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Frank Shepard Fairey is an American contemporary street artist,
graphic designer activist and illustrator who emerged from the skateboarding scene. Fairey became involved with art in 1984, when he
started to place his drawings on
skateboards and T-shirt. He is best
known for his “André the Giant Has
a Posse” sticker campaign which
later evolved into the “Obey Giant”
logo. As with most street artists,
the Obey Giant was intended to inspire curiosity and cause the masses to question their relationship
with their surroundings. He became
more widely recognized during the
2008 U.S. presidential election for
his Barack Obama “Hope” poster.
BLEK LE RAT
Blek le Rat, born Xavier Prou was one of the
first graffiti artists in Paris, and the originator of
stencil graffiti art. He began his artwork in 1981,
painting stencils of rats
on the street walls of Paris, describing the rat as
“the only free animal in
the city”, and one which
“spreads the plague everywhere, just like street art”.
His name originates from
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le Roc”, using “rat” as an
anagram for “art”. Initially influenced by the early
graffiti art of New York
City after a visit in 1971,
he chose a style which
he felt better suited Paris, due to the differing architecture of the two cities. Blek is credited with
being the inventor of the
life-sized stencil, as well
as the first to transform
stencil from basic lettering into pictoral art. He
has had a great influence
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“urban art” movements,
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SITUATIONISTS
The Situationist International was an organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political
theorists, active from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution in 1972. The foundations were derived from anti-authoritarian Marxism and the
avant-garde art movements of the early 20th century, particularly Dada and Surrealism. In their expanded interpretation of Marxist theory,
the situationists asserted that the misery of social alienation and commodity fetishism had spread themselves to every aspect of life and
culture. They resolutely rejected the idea that advanced capitalism’s apparent successes—such as technological advancement, increased
income, and increased leisure—could ever outweigh the social dysfunction and degradation of everyday life that it simultaneously inflicted.
The movement reached the apex of its creative output and influence in 1967, marking the publication of the two most
significant texts of the movement; The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord and The Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul
Vaneigem. These proved greatly influential in shaping the ideas behind the May 1968 insurrections in France; quotes, phrases,
and slogans from situationist texts and publications were ubiquitous on posters and graffiti throughout France during uprisings.
CHE
GUEVARA
Born Ernesto Guevara de la Serna in 1928 in Argentina into a
middle-class family. He studied medicine at Buenos Aires University
and during this time travelled widely in South and Central America. The widespread poverty and oppression he witnessed, fused
with his interest in Marxism, convinced him that the only solution
to South and Central America’s problems was armed revolution.
In 1954 he went to Mexico and the following year he met Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro. Guevara joined and
played a key role in the eventual success of its guerrilla war against Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959.
From 1959-1961, Guevara was president of the National Bank
of Cuba, and then minister of industry. In this position, he travelled the world as an ambassador for Cuba. At home, he carried
out plans for land redistribution and the nationalisation of industry.
A strong opponent of the United States, he guided the Castro regime
towards alignment with the Soviet Union. The Cuban economy faltered
as a result of American trade sanctions and unsuccessful reforms. During this difficult time Guevara began to fall out with the other Cuban
leaders and in 1965 Castro announced that Guevara had left Cuba.
Guevara then spent several months in Africa, particularly the
Congo, attempting to train rebel forces in guerrilla warfare. His
efforts failed and in 1966 he secretly returned to Cuba. From
Cuba he travelled to Bolivia to lead forces rebelling against the
government of René Barrientos Ortuño. With US assistance,
the Bolivian army captured Guevara and his remaining fighters. He was executed on 9 October 1967 in the Bolivian village of La Higuera and his body was buried in a secret location.
CND
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is an organisation that advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament
by the United Kingdom, international
nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation through agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. It opposes military action that
may result in the use of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons and the building of nuclear power stations in the UK.
The CND was formed in 1957 and since
that time has periodically been at the forefront of the peace movement in the UK.
It claims to be Europe’s largest single-issue peace campaign. In recent years CND
has extended its campaigns to include
opposition to U.S. and British policy in
the Middle East, rather as it broadened
its anti-nuclear campaigns in the 1960s
to include opposition to the Vietnam War.
The symbol adopted by CND, designed
for them in 1958 by Gerald Holtom, became the international peace symbol. It is
based on the semaphore symbols for “N”
(two flags held 45 degrees down on both
sides, forming the triangle at the bottom)
and “D” (two flags, one above the head and
one at the feet, forming the vertical line)
(for Nuclear Disarmament) within a circle.
PUSSY RIOT
Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist punk rock protest group based in Moscow. Founded in 2011, it has a variable membership of approximately 11
women ranging in age from 20 to 35. They stage unauthorised provocative guerrilla performances in unusual public locations, which are edited into music videos and posted on the Internet. Their lyrical themes
include feminism, LGBT rights, opposition to the policies of Russian
President Vladimir Putin, whom they regard as a dictator, and links between Putin and the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Their costumes are usually brightly colored dresses and tights with
their faces masked by balaclavas, both while performing and during interviews. During interviews they use nicknames such as "Balaclava", "Cat", "Seraph", "Terminator", and "Blondie". In an interview
with Gazeta.ru, a band member described their two-minute concerts as
performance art, creating images of "pure protest, saying: super heroes in balaclavas and acid bright tights seize public space in Moscow."
The E15 Mothers are a protest group
formed by several young homeless
mothers who met while in temporary
accommodation provided by the London Borough of Newham. They were
served with a 2 month eviction notice
from their mother and baby Hostel in
2013 with no options to be rehoused
with the borough. This led to a campaign against the crisis in housing
provision across London and the UK,
in particular the practice of placing
homeless people outside of London
and leaving social housing empty. To
highlight their protest, they occupied
the Carpenters Estate in Newham,
adjacent to the Olympic Village. The
estate has slowly been emptied of its
residents over the last 10 years, so that
several hundred empty units of housing
remain.
E15
MOTHERS
THUMBNAILS & CONTENT
THUMBNAIL
SKETCHES
FONTS
As the majority of my booklet will be in text
(as seen in the thumbnail illustrations), the
choice of font used needs to be carefully thought
through. To the right are the options that I tested.
The lettering needs to be clear and easy to read
in order to have the desired impact. Due to the context of the booklet, it needs to be classic in order to
maintain a level of professionalism in it’s output yet
modern in order to relate to those who are impacted by the booklets content. As the property market and affordable housing issues are very much a
modern issue and mainly impact those between the
ages of 20-35 years, this will be my target audience.
To layer the text, placing words of emphasis at a
forward position the font needs to have clean edges
and little detailing to maintain readability and clarity.
Key facts and figures will be highlighted by bold text
so there needs to be a distinctive enough difference
between this and lower case. Red lettering will also be
used, so the font needs to be clear in upper and lower
case in red also. As a variety of sizing is being used for
the wording, it is important that even smaller words in
lower case and coloured lettering are still clear and visible or else they will get lost behind the emphasized text.
Taking all of this into consideration I have decided to use Century Gothic for my final booklet.
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