These are my visual responses to 'Democracy' and the aspect i chose to communicate what it means to me. i researched various viewpoints that i could interpret from what we know of Democracy in society,Britain and also globally.
I decided to portray the inequality of democracy and the hypocracy surrounding 'majority rule'. Britain is supposedly a democracy; whereby we as citizens each have the right to vote for what WE want in our society and country. However, despite being given the power to decide the fate of affairs, a conclusion is cast based on the majority vote. So then, if exactly 51% of the population voted one way and the rest of the 49% voted otherwise...how is this a fair vote in a fair democracy? My pieces demonstrate how decision can be made based on 1% whilst the whole other half (minus 1%) can be overlooked, disregarded and fogotten. This is not democratic. Hypethetically, only just over half of voters could potentially have a say in what happens here on.
I was overally inspired by the Jonathan Barnbrook series of politial sketches for the Schweppes advertising campaign and i liked that illustratin style. That, alongsiode use of white space and the phrases i incorporated in the same style ..and i think i created 2 effective pieces with impact.
Doubt went over wether i needed the type to help express the message at all, aswell as the layout, but i think this landscape view fits and works well with the type and flows accordingly accross the page.
