Sign of the times
In recent times, there have been more measures taken by authoritarian governments to enforce political censorship on words they deem as subversive. As a result, many activist movements or peaceful protests have been hindered, disallowing freedom of expression. With the influx of influence from socia...
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Nanyang Technological University
2022
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/159031 |
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| author | Low, Sylvia |
| author2 | Jesvin Yeo Puay Hwa |
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| description | In recent times, there have been more measures taken by authoritarian governments to enforce political censorship on words they deem as subversive. As a result, many activist movements or peaceful protests have been hindered, disallowing freedom of expression. With the influx of influence from social media trends and platforms that allow mass sharing of information, present-day protesters have found creative ways to protest despite meeting with roadblocks from the government or internet censorship. Tapping on the creativity and innovative approaches of protest signages, ‘Sign’ of the Times’ was created – a speculative design project that uses signage typography to explore global internet and political censorship. This project first aims to speculate a fictitious world in the distant future that demonstrates the possible dangers of mass censorship using growing technologies. Secondly, based on the findings of a community workshop on meaning-making, this project seeks to speculate a possible communication system by exploring the expressiveness of linguistics, icon fonts, symbols and graphics. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1590312023-03-11T19:59:40Z Sign of the times Low, Sylvia Jesvin Yeo Puay Hwa School of Art, Design and Media JesvinYeo@ntu.edu.sg Visual arts and music::Design Social sciences::Communication::Visual communication In recent times, there have been more measures taken by authoritarian governments to enforce political censorship on words they deem as subversive. As a result, many activist movements or peaceful protests have been hindered, disallowing freedom of expression. With the influx of influence from social media trends and platforms that allow mass sharing of information, present-day protesters have found creative ways to protest despite meeting with roadblocks from the government or internet censorship. Tapping on the creativity and innovative approaches of protest signages, ‘Sign’ of the Times’ was created – a speculative design project that uses signage typography to explore global internet and political censorship. This project first aims to speculate a fictitious world in the distant future that demonstrates the possible dangers of mass censorship using growing technologies. Secondly, based on the findings of a community workshop on meaning-making, this project seeks to speculate a possible communication system by exploring the expressiveness of linguistics, icon fonts, symbols and graphics. Bachelor of Fine Arts in Design Art 2022-06-09T02:17:24Z 2022-06-09T02:17:24Z 2022 Final Year Project (FYP) Low, S. (2022). Sign of the times. Final Year Project (FYP), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/159031 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/159031 en application/pdf Nanyang Technological University |
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