Oct 16th: Seminar
Again with the heated debates.
Art vs Design
Designer as Author
Concept vs Design
Student vs Teacher
Dogs vs Cats
Can’t we all just get along?
Anyway. Getting back to the project…
Morning
Went over a brief status update, which was brief as a result of my lack of significant progress over the last week. Presented some of my research on the ration card deliverable. It went over reasonably well, although it would definitely need to be simplified down from the system they used during the war. There wouldn’t be any newspaper followup to explain it, and frankly the system they used was confusing as shit.
The likely form would be ration coupons of some sort which entitle the holder to purchase X amount of whatever commodity would be scarce, gas, energy, etc.
Again the notion of a hard scary approach, vs a lighter approach that potentially makes use of humour to pass along the message. The rationale behind questioning it is that a hard/scary take on the subject has a very good chance of just coming off as preachy. Alex recommended that I create something for next week that carries the message from the other side of the board as well, recommending consumption at high levels and a “stay the course” sort of ideology, in order to get a better handle on how I can approach the topic effectively, and have an understanding of the other side’s perspective.
Afternoon
Not a whole lot.