Intro to style

Make/Define/Critique

For independent study I continued ideating and developing my concepts, as pictured below. We had a lecture about style/concept, and then in small groups talked about style and connotations and how it can add to/change the concept.

Then we paired up and discussed each other's posters. We mostly talked about my 'they're just words' one, since that's my favourite. Ruth thought the message was clear, though didn't immediately understand what the caption meant - because when printed out the words on the magpies are quite hard to see. I will make them a bit more obvious, probably. Also had some feedback that maybe the  white gap between the birds is too big - it almost seems as if there's a barrier, rather  than them being very vulnerable like it's supposed to be. Also I should add a tagline maybe?

Debate and Brainstorming

Understand/Define/Ideate

We held our debate, which went quite well. It was easier being on the against side since most people agree that NZ is not inherently equal. We then made brainstorms in groups about different aspects of inequality, with visual aspects too, to help decide on a direction for our work. Then we split into pairs to make two posters of an idea. Evie and I decided to choose the wage gap (gender wise). They get the point across, but aren't particularly interesting, or NZ specific.

Introduction

Understand/Define

We were introduced to the topic, and looked at some poster examples and discussed them in groups.
Then we got into our debate groups, and sorted out what we are going to research. Our group is doing against (aka NZ is not equal) and I am going to focus my research on LGBTQ issues (gender identity and sexuality, etc) because I spend a lot of time in lgbtq oriented online spaces, follow lots of lgbtq activists/organisations on social media, and am pretty much the president of massey wellington UniQ and not straight myself - aka I already have a lot of knowledge about the topic(s).