For this project we are working with the Illustration course. We’ve been put into group to create outcomes for a protest. The first lesson we had a lecture about different protests around the world and posters banner etc created by designers to give me an idea about whats expected. The protests mentioned such as pro-suffrage, anti-war, animal equality. The posters created for these protests are the ones I found the most interesting. After the lecture we were put into our groups. We started to make a mind map of things we are interested. I mentioned we could do something related to feminism or an inequality in society which isn’t spoken about. Then Dan mentioned colours. He said we could do something about gender colours and how it’s become a rule in society that blue is a masculine and pink is a feminine colour. This a social construct which are created by people. I think that would be a very interesting topic. We then thought about other topics such as animal testing and something more political such as Trump/America. In the end, we decided on colours as I think that’s the one we could create the strongest outcomes. We then started to write the manifesto for the protest. Our next steps was to discuss roles, what style of posters banner we should make. As the group is mixture of graphic and illustration they could have different style. We chose the slogan ‘Challenge the colour’
The week after, we had a meeting with Theo which he said the name of the protest doesn’t clearly show what its about. I do agree with this because challenge the colour can be understood in many different ways. So, as a group we decided to go with ‘De-gender Colour’ which I think sounds way better and clearly shows the purpose of the protest. The rest of the manifesto is the same but just we’ve just changed the name.
Busra Yildiz 