The Sanctuary Cont.

Here are the 4 design ideas I sent to Tom. To be honest, I'm not over the moon about any of them, hopefully I'll be able to spend more time on this.

And again

OK, this is pretty much everyday. I'm going to have to start being more fussy with the headlines I choose.




So this article is about how the taxpayer payed for a released Guantanamo Bay inmate to be flown back to Britain for an outrageous amount, and how he could claim upto £21, 600 in benefits, which "is around £5000 more than earned by a frontline British soldier risking his life to fight Mohamed's alleged Taliban associates in Afghanistan."

Again its the all important details they fail to linger on, such as Guantanamo Bay was an illegal prison (that was the result of the 'war on terror' that British tax payers spent billions on) that kept British citizens detained without charge for up to seven years, while the British government did nothing. This whole messed up situation is the fault of the governments of the Western world (primarily the US, obviously) - not some poor guy who was probably just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Oh, and there was also this. It is constant with the Daily Express. Seriously, who reads all this stuff? I'm going to be honest; I didn't. I haven't read this article. I have heard it all before. It's pathetic. It is presenting scapegoats to a nation scared by some 'credit crunch' in order to make money.



Who's to blame tomorrow? I bet they aren't English.

End of Year Show '09

Here is my entry for the EYS competition. It's quite dull... I wish I had spent a little more time on it now...

Here are the boards







In retrospect, I think I prefer the 'we are your future one'. I think I also forgot to include that last board in my entry, as I have just found it in my drawer.

Invasion?

C'mon Express. I know the builders won't buy your paper as much, but stop shirking away from your responsibility to report news objectively.



Basically The Express interviewed a load of ASYLUM SEEKERS (not economic migrants like the headline makes out), asking them how much they would work for if they made it into Britain, they said they didn't care how much they got payed as long as they were safe. The Express then asked them if they would work for £1 an hour, they said yes, as long they were safe.

A bit of a non story don't you think. Idiots.

I think this will be the last newspaper cover I post for a while as I am buying The Express nearly everyday and it's embarrassing.

The Sanctuary

I have been asked by Tom at the Refugee Council to design a blog and come up with a name for an asylum seeker allotment scheme. I thought the name 'The Sanctuary' would be appropriate, and thought that it would be good to use potato prints to make the type.

Here's some photos of Potato Caslon:






Heres the brief:

Design context quotes

I am going to be collecting quotes relevant to my Design Context, and the best ones will find themselves into my book. Here's some from '100 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers.'

Express

I found this headline in The Express today. At the end of the article it meantions that it is only a few school and that the finding may have been poorly researched. Strange how the headlines don't mention that bit of important information.

Quotes

Been scouring the internet for quotes that represent the views of those uneducated on the issue of asylum.

Here's a few of my favorites, all from the Facebook group send all the imargrants home - seriously, if you are going to be peddling hatred against a group of people then learn to spell it properly.

"they live 6 to 9 adult's in a house buy big sack of spuds and carrot's between them for a week nick all are job's only speke english when they want benefits fuckin pushin front of u in queue's spitting all the time they fuckin wind me up scumbag's let's get AR'E COUNTRY BACK FOR US AND GET RID OF THE FREE LOADIN SCUM NOW."


"Now i can see why some people come here to escape war torn countries and so on but my opinion is SO FUCKING WHAT!! We have thousands of people who are born here and are homeless and unemployed. So i reckon we should close our borders for the next ten years until we can sort our own shit out. End of story."


"...us english cannot get anything , but they come over here and get the lot , its just not fair , would we get treated as good in there country , somehow i don't think so . GET RID......"

My favorite part being "speke english".

Any way, I'm going to be on the lookout for more quotes like this. If anybody finds any websites or Facebook groups, or other quotes then let me know.

Newspaper headlines

I thought it would be good to find some biased newspaper headlines - as newspapers give an opinion a certain authority. Within ten minutes of thinking this I saw this headline on the front of, you got it, The Mail.



This may be easier than I thought....

End of Year Show '09

I have been trying to put together an entry for the End of Year Show promo competition. I am not having much luck. Here are some crap pieces of crap.

UHC are ext-inked

Here's the Extinked identity I did at UHC with Jai and Sara, on the UHC website splashpage
Search for Extinked on Facebook for more info.

More mapping

I am going to do more maps. So far I have got two planned that will help me explore Britain relationship withe the rest of the world. This is a half finished map showing all the countries (past and present) that Britian has colonised, and I intend to do another similar map showing countries that British companies source products and materials from.

January highlights

I haven't updated my blog for a month now, so I decided it was high time to do so.

Without further ado here is a run-down, in no particular order, of my January highlights.

1.

Work placement at Thompson. Sweeeet. Well, kind off - I was supposed to do a week, but was ill for Monday and Tuesday so it turned into three days. It was smart to see the people I hadn't seen since summer, as well as the two new guys that had started. Equally as good was seeing the final version of the Metal books - You Are Here.

PHOTO


2.

Going to Amsterdam (for the culture, not the drugs and hookers...) with my lovely girlfriend Cat. This gave me an excuse to get some footage on the 8mm cine camera my sister got me for Christmas (watch this space for a video). Here is a photo of me on a big boat in Amsterdam - and not a space cake in sight.




3.

Speaking to Si Scott. He came into college with Danny Sangra and talked us through some of their work. Both really cool, down to earth guys. The highlight of this highlight was showing Si some of my work and getting the response 'It was you that did that? I've seen that before. It's nice' to the first piece of work that I showed him - one of the outcomes to my last module (below). Psyched!


4.

Being featured on the Hot Grads section of Character Creative's website. Cheers chaps!

5.

On Tuesday I started an internship at the Ultimate Holding Company in Manchester, doing 2 days a week. It should be really good, they are involved in the more 'ethical' side of graphic design as well as doing a lot of interesting art projects. Here is my favorite piece of design work by them - poster and flyer artwork for Climate Camp (hopefully I'll be attending the next one of these).




Highly Commended

Oh yeah, these also came back from the printers - they may look plain (and they are) - but this was the first time I actually designed a 2 colour print job, so go me.





Cheers big ears,

X.

Direction

After my tutorial the other day I am thinking about the direction that my research is going. Fred was talking about using just statistics to to encourage people to question their prejudices about asylum seekers, as opposed to some kind of traditional advertising campaign.

Sagmeister did something similar (I'm sure you have all seen this, but now you can see it agian), called Moving Money, which I guess illustrates this idea. It was a kind of road show showing facts about militery spending in America, and included stationary, vehicles, inflatable graphs, etc.