Graphic Arts Research Project
My aim was to take a random symbol with no prior links to propaganda, and to turn it into an anti-propaganda tool. Through this, I wanted to aim these ideas at both people living under an authoritarian or totalitarian regime, and those who believe they are not. The idea was to get these people to question the information being fed to them by their governments and to call its reliability into question. I researched historical and modern methods of propaganda and reflected this in my work by mimicking examples and changing the meanings. It is interesting to see the effect that context has on an identity, and how easy it is to create a new meaning for a symbol just through the environment that it is placed in.
My aim was to take a random symbol with no prior links to propaganda, and to turn it into an anti-propaganda tool. Through this, I wanted to aim these ideas at both people living under an authoritarian or totalitarian regime, and those who believe they are not. The idea was to get these people to question the information being fed to them by their governments and to call its reliability into question. I researched historical and modern methods of propaganda and reflected this in my work by mimicking examples and changing the meanings. It is interesting to see the effect that context has on an identity, and how easy it is to create a new meaning for a symbol just through the environment that it is placed in.
