John Hill : rhetoric, style, design
 

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I would like to explore the rhetoric and style used during different periods within the twentieth century. I feel that style follows rhetoric or should. Graphic design, or visual communication, integrates principles of design, communciation, marketing, and psychology to deliver a particuar message to a particular audience. My goal is through research to explore the possibilities through rhetoric, by this I mean the emotion of language and goal of serving the message, and then to apply that within the context of "its" own inherent style or even take it out of the boundaries and change it without changing the message.

Some work I would like to look into is the Swiss minimalist approaches and the people who broke the mold, propaganda movements throughout the twentieth century and the ideas contained within ornament versus style within the rhetoric itself. (I feel this directly pertains to my topic is the sense that rhetorical style is also prevalent — use of language is a style as well.)
6 sept 06

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I would like to use the kind of visuals that I see in the 1940s Russian propaganda posters. I would like to deal with contemporary social issues. I would like to push issues in a satirical way. I want to put information in the form of sarcasm, but still keep in the context that it was said. I would like to have a tension exist between the images, which will show the true story, while I use the stereotypical phrases and text to be vulgar and to make my point. Issues I would like to cover are racism, inter racial couples, homosexual relationships, pornography, terrorism and any other topics ranging from the celebrity to the mundane.
10 may 06

10 september 06