Sketches

This is my first sketch and it's based on the theme of communication. I'm trying to recall people's memory about the way of communication in the past. A few examples are applied in my design - typewriter, telegraph (dots), and letter (vertical stripes).



Communication is a process by which we assign and convey meaning in an attempt to create shared understanding. Languages of many kinds are being used in order to exchange information - It could be oral language which the parties should share in order to process the data in the proper way, there are also informal languages such as body language, which is much more universal.

In our days, when saying Communication we generally refer to the mass media - TV, radio, newspaper, magazines and of course the internet. Those media channels transfers mass amount of impersonal information to a mass amount of people consuming it. Usually it would be divided by common interests like sport, entertainment, etc.

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To really think about it, what I mention above is only a minor section of what communication can do. Of course I can't list out all, but yes, you can get the answer by yourself by just looking around since communication is existing everywhere.

And recently I've come across this thing called 'graphic agitation', which is mainly related to the politic and social. I think it's quite an interesting way of communication (critical and letting voice out).

It has grown stronger over time since the 1960s (not sure whether it is up to now, but I don't think so). Individuals and bodies utilizes graphic art with different aims, usually the employing graphics are meant to spread their views ranging from governments through the terrorist organizations and include, among others, various pressure groups and commercial institutions. People can go really far in order to communicate their views to the public. That is why there is such a massive amount of graphics in political and social agitation out there.


Here are some examples of the graphics I would like to share with you... enjoy. =)


Poster for a concert for the victims of Communism, designed by Istvan Orosz Hungary 1990.



Maniac Ravings or Little Boney in a Strong Fit, print by James Gillary, 1803.



World War One recruitment tactics: poster by James Montgomery Flagg, USA 1917.



Poster by the British designer FHK Henrion for the United States Office of War Information, 1944. It was designed to be shown on the continent after the D-Day liberation.



Low-tech screen-printing is used to powerful effect in this poster by Jayne Amble for an anti-racism campaign. Produced by for the South Australian United Trades and Labour Council, Australia 1987.



Posters from a network of anti-racist and anti-fascist groups and organizations located throughout Germany. Some were produced, the others collected, by Wolfgang Kreile, Germany 1992.


_Angeline