Arts Thread

As part of my professional practice in my third year at University, I had to take on the briefs and competitions module for my course. This module asked me to problem-solve to a chosen brief of my choosing. I decided to select an ISTD brief called Open|Close. Using the opening and closing chapter of my chosen book, I had to create a radical reimagining of the contents through typography and so I decided to focus on the book 1984 by George Orwell. The idea was to reflect upon the shift in tone and atmosphere of the opening and closing chapters of the text using the type and composition. I then adapted this by refining my design to fit within my chosen medium. I chose the concept to design a newspaper that would fit inside the narrative of the story of the ideology of Newspeak that is enforced by The Party. Using the contents in the book, I then established a running theme of distortion that allowed me to develop into typographic imagery. For the final resolution, I used distortion as a theme to direct my rationale through typographic imagery. I produced a broadsheet newspaper as this reflects upon my design rationale in radically reimagining the story of 1984 to meet a wider audience and support the narrative of Newspeak in the modern day, this also will encourage new readers to become aware of the work of George Orwell’s novel 1984.