Leeds film festival : Waking up in a surveillance society

I though that this film was particularly releveant to the lecture the other day and definitely worth going to see.
Article 12 presents an urgent and incisive deconstruction of the current state of privacy, the rights and desires of individuals and governments, and the increasing use of surveillance. The film adopts the twelfth article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to chart privacy issues worldwide, arguing that without this right no other human right can truly be exercised. It assembles leading academics and cultural analysts including Noam Chomsky, AC Grayling and Amy Goodman to highlight the devastating potency of surveillance, the dangers of complicity, and the growing movement fighting for this crucial right.

Read more: http://www.leedsfilm.com/film/article-12-waking-up-in-a-surveillance-society/#ixzz14oaraVkp

PANOPTICISM - Survelliance and Society

Portfolio Task 4: Semiotics analysis

Semiotics Analysis of Fanta Bottle

The recent orange Fanta bottle and packaging attempts to be fairly contemporary and clean cut

in its representation of this well known brand. The main signifiers are the font, the base colour,

and the bottle itself. The background colour is a bright, highly saturated orange;

which conotes the theme of oranges, sunshine and freshness, which in turn denotes the feeling

of summer, happiness and warmth. The text is produced in a digital style, but with a friendly more hand-rendered feel to it. It conotes the imagery of orange peal in the way

that the letter forms are created, which denotes a friendly, fun, approachable style to the comsumer. The layout is laid back and friendly; the text on an informal slant across the bottle,

other information about the product circles it insinuating a spherical shape, further signifying the citrus fruit conotation. The bottle itself as a signifier has massive connotaions in terms of social codes; the smooth and indented shape is remeniscent of the idealistic female form, denoting sexual desire and also making the bottle more comfortable to hold. The indented spots over this area create an extremely tactile surface which emphasises the denotations towards pleasure and ease even moreso.

Seminar notes: Defining the Avant Garde

Lecture Notes: Graphic design- A medium for the masses

Lecture Notes: Advertising, Publicity and the Media

Portfolio Task 3

Preliminary bibliography for essay title:

'Could it be argued that fine art ought to be assigned more 'value' than graphic design?'

1) Barnard, M. (2006) 'Graphic Design as communication' Routledge, London

2)Benjamin, W. (1935) 'The Work of Art in the age of mechanical reproduction', essay

3) Frascara, J. (1988) 'Graphic Design: Fine art or social science?' article

4) Greenberg, C. (1939) 'Avant Garde and Kitch', essay

5) Scmidt, M. Bilak, P. McCoy, K. Nakamura, R. Siegel, D. Fitzgerald, K. Inciog, A. Keedy, M. Cabianca, D. Kisman, M.(2004) 'Graphic design vs. style, globalism, criticism, science, authenticity and humansim' Emigre Inc, Canada.