REbEL

Teacher Directed 30%
Course: Art and Design Type 2
Unit Title: Graphic Design for Print (A and T)
Due Date: Week 9
Weighting of Task. 30%



TASK – Using the design process complete a poster and a guerrilla web page which demonstrates your understanding of the premise. Choose a cause that you can be passionate about and consider the use of the media in your research (artworks, blogs, newspapers, video clips or radio)


The Premise:
Australia has always been the lucky country, and we the lucky
people. Free to roam and do as we please in ways that other
nations have never known.
What if that was threatened? What if that freedom was taken
away bit by bit?
There are signs that it’s happening; we have the threat of
mandatory internet censoring, sniffer dogs on the trains, identity
cards, and CCTV. How would the early settlers of Australia feel
about the new laws that have been put in place to protect us?
Imagine if it got worse? What if George Orwell’s vision of Big
Brother was coming true, just 26 years later than he expected?
Freedom of speech abolished, curfews after dark, obligatory
body searches, thought crime? What would you do?
What if you started a rebellion?
What would it stand for?
What would it look like?

C r e a t e a N a m e
1. Name and Symbol
Think of a name to identify your cause. The
name should represent your cause in some
way, either literally, or metaphorically.
Once you have decided on a name,
develop a graphic symbol that will become
instantly recognisable as the mark of your
rebellion. You can either treat the name in
such a way that it forms a word-mark, or
think of a graphic device that can either
stand alone, or sit along side the name, to
form your rebellion identity.
2. A Poster:
Once you have developed a name and a
symbol, look at how your cause could be
represented in printed communications.
Typography can convey a lot about your
organisation, as can imagery and the
language you use.
With this in mind, develop a poster that
aims to rally the public to support your
cause. Think about the main message
you want to communicate, some sub
text to support it and don’t forget a call
to action. These posters will be taped to
telegraph poles and put up anywhere the
public will see them.
3. Web Splash Page
Now for the controversial guerrilla element
of this brief! As your rebellion is antigovernment
policy, we would like you to
develop a static splash page that will pop
up when the general public attempts to
access various government websites.
Yes, it’s illegal, but this is hypothetical so
have some fun! We want your splash page
to provoke the general public to start
questioning the government on the issue
of freedom of speech and censorship.
Consider the language, imagery and
typography as you did with your poster
but make sure it’s landscape so it fills a
computer screen.

4. Research
Your research should be part of the design process and because it is part of your power point presentation it can include research into a topic (guerrilla knitting) and issue (human rights and the internet) and or a design concept (visual material from cultures, history, technology, environment, personal experiences, techniques and themes explored by other designers, self identity). Research should be 3 slides as a minimum.


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