Week One, Thursday 20th July

CITIZEN DESIGNER
Understand, define

Lecture: In the lecture we looked at the designer being a voice for change. We look at several different examples of this. One that I found interesting was the John Heartfield example of "Adolf the Superman", I had previously been looking into him while looking at the dadaists and their use of symbolism and juxtaposition to create meaning.

Untitled “Your body is a battleground” (1989) Barbara Kruger


Linder Sterling, 1976
During the lecture we looked at posters that deal with human rights and one of the examples was the Barbara Kruger poster. In seeing this I was instantly reminded of the Linder Sterling piece at the bottom, I think because of the contrast of colours - the composition and the black and white women.

During class we played pictionary with the table. It was a good exercise because it honed the quick word/image associations  - whilst under a time pressure.


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