Freudian slip: a slip of the tongue thought to reveal a repressed belief, thought or emotion
In this project you will deconstruct and decode a publication and its visual parts.
STAGE 1
- work in pairs
- buy a copy or several of the Times
- identify and catalogue its visual parts and collect your observations on a 58x37cm landscape page
STAGE 2
- consider this publication as a real human character,
- play out your version of a TIMES Freudian slip on a page the same size as a TIMES double page spread, use elements you have identified from the TIMES design palette but don't exactly make it look like a newspaper.
Two jealous brothers, The Times and Times2. Encouraged to be competitive from a young age by their two financially successful, hardworking parents, Oxford University graduate The Times is Times2’s older brother who is jealous of the fun stories about popular culture and social networking that Manchester University graduate Times 2 gets to write about, and the bright colours he get to use in his newspaper. However Times2 is jealous that his older brother gets the front page of the newspaper as well as all the headlines. Part 1 of the Freudian Slip depicts the two brothers on separate sides of the sheet gradually trying to become each other, The Times tries to become more colourful and include a wider range of stories and The Times 2 is trying to make bigger stories and take over the headlines, resulting in a visual fight shown on part 2 of the brief.
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