11/8/14
Understand
I stumbled across some Sex Pistold imagery and thought it was extremely relevant. I discovered an album artwork for the 1977 album 'God Save the Queen' which uses imagery of the queen in a rhetoric way. The piece is about Lèse-majesté which talks about youth revolting against the system and is visualised through the defacing of symbols of power.
11/8/14
Understand
I felt that because I haven't done any typography before I should look into some typographical posters to get a feel for good typography.
10/8/14
Understand
"If we don't solve it we'll end up with a county being run by older people who are dying off and young people having no say in how it's run," he exhorts.
Maybe this is what we need; the tiny, remaining voting population dying off, then maybe the government will make some serious changes.
"My theory is that most people can't be bothered. New Zealand politics is very boring - there's not enough of a discernable difference between the two major parties to make it seem worthwhile."
- Guy Williams
This is very true, to the youth who don't know much about politics it can seem as if all the parties are the same and there is really no point voting.
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8/8/14
Understand
I heard about Barbara Kruger and her style of typography and achieving great things with very little text and image.
6/8/14
Understand / Define / Ideate
Today I made huge progress, I went through many different stages and ideas and ended up right back at the start but now I have a really good understanding of what I am doing and really believe in the idea, which I didn't really before.
I started to think that the original idea was just way too difficult to visualise so I started thinking about other reasons not to vote and ended up at the GCSB spying scandal. I worked through that for a while and then realised it wasn't as strong as the original idea.
I had an idea about trying to integrate bees with the MPs so I did a lot of research into bees hoping there would be some sort of relevant fact involving young bees but there wasn't so I moved on, not wanting to waste anymore time on bees.
I then moved onto ideas for a hippy style poster to try and show how old these MPs are, as I just realised that if the average MP was 51 in 2011 then the average MP birth year must be 1960. I came to the conclusion that I was contradicting myself as the hippy style and imagery was just reinforcing a youthful feel and almost reminding the viewer that the MPs were young once, the complete opposite of what I was going for...
I researched what happened in 1960 in New Zealand and found out that New Zealand first got TVs in 1960. I started playing around with this until I realised that the connection wasn't strong enough and ended up back where I had started but with a lot more faith in the idea.
