Today I have two examples of one of the supreme disciplines of print design: posters. The first one is a bit older from the last semester, where design debates were a topic. The poster about CCTV surveillance communicates a controversy; it´s meant to raise awareness, to polarise and to encourage debate. Is it positive or negative to be seen as a potential criminal? Does CCTV help to prevent crime even when it´s mainly catching harmless everyday activities? What is private and what is public?
The second poster is from the stuff I handed in last week. It´s about Southville, the part of Bristol that I live in. In this typographic experiment, the people of Southville become type designers. The glyphs were collected from different corners in Southville. Insults carved in park benches as well as handwritten shopping window decorations or vandalised road signs contributed to the typeface that was then used to spell out the name of the place and thus convey its diversity and character.
Both of these posters were screenprinted on coloured paper.
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