amazing, very helpful.

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Brief 
"a sane person to an insane society must appear insane"  - Kurt Vonnegut - Welcome to the Monkey House

- Explore the deviation from the norm that is freak.
- Choose/ invent / subvert an aspect of this phenomenon.
- Then produce a dynamic piece of graphic communication which explains your concept.
- To begin with, you need to interrogate what is normal.

We struggled with this one.. 

First ideas that popped in my head:

- Alice in Wonderland ( am i mad? )

- People after plastic surgery 

- Child beauty pageant 

- Weird phobias or fetishes 

- Odd one out  - Danny Treacy 

- Victorian portrait 

- Giant/ Circus/ Dwarf 

After talking about our ideas, we started thinking about the word freak and what it means to us. So we asked some people in our class who they would call a freak? 
We got lots of different answers. Hm... does 'freak' exist? There's so many different people nowadays.. who would we call a freak? or maybe being a freak is normal?

We wanted to present 'freak' as a normal person. So we thought of a few ideas:

- A series of posters 'Am I freak because I...'  

- A picture which shows a monster/freak standing in the middle of the crowd and no one is looking at him ( so the audience thinks there's nothing wrong with the picture, but then they look closer and they can see a 'freak' or someone who looks odd. 

- A series of photos showing freak in different places library/shopping centre/ supermarket/school

- A photo which focuses on normal people and the freak is out of focus ( again, normal photo but then the audience realises theres something wrong with the photo) 

After two days of brainstorming we decided to make a series of posters which included famous people who have some kind of disability or anything that people find 'freaky'. After doing some research we got names like Oscar Pistorius, Stephen Hawking, Rainman

The results from our questionnaire showed that most people have two different opinions about them. Oscar is 'lame' but a 'superhuman', Steve is 'a retard' but 'a great physicist' and Rainman is 'morally defective' but a 'complete genius'.

AFTER TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE WANT OUR POSTERS TO LOOK.. we decided to give up. 

HAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAAH actually it's not funny, shit...

but we thought about another idea. Which was our final idea. It wasn't a great idea, but it was better than nothing. Also a funny ice breaker for us. Basically the idea was to write one word which describes someone in our group and stick it to their back, so that other people can see what it says but the person can't. It's about people talking behind your back/ first impressions ( judging the cover not the book ). Some people think that they are completely normal but for other people they look or act like a freak. 

IMPROVEMENT

- what is normal? 

What’s normal is what most people do. or what typical people do, 
or what most typical people do. normal is the average, the mean, or the typical.  
'If I’m in England, and discover that, insane as it seems, everyone drives on the left, then driving on the left is normal in the statistical sense' 

'One man's trash is another man's treasure' 
- so basically, something might be normal to you, but to others it might be weird

things that some people find normal others find weird:
- your second toe is longer than your big toe

- licking your nose with your tongue 

things we don't expect certain people to do e.g. a teacher being a raver, a yoga instructor being a striper, your dad watching porn, a man behind you is actually you're stalker 

So my love for photography was born on the day I got my hands on Polaroid when I was about 13, but my love for design began in high school. I studied Fine art at high school, 6th form and then 1 year at Teesside University. I always thought that's what I wanted to do, but only at Teesside I have realised that I was studying the wrong subject. I have never been a painter or a sculptor... I was always in to photography, editing, and COLLAGES!

THIS GUY:  Robert Rauschenberg, got me into it.

After collages, it was all about illustration!!!

Aubrey Beardsley, was my big inspiration.

Beardsley connected me to Art Nouveau and posters which eventually led to typography!

Alphonse Mucha

Will H. Bradley

Nicolas Girard

also VINYL COVERS

now... I am getting more interested in PATTERNS, GODDESSES, FEMALE BEAUTY, EVERYTHING GREEK AND EGYPTIAN AND POLITICAL RELATED DESIGN

Okay, so first of all I love photography and there is a lot of photographers that I could mention..

But I will try and choose top 3 photographers. 

So number 1, it would have to be......KRISTIAN SCHULLER.. especially his 90 Days One Dream project. It's just magical. 

He is a fashion photographer,and usually includes motion in his work. 

So number two, would have to be... JILL GREENBERG. This woman has balls and she's is not afraid to break boundaries! Her work includes pictures of children ( exhibition End Times) crying their eyes out, which was quite controversial. Some people might say it's weird to give toddlers a lollipop and take it away to make them cry and take pictures of them, but the thing is Jill had an idea, she asked some people if they would allow her do that to their kids, and she also paid them.. and it's not child abuse really..  I mean having a lollipop taken away from you for like a minute is not similar to cigarette burns or starvation! 

number 3 would be Jaumes Nachtwey, a photojournalist. He was quite controversial too. He showed people  what wars/attacks actually do to the victims...

 

I can't believe I haven't watched this yet.. don't have time for films or TV but literally need to get this documentary and watch it. 

Helvetica is a film about typography and graphic design, centered around discussion of the font, Helvetica, itself.

THE BEST DOCUMENTARY I HAVE EVER WATCHED

It is so inspiring and makes you want to achieve more! good opinions and amazing people. 

Even better... you can download it for free! http://www.presspauseplay.com/

Seductive and erotic paintings of glamorous pin up girls (during World War II) by David Wright.

 I'd love to look/be on of them..