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.