People, Protest, Poster

FNDT 161 Core Design

People, Protest, Poster is an interdisciplinary 2D-based project exploring text and imagery in relation to the contemporary art movements introduced during the course. Through a holistic process of creative writing, image-making, binding, exhibiting and feedback loops, students will practice many steps from prototyping to presentation. Students will practice the modes of thinking and activities that comprise designing. These include: understanding the societal context for design, learning how to frame good design questions, undertaking research, practicing iteration, documenting process, testing and presenting outcomes, learning critique, and refining work. Through this project, students re-configure articles from major newspapers into small square posters to explore principles of composition while expressing the meaning of the news pieces. In this project, student designed a series of five posters as a response to a social, political or ecological event they contemplated upon. Through the research and design process students created a body of work based on their interpretation of the event with the goal of raising awareness.