OUGD505 // Studio Brief 01: Initial ideas

Research outlines:

• Examine graphic design outputs relating to social, political and ethical change.
• Aim to increase your awareness of historical examples plus contemporary practice that is responsive to 21st Century issues.
• Be sure to note the relationship between medium and message.
• You should then produce a body of research work that explores the connections between these concepts and their respective design outcomes.

Initial ideas:

• racial police brutality
• feminism
• gentrification
• climate change
• poaching

What interests me most out of these ideas is feminism. I just need to find a specific path to take... so I brainstormed specific gender themes.

• sexualisation vs liberation
• sexism in music: how rap is blamed for the brunt of it, and how it goes unnoticed in 'white' dominated genres.
• portrayal of women in the media eg Daily Mail, and how it is affecting society.
• portrayal of women in the movie industry eg male dominated films, or problematic story lines/characters.
• the importance of masculinity and the hatred of femininity: how men are affected.
• rape culture: 'she was asking for it' and how women are taught to be ashamed.
• lad culture and ingrained sexism in youth.
• how sexuality is shameful in women but proud in men.