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Editorial Design, Creative Writing
A social critique expressed through the visual vernacular of data control + redaction
Reducing official stamps, seals, and legal tape to minimalistic, primary shapes
Client: MA Graphic Design, Falmouth University
Project: Editorial design to support creative writing piece
Services: Graphic Design, Editorial Design, Print Design, Creative Writing
Written synopsis: Accents reveal much more about us than we’d think. In under a minute, the listener can mentally log reams of data about you – your nationality, ethnicity, intelligence, education, trustworthiness, social standing, occupation etc. Even snap judgements about physique can be made!
These ‘facts’ form a personal dossier packed with data. A way for listeners to identify and categorise you according to place, gender, socio-economic status etc. Essentially a social profiling system based on phonic sound. Or, to put it another way, your pronunciation.
In a society where information is traded as a commodity, how will you control your phonic data?
Design: The design approach explores my written material through the language of data control, redaction, censorship, and data breach etc. After exploring several format options, I decided a limited run, screen-print zine would amplify the message – as the zine has a long history of underground social critique.
