Thursday, 30 July 2015

aesthetic and final output choice

For my overall look I want to make it look kind of sharp/pointy because I feel the figures will have an ominous look. I quite like Jhonen Vasquez's style of jagged and pointy and often looming figures:
I'm also keen on making my final output in collage paper and going over it in photoshop for detailing. Some inspirational examples:



Monday, 27 July 2015

Thumbnail sketches

Here's some thumbnails of different ideas and compositions surrounding the idea that vaccination is a satanist ritual, will add more soon:






Friday, 17 July 2015

Editorial examples











Project outline and brainstorm

For this project I wanted to focus on vaccination conspiracy theories because there is a lot of public debate about this topic especially among my peers. We need to create a final output that visually communicates our chosen conspiracy devoid of words.

 There appear to be all sorts of conspiracy theories surrounding the use of vaccines including genocide, human guinea pigs, profiteering pharma companies and mind control. I made a basic mind map below with some links to the sources I looked at:



http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/02/11/3621774/vaccine-conspiracy-spacing/
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_influenza32.htm
http://pediatrics.about.com/od/immunizations/tp/Anti-Vaccination-Conspiracy-Theories.01.htm

I will also include some interesting example editorials in the next post as research