Proper Propaganda

Ideally, at this point, we should be approximately 85% completed the project. I think saying that I am 85% along would be rather optimistic, possibly delusional. However I do have the timeline and deliverables nailed down, so I think I’m doing ok. It’s just a matter of hammering them out and making them look, if not pretty, then how they are supposed to.
Please take a look at the presentation. It’s somewhat cute.

Principle Feedback
The institution of some sort of feedback system might be advisable. For instance, the ration book could include a postage paid response card to register, or something of the sort.
The website could transition after the launch of the campaign to be more information and contemporary.
The initial campaign and the visual poster campaign may need some sort of common element to solidly tie them together. 2018, perhaps?
The visual posters will need to go further to convey the idea of living in an environment saturated with this ecological propaganda.

Phase Three Presentation
Pp_Presentation_Phase_3_v1

For seminar we were asked to present a summation of our Phase Two research and concept development. This presentation uses simple graphic techniques to illustrate the stages the project has progressed so far, as well as featuring some of the most current visual explorations.

CoreVI_Presentation_Phase2_Oct2 (pdf 1.6mb)

Feedback
Well the concept seemed to hold up fairly well, and there were quite a few less blank stares than anticipated. Nelson offered an interesting suggestion. “Why can’t this be a contemporary piece, which projects the subject matter into the future, as opposed to a theoretical piece which existing in the future?” (paraphrasing heavily) The reasoning being, amongst other things, that it’s highly speculative trying to design for an audience that may potentially exist, as opposed to one that can be assessed today.
Thus the revision would be to still have the content of the campaign be a vision of a propagandistic future, but frame it as a warning/premonition for people today. The only difficult part of that to assess would be how far to push the visual language towards the totalitarian, since it would need to be reasonably overt to come through.
Tricky.

Well, despite some interference from my rather erratic sleep schedule, my initial grad project proposal is done. Feel free to download it and let me know what you think.

CoreVI_Proposal_MarkStokoe_Sept112008