This project intends to visually explore and represent the chaotic, unnerving and increasingly dystopian nature of our international political climate which is being warped, exaggerated and caricatured by global media on an hourly basis.
It will also aim to portray how information can become confused or misinterpreted in our age of mass media, ultimately interrogating how the average consumer of simple information can’t be blamed for feeling overwhelmed or disenfranchised by current affairs, especially someone such as myself, a 22 year old with very limited knowledge of politics.
The zine will explore the intense political climate through the use of traditional collage techniques and will utilise the dramatic and persuasive power of typographic abstraction.
The Brief:
Produce an A4 lo-fi collage zine which aims to tackle the current political climate in the UK and USA in a uniquely playful and irreverent manner. In order to produce the zine, you will need to acquire content from secondary sources through conducting a simple Google search every day for a week.
All you will need to do is type in 'Donald Trump' and 'Theresa May' and take the headline and any other relevant typographic content from the first result you see displayed on Google. Then, you will simply need to print off the content in monochrome and create collages which will be translated into the spreads of the zine.
The zine will be printed on bulky newsprint at the scale of either A3 or A4 in order to mimic the aesthetic and feel of existing news publishing print. It is completely up to you how far you push the zine. You could just keep it as a stand-alone publication, or you could think of ways of pushing it further to be more than just a social commentary.
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