I had found and decided to outline a lot of the trends that each of these angles had in common. Below are these notes as they are presented in the exhibition.
After working through the racism and how that is an embedded part of American history, my poster is a response to Donald Trump's wall. I chose to portray our inherent racism and view of people who are not "American" as the building blocks and the foundation of what America was built on.
Part 3: Ideate
The next portion was to sketch out the initial ideas for the poster.
Part 4: Prototype + Testing
Here, I began to actually put these sketches into action and see how they reacted to my concept.
Part 5: Implementation
And finally, after a lot of drafting and working through problems, I actually ended up going with on of my first ideas I had. It is currently in exhibition at Winthrop University through November 6.
