Flag and 5 Critical Contexts

Flag

These were my initial ideas for the flag design

And my these were my inspiration

I wanted to create something surrealistic to show the power of visual to create impact for the people who do not really have a voice in society as I believe that design could really be a voice for them and help improve their lives from living in unfairness.

Here are the raw images I took with my phone. Quite disgusting and awkward to look at on their own haha.

Here is the first trials for the one of the idea but I did not go forward with it because I was dissatisfied with how it was looking, and the idea did not match the other that much as well so.

Here is the second idea which turned out quite nice. I tried to add some typo on the background but in the end felt like it was too much so I went back to the one without it.

And this is the second one I made.

I really liked how they turned out and I enjoyed doing the photo editing.

5 Critical Contexts

This is my 5 critical context.

And some word I wrote already as a first draft.

Design is strong and effective way of communicating ideas and influence people. We are constantly influenced by design without even realizing it sometimes with advertising. Advertisements uses design to push us to buy things, but it is not always the case. Sometimes it is used for a greater purpose such as promoting a peaceful living amongst people of different cultures and ethnicities. This was done in Singapore based on Leong K. Chan (Chan, L., 2011), and based on that we can already see the potential of design for a greater purpose. In a proper way, design can be used to not only influence people but also insight change in society in issues people usually overlook or do not care and promote a better future.

Belinda Baldwin also talked about the power of imagery (Baldwin, B., 2012), it was way back from 2012 and she said with how easy it is to edit images that we take on our phones to spread propaganda about issues happening in the world. She showed some examples with minor edits that only highlighted the particular issues and other that were completely made up but the realism of it created even more impact to the people seeing them. We are now in 2021 and there have been a lot more improvement in technologies and it is now even more easy to create impactful visuals. But only an image can make the audience stray from the main message sometimes. That’s were design can elevates this whole idea, with the proper use of image manipulation and typography in creative ways, we can create impactful and meaningful work that will speak the right message to the targeted audience with more emotion and influence them in the right way.

Yippi Sticker Contest

I also participated in the Yippi contest as suggested by our lecturer. I used my character Spookie for the contest and I really like the cute expressions he got haha.